Institutional Investors - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery & Rhonda Kaufman

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

Keywords: Software/App;#237;#Artificial Intelligence

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Surveying the VC Landscape

basics," and are eschewing technology investments. My belief is that while many private equity investors may find such disclosures unappealing, greater transparency in the private equity industry is inevitable. —Josh Lerner Some... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

28 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

Working PapersAgency and Institutions: A Review of Institutional Entrepreneurship Authors:Julie Battilana, Bernard Leca, and Eva Boxenbaum Abstract This paper analyzes the literature that has been published on View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog

risk-adjusted excess returns in the private equity space, what skills and institutional features enable that success, and what opportunities and challenges are presented by recent developments in the PE industry. Students will gain... View Details

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

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

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

08 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?

energy sources. But lately it's turned into something of a marathon, with companies and financial institutions involved in the market slowed by regulatory and political climates that evolved in the face of new economic realities. That's... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Energy; Utilities

17 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 17

http://www.whartonsp.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0137044852 Institutions and Inequality in Single Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China Authors:Edmund Malesky, Regina M. Abrami, and Yu Zheng Publication:Comparative... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Feb 2006
What Do You Think?

Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?

will drive investors away to other companies." Guillermo Estefani concurs, saying, "It is important to show all real information available from the company, so investors can track its behavior and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

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

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Investment Strategies - Course Catalog

already public acquirer - remains a critical step in corporate transformation by private equity investors and innovation by venture capitalists. Because public capital markets play such a key role in the global economy, government... View Details

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

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Apr 2000
News

Marketing Muscle

chairman of Interactive Investor International (iii), Coutu said she relishes the opportunity to do things a little differently. Her Internet financial services company, for example, is located in a renovated building above Smithfields,... View Details

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Real Property - Course Catalog

estate—when including single-family housing—is the largest asset class in the world. The global real estate industry ranges from small homes and local shops to multi-billion-dollar institutional portfolios. At every stage of the real... View Details

01 Jan 2010
News

Allan W.B. Gray, MBA 1965

Chairman, Orbis Investment Management, Ltd. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education: B.Com., Rhodes University, South Africa, 1957 On Leadership: “One needs to cultivate a sense of purpose, a commitment to making a difference through business.”... View Details

01 Mar 2016
First Look

March 1, 2016

U.S. GAAP and IFRS for every topic covered in the book. For a preview of the book, please see: www.createspace.com/Preview/1186020. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50689 Infrastructure, Incentives and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

innovations (for whom the price of failure tolerance is too high) can only be started by investors who are not failure tolerant. Since policies to stimulate innovation must often be set before specific investments in innovative projects... 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

Keywords: Goldman Sachs; Finance

18 Aug 2014
News

Closing the Education Gap

Light. “They had never hired MBAs, and we were very foreign creatures to them. I was one of eight money managers, covering retail and financial services stocks. A year into it, they gave me the entire sector to cover,” she says. Dias Griffin later worked at Viking... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

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