Money Market Mutual Funds - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2002
News

Bad Times for Business

Today, we can move our money around from one mutual fund to another, at very low cost. As a result, money flows from View Details

01 Dec 2005
News

recent U.S. real estate history can’t help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office and... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

22 Feb 2022
News

Savings and Loam

closer to market rates. In true throwback fashion, the mutual bank opened a branch office on Main Street in Concord, New Hampshire, and carries the distinction of being the state’s first View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Mar 2005
News

Venture Capital’s Comeback

limited partners begging to get in,” notes Wilcox. “Today, the really good funds are back competing for the very best deals, and LPs are lining up to invest money in them. But the mediocre and poorer View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

26 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

develop three novel measures of how much of the price impact of their trading different mutual funds internalize. We show that mutual funds that... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving

participants were given the option of donating money to the bundle of state chapters, or keeping the funds for themselves. The researchers then repeated the experiment, offering the bundle of four chapters... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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

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

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 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

01 Dec 2010
News

Additional alumni books for your consideration.

initiative, whether a simple project or a grand gamble. Money Mavericks: Confessions of a Hedge Fund Manager by Lars Kroijer (MBA ’98) (FT Prentice Hall) Kroijer charts the founding, rise, and eventual... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

11 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet

But if you ask Bob Higgins, Wyc Grousbeck, and Mark Wan—all seasoned sports team owners-—about the secret to investment success in sports, they'll tell you it has little to do with owning a team. Rather, it's all about the media surrounding the team. “Selling tickets... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Financial Services

05 Aug 2014
News

A Diversified Portfolio

or $500 million in capital, they're simply not interested in funding companies that need $10 million or less to develop real market traction." According to Dodi, the growing number of companies with women in... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

25 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 25, 2008

The Blackwell Handbook of Technology and Innovation Management, edited by Scott Shane, 3-55. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2008 No abstract is available at this time. Book link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Brand/id-35.html Can Mutual... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

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

24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?

enough money to prosper, low-income families' access to health benefits, their civic participation, family stability, and mental wellbeing are all diminished by their low success rate in building assets. Peter Tufano, Sylvan C. Coleman... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

12 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors

selling shares. But the banks weren't alone in this conflict of interest—it existed in the mutual funds as well. In the funds, brokerage—the sell side of the financial market, and View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

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

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