Publications

February 1997 (Revised March 1998)
Case

Smith Breeden Associates: The Equity Plus Fund (A)

By: Robert C. Merton and Alberto Moel

In early 1997, Smith Breeden Associates, a money management and consulting firm, was pondering the future of the Equity Plus Fund. The Equity Plus Fund was an S&P enhanced-index fund that tried to outperform the S&P Index by replicating the index using low-cost... View Details

Keywords: Assets; Cash; Financial Markets; Financial Strategy; Mortgages; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Marketing; Performance; Consulting Industry

October 1996 (Revised March 1998)
Case

Schroder Ventures: Launch of the Euro Fund

By: Josh Lerner, Kate Bringham and Nick Ferguson

Schroder Ventures is considering launching a pan-European fund in response to investor demand. This will lead to changes in the interactions between the parent organization and the national affiliates. A related question is the extent to which the private equity model... View Details

Keywords: Change; Private Equity; Investment Funds; Multinational Firms and Management; Product Launch; Europe

October 2003
Case

Financing Biodiversity Conservation by the Global Conservation Fund

By: Mihir A. Desai and Julia Stevens

The Global Conservation Fund is an international nonprofit organization with a $100 million endowment and an exclusive focus on land preservation. The fund and its director must decide which projects to fund over the next year and what financing mechanism to use.... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Protection; Project Evaluation; Environmental Sustainability; Projects; Finance; Decision Making; Financial Instruments; Nonprofit Organizations

Spring 2013
Article

The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds

By: Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar

This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and their relationship to the funds' organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they are more likely to invest at home when... View Details

Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Strategy; Investment Funds

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22 Apr 2012
News

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30 Sep 2020
News

How Nonprofit Foundations Can Sustainably Fund Disease Research

01 Dec 2017
News

HBS Fund Advances Global Strategy

Publishing. Gifts of all sizes to the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation help fuel the School’s ambitious international strategy to expand the scope of faculty research, develop students’ global intelligence, engage alumni, and... View Details

08 Jun 2021
News

New Funding for Female Founders

Jessica Assaf (MBA 2016), Andy Coravos (MBA 2017), and Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) There’s been a wealth of good news for alumnae entrepreneurs in recent weeks, with founders Jessica Assaf (MBA 2016), Andy Coravos (MBA 2017), and Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) among those... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

22 Sep 2020
News

Hedge Funds Reject Central Banker Criticism on Volatility

Web

Additional Harvard Funding | MBA

Additional Harvard Funding We complement our need-based Harvard Business School (HBS) Scholarships with a small number of other awards for students with specific backgrounds and interests. The majority of these awards are available to... View Details

22 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

funding for small businesses. The outstanding portfolio balance of online lenders has grown about 175 percent a year, compared to a decline of about 3 percent in the traditional banking sector. However, it still only represents less than... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

2011
Other Teaching and Training Material

The Fund Industry: How Your Money Is Managed

By: Robert C. Pozen

This is the teaching manual for the third edition of the fund industry: how your money is managed. It contains review and discussion questions and answers for every chapter. It also contains business-school quality cases for most chapters, including assignment... View Details

Keywords: Financial Management; Investment Funds; Money; Financial Services Industry

2004
Working Paper

Judging Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

By: Randolph Cohen, Joshua Coval and Luboš Pástor

We develop a performance evaluation approach in which a fund manager's skill is judged by the extent to which his investment decisions resemble the decisions of managers with distinguished performance records. The proposed performance measures are estimated more... View Details

Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Performance Evaluation; Investment Funds; Investment

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