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  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

on the loan used to finance the Momentive buyout and allow issuance of senior secured notes. The case is set up from the perspective of a hedge fund that holds a fraction of Momentive's syndicated loan. The case serves as a vehicle for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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 options as it brings capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 11

investors at all horizons. However, it also means that the scope for hedging liabilities using global bonds has increased, benefiting investors with long-dated liabilities. Finally, we show that the well documented negative stock-bond... View Details
  • 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 bonds acquired at heavily... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

basis of the task force's recommendation, Kearns decided to pursue a corporate venture capital program. He agreed to commit $30 million to invest in promising technologies developed at Xerox. As he commented at the time, "XTV is a View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
  • 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
  • 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

Authors:Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford Abstract This paper studies the cost of capital for alternative investments. We document that the risk profile of the aggregate hedge fund universe can be accurately matched by a simple index put... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

incentive to default through inflation versus hedging against unforeseen shocks. We model and calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortion, government outlays... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

books. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107035 Leslie Brinkman at Versutia Capital Harvard Business School Case 407-089 Leslie Brinkman is the founder and CEO of a hedge fund, Versutia... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

marry the high level of governance expected by shareholders with the entrepreneurial spirit that had driven Hikma’s growth and development. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/318108-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-086 Sachem Head's Activism at... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 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
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

post-merger integration in a cross-border acquisition, and more general issues related to currency hedging and international taxation. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusiness.org/search/210017/ Shenzhen Development Bank Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

tax authorities. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=884812   Cases & Course MaterialsAderans Harvard Business School Case 209-090 Steel Partners is a U.S.-based hedge fund that has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 May 2017
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First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

banks use their global balance sheets to respond to local monetary policy. However, sources and uses of funds are often denominated in different currencies. This leads to a foreign exchange (FX) exposure that banks need to hedge. If cross-currency flows are large, the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

Massachusetts Financial Services (MFS) Investment Management was contemplating an introduction of hedge funds at the firm, but many believed that typical hedge fund manager pay (20% of the upside) would harm... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 17 Nov 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

online well before any regulatory filing disclosed his holdings in the company. These tactics may have been designed for drama, but the investment strategy and its scale are nothing unusual today. Activist shareholders and the hedge funds... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking
  • 03 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 3

Institutions, Entrepreneurs, and the Case of Hedge Funds Authors:Pamela Tolbert and Shon R. Hiatt Publication:In Research in the Sociology of Work. Vol. 20, edited by Wesley Sine and Robert David. Institutions and Entrepreneurship.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

and reversible way to reduce significantly the passive risk to the firm from this mismatch. I believe that the benefits of using credit derivative swaps will dwarf the costs of mistakes. Q: There has been a lot of scary news recently about View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 13 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud

more risk in projects by limiting their use of “cost-plus” agreements, which make it easier to overcharge government agencies, according to researchers. This renegotiation of contractual terms allows the agency to hedge its bet with a... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Service; Construction
  • 13 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 13

  Cases & Course MaterialsAQR's DELTA Strategy (A) Daniel B. Bergstresser, Lauren H. Cohen, Randolph B. Cohen, and Christopher J. MalloyHarvard Business School Case 212-038 In the summer of 2008, AQR Capital Management was considering the launch of a new View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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