Money Market Mutual Funds - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 May 2015
Research & Ideas

How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts

money to or not have funded at all” Crowdfunding platforms represent a major shift in the way art projects seek support and find success. Since its founding in 2009, Kickstarter has raised more than $1.5... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ramana Nanda; Entertainment & Recreation

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?

because they're driven by mutual funds or hedge funds and are rewarded in the short term. Long-term funders can expect to see more opportunities coming their way, he continued.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

19 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving

participants were given the option of donating money to the bundle of state chapters, or keeping the funds for themselves. The researchers then repeated the experiment, offering the bundle of four chapters... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

11 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet

But if you ask Bob Higgins, Wyc Grousbeck, and Mark Wan—all seasoned sports team owners-—about the secret to investment success in sports, they'll tell you it has little to do with owning a team. Rather, it's all about the media surrounding the team. “Selling tickets... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Financial Services

23 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

Institute, which advises managers in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, says that as organizations increasingly ask customers to play a more active role in transactions, saving money shouldn't be the sole guiding force.... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Connecting With Nonprofits

and cause-related marketing. This excerpt focuses on the collaborative stages.Collaborations between businesses and nonprofit organizations are becoming more prevalent, important, and complicated. Marketing plays an increasingly... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

07 Dec 2016
HBS Case

Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing

diversification of assets, managed through a portfolio of exchange-traded funds (ETF’s) that track market indexes. “It’s a great way to invest cheaply in a diversified basket of stocks, bonds, and other... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

30 Jan 2019
What Do You Think?

Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?

Summing Up: Which Schools Will Produce the Next Generation of Transformative Leaders? This month’s column featured two leaders who were able to build organizations that literally transformed the mutual fund... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation; Financial Services

02 Aug 2016
First Look

August 2, 2016

Liquidity Transformation in Asset Management: Evidence from the Cash Holdings of Mutual Funds By: Chernenko, Sergey, and Aditya Vikram Sunderam Abstract—We study liquidity transformation in View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Nov 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

online well before any regulatory filing disclosed his holdings in the company. These tactics may have been designed for drama, but the investment strategy and its scale are nothing unusual today. Activist shareholders and the hedge funds... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking

04 Oct 2007
What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

better. Be it mutual funds or hedge funds, these so-called owners have virtually no emotional investment in the companies (they own)." B. D. Majuqwana comments that "the biggest drawback for PE is... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

18 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 18

entering this market would present unique challenges for Vanguard. Vanguard had a philosophy espousing low-turnover investing, while ETFs enabled short-term trading. The company would also need to develop a distribution network for ETFs.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Aug 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance

Sapphire Made Credit Cool for Millennials The Chase Sapphire Reserve card was one of the hottest product launches in 2016. But what would be JP Morgan's next act be? State Street’s SHE: Investing in Women Leaders Index funds are the major... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

programs," he says. "The money is there at refund time. We just need to help families try to save some of it." Easy To Buy Other recommendations Tufano offers include marketing the program... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

02 May 2008
What Do You Think?

What is the Future of State Capitalism?

Gupta comments, "Countries like India ... need investments in infrastructure .... Where does it get the money it needs? From the money owners. How does it matter who they are?" Could global... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

02 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’

these actions actually translate into dollars and cents." That answer usually stops budget increases in their tracks; soon after, social efforts become just another box to check in the company's marketing manual. In the second instance,... View Details

26 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

develop three novel measures of how much of the price impact of their trading different mutual funds internalize. We show that mutual funds that... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

15 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

diminished focus on losses and heightened focus on gains when policies are evaluated in bundled form. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-147.pdf PublicationsAssessing the Cost and Benefits of Brokers: A Preliminary Analysis of the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 18, 2008

using a unique dataset of corporate 401(k) retirement plans and their mutual fund family trustees. Families secure substantial inflows by being named the trustee of a 401(k) plan. We find that family... View Details