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  • January 2025
  • Case

Index and Active Investing: Vanguard and the New Frontier of Active ETFs

By: Marco Sammon, Luis M. Viceira and Jonathan Kanagasabai
This case explores Vanguard’s strategic decision-making process as it considers entering the growing market for actively managed exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Set in 2024, the case places students in the position of Rodney Comegys, Vanguard’s global head of the Equity... View Details
Keywords: Asset Management; Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Financial Services Industry
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  • May–June 2021
  • Article

Capturing Value in Platform Business Models that Rely on User-Generated Content

By: Hemang Subramanian, Sabyasachi Mitra and Sam Ransbotham
Business models increasingly depend on inputs from outside traditional organizational boundaries. For example, platforms that generate revenue from advertising, subscription, or referral fees often rely on user-generated content (UGC). But there is considerable... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Network Effects; Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Risk and Uncertainty
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  • 2007
  • Other Unpublished Work

Say on Pay Vote and CEO Compensation: Evidence from the UK

By: Fabrizio Ferri and David Maber
In this study, we examine the effect on CEO pay of new legislation introduced in the United Kingdom (UK) at the end of 2002 that requires publicly-traded firms to submit an executive remuneration report to a non-binding shareholder vote ("say on pay") at the annual... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Corporate Governance; Government Legislation; Executive Compensation; Performance Improvement; Business and Shareholder Relations; United Kingdom
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  • Web

Why Your Gift Matters - Alumni

society around the world. EQUAL PARTNER Pialy Aditya (MBA 2005) How Pialy Aditya is advancing inclusion for both investors and entrepreneurs. HOUR BY HOUR Rahkeem Morris (MBA 2018) Rahkeem Morris is saving businesses money with every hire... View Details
  • 28 Jan 2020
  • Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

that helped level social divides by providing equal access to useful skills and cultural or educational opportunities to everyone in a city. The leader who envisioned and built this into a leading site with 50 million regular users turned down several lucrative offers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators

PeopleImages Convicted stockbroker Bernie Madoff knew exactly what he was doing when he stole billions from clients, yet the financial advisor didn’t pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in the United States by himself. He had the help of unwitting accomplices—hundreds of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

entrepreneurs be sued by their funders for fraud? Yes. Trying to squeeze out a little extra valuation by fudging the numbers erodes credibility, makes investors less trusting, and ultimately impairs the ability to get subsequent rounds of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • Web

Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

(REAP) to support them in their entrepreneurial journey. Our highly curated group of exceptional, experienced serial founders and investors from all over the world are available for 1:1 virtual meetings to answer questions on specific... View Details
  • Web

Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

scale their business. These courses can help you identify and validate a business idea , create high-quality business models, achieve product-market fit, and talk to potential investors . Related Content Free E-Book So You Want to Be an... View Details
  • 21 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 21

retail industry depends extensively on store liquidation, not only as a means for investors to recover capital from failed ventures, but also to allow managers of going concerns to divest stores in efforts to enhance performance and to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Nov 2022
  • HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

networking-based hiring. Success presents a strategy dilemma Brown Capital’s flagship fund was closed to new investors in 2013. By 2021, the year examined in the case study, it was fast approaching mid-size status. Brown executives... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 22 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2197876 Expectations of Returns and Expected Returns Authors:Greenwood, Robin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract We analyze time-series of investor expectations of future stock market returns from five data sources... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Case Study: The Home Team

Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate
  • 13 May 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting A Stop to the Earnings Game

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller & Michael C. Jensen; Financial Services
  • TeachingInterests

Investing: Risk, Return and Impact (MBA)

By: Shawn A. Cole

This is an investing/finance course, designed to build on skills introduced in the RC finance course, but with an emphasis on how and whether investors should incorporate what have traditionally been considered “non-financial” criteria in their decisions: for... View Details

  • April 2021
  • Background Note

HEAD vs. LEAD: Disruptions Originating at the High- vs. Low-End of the Market

By: Elie Ofek, Olivier Toubia and Didier Toubia
Twenty five years after it was initially proposed, Clay Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation continues to be a major reference for entrepreneurs, corporate innovators, and investors. However, the term “disruptive innovation” is often used in ways and contexts... View Details
Keywords: Market Entry; New Product Management; Targeting; Disruptive Innovation; Market Entry and Exit; Entrepreneurship; Product; Management; Innovation Strategy; Technology
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  • 25 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

When Your Passion Works Against You

University of Toronto. Sometimes passion isn’t appropriate At the same time, the team found that passion doesn’t always work. In a second study, participants watched videos of Dragons’ Den and rated how passionate entrepreneurs sounded. View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Feb 2024
  • News

Startup Shepherds

By their count, Catalina Daniels and Jim Sherman (both MBA 1991) listened to approximately 300 startup pitches in 2016, the first year the HBS classmates worked side by side as angel investors in New York. “You meet a lot of very smart people, with what sound like good... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 21 Jul 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?

Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • Web

Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Mark R. Kramer When it comes to philanthropy, executives increasingly see themselves as caught between critics demanding ever higher levels of "corporate social responsibility" and investors applying pressure to maximize short-term... View Details