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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Taking Flight
Fund, he invested millions of dollars for pension fund clients. In the early 1990s, Thayer taught himself a database program that he thought could be useful for shareholder accounting. As a test exercise, he used the database to keep... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
described as a vulture capitalist, now gets a serious hearing when he urges Apple to make better use of its billions in cash or Dell to improve the terms of a management buyout. Today, university endowments and state pension funds invest... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
financial product. The supply of venture capital is also likely to continue growing. Within the past two years, numerous pension funds have invested in private equity for the first time. Many experienced investors have also decided to... View Details
- 09 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020
Board Governance and Sustainability with a Q&A led by BEI faculty chair Mike Toffel, where the role of regulation, fiduciary duty, and managing for sustainability at one of the world’s largest pension funds was discussed in detail.... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
and series B financing? Dodi: Definitely. The bulk of venture capital comes from institutions, whether they be pension funds or endowments. But their ticket, their minimum investment size is typically $10 million or even more, and they... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
the pension firm State Street Research. Although the family moved because Wise got a job at Tulane, Wilkins quickly saw opportunities in the city's burgeoning business scene. "I'm an entrepreneur at my core, and after Katrina everyone... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
and of another serious setback for further privatization of pensions in America.” When All Else Fails by David A. Moss (Harvard University Press) Although Associate Professor David Moss completed his draft of When All Else Fails:... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- Web
Women on Boards: How Lara Druyan and Ann Lucena Are Shaping the Future of Corporate Leadership - Blog: RGE Report
into what was happening on the ground,” Lucena says. Similarly, Druyan cautions against hasty reactions to the unexpected. During her time on the City of San Jose Pension Fund board, the CEO and CIO resigned within weeks of each other;... View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
retirement crisis in the wake of the dot-com crash, when companies in major industries went bankrupt in large part because of their inability to meet their pension obligations. The result was an acceleration of America's shift away from... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
the book was to show that we can start changing environments to make it easier for our minds, which aren't perfectly rational and don't absorb information perfectly, to succeed in life," Bohnet explains. While the book's authors applied their theory to policy... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
focus from advising to investing in start-ups just as the UK and Europe embarked on major economic reforms. In addition, the U.S. venture capital industry got a huge boost when a 1978 clarification in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) gave the green... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
Mozilo ... and 'Say on Pay' for All! (A) Harvard Business School Case 109-009 Union seeks to protect its pension funds through shareholder activism focused on corporate governance and executive compensation. The case uses Countrywide... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
http://icc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/dtq013?ijkey=WB7zzaO3bsqcw4t&keytype=ref Pension Fund Design in Developing Economies Author: Luis M. Viceira Publication: In Evaluating the Financial Performance of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
With its ability to hold steady and provide a regular return, rather than bounce around in time with the volatile stock market, music also starts to look more attractive as a non-correlated risk. The extra yield is especially appealing to institutional investors like... View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
investors (such as hedge funds, mutual funds, and pension funds) from 1999 to 2014. The information came from Abel Noser Solutions (formerly Ancerno Ltd.), a firm that performs transaction cost analysis for institutional investors—and... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
Alliance, a public-private partnership based at the United Nations. Today, 100 million unbanked adults worldwide receive government transfers, wages, or pensions in cash, a payment method that is highly vulnerable to fraud and theft.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
system, which is what President Bush is talking about. So, to shift from defined benefit to defined contribution pensions is not a repudiation of the idea of protecting old people. It is actually modernizing it and making it real. Is... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711415-PDF-ENG Retiree Pension and Health Benefits David F. HawkinsHarvard Business School Note 111-033 Note on accounting for retiree pension and health benefits... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
government-funded pensions and health insurance). And Detroit’s troubles magnify — and perhaps exacerbate — the fact that across industries, traditional understandings and loyalties between employers and employees are breaking down.... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
Case 317-044 Vicki Fuller: Chief Investment Officer of New York State's $150+ Billion Employee Pension Fund Vicki Fuller traveled from a four-room tenement bordering Chicago’s infamous Cabrini-Green housing projects to speaking at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne