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- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
discussion of how ownership concentration constrains restructuring alternatives, how hedge fund investors might confront controlling shareholders, and how the mispricing of agency costs can give rise to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
compared to a market price of $23. Elizabeth Kemp, the portfolio manager of a long-only technology fund at Sand Hill Road Capital, had bought 500,000 shares at the IPO price and had to decide whether to harvest her gain or to double down... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
state-owned sovereign funds, led by Abu Dhabi and fueled mostly by oil revenues and trade surpluses, now total more than the value of the world's hedge funds and will grow by six times over just in the next... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
be censored by the IMF for not supplying accurate data. Macri also signed an agreement with US hedge funds to settle a protracted dispute over the country’s failure to repay billions of dollars’ worth of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/818061-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-079 Margin Accounts No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218079-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 119-032 Stock-Based Compensation at Twitter... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Professors Introduce Valuation Software
likely users of the product? Could you provide a scenario or two of how it would be used? A: The model is valuable for professional investors (money managers, financial analysts, hedge fund managers), for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk
and, second, a growing threat of politically motivated changes to regulatory regimes. There has been much talk recently about the extent to which the proliferation of derivative products has allowed banks to manage their balance sheets better. By enhancing the ability... View Details
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
investment by two prominent hedge funds when the liquidity crisis caused the hedge funds to withdraw from the transaction. Dole must now... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
pricing. Hedge fund firms often hired the duo for speaking engagements, which led to informal post-speech chats with various fund managers, many of whom also sported PhDs.... View Details
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110070-PDF-ENG The Robin Hood Foundation Alnoor S. Ebrahim and Cathy RossHarvard Business School Case 310-031 Created by hedge fund and financial managers, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
In mid-2012, Clairemont had invested nearly $75M in Yahoo! after the tech company settled a highly visible proxy fight with prolific activist investor Daniel Loeb of hedge fund Third Point. Since that time,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
calculate the returns on capital of different product designs for a variable annuity based on specified assumptions including a range of hedging scenarios. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311041-PDF-ENG Note:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
reputational costs. Saving local newspapers isn’t Heese’s specialty, but he points to a recent trend of hedge funds buying up distressed local media outlets as having the potential to stabilize the market... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
Business School Case 215-026 Longbow Capital Partners Longbow Capital Partners is a value-oriented long/short hedge fund focused on stocks in the energy sector. In January 2011, Longbow had invested in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
Harvard Business School Case 210-002 In 2005, Jane Bauer-Martin, a hedge fund manager, is considering what she should do with the fund's large investment in the publicly traded bonds of Delphi Corp., a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
structuring. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216035-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-003 Pershing Square 2.0 In June 2015 William A. Ackman, the CEO and founder of New York hedge View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
short-term debt financing, an attractive source of funding in good times but an accelerant of financial crises when things go bad. And we're getting closer to adopting a "resolution regime" that could enable regulators to wind... View Details
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
climate policies. Applying the “universal owner” model. The world’s largest assets owners have taken note of the scale of this exposure. Large pension funds invest so broadly—through index funds, private equity, or other securities—that... View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
started her own hedge fund firm in 2001 after nearly 20 years as a star biotechnology analyst and hedge fund manager. After the start-up phase,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509050 Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A1) Harvard Business School Case 109-013 Two activist investors, one a founder and one a hedge View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace