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- January – February 2011
- Article
Benchmarks as Limits to Arbitrage: Understanding the Low-Volatility Anomaly
By: Malcolm Baker, Brendan Bradley and Jeffrey Wurgler
Contrary to basic finance principles, high-beta and high-volatility stocks have long underperformed low-beta and low-volatility stocks. This anomaly may be partly explained by the fact that the typical institutional investor's mandate to beat a fixed benchmark... View Details
Keywords: Volatility; Stocks; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Risk Management; Performance Expectations
Baker, Malcolm, Brendan Bradley, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "Benchmarks as Limits to Arbitrage: Understanding the Low-Volatility Anomaly." Financial Analysts Journal 67, no. 1 (January–February 2011).
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Dean Clark Addresses Journalists
The nation’s business schools have a responsibility to contribute to that effort, Clark said, describing a special series of workshops on corporate issues undertaken at the School during the past academic year. Known as Corporate Governance, Leadership, and Values, the... View Details
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Brooke Borgen
and knew that many other women were doing the same. From that realization, Canopy Advisory Group was born: a portfolio of professionals with big-firm training who deliberately choose to use their skills on a View Details
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
managing a current portfolio of assets. These leaders have a sense of now and of generations to come. Sam Palmisano said in one of the quotes I like best in the book: "Managers come and go, the business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 PM – 1:15 PM EDT, 14 Apr 2021
- Virtual Programming
Unlocking Opportunity for America's Workforce
Professor?Bill Sahlman?will discuss his new case, Guild Education: Unlocking Opportunity for Americas Workforce, with CEO and cofounder?Rachel Carlson. Guild connects employers and universities to provide employees with education as a benefit, transforming traditional... View Details
- 03 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn
the firm's business practices. We have built a simple classification system that when combined with an "assessment" model could yield powerful diagnostics on how to migrate and manage a company's View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
Mikitani announced the changeover, in English, in March 2010 and set a two-year deadline for everyone to demonstrate English proficiency or sacrifice chances for advancement. He dubbed the project “Englishnization,” which has attracted... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
In an age of global scarcity, water has become a valuable commodity in both the industrialized and developing worlds. With governments and communities increasingly unable to manage the complexities and expense of water treatment and... View Details
- spring 2002
- Article
Returns on Project-Financed Investments: Evolution and Managerial Implications
By: B. C. Esty
Esty, B. C. "Returns on Project-Financed Investments: Evolution and Managerial Implications." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 15, no. 1 (spring 2002): 71–86.
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
started World War I, and it all collapsed. As percentages of GDP, we didn’t return to those earlier levels of global capital flows until the 1990s. Global free trade is not the natural order of things. Globalization is a project, and View Details
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
risks—a process that can release more equity capacity. Finally, Merton argues, the job of managing the company's derivatives portfolio should not be delegated to in-house financial experts. The strategic... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
This confirmed the rationale back in 1970 for PARC's charter as a separate research center. As Robert Adams, then a Xerox senior vice president, recalled, "The laser printer alone paid for all of the other PARC research projects many... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Innovation as P&G’s Key
every level, and effectively manage risk. At Honeywell, for example, the Automation and Control Solutions business relies on a homegrown Velocity Portfolio Manager software... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
design "programs" or sequences of projects over time in order that learning is maximized. Most past research on innovation has focused on the management of individual projects. As a result, we know... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
How Student-Proposed Internships Can Create Value - Recruiting
emails are much more effective than LinkedIn or alumni platforms.” Her message landed with the Head of Strategic Finance, who welcomed the conversation and scheduled a call to explore potential projects and align on goals. “They had never... View Details
- 05 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)
second role, Takatsuka is in a project management position overseeing the work of two interns. The company provides an education program for the top 5% of engineers graduating from college in Nigeria to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
different could things be?” It’s only been thirteen years since I graduated from HBS, and we in the Class of 1988 were remarkably forward-thinking about technology. Ours was the first class to have a subject called Management Information... View Details
- 2008
- Working Paper
Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk and Asset Returns
By: Christopher J. Malloy, Tobias J. Moskowitz and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen
We provide new evidence on the success of long-run risks in asset pricing by focusing on the risks borne by stockholders. Exploiting micro-level household consumption data, we show that long-run stockholder consumption risk better captures cross-sectional... View Details
Malloy, Christopher J., Tobias J. Moskowitz, and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen. "Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk and Asset Returns." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-060, January 2008.
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Honoring a Legend
venture capitalist for Greylock. In 1998, he left to run a portfolio company, iXL, which went public and grew to almost $500 million in revenue. After iXL, he joined Silverpop as its CEO, seeing it grow to nearly $100 million, becoming a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation
degrees in mechanical engineering and economics at Yale and then worked in tech investments at Morgan Stanley and as a project manager at Microsoft. But what Hopkins hoped to learn from the course taught by... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie