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  • 06 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors

like computers in financial models. Behavioral finance replaces these idealized decision makers with real and imperfect people who have social, cognitive, and emotional biases. My work focuses on how the resulting inefficiencies in the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna

    Shikhar Ghosh

    Shikhar Ghosh is a Professor of Management Practice in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. He currently teaches in the elective curriculum and is the course head for 3 Technologies that will Change the World. Shikhar received the Apgar Award for innovation in... View Details

    • Research Summary

    Corporate Control and Valuation

    By: Richard S. Ruback
    Richard S. Ruback's research and course development focus on applied corporate finance-in particular, corporate control transactions and valuation. His research on corporate control has yielded case studies on major transactions, such as the View Details
    • December 2008 (Revised March 2009)
    • Case

    Rosetree Mortgage Opportunity Fund

    By: Victoria Ivashina and Andre F. Perold
    In December 2008, in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Rosetree Capital Management was evaluating the purchase of a pool of U.S. residential mortgages. The firm had formed an investment vehicle to acquire troubled residential mortgages... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Mortgages; Investment; Housing; Valuation; United States
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    • 02 Aug 2018
    • Blog Post

    Venturing into VC

    such as Rock Summer Fellows, which has allowed me to take risks in exploring career paths, and for the incredible community of people here in the northeast who make working in venture capital in Boston both... View Details

      George Serafeim

      George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he co-leads the Climate and Sustainability Impact Lab within the Digital, Data, and Design Institute. He teaches in the General Management Program of... View Details

      Keywords: asset management; insurance industry; automobiles; industrial goods; fashion; food; green technology
      • July 2021
      • Teaching Plan

      Aligning Mission and Margin at Southern Bancorp

      By: Rebecca Henderson, Brian Trelstad and Eren Kuzucu
      Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 321-099. In October 2020, after spending almost a decade to turnaround Southern Bancorp, an Arkansan bank founded with the mission to provide financial services to rural, underserved communities, CEO Darrin Williams is wondering how... View Details
      Keywords: Racial Wealth Gap; Banks and Banking; Growth and Development; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Going Public; Investment Return; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; Arkansas
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      • January 2021
      • Case

      The FIRE Savings Calculator

      By: Michael Parzen and Paul Hamilton
      This case follows Carol Muñoz, a member of the Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) lifestyle movement. At the age of 45, Carol is considering retiring and living off the $1 million she has accumulated. Using Monte Carlo simulation, Carol forecasts the... View Details
      Keywords: Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Investment Return; Personal Finance; Saving; Risk and Uncertainty; Diversification; Theory; Personal Development and Career; Financial Services Industry
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        Adi Sunderam

        Adi Sunderam is the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance at Harvard Business School, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Economics department. He teaches Finance 2 in... View Details

        Keywords: asset management; banking; brokerage; federal government; financial services; investment banking industry
        • TeachingInterests

        Investing for Impact

        By: Archie L. Jones

        The Field Course: Investing for Impact was born out of the efforts of HBS students and faculty in the spring of 2020 and offered for the first time in fall semester of 2021.

        This course seeks to help students understand why certain... View Details

        • Research Summary

        Overview

        Ms. Fedyk's main research interests lie at the intersection of asset pricing and behavioral finance, with a particular focus on information and belief formation. Her job market paper is part of a broader research agenda on the way in which information is incorporated... View Details
        • 23 Aug 2006
        • Op-Ed

        The Real Wal-Mart Effect

        This opinion piece, first published in the New York Times in August 2005, has been updated by Pankaj Ghemawat for HBS Working Knowledge.Mighty Wal-Mart's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, must feel less like a hotbed of retailing and... View Details
        Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail
        • Program

        Advanced Management Program

        six weeks on campus and one virtual module. During the virtual module, participants should set aside 10-12 hours per week to complete self-paced work and eight hours for live online sessions, which include faculty-led sessions, discussion... View Details

          David G. Fubini

          David G. Fubini is a Senior Lecturer in the Organizational Behavior Unit and leader of the Leading Professional Services Firm and Mergers & Acquisitions Programs for Harvard Business School’s Executive Education. His MBA teaching has concentrated on teaching the... View Details

          • Mar 2012
          • Article

          The Incentive Bubble

          The past three decades have seen American capitalism quietly transformed by a single, powerful idea--that financial markets are a suitable tool for measuring performance and structuring compensation. Stock instruments for managers,... View Details
          • 2018
          • Race and Leadership Development

          Why Are We Talking About Race at Work?

          • Teaching Interest

          Overview

          By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang

          Launching Technology Ventures
          Launching Technology Ventures (LTV) is designed for students who are actively working on their own startups or who will work at early-stage startups. The course material is, in particular, focused on new businesses in the... View Details

          • 14 Jul 2020
          • Research & Ideas

          Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

          proactive effort to be as effective and clear as possible in their communication to both internal and external stakeholders. Importantly, a vast majority of the initiatives that companies in our sample are implementing do not require large View Details
          Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa
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          Inflation Uncertainty and the Wage Bargain

          Joint work with Hans-Joachim Voth, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

          Trade unions often seem to behave in a more militant fashion when inflation rises. We provide the first theory as to why this should be so. We argue that uncertainty about the rate of inflation... View Details

          • April 2008
          • Tutorial

          Finance: An Introductory Online Course

          By: Timothy A. Luehrman, Brenda W. Chia and Michelle Rendall
          The Finance Online Course provides a fundamental understanding of the principles, analytical tools, and knowledge needed to make good investment and financing decisions. The course introduces students to finance ratios, forecasting methods, capital structure theory,... View Details
          Keywords: Financial Management; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment; Corporate Finance
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