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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Scaling Peaks for Cancer Research
Institute and The Jimmy Fund in Boston. “We’re trying to set a record, but the main purpose of what we are doing is to raise money for pediatric cancer research,” says Serafini. View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
socially responsible Working Assets Money Market Fund. Working Assets Funding Service emerged from the fund entity in 1988 and now operates... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 08 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance
Sapphire Made Credit Cool for Millennials The Chase Sapphire Reserve card was one of the hottest product launches in 2016. But what would be JP Morgan's next act be? State Street’s SHE: Investing in Women Leaders Index funds are the major... View Details
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
better. Be it mutual funds or hedge funds, these so-called owners have virtually no emotional investment in the companies (they own)." B. D. Majuqwana comments that "the biggest drawback for PE is... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 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
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
Let's face it: in most cases, the stock market knows what it's doing. With millions of people performing their homework and investing money in stocks they hope will pay off, it's hard for any one person to... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
Klarman Illustration by David Cowles While other money managers scrambled to survive the financial market meltdown, value investor extraordinaire Seth Klarman (MBA ’82), president of The Baupost Group in... View Details
- 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
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
reason why private equity partnerships were able to borrow money left, right, and center to finance leveraged buyouts. And Chimerica — or the Asian “savings glut,” as Ben Bernanke called it — was the underlying reason why the U.S.... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
that bonds are safe investment for long-term investors, but this seems to contradict the conventional view that "cash is king" for highly conservative investors. What is the problem with this picture? A: The problem with this picture is that cash (e.g., View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
in academe has a nefarious effect on public research output is, at least in its simplest form, misplaced. The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns Authors: Lauren Cohen, Andrea... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
the paper The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns, the three scholars found that portfolio managers placed larger bets on firms when there was an alumni connection, and that... View Details