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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Connections and Mutual Fund Returns” ( Journal of Political Economy , October 2008). Lauren H. Cohen : Won the 2007 Smith Breeden Distinguished Paper Prize for the Best Paper in the Journal View Details

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century Charts & Statistics Birthplace Education Gender & Ethnicity Tenure Birthplace of Leaders Foreigners Gain CEO Access After Mid-Century Pre-1950 Founder 73%... View Details

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The Case Method Classroom | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

building dedicated solely for classroom use. Philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr. funded the construction in honor of his father-in-law, Nelson W. Aldrich, Senator from Rhode Island and chairman View Details

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growth-stage entities in obtaining access to capital, with sources of funding ranging from banks to high net-worth individuals. Cleveland was a presidential appointee to the Small Business Administration's... View Details

13 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

pretty exciting to say why the mutual fund industry is terrible, why financial gurus don’t really know anything, and stuff like that, but it also requires a ton of time and energy.” Also different was how... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail

01 Dec 2022
News

Full Court Press

On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Dec 2018
News

Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders

staggering $119 billion in annual [2013] gambling losses toward funding entrepreneurship and innovation, what change—and economic value—might be achieved?” Among the equity-crowdfunding platforms now jockeying for listings and the... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

15 Sep 2015
First Look

September 15, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49614 October 2015 Journal of Finance The Cost of Capital for Alternative Investments By: Jurek, Jakub W., and Erik Stafford Abstract—Traditional risk factor... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2014
Chapter

Who Uses the Roth 401(k), and How Do They Use It?

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian

Using administrative data from twelve companies that added a Roth 401(k) option between 2006 and 2010, we describe the characteristics of Roth contributions. Approximately one year after the Roth is introduced, 9% of 401(k) participants have positive Roth balances.... View Details

Keywords: Retirement; Investment Funds; United States

Profile

Anddria Clack

Why was earning your MBA at Harvard Business School important to you? I have been a student and practitioner of business for several years. I started requesting to attend college-level business camps and internships while I was a still a... View Details

Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Investment Management / Hedge Fund

2023
Chapter

Private Equity Financing

By: Victoria Ivashina

The goal of this chapter is to understand the common practices of PE funds’ structure and funding. The chapter covers three topics. First, it gives an overview of the traditional private equity (PE) financing structure; then, it discusses other investment vehicles like... View Details

Keywords: Trends; Private Equity; Investment Funds

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11 Mar 2008
News

Soak the Rich?

Venture capital, private equity, and hedge fund partners — a group heavily laden with HBS alumni — may have dodged a tax bullet late last year, but they can expect Congressional advocates View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

02 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

until this point, momentum was a strategy employed nearly exclusively by hedge funds, and thus not an available investment strategy to most individual investors. This case highlights the difficulties in implementing this "mutual... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 3

Institutions, Entrepreneurs, and the Case of Hedge Funds Authors:Pamela Tolbert and Shon R. Hiatt Publication:In Research in the Sociology of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 1997
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High Fives

four investment funds with approximately $750 million of capital for private equity investments. Most important thing learned at HBS: “About my own limitations. I'm not a very analytical person, so I got a... View Details

07 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

in the secondary market, and thinks about their future. Shelley Capital was a a European advisory company operating in the hedge fund secondary market, a market that boosted in 2008 with the world financial... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 2017
News

Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

neighborhood-development strategy of mixed-income housing, a cradle-to-college education pipeline, and community wellness programs that have helped to revitalize Atlanta’s troubled East Lake neighborhood. View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

30 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 30

Massachusetts Financial Services (MFS) Investment Management was contemplating an introduction of hedge funds at the firm, but many believed that typical View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Dec 2015
News

Honoring a Visionary Thinker Who Took Time for Students

needed to persuade his 50th Reunion classmates to contribute to a new fellowship. The selling point, he says, was that the fund will be named for the late HBS professor and Harvard Business Review editor Ted Levitt. “Ted was a giant in... View Details

Forthcoming
Article

Passive Ownership and Price Informativeness

By: Marco Sammon

I show that passive ownership negatively affects the degree to which stock prices anticipate earnings announcements. Estimates across several research designs imply that the rise in passive ownership over the last 30 years has caused the amount of information... View Details

Keywords: Passive Ownership; ETFs; Market Efficiency; Price; Investment Funds; Stocks; Communication