Money Market Mutual Funds - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

27 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential

OpenSecrets.org. Direct stock or bond holdings were straightforward to categorize as risky or not. For mutual funds Minor tapped investment industry experts to help him devise an algorithm to categorize the... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

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

29 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control

pricing scheme, bond markets will be central to financing climate change and other environmental interventions. So-called green bonds appeal to investors who are looking for a safe place to park their money, as well as doing a little bit... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities; Construction; Green Technology; Public Administration

29 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

investment options available to participants. In practice, most plan sponsors have chosen to offer a menu of plain vanilla mutual funds plus company stock. Thus mutual View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

in governance. In spite of all the checks and balances, failures occurred with boards of directors, auditors, regulators, financial analysts, and professional investors and money managers. We thought we had a pretty good system, one the... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

managed money in the markets. Even retail money is invested today mainly through professionally managed vehicles such as mutual funds, 401k plans, and index funds, and retail... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

10 Jan 2005
What Do You Think?

Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?

2004, AFORES were allowed to begin investing up to 15 percent of fund assets in the Mexican stock market and up to an added 20 percent in foreign securities. This ruling is thought to have helped fuel a 40... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

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

13 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

of respondents reported optimism about their chances of surviving the crisis. However, only 70 percent of them expressed interest in pursuing such government subsidies. Cullen, an assistant professor at HBS who researches labor market... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform

other out and to work in concert on issues on which they share common ground.—Cynthia A. Montgomery and Rhonda Kaufman Reinvigorate Shareholders. As Michael Jensen observed in a 1993 Journal of Finance article, "Financial institutions such as banks, pension funds,... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery & Rhonda Kaufman

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

management alike. Bondholders received something like 10-to-15 cents in new GM equity on the dollar when the debt had no market value. The unions received a larger share of the equity than some thought their due, but in return they... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

06 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray

find out how accurately this ratio predicted a stock’s returns, the authors gathered data from Standard & Poor’s Compustat and The Center for Research in Security Prices, or CRSP, and mutual fund... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

to social problems through market solutions, the rate of return on these deals should be at least as high as traditional early stage investments. The big winners were in the technology and health care sectors, and in another group of... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

31 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: Jan. 31

Publication:Financial Analysts Journal 67, no. 6 (November-December 2011) Abstract What is the critical factor for success in the U.S. mutual fund industry? Is it top-ranked investment performance,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

03 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

Mutual Fund Industry Authors:Peter Tufano, Ajay Khorana, and Lei Wedge Periodical:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We study mutual View Details