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- 14 Jan 2021
- News
Better Than Cash
Courtesy Ruth Goodwin-Groen Today, 100 million unbanked adults worldwide receive government transfers, wages, or pensions in cash, a payment method that is highly vulnerable to fraud and theft. Furthermore, 1.7 billion adults lack a bank... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Annual Report Details Strong Financial Growth
million to reach a total of $62 million, reflecting gifts to The Campaign for Harvard Business School and another above-average year of investment returns for the School’s endowment. Campaign gifts and endowment funds enable HBS to make... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Taking Flight
Fund, he invested millions of dollars for pension fund clients. In the early 1990s, Thayer taught himself a database program that he thought could be useful for shareholder accounting. As a test exercise, he... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
just on Japanese orders, particularly now when everyone’s orders are contracting. What are your chief concerns about how the Treasury Department under former Secretary Hank Paulson (MBA ’70) chose to allocate funds from the $700 billion... View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
service. They each provided alternative visions of the world. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317100-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-022 Altoona State Investment Board & Bain Capital Fund XI... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
climate policies. Applying the “universal owner” model. The world’s largest assets owners have taken note of the scale of this exposure. Large pension funds invest so broadly—through index funds, private... View Details
- 21 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: CPP Investment Board
at approximately $300 billion (CDN), CPPIB is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan to help ensure its long-term sustainability. CPPIB... View Details
- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
overcoming long odds. Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World? Can inclusivity, sustainability, and better governance boost economies? Rebecca Henderson and George Serafeim discuss the impact investing... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
companies that would eventually become big successes in the 1960s, including ACNielsen, Dun & Bradstreet, and Xerox. During those years, as DLJ began to diversify by managing corporate pension funds in its... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Jay Light Named New HBS Dean
a degree in engineering physics, Light earned a DBA from Harvard’s joint program in decision and control theory in 1970. Light’s research and teaching have focused on capital markets and institutional asset management, including the management of View Details
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
Alliance, a public-private partnership based at the United Nations. Today, 100 million unbanked adults worldwide receive government transfers, wages, or pensions in cash, a payment method that is highly vulnerable to fraud and theft.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Zest to Invest
pension fund administration group he would get to know many different kinds of investment outfits. In 1975, he joined one of these companies, New YorkÐbased Century Capital Associates, where he remained for... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
employers will likely maintain their present funding for health insurance, consumer-driven pension plans have been primarily self-funded since 1999. Q: What steps are you taking to move your idea forward,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
even more specific and linked to the performance of individual directors. Some large pension funds like CalPERS, as well as some smaller, socially based funds, are moving in this direction. These View Details
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
Fund Management Author: Robert C. Merton Publication: Chap. 1 in Innovations in Investment Management, edited by H. Gifford Fong, 1-17. JOIM Conference Series. New York: Bloomberg Press, 2008 Abstract In talking about View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
simple enough. Investors fund nonprofit social ventures whose interventions result in a measurable social benefit as well as a financial savings to the government. (Government saves money, for example, when fewer people are homeless or... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
Case 317-044 Vicki Fuller: Chief Investment Officer of New York State's $150+ Billion Employee Pension Fund Vicki Fuller traveled from a four-room tenement bordering Chicago’s infamous Cabrini-Green housing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
couple of decades, however, there's been growing pressure to separate the two jobs in the interest of more effective checks and balances. This comes mostly from the big state employee pension funds like... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
opposed to increased levels of funding from the governments. Analyses of 2011 and 2012 state pension reforms confirm that states opposed to accounting reform are more likely to cut View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
until plummeting stock valuations in the spring of 2000 burst the Internet stock “bubble,” venture capitalists, investment bankers, mutual funds managers, accountants, and corporate leaders had sponsored a financial mania at the expense... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry