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  • 05 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

Ostrovsky, and Schwarz. We prove that convergence occurs with probability 1, and we compute the expected time until convergence. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-056.pdf Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients: Conflicts of Interest and Mutual... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January–February 2017
  • Article

Buying Your Way into Entrepreneurship

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
An increasingly popular route to success as a small business owner is “acquisition entrepreneurship”—buying and running an existing operation. If you’re considering such a path, the authors offer practical advice for each stage of the process. Think it through. Do you... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Acquisition; Planning
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    Regina E. Herzlinger

    Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She was the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business School and serve on many established and start-up corporate health care/medical... View Details

    Keywords: health care; insurance industry; medical devices; retailing; digital health
    • 5 Feb 2013
    • Conference Presentation

    Financing Entrepreneurial Growth

    By: Tom Alberg, Andrew A. Bogan, Harold Bradley, Robert D. Cooter, Monika Gruter Cheney, Oliver R. Goodenough, William R. Hambrecht, Frank Hatheway, Thomas F. Hellmann, Marianne Hudson, Jared Konczal, Josh Lerner, Robert E. Litan, Diane Mulcahy, Ramana Nanda, Frank Partnoy, Joe Ratterman, Nava Ravikant, Jay R. Ritter, Alicia Robb, David T. Robinson, Allison Schrager, Barry Silbert, E. R. Sirri, Daniel Stangler and Sharon Vosmek

    Despite recent innovations in entrepreneurial finance, particularly at the early stage of business creation, many new and young companies continue to face hurdles to acquire capital.

    The Kauffman Foundation addressed current challenges and opportunities in... View Details

    Keywords: Finance; Entrepreneurial Finance; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; United States
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    The Stock Market and Bank Risk-Taking

    By: David S. Scharfstein and Antonio Falato
    We argue that stock market pressure to generate earnings encourages banks to increase risk. We measure risk using confidential supervisory ratings as well as financial information released in regulatory filings. We document that there is an increase in the risk-taking... View Details
    Keywords: Stock Market; Financial Markets; Business Earnings; Banks and Banking; Risk and Uncertainty
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    How Do Global Portfolio Investors Hedge Currency Risk?

    By: Robin Greenwood and Alex Cheema-Fox
    We use monthly portfolio data from one of the world’s largest custodian banks, with over $40 trillion assets under custody, to study how global portfolio investors hedge foreign exchange risk in their equity and fixed income portfolios over the past 25 years. The data... View Details
    Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Investment Funds; Currency; Risk and Uncertainty
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      The Stock Market and Bank Risk-Taking

      We argue that stock market pressure to generate earnings encourages banks to increase risk. We measure risk using confidential supervisory ratings as well as financial information released in regulatory filings. We document that there is an increase in the risk-taking... View Details
      • 13 Dec 2016
      • First Look

      December 13, 2016

      forthcoming Journal of Investment Consulting Cloaked Trading By: Cohen, Lauren, Dong Lou, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract—Using a novel, proprietary database of micro-level trading activities by asset... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • 26 Apr 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: April 26

      to those at the base of the economic pyramid. The company is about to exhaust its first round of venture capital funding, and the business model has yet to gain traction. How should the business model be changed, and should the venture capitalists continue to View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • September 2010 (Revised January 2012)
      • Case

      BP's Macondo: Spill and Response

      By: Julio J. Rotemberg
      This case starts by reporting various factors that may have contributed to the massive Macondo oil spill, noting that BP, its partners and the government all made decisions that helped cause the accident. It then discusses the response to this spill by BP and the... View Details
      Keywords: Safety; Metals and Minerals; Crisis Management; Infrastructure; Trade; Pollutants; Risk and Uncertainty; Business and Government Relations; Finance; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Technology Adoption; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; United Kingdom; United States
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      • 15 Jan 2019
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

      https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55402 The Creation and Evolution of Entrepreneurial Public Markets By: Bernstein, Shai, Abhishek Dev, and Josh Lerner Abstract—This paper explores the creation and evolution of new stock View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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      Faculty & Research

      high-climate solution firms, whose business benefits as climate transition risks materialize, hedge investors against such risks. Featured Case Myeloma Investment Fund By: Kyle Myers and Scott Sawaya This case explores a critical decision... View Details
      • 24 Aug 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: August 24

        PublicationsHigher Risk, Lower Returns: What Hedge Fund Investors Really Earn Authors:Ilia Dichev and Gwen Yu Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract The returns of hedge fund... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 31 Mar 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: March 31, 2009

      http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-101.pdf Does Public Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality? Authors:Dan Givoly, Carla Hayn, and Sharon P. Katz Abstract We compare the quality of accounting numbers produced by two types of public firms-those with publicly View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace

        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
        • January 2025
        • Case

        Untapped Global: Financing Africa’s Missing Middle

        By: Raymond Kluender and Emanuele Colonnelli
        In November 2024, Jim Chu, founder and CEO of Untapped Global, faced mounting internal tensions over the company’s strategic direction. Untapped had developed a data-driven revenue-based financing (RBF) model to address the “missing middle” problem—the $5.2 trillion... View Details
        Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Working Capital; Private Equity; Financial Strategy; Microfinance; International Finance; Currency Exchange Rate; Profit Sharing; Revenue; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Nigeria; South Africa; Kenya; Uganda; California; San Francisco
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        • 08 Nov 2011
        • First Look

        First Look: Nov. 8

        structural estimation methods. Our results confirm the belief expressed by industry experts that in the fast-food drive-thru industry, customers trade off price and waiting time. More interestingly, our estimates indicate that consumers... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • Program

        Senior Executive Program—Africa

        limited amount of partial scholarship funding may be available for qualified applicants from not-for-profit organizations. Please include a request for funding in your application. Blended Learning 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
          • Program

          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,... View Details