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17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

particular, our approach appears far better able to identify stock-picking ability (if it exists) among funds that started recently. This is exciting because there are good theoretical reasons to think these funds are the most likely to outperform. Q: How should the... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

26 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade

showing how certain investors spend a lot of time in private meetings with corporate executives—and how this gives the investors an unfair advantage, in spite of Federal regulations that are supposed to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

11 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts

As Hertz approaches what is expected to be a $1 billion "quick flip" IPO just ten months after being acquired, critics are again taking aim at reverse leveraged buyouts and wondering whether investors are being set up for a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

Fast Answer

Special purpose acquisition companies

to: Screeners Investors & Funds Build a custom investors & fund screen Investor Types > Other investor types > Special... View Details

28 Feb 2025
News

Alumni Startup Enters the Shark Tank

This Friday night, Remento enters the Shark Tank. The startup, cofounded by CEO Charlie Greene (MBA 2021) in 2021, will be featured on this week’s episode of the long-running business show, pitching its “no-write life story book” vision to Sharks at 8/7c on ABC. We... View Details

13 Nov 2020
News

Insatiably Curious

Adrianna Ma (MBA 2000) Adrianna Ma (MBA 2000) has been member of the HBS Fund Investors Society, which recognizes leadership giving, for the past five years. “I had an unconventional background and I’m grateful that the School took a... View Details

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment

to support immoral enterprises. Hayes argued that an investor is in a better position to change a company's policies than an outsider, noting that his college investment committee used proxy materials to raise an issue about sexual... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2017
News

Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?

been testing blockchain’s potential for a few years now. But until Northern Trust’s pilot began this past spring, private equity investors didn’t have a commercial application for blockchain. Aware of the tech’s potential impact, Northern... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

31 Mar 2002
What Do You Think?

Is This the Decade of the Investor?

Summing Up Responses to the question, "Is this the decade of the investor?" offer little hope that the investor will get any relief soon, compared to the rewards realized by managers and customers. Nor do they hold out much... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Feb 2019
Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition

illustrious company is a source of motivation to keep working hard and accomplish even more in the future.” Can you tell us about your current work? Pradhan: “I work as a technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) investor at TPG, a... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

15 Sep 2020
News

How To Make Diversity a Reality

capital, which includes private equity. So is there something nuanced or different about how you approach it on the corporate side versus the investor or private equity side? Willie: I think on the investor... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

Emerging Research on Emerging Markets

gradual process of confidence-building that leads investors to invest progressively more and, ultimately, to market integration," said Perotti. Other presenters were Columbia's Charles Himmelberg, who spoke on View Details

Keywords: Yasheng Huang; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

Fast Answer

Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise

investors and service providers across the private investment lifecycle. LSEG Workspace - provides public and private company profiles and strong in company analyst reports, current and historical SEC filings. It also provides... View Details

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions

capital from the outside. It's been coming down tremendously," he said. "And capital is very expensive, on average, the spread is 700 basis points," he said. Investors have also grown weary of putting money into supposedly... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

The State of the Markets

unexecuted orders on our books. Under this system, those orders would simply be rotated to our next partner and be completed." Global vendors whom the investor calls directly to execute a transaction. With the coming of... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

Profile

Adam Kanner

already scored big. The startup raised $8.5 million in its first round in 2010 from such investors as Bain Capital and media executive Shari Redstone. In subsequent rounds, the growing company has raised nearly $50 million from other... View Details

26 Oct 2017
News

Can Farming Save the Planet?

and you capture carbon; and it’s a natural consequence of growing grains, growing row crops,” he observes. Wiviott and SFP have come up with a win-win, market-based way of getting farmers to go organic. The model affords investors the... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Organic farming; Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry; Agriculture

23 Jun 2014
News

Freedom to Explore

Although Sherry L. Coutu (MBA 1993) now works as an angel investor in Cambridge, England, some 3,000 miles from Boston, Harvard Business School remains close to her heart. “The words of my professors and my classmates are part of my life... View Details

06 Dec 2011
First Look

First Look: Dec. 6

Originators issue too many informationally insensitive securities in good times, blunting investor incentives to become informed. The resulting scarcity of informed investors exacerbates market collapses in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

entrepreneurs wielding private capital, the new one is driven by professional investors working for or on behalf of deep-pocketed institutions, like pension funds and endowments. Even individual investors... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

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