Hedge Fund Activism - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Misgovernance at the World Bank

Getting a seat at the table often makes all the difference in the world. New research from Harvard Business School suggests that this idea holds true literally at the World Bank, where the 24 countries serving on the Board of Executive Directors benefit their own... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Nov 2023
HBS Case

What Will It Take to Confront the Invisible Mental Health Crisis in Business?

As a finance specialist, Harvard Business School Professor Lauren Cohen works to understand the dynamics that make businesses thrive. In his recent research on family companies, he has found one common thread among successful firms: They View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Health

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Making Corporate Boards More Effective

corporate oversight activities Expand your personal and professional network Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe Build relationships... View Details

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Hedge Fund Manufacturing Non-Profit Other Financial Services Real Estate Retail Services Technology Venture Capital / Private Equity / LBO Other - Please note in message Message* Career & Professional... View Details

15 Aug 2007
Op-Ed

3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk

Regulatory authorities face 2 challenges that need to be addressed forcefully if they are to contain a new source of systemic risk in international finance. First, the increasing migration of complex market activities to supervisory... View Details

Keywords: by Mohamed El-Erian; Financial Services; Banking

01 May 2008
Research & Ideas

The Marketing Challenges of the China Olympics

could diminish public support and lead to national team and individual athlete boycotts, as occurred in Moscow following the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. As a result, marketers are not over-committing funds to Olympics-related... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Sports

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Employment Data All Industries Employment Data All Industries All Industries Select an Industry to Access Additional Detail Pages: All Industries All Industries Consulting Consumer Products Entertainment / Media Health Care Investment Banking Investment Management /... View Details

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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

Insurance SEC established Federal regulations prohibit false advertising Influence: Low 40 1940 19 Military spending explodes Graduated income tax, Victory Tax adopted to fund war effort Rationing Influence: Medium-Low 50 1950 19 Military... View Details

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Employment Data Trends

Health-Related Services 3% 2% 3% 3% 3% Investment Banking 3% 4% 3% 3% 5% Investment Management / Hedge Fund 7% 8% 8% 6% 6% Manufacturing 4% 4% 5% 6% 5% Aero / Auto / Transport Equipment 1% 1% 1% 2% 1%... View Details

26 Sep 2024
HBS Seminar

Garrett Van Ryzin, Columbia & Amazon

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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

prices. The authors use arbitrage activity in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets to characterize the frictions and constraints facing intermediaries. They show that at least two types of segmentation drive arbitrage... View Details

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FAQs - Alumni

your class's Reunion Gift Campaign will be credited automatically to that effort. We encourage alumni to give annually, including during reunion years, to the HBS Fund , which plays an essential role in sustaining the School 's core View Details

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Health Care Initiative - Health Care

and innovation, and to disseminate these works. Alumni Opportunities to participate in health care activities at the school, and through the ongoing development of the alumni health care network Executive Education Programs that... View Details

Andre F. Perold

André Perold is a Founder, Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of HighVista Strategies, a Boston-based investment firm. HighVista focuses on investing in structurally inefficient public and private markets, including in life sciences, lower middle market private... View Details

Keywords: banking; financial services; information; investment banking industry; professional services

01 Dec 2023
News

Wide Horizon

term, what was he going to do in the meantime? As he was mulling how to create change without a fortune, he recalled an interview for a hedge fund job early in his career. It was a long and tortuous... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson

05 Sep 2014
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Keeping Education in Check

David Berman (MBA 1991) is a successful hedge fund manager and a regular commentator on CNBC and Bloomberg TV, who has been deemed “the king of the retail jungle” by Fortune. But none of this, he says, would... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

13 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 13, 2010

for Pentax into a hostile cash tender offer. A surprising sequence of events had caused a friendly merger agreement to fall apart, resulting in a boardroom coup at Pentax and the intervention of the Sparx Group, an indigenous activist Japanese View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

management, and improvement of operating systems and processes . As we seek to understand the challenges confronting firms competing in today's demanding environment, the focus of our work has broadened to include the multiple activities... View Details

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Podcast - Business & Environment

earlier in 2020. Uncovering and Pricing Climate Risk 07 JUL 2020 | Climate Rising How do managers within the different sectors of financial services identify and value climate risk? Professor George Serafeim talks with an asset manager, an insurer, a View Details

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MBA Experience - Health Care

activities 223 Pairs were matched as part of the Student-Alumni Mentor Program in 2018 135 Joint Degree Students interested in Health Care Health Care Club Join the Health Care Club (HCC). The HCC is a student-led group and one of the... View Details

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