Investment Funds - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Jul 2021
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Opinion: ESG Funds Are Lagging the S&P 500 — Why That’s Good News If You Own Them

01 Dec 2017
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2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers

provide the diversity of employees that most leading businesses now recognize they need to be globally competitive. There are two trends in the United States that should be of interest to the business world. First, there is an increase in publicly View Details

Keywords: Amy McIntosh (MBA 1984) , associate vice chancellor for academic strategy, The City University of New York

15 Jan 2016
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Eaton Vance’s Tom Faust has a plan to potentially disrupt the trillion-dollar mutual fund industry.

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

08 Oct 2013
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The Green Giant

The old-fashioned assumption of the environmental movement was that business and industry were the problem. World Wildlife Fund President and CEO Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) is bullish that they can be part of the solution. A new breed of... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; World Wildlife Fund

01 Mar 2024
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3-Minute Briefing: Ilana D. Weinstein (MBA 1995)

ladder hovering from above. People meet with us to understand their trajectory and whether their fund can give them what they want. How do we know? Because we have met the best people from every fund over... View Details

Keywords: Edited by Julia Hanna; Photo by Chris Sorensen; search firm; entrepreneurship; hedge funds

01 Sep 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor

improvement projects. He attended HBS to gain background for broader responsibilities at the State Department but switched gears when he learned more about the important role of investment bankers in allocating View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; climate change; investment banking; leadership; carbon tax

01 Jun 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental

Tanzania. Now based in Kigali, Rwanda, Ngoyi finds her global experience is a good fit with her current role. In May 2022, she was named CEO of the Fund for Export Development in Africa (FEDA). A $670 million View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; investment; exports; infrastructure; life experience; finance; Finance

28 Feb 2020
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Filling the White Space

companies involved in research into psychedelic compounds for medical use. (Compass has been granted a US patent that covers a method of obtaining psilocybin to treat drug-resistant depression; the treatment is in a phase IIb clinical trial.) “Most institutional View Details

Keywords: venture capital; pharmaceutical research; innovative investing

10 Mar 2021
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Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire

Penn at age 20. Today, as president and CEO of Columbia Investment Management Company, Lew has come full circle, overseeing a university endowment of approximately $11 billion that helps fund students for... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; investing; leadership; diversity; career experience; higher education; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services