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- 07 Dec 2017
- News
Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?
- 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.
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
More entrepreneurs are receiving initial funding from VCs thanks to technologies such as the cloud. Source: PeopleImages As cloud technologies allow startups to build companies faster and cheaper than ever before, venture capitalists are... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- News
Harvard Business School Launches Fund for Student Start-Ups
- December 2009 (Revised February 2010)
- Case
The Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF) in 2009
By: Luis M. Viceira and Brendon Christopher Parry
In late June 2009, management at The Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF) was considering expanding the footprint of the TIFF Diversified Fund (TDF), the first truly comprehensive endowment management vehicle offered under the TIFF banner. The recent large capital... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Asset Management; Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Risk Management; Product Marketing; Financial Services Industry; United States
Viceira, Luis M., and Brendon Christopher Parry. "The Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF) in 2009." Harvard Business School Case 210-008, December 2009. (Revised February 2010.)
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Students Start-Ups Tap New HBS Fund
Nine HBS student-led teams received grants in March averaging $5,000 to $7,000 to launch and test their start-up business ideas. A total of $50,000 was made available through the pilot Minimum Viable Product Fund program run by HBS’s... View Details
Keywords: awards
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
Inspired by Dean Kim B. Clark's vision for the School, Beverly and Rodney A. Hawes, Jr. (MBA '69), recently made a generous gift to HBS that will fund a new classroom building. "You can't succeed in the world today without having a global... View Details
- 21 May 2015
- Blog Post
3 Ways to Fund Your HBS MBA
helpful! HBS Fellowships HBS has an incredible need-based financial aid program. The administration firmly believes that funding should not be a barrier for anyone to attend business school and they ensure that no student is required to... View Details
- June 2025
- Case
TfL Pension Fund and the 2022 Gilt Market Crisis
By: Emil N. Siriwardane, Vincent Dessain, Emer Moloney and Carlota Moniz
On September 27, 2022, Padmesh Shukla, CIO of the Transport for London (TfL) Pension Fund, was keeping a careful eye on the turmoil in the U.K. sovereign bond (or gilt) market. When the new government announced the largest tax cuts the U.K. had seen in half a century,... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Assets; Asset Management; Borrowing and Debt; Corporate Finance; Capital Markets; Equity; Financial Liquidity; Financial Instruments; Financial Strategy; Interest Rates; Governing and Advisory Boards; Crisis Management; Resource Allocation; Investment; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom; England; London; Europe
Siriwardane, Emil N., Vincent Dessain, Emer Moloney, and Carlota Moniz. "TfL Pension Fund and the 2022 Gilt Market Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 225-098, June 2025.
- September 1975 (Revised August 1991)
- Case
Exercise in Fund Accounting: Igertown, Georgia
Keywords: Accounting
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Exercise in Fund Accounting: Igertown, Georgia." Harvard Business School Case 176-040, September 1975. (Revised August 1991.)
- July 2017 (Revised August 2017)
- Case
Closed-End Funds at Saba Capital Management
By: Sara Fleiss and Adi Sunderam
Fleiss, Sara, and Adi Sunderam. "Closed-End Funds at Saba Capital Management." Harvard Business School Case 218-015, July 2017. (Revised August 2017.)
- January 2008
- Teaching Note
Gobi Partners: Raising Fund II (TN)
By: Josh Lerner, Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
Teaching Note for [808052]. View Details
- February 2006 (Revised April 2006)
- Teaching Note
General Motors U.S. Pension Funds (TN)
By: Luis M. Viceira
- 17 Jun 2012
- News
Reform needed in China’s fund business
- 30 Apr 2014
- News
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
- 02 May 2025
- News
Funding Today, Entrepreneurship Tomorrow. Or Not.
- June 2019
- Teaching Plan
THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS: Selecting Impact Funds
By: Vikram S Gandhi and Nathaniel Schwalb
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Satchu Launches Bold New Investment Fund
- June 2011 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
Two Key Decisions for China's Sovereign Fund
By: Robert C. Pozen and Xiaoyu Gu
The China Investment Corporation (CIC) was China's sovereign wealth fund (SWF), established with $200 billion of registered capital in September 2007 to diversify China's foreign exchange holdings and increase risk-adjusted returns on those assets. CIC was unusual in... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Business Growth and Maturation; Decisions; Capital; Investment Banking; Investment Funds; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Wealth; Expansion; Financial Services Industry; China; United States
Pozen, Robert C., and Xiaoyu Gu. "Two Key Decisions for China's Sovereign Fund." Harvard Business School Case 311-137, June 2011. (Revised September 2011.)
- March 2018 (Revised December 2018)
- Teaching Note
Closed-End Funds at Saba Capital Management
By: Adi Sunderam and Shawn O'Brien