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- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
an alternative to other investments," she says. Perhaps most telling is that large institutional investors, known for their caution, have been increasing their asset allocations to commercial property holdings. Until recently, says... View Details
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
are deciding whether to refinance their home less than two years after taking out an initial mortgage and a subsequent home equity line of credit. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/209043-PDF-ENG How Institutional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
example, the trading commissions that remain are largely driven by big institutional investors who have brokerages execute their trades. Sell-side analysts have incentives to hype stocks to generate trading... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
Buy, Lie, and Sell High by D. Quinn Mills Prentice Hall Any investor or person involved in America's financial-services industry will be interested in Buy, Lie, and Sell High: How Investors Lost Out on Enron... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
institutional investors lack the motivation and time to effectively discipline or otherwise oversee management. And investors all have differing time frames, priorities, and... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Keeping an iron grip on Nigeria's financial markets
market is emerging, new products have been introduced, new trading platforms have been launched, institutions participating in the market have been strengthened, and there is greater public awareness of the critical role capital markets... View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
time-consuming, a lack of information has hampered the oversight process, and institutional investors have been slow to recognize the power their votes could wield. However, as we have seen, the corporate... View Details
Shirish Nimgaonkar
Shirish is an entrepreneur, advisor to and investor in multiple technology companies, with a focus on software and AI. He is currently the Founder and CEO of an AI enabled predictive automation software company. In the past, he has been a... View Details
- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
as important as rewarding investors is using the power of business to build a better society. Roundtable members committed to building up local communities, investing more in employees, fostering diversity and inclusion, embracing... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
Wombi Rose (left) and John Wise Wombi Rose (left) and John Wise Former i-lab resident LovePop—founded by Wombi Rose (MBA 2015) and John Wise (MBA 2015)—had an atypical appearance on ABC’s entrepreneurial reality show, Shark Tank: By the end of their presentation, they... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Results and Recognition
institutions that were formative in shaping who we are,” says Joe, and, second, “we want to support organizations that make a difference in the lives of others.” Given that HBS meets both criteria, the O’Briens are committed not only to... View Details
- 22 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'
credit market dynamics—and investor behavior. HBS Working Knowledge spoke with Robin Greenwood, the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking at Harvard Business School, about the role markets may play in shaping economic conditions.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF. Now wages are rebounding,... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Joella Lykouretzos, MBA 2001
employees and currently manages approximately $2 billion in funds. “The most rewarding part has been building a team and watching it thrive,” says Joella Lykouretzos, who guided the firm as director of investor relations and chief... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Hot Tip
something relevant.” In 2000, Nkontchou, a veteran of Andersen Consulting and Merrill Lynch, started LiquidAfrica with $250,000 of his own money and $2.5 million from Modern Africa, a Washington-based private equity fund. Among his goals are helping to attract more... View Details
- 20 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced
on the dynamics of one specific context. But the conflicting findings from past studies suggest that we may want to go beyond the scope of one industry or country to identify broader trends that may be missed in too narrow a scope. Moreover, View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
Summing Up Responses to the question, "Is this the decade of the investor?" offer little hope that the investor will get any relief soon, compared to the rewards realized by managers and customers. Nor do they hold out much... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Jun 2021
- News
New Funding for Female Founders
respective ventures. Assaf is co-founder and CEO of the CBD-infused beauty brand The Uplifters’ Prima, which raised $9.2 million in a seed-plus funding round to support its retail expansion, according to coverage in the Los Angeles Business Journal. The round was led... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Charlie Rose Interviews Goldman CEO Paulson
was invested in U.S. capital markets; today it is 33 percent,” said Paulson. “Foreign investors are finding our markets less attractive,” he warned, and later noted that there is a danger that the United States “may suffocate” from... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
investors shapes information diffusion in the stock market. We exploit trade-level data to show that central brokers gather information by executing informed trades, which is then leaked to their best clients. We show that after large... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman