Portfolio Investment - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 May 2021
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From Dutch Tulips to Internet Stocks, How to Spot a Financial Bubble

11 Jan 2011
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Clean Energy Sector Hit by Financing Crunch

22 Oct 2019
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Episode 11: Karen Mills, Harvard Business School

29 Jul 2010
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Lifetime Achievement in Venture Capital Award

01 Sep 2023
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Solving for Z

these include AltFinance, a joint venture with rival investment management firms Ares and Oak Tree that seeks to attract, train, and provide career opportunities for graduates of historically Black colleges and universities; and the... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

01 Jan 2007
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Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

trouble letting go, he gave us freedom to sink or swim." The brothers have pursued a strategy of maintaining Ayala's core strength—extensive, large-scale, high-end real estate development in and around Manila—while expanding their View Details

01 Dec 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In

In a career spent investing in innovative startups at Intel, leading National Grid’s innovation and investment operations, and founding a nonpro t dedicated to advancing women and minorities to positions of top corporate leadership, Lisa Lambert (MBA 1997) always has... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

13 Jul 2023
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The Network Effect

between the two companies. In March 2021, Model was a part of the Agios team that finalized the sale of the biotech’s oncology portfolio to international pharmaceutical company Servier. For Agios, the sale was part of a pivot from cancer... View Details

22 Nov 2023
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So You Want to Join a Startup

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: At age 29, Gus Bessalel (MBA 1988) decided to leave consulting for a decidedly less glamorous life as an entrepreneur, working out of a storage room in the bowels of an underground hotel... View Details

24 May 2017
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Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979

path through the upper ranks of investment banking as well as his success building one of the world’s leading investment funds focused on infrastructure. Today he runs Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP),... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap

today’s fastest digital supercomputers years to complete. Quantum computers will be able to carry out complex financial chores like pricing derivatives and optimizing portfolios in the blink of an eye. They will crack even the strongest... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2023
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Bridging the ESG Data Gap

Megan Murday The idea for a digital platform to help venture capitalists calculate, benchmark, and improve portfolio ESG performance crystallized while Megan Murday (MBA 2021) was studying at HBS. Now the CEO of the software startup Metric, she says that “investors... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 1999
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Allison Hughes

Roberto Mignone (MBA '96). She also received first-year honors, was chosen by HBS professor Linda Hill to lead the exam review on Leadership and Organizational Behavior for the September cohort, and was invited by HBS professor André Perold to work on a special project... View Details

Keywords: Charlie Hogg

18 May 2023
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India's New Money Managers

When Priti Rathi Gupta (OPM 49, 2017) was 16 years old, her father handed her his investment portfolio and asked her what she could make of it. She was befuddled. "He realized that, although I had schooling in what we call commerce, I didn't really know much about... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

26 May 2016
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Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993

Morgan Global Investment Management, Portfolio Manager 2005 Named CEO, J.P. Morgan Private Bank 2005 Joins Board of Directors, U.S. Fund for UNICEF 2009 Named CEO, J.P. Morgan Asset Management 2013 Launches... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance

22 Sep 2023
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Capital Connection

professional fix-and-flipper, someone accumulating a portfolio of single-family rentals, or somebody buying a 200-unit housing complex, strip mall, or small hotel. They often need capital in the $1 million range and up, with intentions of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Real Estate

01 Dec 2023
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Case Study: Staking a Claim

Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

23 May 2018
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Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988

Named SVP, Fidelity Management and Research LLC (FMR) 2001 Named President, Fidelity Asset Management 2007 Named President, Fidelity Personal and Workplace Investing 2012 Named President, Fidelity Financial Services 2013 Named President,... View Details