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- May 2009
- Supplement
Ceres Gardening Company: Funding Growth in Organic Products, Spreadsheet for Instructors (Brief Case)
By: John H. McArthur and Joel L. Heilprin
- May – June 1971
- Article
Funds Control Versus Cost Control
By: J. Ronald Fox
Fox, J. Ronald. "Funds Control Versus Cost Control." Army Logistician 3, no. 3 (May–June 1971).
- November 30, 2012
- Article
Vast Pools of Money Still Ignore Sustainable Investing
By: Michael Baldinger, Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim
Keywords:
Sustainability;
Sustainable Strategy;
Investing;
Investment Management;
Investments;
Capital Markets;
Investment
Baldinger, Michael, Robert G. Eccles, and George Serafeim. "Vast Pools of Money Still Ignore Sustainable Investing." Bloomberg.com (November 30, 2012).
- March 2010
- Teaching Note
Rosetree Mortgage Opportunity Fund (TN)
By: Victoria Ivashina and Andre F. Perold
Teaching Note for [209088].
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- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
Many tools for rating the performance of mutual funds and their managers rely heavily on past performance. But what about the future? Now comes a system devised by Randolph B. Cohen and Joshua D. Coval of Harvard Business School, and...
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by Ann Cullen
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
access capital” Historically, this segment of the market has been small compared to the $700 billion in small business bank credit assets. But since the onset of the financial crisis, and particularly during the economic recovery, there...
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- 2012
- Working Paper
Can Implicit Regulation Change Financial Market Behavior? Evidence from Spitzer's Attack on Market Timers
This paper explores a natural experiment setup from the 2003-2004 mutual fund scandals to evaluate the effectiveness of implicit regulation on financial markets behavior. On average, buy-and-hold investors lost 218 basis points annually from 1998 to 2002 to market...
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- 06 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best
just given it—conditional versus unconditional. Doug J. Chung, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit, and Das Narayandas, the James J. Hill Professor of Business Administration, explain what kind of bump managers can expect from...
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- December 2009 (Revised February 2010)
- Case
The Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF) in 2009
By: Luis M. Viceira and Brendon Christopher Parry
In late June 2009, management at The Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF) was considering expanding the footprint of the TIFF Diversified Fund (TDF), the first truly comprehensive endowment management vehicle offered under the TIFF banner. The recent large capital...
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Keywords:
Financial Crisis;
Asset Management;
Financial Strategy;
Investment Funds;
Risk Management;
Product Marketing;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Viceira, Luis M., and Brendon Christopher Parry. "The Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF) in 2009." Harvard Business School Case 210-008, December 2009. (Revised February 2010.)
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Show Me The Money — Or Not
completely to be expected.” The $25,000 prize for the winner of the business venture track is funded through the generosity of Clayton, Dubilier, and Rice, in honor of Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Peter Sacerdote (MBA 1964) established the...
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- Editorial
How Index Funds Can Be a Positive Force for Change
By: George Serafeim
Keywords:
Indexing;
Stock Market;
Engagement;
Activism;
Sustainability;
Collaboration;
Tragedy Of The Commons
Serafeim, George. "How Index Funds Can Be a Positive Force for Change." Barron's (October 12, 2018).
- Spring 2013
- Comment
Comment on 'The Minimum Balance at Risk: A Proposal to Mitigate the Systemic Risks Posed by Money Market Funds'
By: Samuel G. Hanson
Hanson, Samuel G. "Comment on 'The Minimum Balance at Risk: A Proposal to Mitigate the Systemic Risks Posed by Money Market Funds'." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (Spring 2013): 263–271.
- Research Summary
Housing Markets with Contingencies
We model a real-estate market with three types of agents: regular buyers and sellers, and homeowners, who are agents who want to sell their current home only if they can buy another one. On the one hand, our model is a counterpart of the Abdulkadiroglu and Sonmez...
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- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
“Investors in those funds benefit from that process, as they tend to buy the company at a discount from the market and sell it back later to the market for a premium once the...
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- September 2022
- Article
Energy Innovation Funding and Institutions in Major Economies
By: Jonas Meckling, Clara Galeazzi, Esther Shears, Tong Xu and Laura Diaz Anadon
Accelerating energy innovation for decarbonization hinges on public investment in research, development and demonstration (RD&D). Here we examine the evolution and variation of public energy RD&D funding and institutions and associated drivers across eight major...
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Keywords:
Research and Development;
Innovation and Invention;
Energy Policy;
Government Legislation;
Energy Sources
Meckling, Jonas, Clara Galeazzi, Esther Shears, Tong Xu, and Laura Diaz Anadon. "Energy Innovation Funding and Institutions in Major Economies." Nature Energy 7, no. 9 (September 2022): 876–885.
- 19 Jun 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts
Keywords:
by Ethan R. Mollick & Ramana Nanda
- February 2010 (Revised March 2016)
- Background Note
Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Break-even Analysis
By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Jill Avery
Marketing managers are often called upon to make recommendations for or against programs that cost money to implement. Before expenditures are made, managers want to be sure that they will be getting a return on their investment. One way of assessing this is by...
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Keywords:
Decision Making;
Investment Return;
Spending;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Marketing Strategy;
Strategic Planning;
Mathematical Methods
Steenburgh, Thomas J., and Jill Avery. "Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Break-even Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 510-080, February 2010. (Revised March 2016.)
- 05 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed
so-called impact funds, or funds that hope to create positive social or environmental impact. In Anchors Aweigh: Analysis of Anchor Limited Partner Investors in Impact Investment Funds, the authors describe anchors as “generally the first...
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- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
amount of money to each,” says Nanda. “Equally important, we wanted to see if they were just investing in a lot of worse firms, or if these long-shot firms were actually higher in value if they succeeded.” The researchers found that the...
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