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September 2019
Case

Funding Sources for Science & Technology Start-ups in India

By: Tarun Khanna, Arjun Swarup and Rachna Tahilyani

India's start-up ecosystem is amongst the largest globally, with a variety of funding options from angel investors, venture capital and corporate venture capital to debt. Classic consumer focused start-ups which look to leverage technology have been able to raise... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Business Startups; Science; Information Technology; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; Technology Industry; India; South Asia

01 Dec 2012
News

The Key to Innovation: Flexible Funding

collaboration across multiple disciplines. The HBS Dean's Fund is critical to this effort. It provides the flexible funding necessary for greater experimentation and innovation that will help ensure the... View Details

Keywords: Robert Steven Kaplan

01 Mar 2012
News

New Fund Supports FIELD Module 3

HBS has received a $1 million commitment from the DS Foundation MBA Program Innovation Fund to help underwrite the costs of ongoing MBA curriculum innovation. The fund will be... View Details

Keywords: Profess Rebecca M. Henderson; Professor Robert Steven Kaplan; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

07 Sep 2021
News

New HBS Fund Chairs Take the Helm

Courtesy Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C. Nelson Courtesy Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C. Nelson Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C. Nelson (both MBA 1988) became chairs of the HBS Fund on July 1, 2021,... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

HBS Creates Life Sciences Fellowship Fund

Next fall’s entering MBA Class of 2010 will include up to ten students who have received $20,000 fellowships based on their academic or professional excellence in the field of life sciences. Financial... View Details

Keywords: Admissions; fellowship; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

2012
Article

Mutual Fund Trading Pressure: Firm-Level Stock Price Impact and Timing of SEOs

By: Mozaffar N. Khan, Leonid Kogan and George Serafeim

In tests of the equity market timing theory of external finance, the prior literature has used overvaluation identifiers such as high market-to-book and high prior returns that are likely correlated with other determinants of SEOs. We use price pressure resulting from... View Details

Keywords: Equity; Market Transactions; Valuation; Capital Structure; Market Timing; Mathematical Methods; Acquisition

1972
Chapter

The Performance of Mutual Funds in the Period 1945-1964

By: Michael Jensen

Keywords: Investment Funds; Performance; Financial Services Industry

SSRN

01 Dec 1998
News

Novartis AG Establishes Global Research Fund

Four HBS professors whose international research efforts range from biotechnology in Taiwan to foreign investments in Costa Rica have been named the first Novartis Faculty Fellows. The two-year fellowships, funded by a $2 million gift... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

personalize healthcare and benefits, and Carol Nacy of Sequella, Inc., a biotech firm focused on controlling global infectious diseases, especially tuberculosis. Most of the companies were already up and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

August 2017 (Revised September 2023)
Case

Altoona State Investment Board & Bain Capital Fund XI

By: Josh Lerner and Ted Berk

Considers the decision faced by state pension fund manager Rod Calhoun as he decides whether to invest $200 million in Bain Capital's eleventh global buyout fund: Bain Capital Fund XI. For the fund, Bain was offering its limited partners a choice among three different... View Details

Keywords: Equity Method; Leveraged Buyout; Management Buyout; Capital; Design; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Leveraged Buyouts; Management; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Banking Industry; Massachusetts

01 Sep 2013
News

Connell Family Gift Funds Curriculum Innovation

Terry and Margot Connell In memory of William F. Connell (MBA 1963), his widow, Margot, and the Connell family have donated $10 million to HBS to establish the Margot and William F. Connell Family MBA Innovation Fund. Made on the occasion... View Details

Keywords: William F. Connell (MBA 1963); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

21 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Did Pandemic Stimulus Funds Spur the Rise of 'Meme Stocks'?

The US government set out to support consumers and jolt the economy when it issued federal stimulus checks during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. But actually, that money helped propel questionable investments in “meme stocks,” one of the most visible... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

02 Aug 2021
News

Why Bond Funds May Be Riskier than They Seem

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

or an equity mutual fund that holds low-dividend stocks and passes through little in the way of realized capital gains. A high-tax asset might be a standard corporate bond, since the interest payments on a... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

Article

Early Stage Investing in Mexico: The Role of Angel Investors and Seed Capital Funds

By: Roberto Charvel

This articles does a review of newly formed seed capital structures, angel investors and their interaction with venture capital funds in Mexico. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Emerging Economies; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Financial Services Industry; Latin America; Mexico

30 Apr 2014
News

Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men

March 2016 (Revised November 2020)
Case

Tableau

By: Boris Vallee

Matrix Capital Management, a long-short equity hedge fund based in Waltham, Massachusetts, is assessing its investment in Tableau, a data visualization company. Tableau, which conducted an IPO a few years ago, has been experiencing substantial growth as it aims at... View Details

Keywords: Hedge Fund; Long-short Equity; Growth Investing; Growth and Development Strategy; Investment; Valuation; Technology; Technology Industry; Waltham

January 2012 (Revised March 2012)
Case

Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA)'s Entry into the Retirement Market

By: Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy

This case examines Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA)'s decision to enter the retirement market with their new "Dimensional Managed DC" product, a complete retirement solution that aimed to provide investors with what they really wanted: the same standard of living in... View Details

Keywords: Retirement; Asset Management