Money Funds - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 18

Frictions in Shadow Banking: Evidence from the Lending Behavior of Money Market Funds By: Chernenko, Sergey, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We document the consequences of money... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Oct 2014
First Look

http://hbr.org/product/Google-Inc--in-2014/an/915004-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-520 Investing in Online Marketplaces Simon Rothman had recently been promoted from executive-in-residence to partner at esteemed venture capital firm Greylock Partners and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Nov 2014
News

The Power of Yes

money to good use: Dichter would simply open his wallet. At the time, Dichter was director of business development at Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that invests in early-stage companies to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2013
News

Curing Health Care

EHR system. The scan might as well be stuck in a manila folder. “The biggest problem with health care today is not how expensive it is. It's that we're held down by force, our money is taken, and then we're shoved into a medical system... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Profile

Mike Maples Jr.

were just not set up to fund a $1 million financing round, so I just started investing my own money in some of these companies,” Maples said. His first investment was a podcasting startup named Odeo,... View Details

07 Dec 2016
HBS Case

Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing

through direct ads or referrals by early adopters who post about their services. “Their way to capture clients is through viral acquisition,” says Viceira. Lastly, fintech firms save costs by outsourcing money management expertise to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

26 Apr 2011
News

BioMine Strikes Gold

Rohit Dev Thakwani, OPM 37 2008 SpendWisor.com consumer electronics marketplace Watch their pitch. Midwest/Central U.S. Marc Hoecker, MBA '08 vinsnap mobile automotive marketing Watch their pitch. New England Marco Bitran, MBA '03 AI Exchange hedge View Details

Keywords: Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

14 Oct 2020
News

Sewn with Love

Girls for Humanity (FGFH), the mission of which was to provide humanitarian services and funding to communities in need across the world. Hanazawa mobilized the global fashion industry by soliciting excess merchandise from luxury brands... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

31 Mar 2002
What Do You Think?

Is This the Decade of the Investor?

their responsibility to represent the best interests of investors, who will? Will dynamics that determine flows of funds and foreign investment levels in the U.S. ultimately pose the threat of fewer funds—foreign or otherwise—to finance... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Web

Strategy for Entrepreneurs - Course Catalog

and predictions about how a firm can make money by solving a problem that the market has yet to solve. As with any new idea, knowing with certainty if your startup idea will work is impossible. Worse yet, a startup idea is a bet with an... View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

In the Zone

11,000 community members. Owusu-Kesse had already spent a year at Canada’s side, thanks to an externship sponsored by his employer, Morgan Stanley. Now Canada wanted him back. “I had no idea how much money I would make. I had no idea what... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; nonprofit management; urban development; leadership; public education; Educational Services

01 Jun 2018
News

Floor It

therapeutics; and disseminating findings in real time. Currently, the Kraft team is tracking ongoing trials for pancreatic cancer, glioblastoma, multiple myeloma, and immune therapies. Finding Funding Fixes The Kraft team is also focused... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li

26 Feb 2014
News

The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)

elements in life that drive you away from working on something you're passionate about. It can be peer pressure (e.g., 'you should do consulting or finance'); money (e.g., 'a hedge fund is the job with the... View Details

Keywords: online shopping; fashion; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Apr 2001
News

Teresa Clarke: An Advocate for Education in South Africa

before deciding to devote more time and energy to raising money for the Student Sponsorship ProgrammeSouth Africa (SSP-SA). With Nyagaka Ongeri (MBA 1997), Clarke cofounded SSP-SA in 1999. “We have a chance now to become a major player in... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

28 Mar 2016
News

Drawing Connections Between Business and Art

selling them at a charity auction, where the artists and buyers can meet. The money raised goes to scholarship funds for people studying the arts. “It helps support the artists, while at the same time... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Mar 2005
News

Campaign Passes Goal, Continues

the average grant to fellowship students will only be about 25 percent of their total, two-year expenditure. “Long term, raising money to increase fellowship support will continue to be important.” Another goal is enlarging the number of... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

11 May 2011
News

The PMD 70 Tree and Other Memorials at HBS

chairs, and more than 400 fellowships. When the campus was built in 1925-26, George F. Baker, who funded the buildings’ construction, was given the honor of naming them and chose names of U.S. Treasury secretaries (Chase, Gallatin, Glass,... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

Profile

Lucasz S. Babiarz

For Lukasz Barbiarz, the potential of a joint MD/MBA degree was revealed in a person, a chief of neuroradiology at Johns Hopkins, David M. Yousem, who had obtained both degrees. Traditionally, physician-researchers have struggled to find ways to View Details

01 Sep 2009
News

A Student Plan Goes to Washington

charter the CGC, while funding would come predominantly from public investors. To launch the college, the proposal seeks a congressional mandate to require companies receiving federal TARP bailout money to... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

03 Jan 2017
First Look

January 3, 2017

January 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Unintended Consequences of the Zero Lower Bound Policy By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marcin Kacperczyk Abstract—We study the impact of the zero lower bound interest rate policy on the industrial organization of the U.S. View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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