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- Profile
Anddria Clack
Why was earning your MBA at Harvard Business School important to you? I have been a student and practitioner of business for several years. I started requesting to attend college-level business camps and internships while I was a still a high school sophomore in... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
losses in June. Will crypto overcome the challenges on the road to mainstream adoption? What’s standing in its way? HBS faculty members Charles C.Y. Wang, who has written about public firms’ investments in, and accounting for,... View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
Who Clears the Market When Passive Investors Trade?
By: Marco Sammon and John J. Shim
We find that firms are the primary sellers of shares when index funds are net buyers, providing shares at a nearly one-for-one rate. Rather than provide liquidity, most demand-side institutions trade in the same direction as index funds, especially over long horizons.... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Institutional Investing; Price; Investment Portfolio; Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments
Sammon, Marco, and John J. Shim. "Who Clears the Market When Passive Investors Trade?" Working Paper, August 2024.
- Article
Liquidity Provision and Stock Return Predictability
By: Mark Seasholes and Terrence Hendershott
This paper examines the trading behavior of two groups of liquidity providers (specialists and competing market makers) using a six-year panel of NYSE data. Trades of each group are negatively correlated with contemporaneous price changes. To test for return... View Details
Keywords: Liquidity; Market Makers; Market Efficiency; Inventory; Liquidity Provision; Market Design; Financial Liquidity; Stocks; Investment Return
Seasholes, Mark, and Terrence Hendershott. "Liquidity Provision and Stock Return Predictability." Journal of Banking & Finance 45 (August 2014): 140–151.
- January 2008
- Background Note
Convertible Arbitrage
By: Joshua Coval and Erik Stafford
The goal of this simulation is to understand how convertible bonds can be viewed as a portfolio of simpler securities and to introduce an over-the-counter market. The convertible bonds that are available during the simulation are at-the-money and in-the-money so that... View Details
Coval, Joshua, and Erik Stafford. "Convertible Arbitrage." Harvard Business School Background Note 208-116, January 2008.
- October 2015 (Revised February 2016)
- Technical Note
The Portfolio Improvement Rule and the CAPM
By: Robin Greenwood, Mark S. Seasholes and David Biery
Greenwood, Robin, Mark S. Seasholes, and David Biery. "The Portfolio Improvement Rule and the CAPM." Harvard Business School Technical Note 216-027, October 2015. (Revised February 2016.)
- Profile
Sherrese Clarke Suarez
Wall Street banker Sherrese Clarke Suarez (MBA 2004) works with the Council for Urban Professionals to help minority professionals advance in their careers to the C-suite and corporate boards. View Details
- July 2012 (Revised July 2012)
- Case
The Madera Ranch and Water Bank
By: Andre F. Perold and Geoffrey Bernstein
The protagonist is trying to decide whether to purchase and develop an aquifer lying beneath rural land near Fresno, California. The project could fill a void for local farmers as well as surrounding municipalities and a variety of other customers throughout... View Details
Perold, Andre F., and Geoffrey Bernstein. "The Madera Ranch and Water Bank." Harvard Business School Case 213-003, July 2012. (Revised July 2012.)
- September 2006
- Article
Discussion of 'Overinvestment of Free Cash Flow'
"Discussion of 'Overinvestment of Free Cash Flow' ." Review of Accounting Studies 11, nos. 2-3 (September 2006): 191–202.
- November 1999 (Revised April 2008)
- Case
Revere Street
By: Arthur I Segel, John H. Vogel, Jr., Lisa Strope and Erich Dylus
Although inexperienced in real estate, Edward Alexander hopes in June 1999 that youthful enthusiasm and an $80,000 inheritance will help him enter the real estate business. His experience chronicles the process of finding, evaluating, and acquiring a four-unit... View Details
Segel, Arthur I., John H. Vogel, Jr., Lisa Strope, and Erich Dylus. "Revere Street." Harvard Business School Case 800-147, November 1999. (Revised April 2008.)
- Article
Strategic Alliances: Managing the Collaboration Portfolio
By: J. E. Austin
Austin, J. E. "Strategic Alliances: Managing the Collaboration Portfolio." Stanford Social Innovation Review 1, no. 2 (Summer 2003).
- March 2002
- Article
Do After-tax Returns Affect Mutual Fund Inflows?
Bergstresser, Daniel B., and James Poterba. "Do After-tax Returns Affect Mutual Fund Inflows?" Journal of Financial Economics 63, no. 3 (March 2002): 381–414.
- 1985
- Other Unpublished Work
Corporate Dividend Dynamics at the Firm Level
By: Terry A. Marsh and Robert C. Merton
Keywords: Investment Return
Marsh, Terry A., and Robert C. Merton. "Corporate Dividend Dynamics at the Firm Level." MIT Sloan School of Management, April 1985. (Unpubished manuscript.)
- February 2006 (Revised November 2008)
- Teaching Note
Banco Real: Banking on Sustainability (TN)
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ryan Raffaelli
- August 1988 (Revised December 1989)
- Case
Golden Gate Bank Pension Fund
By: David E. Bell
Bell, David E. "Golden Gate Bank Pension Fund." Harvard Business School Case 189-039, August 1988. (Revised December 1989.)
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
March 4, Harvard Business School gathered senior executives, risk experts, and leading investment professionals from some of the world’s largest asset managers to share how they’re approaching these complex questions. The conference,... View Details
- December 2016
- Article
Industry Window Dressing
By: Huaizhi Chen, Lauren Cohen and Dong Lou
We explore a new mechanism by which investors take correlated shortcuts and present evidence that managers undertake actions—in the form of sales management—to take advantage of these shortcuts. Specifically, we exploit a regulatory provision wherein a firm’s primary... View Details
Keywords: Investor Shortcuts; Industry Classification; Opportunistic Managerial Behavior; Discontinuity; Management Practices and Processes; Investment; Sales
Chen, Huaizhi, Lauren Cohen, and Dong Lou. "Industry Window Dressing." Review of Financial Studies 29, no. 12 (December 2016): 3354–3393.
- April 2004
- Teaching Note
The Arts Property and Hotel (TN)
By: Arthur I Segel
Teaching Note to (9-803-009). View Details
- 2023
- Government Testimony
Congressional Statement for the Record, Hearing on Factors Influencing the High Cost of Insurance for Consumers
By: Ishita Sen
Sen, Ishita. "Congressional Statement for the Record, Hearing on Factors Influencing the High Cost of Insurance for Consumers." Government Testimony, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance, November 2023.
- 2024
- Working Paper
Hidden Risk
By: Daniel Barth, Phillip Monin, Emil Siriwardane and Adi Sunderam
Since 2013, large U.S. hedge fund advisers have been required to report risk exposures in their regulatory filings. Using these data, we first establish that managers’ perceptions of risk contain useful information that is not embedded in fund returns. Investor flows... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Investment Funds; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment Return; Communication Strategy; Financial Services Industry
Barth, Daniel, Phillip Monin, Emil Siriwardane, and Adi Sunderam. "Hidden Risk." Working Paper, November 2024.