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  • 02 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 3, 2008

insurance space stands the hedge fund Nephila. Nephila must decide how best to take advantage of the newly presented market opportunities post hurricanes Katrina, Wilma, and Rita. Nephila has a plethora of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3

concentrated in hedge funds but is not present for investment advisors or pension funds. Overall, our results suggest that private meetings help a select group of investors make more informed trading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

and Finance (forthcoming). (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 05-053 and NBER Working Paper No. 13131.) Abstract The main arguments in favor of and against nominal and indexed debt are the incentive to default through inflation versus View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

financial management and the usefulness of formal hedging of agricultural production risks was offered to randomly selected farmers in Gujarat, India. The authors evaluate the effect of the financial literacy training and three marketing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Dec 2008
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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
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

level. Inheriting Losers Authors:Li Jin and Anna Scherbina Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We show that new managers who take over mutual fund portfolios sell off inherited momentum losers at higher rates... View Details
  • 24 Jul 2018
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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
  • 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12

211-090 Rehan Jaffer, the founder of hedge fund H Partners, is considering what to do with his investment in Six Flags. H Partners had invested a significant amount of the firm's capital in the senior bonds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

don't really think about these firms in that way; that characterization would seem more apt for a hedge fund than Cummins. In reality, increased foreign activity by Cummins need not be associated with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

Starks at InSiL Therapeutics (B) This case accompanies the (A) case from Anthony Starks's perspective. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/617030-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-045 Tableau Matrix Capital Management, a long-short... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

and a large fraction of its debt has come to be held by U.S.-based hedge funds that specialize in investing in distressed companies. Finally, Eurotunnel's business is extremely challenging to value and is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

2000s, a period during which Treasury bonds enabled investors to hedge macroeconomic risks. This paper develops a New Keynesian macroeconomic model with habit formation preferences that prices both bonds and stocks. The model attributes... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 10

FarriHarvard Business School Case 310-090 In late January 2009, Thomas Fekete, managing director at Barclays Wealth in London, redeemed the most illiquid positions in the so-called Wealth Absolute Return Fund (WAR), one of Barclays... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Recent work documents large positive abnormal returns around the time that a hedge fund announces its activist intentions with a publicly listed firm. We show that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

Shiller, MacroMarkets' main innovation is the "MacroShare," which allows investors to take long or short, levered or unlevered, positions based on the value of any index. Both Shiller and Masucci are hopeful that MacroShares can help investors View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008

School Supplement 408-116 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=408116 Opportunity Partners Harvard Business School Case 208-097 Philip Goldstein, the principal in a growing View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2019
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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
  • 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13

how management and corporate boards of directors can best manage investor relations with activist stockholders such as hedge funds who are demanding major changes within a corporation to improve stockholder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

partners through revenue and profit sharing, while hedging risk by asking them to absorb a portion of development costs. The final principle that emerged in our work is the need to invest in building collaborative capabilities. Many... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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