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- June 2011 (Revised October 2011)
- Supplement
Exchange-Traded Funds at Vanguard (B)
By: Robert C. Pozen and Steven Vickers
Supplementary material for 311-134 View Details
Keywords: Financial Services Industry
Pozen, Robert C., and Steven Vickers. "Exchange-Traded Funds at Vanguard (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 311-135, June 2011. (Revised October 2011.)
- 17 Sep 2024
- News
Is Startup Funding Coming Back?
- 22 Sep 2020
- News
Hedge Funds Reject Central Banker Criticism on Volatility
- October 2008
- Article
The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns
By: Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini and Christopher J. Malloy
This paper uses social networks to identify information transfer in security markets. We focus on connections between mutual fund managers and corporate board members via shared education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger bets on firms they are... View Details
Keywords: Financial Markets; Information Management; Social and Collaborative Networks; Announcements; Investment Portfolio; Investment Return; Investment Funds; Asset Pricing; Governing and Advisory Boards
Cohen, Lauren, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher J. Malloy. "The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns." Journal of Political Economy 116, no. 5 (October 2008): 951–979. (Winner of the Barclays Global Investors Award, Best Paper in Asset Pricing, European Finance Association 2007.)
- 22 Apr 2012
- News
US hedge funds rules relaxed by accident
‘Passive’ Index Fund Leaders Push for Shareholder Reforms
The evolving power relationship between index fund managers and investors focused on management change. Index funds are the major shareholders in many large- and medium-sized public companies, but their passive investment nature offers few checks on... View Details
- September 2017 (Revised July 2021)
- Case
Asset Allocation at the Cook County Pension Fund
By: Emil Siriwardane, Juliane Begenau and Yuval Gonczarowski
Nickol Hackett, chief investment officer of the Cook County Pension Fund, is responsible for investing the fund’s $9 billion worth of assets on behalf of the employees of Cook County, Illinois. Like many other defined-benefit pensions at the time, the Cook County... View Details
Siriwardane, Emil, Juliane Begenau, and Yuval Gonczarowski. "Asset Allocation at the Cook County Pension Fund." Harvard Business School Case 218-030, September 2017. (Revised July 2021.)
- September – October 2011
- Article
The Return Experience of Hedge Fund Investors
By: Ilia Dichev and Gwen Yu
Keywords: Investment
Dichev, Ilia, and Gwen Yu. "The Return Experience of Hedge Fund Investors." World Financial Review (September–October 2011).
- 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
Desai, Mihir A., and Julia Stevens. "Financing Biodiversity Conservation by the Global Conservation Fund." Harvard Business School Case 204-019, October 2003.
- 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 View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Money Funds Are Circling the Wagons on Rules
- 30 Sep 2020
- News
How Nonprofit Foundations Can Sustainably Fund Disease Research
- July 2014
- Article
Winners in the Spotlight: Media Coverage of Fund Holdings as a Driver of Flows
By: David H. Solomon, Eugene F. Soltes and Denis Sosyura
We show that media coverage of mutual fund holdings affects how investors allocate money across funds. Controlling for fund performance, fund holdings with high past returns attract extra flows only if these stocks were recently featured in major newspapers. In... View Details
Solomon, David H., Eugene F. Soltes, and Denis Sosyura. "Winners in the Spotlight: Media Coverage of Fund Holdings as a Driver of Flows." Journal of Financial Economics 113, no. 1 (July 2014): 53–72.
- 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... View Details
- 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,... 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... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Powered by the HBS Fund
New Video Series Showcases Faculty Research HBS rolled out a video series that captures the intellectual passion and rigor of four members of the School’s faculty in pursuit of... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
common struggle for firms to get innovation investments right, says Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School. On one hand, firms large enough to house their own research labs too often... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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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 View Details