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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
HBS Fund Supports Core Priorities
- 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.)
- Web
Funding Opportunities - Business & Environment
MBA Experience Funding Opportunities 23ms Career and Internship Support While many options exist to address environmental issues through traditional for-profit careers, some students make their marks on the world through other types View Details
- 22 Sep 2014
- News
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
- 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 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
- Web
Search Fund Fellowship | MBA
Search Fund Fellowship Thanks to the generosity of Catherine James Paglia (MBA 1976), the Search Fund Fellowship is a program designed to enable graduating students from all... View Details
- 2008
- Working Paper
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: Asset Pricing; Investment Portfolio; Governing and Advisory Boards; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Social and Collaborative Networks; Financial Services Industry
Cohen, Lauren, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher J. Malloy. "The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-055, January 2008. (Winner of the Barclays Global Investors Award, Best Paper in Asset Pricing, European Finance Association 2007.)
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
pilot program in 1991 has now provided more than $18 billion in grants worldwide. “Things have changed dramatically since then,” says Coady, who, after four years at the World Bank, went on to work with the biodiversity investment fund... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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
- October 2019
- Supplement
Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF Partners)
By: Shawn A. Cole and Vikram S Gandhi
Cole, Shawn A., and Vikram S Gandhi. "Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF Partners)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 220-708, October 2019.
- March 2018 (Revised February 2019)
- Case
The Fidelity Growth Company Fund
By: Sara L. Fleiss and Samuel G. Hanson
Fleiss, Sara L., and Samuel G. Hanson. "The Fidelity Growth Company Fund." Harvard Business School Case 218-090, March 2018. (Revised February 2019.)
- February 1978 (Revised April 1979)
- Background Note
Alternative Funds Flow Statement Formats
By: David F. Hawkins
Keywords: Financial Reporting
Hawkins, David F. "Alternative Funds Flow Statement Formats." Harvard Business School Background Note 178-169, February 1978. (Revised April 1979.)
- 04 Sep 2024
- News
Hedge Funds Help Companies Hedge
- October 2020
- Article
The Elasticity of Science
By: Kyle Myers
This paper identifies the degree to which scientists are willing to change the direction of their work in exchange for resources. Data from the National Institutes of Health are used to estimate how scientists respond to targeted funding opportunities. Inducing a... View Details
Myers, Kyle. "The Elasticity of Science." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 12, no. 4 (October 2020): 103–134.
- 13 Jun 2013
- News
Celtics CEO starts investment fund
- 21 Nov 2014
- News
Pension Funds Lambaste Private-Equity Fees
- May 2011
- Article
Higher Risk, Lower Returns: What Hedge Fund Investors Really Earn
By: Ilia Dichev and Gwen Yu
The returns of hedge fund investors depend not only on the returns of the hedge funds they hold but also on the timing and magnitude of their capital flows in and out of the funds. We use dollar-weighted returns (a form of IRR) to assess the properties of actual... View Details
Dichev, Ilia, and Gwen Yu. "Higher Risk, Lower Returns: What Hedge Fund Investors Really Earn." Journal of Financial Economics 100, no. 2 (May 2011): 248–263.