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- 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
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
years to remind bankers and investors that they shouldn’t take on so much risk,” Hanson says. “That’s obviously impossible to operationalize, but the bank stress tests can teach people to manage risk more prudently. It builds View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
numbers for the next quarter and they don't materialize, they often feel publicly embarrassed by their inaccuracy and take their anger out on the subject company by reversing a previous “buy” recommendation. That causes many institutional... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
Lee For Jonas Lee (MBA ’93) and his investment firm, Redbrick Partners, the purchase, refurbishment, rental, and maintenance of hundreds of low-cost, single-family urban homes represent a terrific, overlooked market opportunity. “It’s a $15 trillion asset class with no... View Details
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Investment Management and Capital Markets - Course Catalog
tail risk hedging, futures and swaps, etc.). Students also explore investing from the asset owner perspective, learning modern practices in portfolio construction for personal and institutional investors... 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
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities Authors:Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Publication:Journal of Public Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Investors can access foreign diversification... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
of the picture, a young company must clear many hurdles before convincing potential investors that its future prosperity is a good bet. New research by HBS associate professor Monica Higgins and Associate Professor Ranjay Gulati of the... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
third-party opinions about the credit-worthiness of a firm or a security. Over the past decades, the financial system has come to rely more and more on such ratings. For example, many institutional investors... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
asset allocations to commercial property holdings. Until recently, says Dubrowski, institutional investors limited their commercial real estate allocations to between 3 and 5 percent of their portfolios.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System
on channeling the keen interest many of us have in financial stability.” There is consensus within the group that financial instability often follows periods when institutions, policy makers, and investors have underestimated risks. These... View Details
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
role of financial intermediaries. In the private equity setting, institutional investors are increasingly eschewing intermediaries in favor of direct investments. To understand the trade-offs in this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
see that there are a lot more female investors that are getting involved. But there’s a bottleneck for the exits that typically venture capitalists are looking for in terms of going public. Now you have a lot of these private companies... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
Treasury taking a look at these upstart lenders. Funding Societies’ Teo says the attention can only help the sector: “Regulations would boost investor confidence about P2P and P2B [peer-to-business] lending and set the right operations... View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
- 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
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
to the established players, and clearly isn't a sustaining technology to anyone else, go all out. There is great opportunity for institutions and innovative business models to coalesce and emerge as real disrupters, he concluded.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
with the ungainly conglomerates assembled in the 1960s and 1970s that provided a variety of seemingly mismatched products and services. And while many consultants and investors are seeking to extend this focused model into emerging... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts
public, selling shares to individual and institutional investors," says Lerner. Critics complain that buyout firms suck out profits rather than improve the firms they acquire, making these companies weakened goods when the IPO is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
through the efforts of a vanguard of institutional entrepreneurs, both academics and managers, who saw the need for creating a managerial class that would run America’s large corporations in a way that served the broader interests of... View Details
- 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