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  • 01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters

returning to the familiar. Rejected by every Formula One team he pursued, Varma chose the “familiar” option after HBS and initially returned to work in London with Ziff Brothers Investments before joining one of Europe’s leading hedge... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

invest in fixed income securities, public equities, and alternative assets such as hedge funds, real estate, or private equity. What are the costs and benefits of each asset class? Should the funding status... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 16, 2008

this offer. In light of this recent news, the two private equity firms had come back to the Board with a revised offer. Now the Board must decide if it thinks the new proposal will satisfy the institutional shareholders, one of which is an activist View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008

deliver or a better way to deliver existing goods and services. They are funded by donors, many of them poor or anonymous. Yet these attributes should not be unfamiliar to economists. Development NGOs, like domestic nonprofits, can be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13

how management and corporate boards of directors can best manage investor relations with activist stockholders such as hedge funds who are demanding major changes within a corporation to improve stockholder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Your Taxi Is Waiting

venture capitalists, private equity investors, and hedge fund managers. Eventually they raised $30 million from three private family investors. A CAR SERVICE WITH WINGS: Weighing in at under 10,000 pounds,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

Harvard Business School Case 107-035 Obadiah Vineyard's owners create financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) to help them obtain funding to plant more acreage. The owners grapple with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2010
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Michael Depatie

gradually give up operating excellence, because it gets in the way of growth. How has the economic downturn affected Kimpton’s growth strategy? It’s definitely a big opportunity. Over the last couple of years we raised two funds with a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Accommodation; Hospitality
  • 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817083-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-029 'Golden Leash' Pay for Directors at The Dow Chemical Company In November 2014, The Dow Chemical Company was faced with the prospect of a proxy battle with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3

concentrated in hedge funds but is not present for investment advisors or pension funds. Overall, our results suggest that private meetings help a select group of investors make more informed trading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

driven by hard-charging entrepreneurs wielding private capital, the new one is driven by professional investors working for or on behalf of deep-pocketed institutions, like pension funds and endowments. Even individual investors can buy a... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate
  • 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

financial management and the usefulness of formal hedging of agricultural production risks was offered to randomly selected farmers in Gujarat, India. The authors evaluate the effect of the financial literacy training and three marketing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

end of the yield curve. Using data from 26 countries, the yield spread between 30-year and 10-year government bond yields is negatively related to the ratio of pension assets (in funded and private pension and life insurance arrangements)... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

partners through revenue and profit sharing, while hedging risk by asking them to absorb a portion of development costs. The final principle that emerged in our work is the need to invest in building collaborative capabilities. Many... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

Abstract— We document a strong effect of pension and insurance company (P&I) assets on the long end of the yield curve. Using data from 26 countries, the yield spread between 30-year and 10-year government bond yields is negatively related to the ratio of pension... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

tax authorities. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=884812   Cases & Course MaterialsAderans Harvard Business School Case 209-090 Steel Partners is a U.S.-based hedge View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

University Endowment (2006) Harvard Business School Case 207-062 As with many modern-day large pools of capital, the Vanderbilt University endowment is significantly invested in alternative assets such as hedge funds, private equity, real... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

level. Inheriting Losers Authors:Li Jin and Anna Scherbina Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We show that new managers who take over mutual fund portfolios sell off inherited momentum losers at higher rates... View Details
  • 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

complex technology. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/614019-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 212-045 The Long and Short of Apollo Group and the University of Phoenix (A) A hedge fund is deciding... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Recent work documents large positive abnormal returns around the time that a hedge fund announces its activist intentions with a publicly listed firm. We show that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace