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Investment Management Workshop

with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Download Brochure Who Should Attend Executives in investment management organizations—including hedge fund firms, private equity investing firms,... View Details
  • 20 Jan 2020
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Is Venture Capital Worth The Risk?

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MBA Elective Curriculum: Investment Strategies

By: Malcolm P. Baker

This is a CORE course for students pursuing careers in finance. Thus, students interested in pursuing careers in mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds, endowments, wealth management, financial consulting, marketing and client service, sales and trading,... View Details

  • 2008
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Life-Cycle Funds

By: Luis M. Viceira
The U.S. retirement system has experienced a substantial transformation in recent years. It has evolved from a system in which employees relied mainly on Social Security and professionally managed defined benefit (DB) pension plans sponsored by their employers to... View Details
Keywords: Retirement; Personal Finance; Investment Funds; Compensation and Benefits; United States
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  • June 2007 (Revised December 2007)
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AFL-CIO: Office of Investment and Home Depot

By: Rakesh Khurana and James Weber
Describes the AFL-CIO: Office of Investments activities in their campaign to improve governance at Home Depot by calling attention to Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli's compensation package and the company's poor performance. The AFL-CIO Office of Investments advocates... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Labor Unions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk: Quantities and Asset Prices

By: Ishita Sen, Umang Khetan, Jane Li and Ioana Neamtu
We study the extent of interest rate risk sharing across the financial system using granular positions and transactions data in interest rate swaps. We show that pension and insurance (PF&I) sector emerges as a natural counterparty to banks and corporations: overall,... View Details
Keywords: Interest Rates; Investment Funds; Banks and Banking; Insurance; Investment Banking; Risk and Uncertainty
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  • December 2023 (Revised April 2025)
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Yellow Corporation: On the Verge of Bankruptcy

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer
Yellow Corporation, one of the country’s oldest and largest less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers, was nearing its 100th anniversary in 2024. Whether it would reach that milestone, however, was uncertain as the company was attempting to restructure its operations to... View Details
Keywords: Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Capital Structure; Restructuring; Financial Management; Ethics; Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Strategy; Truck Transportation; Change Management; Transportation Industry; Shipping Industry; United States
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    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 20 Oct 2019
    • News

    U.S. Business Schools Realize ESG is no Fad but Part of Long-Term Trend

    • 14 Jan 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Smart Money: The Effect of Education, Cognitive Ability, and Financial Literacy on Financial Market Participation

    Keywords: by Shawn Cole & Gauri Kartini Shastry; Education; Financial Services
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    Employment | Harvard Business School

    Tax-Deferred Account program and a variety of generous, competitive pension plans. Learning & Development Harvard Business School (HBS) is committed to the professional development and growth of its staff. In service to the School’s... View Details
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    Finance - Faculty & Research

    code that should allow other researchers to use remote sensing for yield estimation and program evaluation. June 2025 Case TfL Pension Fund and the 2022 Gilt Market Crisis By: Emil N. Siriwardane , Vincent Dessain, Emer Moloney and... View Details

      Richard F. Meyer

      Richard F. Meyer is Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Professor Meyer received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and spent the first ten years of his career in the Management Services Division of Arthur D. Little, Inc., serving as a... View Details
      • November 2024 (Revised December 2024)
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      Moonfare and the Democratization of Private Equity

      By: Victoria Ivashina and Srimayi Mylavarapu
      Founded in 2016, Moonfare headquartered in Europe, was a pioneer in the “democratization” of private equity investments. Historically, private equity was accessible only to institutional investors like pension funds, endowments, sovereign wealth funds, and large family... View Details
      Keywords: Private Equity; Customers; Wealth; Business Strategy; Segmentation; Technological Innovation; Product Launch; Financial Services Industry; Europe
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      Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

      Financial Sector More Info The Impact of Pensions and Insurance on Global Yield Curves By: Robin Greenwood & Annette Vissing-Jorgensen JUN 2018 In this NBER working paper, researchers from the Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability... View Details
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      Faculty & Research - Global

      TagHive’s reputation at risk. 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... View Details
      • 05 Jun 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: June 5

        PublicationsTowards an Understanding of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting Authors:Abigail M. Allen and Karthik Ramanna Publication:Journal of Accounting & Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate the effect of standard setters in standard... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • March 2009 (Revised October 2009)
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      CalPERS' Emerging Equity Markets Principles

      By: Robert G. Eccles and Aldo Sesia
      The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS)—the largest public pension fund in the U.S.—had adopted a new principles-based approach to investing in emerging market equities in November 2007. Previously, CalPERS internal and external money managers were... View Details
      Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Investment Return; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Emerging Markets; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Value; Financial Services Industry; Public Administration Industry; China; California
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      Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

      corporate mergers, the sale and acquisition of companies, and investment portfolios for individuals, foundations, endowments, and pension funds. Lehman Brothers underwrote securities to raise capital for a range of businesses, supporting... View Details
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      Podcast - Business & Environment

      climate risk management. This is one of 4 new episodes this summer based on live content from the Harvard Business School Climate Risk conference held earlier in 2020. Incorporating Climate Risk in Pension Fund Investment Decisions 07 JUL... View Details