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October 2024
Supplement

Partners Capital: Evaluating Fund Performance

By: Luis M. Viceira

June 20, 2011
Article

Don't Hobble Money Market Funds

By: Robert C. Pozen

Keywords: Money; Markets

May 22, 2011
Article

Why Balanced Funds are Better

By: Robert C. Pozen

Keywords: Money; Balance and Stability

May – June 1971
Article

Funds Control Versus Cost Control

By: J. Ronald Fox

Keywords: Cost; Money

March 2007
Teaching Note

Canyon Johnson Urban Fund (TN)

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee

Teaching note to 706442. View Details

Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Investment; Projects; Urban Development; Business and Community Relations; Price; Economics; Financial Services Industry; Los Angeles

27 Apr 2020
News

How Brands Unwittingly Fund Disinformation

Keywords: Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

30 Nov 2009
News

Business Plan Winner Receives Funding

Keywords: Matthew Prince, MBA '09, & Michelle Zatlyn, MBA '09

August 1988 (Revised December 1989)
Case

Golden Gate Bank Pension Fund

By: David E. Bell

Keywords: Investment Funds; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry

April 1998
Teaching Note

Schroder Ventures: Launch of the Euro Fund TN

By: Josh Lerner

Keywords: Currency; European Union

12 Feb 2008
Working Paper Summaries

The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns

Keywords: by Lauren H. Cohen, Andrea Frazzini & Christopher Malloy; Financial Services

October 2018
Case

Fairview Capital

By: Steven Rogers and Derrick Collins

JoAnn Price and Dr. Larry Morse were the first African-Americans to launch a fund of funds in the private equity industry. Their fund, Fairview capital, was created in response to the dearth of capital invested in private equity funds managed by black and other... View Details

Keywords: Alternative Assets; Fund Of Funds; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Decision Making; Strategy; United States

Educators

May 1994 (Revised December 1994)
Case

Fidelity Investments: Spartan Florida Municipal Fund

By: Andre F. Perold and Sanjay Bhatnagar

Keywords: Investment Funds; Financial Services Industry; Florida

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

December 2005 (Revised August 2007)
Case

NewSchools Venture Fund in 2004: At a Crossroads

By: Stacey M. Childress and Caroline Joan King

Founded as one of the first venture philanthropy organizations in the United States in 1998, NewSchools Venture Fund brought new investors and new ideas to public education reform. By 2004, the organization and its founder were reassessing their model and their role in... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Education; Social Entrepreneurship; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; United States

2016
Working Paper

Liquidity Transformation in Asset Management: Evidence from the Cash Holdings of Mutual Funds

By: Sergey Chernenko and Adi Sunderam

We study liquidity transformation in mutual funds using a novel dataset on their cash holdings. To provide investors with claims that are more liquid than the underlying assets, funds engage in substantial liquidity management. Specifically, they hold substantial... View Details

Keywords: Financial Liquidity; Cash; Investment Funds

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20 Dec 2010
News

Harvard Business School Launches Fund for Student Start-Ups

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

April 1980 (Revised February 1982)
Case

National Instrument Company Pension Fund (B)

By: Jay O. Light

Keywords: Investment Funds