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  • 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
  • 22 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

largely unregulated hedge fund, came perilously close to collapse in 1998, threatening the global financial system. The tech bubble burst in 2001. Accounting scandals destroyed Enron in 2001 and WorldCom in 2002. And the current global... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 04 Apr 2019
  • Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

George: I teach governance and serve on many corporate boards, and I can tell you that once you make the decision to go from a wholly-owned private company to go public, you're getting public money, you're getting investor money, pension View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

coming of Snuggie mean the end of Slanket? Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510034-PDF-ENG Who Broke the Bank of England? Harvard Business School Case 709-026 In the summer of 1992, hedge View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

also considers how to classify some of the different assets. It highlights the issues around allocations across different subclasses, e.g., among venture capital, hedge funds, and real assets. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 06 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

of investment because of whims: Investment managers or hedge fund managers can pull the money out of one country and put it into another or into gold or dollars. And if a lot of investors do this at once,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

million to $15 million. During this phase, you can self-finance or establish a search fund to recruit potential investors. Strike a deal. When you’ve settled on a target, do preliminary due diligence to confirm the business’s viability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

of U.S. Treasury bonds to the stock market has moved considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average in the period 1960-2011, it was unusually high in the 1980s and negative in the 2000s, a period during which Treasury bonds enabled investors to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

end of the yield curve. Using data from 26 countries, the yield spread between 30-year and 10-year government bond yields is negatively related to the ratio of pension assets (in funded and private pension and life insurance arrangements)... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

Abstract— We document a strong effect of pension and insurance company (P&I) assets on the long end of the yield curve. Using data from 26 countries, the yield spread between 30-year and 10-year government bond yields is negatively related to the ratio of pension... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

Case 209-097 Perry Capital owns shares in King and, to facilitate approval of the merger, buys shares in Mylan, whilst hedging out its economic exposure to Mylan's share price using derivatives. The price at which Mylan proposes to merge... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

complex technology. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/614019-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 212-045 The Long and Short of Apollo Group and the University of Phoenix (A) A hedge fund is deciding... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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