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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Opens Shanghai Office with Harvard China Fund
Harvard University has opened a new office in Shanghai that will serve both HBS and the Harvard China Fund (HCF). The HCF was launched in 2006 as a University-wide “academic venture fund” to enhance Harvard’s teaching and research in and... View Details
Enabling Mission Impact: Funding Strategies for High-Risk High-Reward Innovation
Governments and foundations around the world are urgently seeking strategies to optimize their investments across a range of distinctive missions targeted towards societal challenges. How should such investments be made, from early R&D spending to later-stage... View Details
- 1972
- Chapter
The Performance of Mutual Funds in the Period 1945-1964
By: Michael Jensen
Jensen, Michael. "The Performance of Mutual Funds in the Period 1945-1964." In Investment Management: Some Readings, edited by J. Lorie and R. Brealey. Praeger, 1972. (Previously published in Journal of Finance (May, 1968))
- 16 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault
color of their skin, and while these were not the first incidents of racial injustice of this kind, the Chenaults wanted to do their part to make them the last. Starting the Anti-Racism Fund As Kevin completed his first year at HBS, he... View Details
- 10 Jan 2019
- News
Jeff Vinik to Relaunch Vinik Asset Management Hedge Fund
- 2015
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: John Dubinsky and the St. Louis Contractor Loan Fund
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
In May 2015 prominent leaders in St. Louis were celebrating the launch of the Contractor Loan Fund (CLF), a $10 million revolving loan fund meant to help area minority and women-owned construction contractors grow their businesses. John Dubinsky, the leader behind the... View Details
Keywords: Minority-owned Businesses; Women-owned Businesses; Financing and Loans; Growth and Development; Leadership; Construction Industry; Banking Industry
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: John Dubinsky and the St. Louis Contractor Loan Fund." Harvard Business Publishing Case 316-041, 2015.
- Research Summary
Fixed NAVs and Costly Puts: US Money Market Mutual Funds (with Peter Tufano)
US money market mutual fund investors have been granted an implicit put option that allows them to sell or redeem their shares at a fixed price of $1.00, regardless of the market value of the portfolio. We describe the institutional features that give rise... View Details
- February 1998
- Case
Smith Breeden Associates: The Equity Plus Fund (B)
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Moel, Alberto. "Smith Breeden Associates: The Equity Plus Fund (B)." Harvard Business School Case 298-094, February 1998.
- October 2005 (Revised December 2006)
- Background Note
Funding New Ventures: Valuation, Financing, and Capitalization Tables
Explains the concept of implied valuation--i.e., the valuation that can be inferred from a financing event--and how such valuations and financings are represented in a "cap" or capitalization table for a new venture. View Details
Roberts, Michael J. "Funding New Ventures: Valuation, Financing, and Capitalization Tables." Harvard Business School Background Note 806-058, October 2005. (Revised December 2006.)
- 22 Jan 2008
- News
Harvard Business School Announces Life Sciences Fellowship Fund
- 31 Jul 2009
- News
Best Stock Picks Came From Brokerages, Beating Funds
- 27 Jan 2019
- News
Harvard study questions benefits of fund manager diversity
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Public Funding Essential for Advances in Biomedical Research
- 30 Sep 2020
- News
How Nonprofit Foundations Can Sustainably Fund Disease Research
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
HBS Fund Chairs Reflect on the Past Five Years
Since 2016, Ashley Garrett and Alan “AJ” Jones (both MBA 1987), have served as HBS Fund Chairs. In that role, the couple founded and now leads the HBS Fund Council. The Bulletin asked Garrett and Jones to... View Details
- 03 Sep 2024
- Cold Call Podcast
How the US Government Is Innovating in Its Efforts to Fund Semiconductor Manufacturing
- September 2015
- Teaching Note
Novell (A): When an Activist Hedge Fund Came Calling on the Board, and Novell (B): Aftermath of Hedge Fund Attack
By: Richard L. Nolan
- Article
Can Mutual Fund Managers Pick Stocks? Evidence from Their Trades Prior to Earnings Announcements
By: Malcolm Baker, Lubomir Litov, Jessica Wachter and Jeffrey Wurgler
We consider measures of stock-picking skill of mutual fund managers based on the earnings announcement returns of the stocks that they hold and trade. Relative to standard approaches, this approach focuses on an especially informative subset of the returns data,... View Details
Baker, Malcolm, Lubomir Litov, Jessica Wachter, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "Can Mutual Fund Managers Pick Stocks? Evidence from Their Trades Prior to Earnings Announcements." Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 45, no. 5 (October 2010): 1111 –1131.
- 20 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World?
- February 2022
- Teaching Note
Altoona State Investment Board & Bain Capital Fund XI
By: Josh Lerner
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 218-022. View Details