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  • 05 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 5

In mid-2012, Clairemont had invested nearly $75M in Yahoo! after the tech company settled a highly visible proxy fight with prolific activist investor Daniel Loeb of hedge fund Third Point. Since that time,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

calculate the returns on capital of different product designs for a variable annuity based on specified assumptions including a range of hedging scenarios. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311041-PDF-ENG Note:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

2000s, a period during which Treasury bonds enabled investors to hedge macroeconomic risks. This paper develops a New Keynesian macroeconomic model with habit formation preferences that prices both bonds and stocks. The model attributes... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime

reputational costs. Saving local newspapers isn’t Heese’s specialty, but he points to a recent trend of hedge funds buying up distressed local media outlets as having the potential to stabilize the market... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 10 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 10

FarriHarvard Business School Case 310-090 In late January 2009, Thomas Fekete, managing director at Barclays Wealth in London, redeemed the most illiquid positions in the so-called Wealth Absolute Return Fund (WAR), one of Barclays... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

Chesbrough XTV was given $30 million to manage. It was set up formally as a corporate division within Xerox, but Adams negotiated special terms that mimicked many aspects of independent venture capital firms. Eighty percent of the gains of the View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

New Ways to Stay Connected

their time at HBS. SIPs are developed by the faculty and delivered with help from HBS alumni. The four-day programs are offered in January and topics in 2018 included digital marketing, value-based health care, and personal financial planning. “My course was on... View Details
  • 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008

School Supplement 408-116 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=408116 Opportunity Partners Harvard Business School Case 208-097 Philip Goldstein, the principal in a growing View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 17

Business School Case 215-026 Longbow Capital Partners Longbow Capital Partners is a value-oriented long/short hedge fund focused on stocks in the energy sector. In January 2011, Longbow had invested in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Feb 2014
  • News

A Capital Idea for Small Business

Emeritus André Perold, who taught an investment management class and with whom Callaghan did research. Callaghan's subsequent career included portfolio management at Equitable Capital and hedge fund Odyssey... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; crowd-funding; online communities; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 04 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 4

Harvard Business School Case 210-002 In 2005, Jane Bauer-Martin, a hedge fund manager, is considering what she should do with the fund's large investment in the publicly traded bonds of Delphi Corp., a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jul 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?

Source: Raw Pixel Stockbrokers are taking advantage of their privileged position to increase profits for favored investors and hedge funds, all at the expense of their other customers, new research suggests. A team of economists has found... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 06 Jul 2020
  • Blog Post

A Letter from the Women in Investing Club

2. Sponsorship This was by far our best year for sponsorship, as we raised nearly double the funds of prior years in order to support our expanding endeavors. This year, over 35 firms partnered with the club, many of which were new... View Details
  • 05 Apr 2016
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April 5, 2016

structuring. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216035-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-003 Pershing Square 2.0 In June 2015 William A. Ackman, the CEO and founder of New York hedge View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 03 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

short-term debt financing, an attractive source of funding in good times but an accelerant of financial crises when things go bad. And we're getting closer to adopting a "resolution regime" that could enable regulators to wind... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Banking; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate
  • 25 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

for the company to initiate regular quarterly dividends, while some other hedge fund investors were eager to see more share repurchases. Other choices being advocated by various parties included reducing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

started her own hedge fund firm in 2001 after nearly 20 years as a star biotechnology analyst and hedge fund manager. After the start-up phase,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 11

the managing directors established three executive oversight committees, developed new specialized corporate functions, and incubated an internal hedge fund group. Students are given the opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 8

start-ups to gain knowledge and agility. The logic of corporate venturing is compelling: a well-run fund can help a firm respond quickly to changes in markets and gain a better view of threats. In some cases, it can stimulate demand for a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

decision to launch a hedge fund in India, and the first years of the venture. It also profiles Nirva Patel and describes how they met, married, and managed the transition to a new life in Mumbai, including... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace