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  • December 2023 (Revised April 2024)
  • Case

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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  • 20 Jan 2020
  • News

Is Venture Capital Worth The Risk?

  • June 2007 (Revised December 2007)
  • Case

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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  • 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
  • Web

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

    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

      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)
      • Case

      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
      • 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)
      • Case

      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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      Podcast - Business & Environment

      Pension Fund Investment Decisions 07 JUL 2020 | Climate Rising Hiro Mizuno, former head of the Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), and Professor Vikram Gandhi discuss the steps GPIF has taken... View Details
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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
      • 21 Oct 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Market Interest in Nonfinancial Information

      Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles, Michael P. Krzus & George Serafeim
      • 12 Sep 2023
      • What Do You Think?

      Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?

      social, and governance issues at the heart of so-called “stakeholder capitalism.” Corporations that become too visible in support of stakeholder capitalism run the risk of losing public investors, such as pension funds in states in which... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • 18 Aug 2022
      • Op-Ed

      Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

      covenant forged at the onset of the Industrial Age, the Silent Generation, born between 1928 and 1945, typically had the benefit of guaranteed pensions. The ability of corporations to provide pensions created a workforce that remained... View Details
      Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
      • 20 Mar 2012
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Stock Selection and Performance of Buy-Side Analysts

      Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Paul Healy, George Serafeim, Devin Shanthikumar & Gui Yang; Financial Services
      • 13 Dec 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face

      minority-owned group raising a fund is 60 percent higher in these periods of high racial awareness. They also looked at public pension fund data in states where a minority chief investment officer was hired. The likelihood that a minority... View Details
      Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Financial Services
      • 01 Mar 2024
      • News

      In Harmony

      Carlyle colleagues to raise MBK Partners’ first fund. Temasek Holdings, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, was an early investor; so was the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. Before all that, however, while at Salomon, Kim—still in his... View Details
      Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea