Exchange Traded Fund - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?

information Leaking information about stock trades might be both unethical and illegal, Di Maggio maintains, due to a fiduciary duty called “best price execution.” As the Securities and Exchange Commission... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

05 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

Working PapersRegional Trade Integration and Multinational Firm Strategies Authors:Pol Antrás and C. Fritz Foley Abstract This paper analyzes the effects of the formation of a regional trade agreement on... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Mar 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing

growth. Being listed on the stock exchange does mark a company's value but in this case it was a low mark.— Walter Kuemmerle Kuemmerle fired questions at conference participants on Gray's available options. Should they go public? Doing so... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

23 Oct 2015
News

Staples Founder Thomas Stemberg Dies at 66

Keywords: Retail Trade; Retail Trade

March 2005 (Revised February 2006)
Case

Advising on Currency Risk at ICICI Bank

In March 2003, a client approached the Markets Advisory Group at ICICI Bank, India's second largest bank, about a hedging transaction. The hedge involved multiple interest rates and currencies. Shilpa Kumar, head of the Markets Advisory Group, has to put together a... View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Currency Exchange Rate; Capital Markets; Investment Funds; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; India

Citation

Educators

Purchase

12 Apr 2011
News

Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS

Arab Emirates Rohit Dev Thakwani, OPM 37 2008 SpendWisor.com consumer electronics marketplace Midwest/Central U.S. HBS Club of Chicago Marc Hoecker, MBA '08 vinsnap mobile automotive marketing New England HBS Association of Boston Marco Bitran, MBA '03 AI View Details

Keywords: Multiple alumni

29 Jun 2016
News

Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story

we also want to give back.” For Herbert who is chair of the board of iShares, Blackrock's $800 billion Exchange Traded Fund family, the movie will be a success if it gets... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; photography by Chris Taggart; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Dec 2012
News

Sunny's MBA

In 1986, as a 26-year-old with a degree in agricultural management and little business experience, Sunny Verghese (AMP 115, 1994) was newly employed by a venerable Indian conglomerate to oversee a textile mill in Nigeria. A foreign View Details

Keywords: Crop Production; Agriculture; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2015
News

Accelerating Research in China

group of classmates based in Shanghai and Beijing. Passionate about seeing a growth of research and the exchange of ideas and best practices between the School and China, the longtime friends established the MBA Class of 2005 View Details

01 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

of potential funding sources to solve social problems, much of it stemming from an intergenerational transfer of wealth and new wealth from financial and high-tech entrepreneurs. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Feb 2022
News

A Big Bet

Tracy Palandjian (MBA 1997) and Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) (Photos by Susan Young) When Google announced a $100 million fund to expand skills training and job placement programs for low-income Americans, two HBS alumni were standing by:... View Details

Keywords: jobs training; social enterprise; upskilling; Technical and Trade Schools; Technical and Trade Schools

01 Jun 2011
News

Alumni Books

economic shocks, corporate scandals, international competition, or technological disruptions. Zero-Sum Game: The Rise of the World’s Largest Derivatives Exchange by Erika S. Olson (MBA ’03) (Wiley) Olson, a former managing director at the... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; National Security and International Affairs; Government

18 Oct 2016
News

Leading the Way for Women Entrepreneurs

Birchbox, a beauty product subscription box service that has grown to more than 1 million subscribers. “We started raising funds and suddenly we were in rooms where there were no people who looked like us,” said Barna, now the first... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Birchbox; Rent the Runway; Hello Alfred; Retail Trade; Retail Trade

01 Dec 1999
News

Christensen and Vernon Remembered

will soon open the C. Roland Christensen Center, a facility designed for case-method teaching that was the vision of one of his former students. A memorial service was held for Christensen on November 5 at Memorial Church in Harvard Yard. Donations in his memory may be... View Details

Portrait Project

Lyn Baranowski

At age 15, I spent the summer as an exchange student in France, and the world of a small-town girl from New Hampshire opened up. The experience catalyzed in me a fundamental belief in the importance of building relationships across... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Case Study: Bionic Banking

hope of digging into Wall Street’s high profit margins. Current robo-advisors focus on passive “buy-and-hold” strategies, selecting a handful of low-cost exchange traded funds... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

injections to struggling American banks. The rise of the hedge funds was only a part of the story of the post-1998 reorientation of global finance. Even more important was the growth of sovereign wealth funds, entities created by... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

Georges F. Doriot

Doriot founded the first and one of the most successful publicly traded venture capital corporations in the United States. While American R&D funded numerous business entities, Doriot’s big success came... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Web

Bankers, Financiers, and Statesmen - Coin and Conscience

Vanity and Virtue Misers, Moneylenders, and Thieves Money Devil Biblical and Mythological Scenes Love and Money Politics and War Louis-Philippe Speculation and Credit Bankers, Financiers, and Statesmen Stock Exchanges printer-friendly... View Details

11 May 2016
News

World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer

Bank in September 2015, previously serving a five-year term as director-general of Nigeria’s Security and Exchange Commission from 2011 to 2015. An alumni profile of her during that stint details her transformative efforts at the... View Details

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