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- 17 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Going the Distance for Investment Excellence
Run As a research analyst at MFS Investment Management, Cameron focuses on quantitative, strategic, and thematic approaches to bond management. MFS specializes in managing investment portfolios for both retail and institutional View Details
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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
media and in the classroom. Global Entrepreneurship develops strategies for entrepreneurs and investors in these emerging ecosystems around the globe. The course will have cases from 26 different countries on every continent. The course... View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
insurance benefits) for providing worker insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor market insurance mechanisms. Venture capital investors are especially sensitive to these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
many of the artists that Joyner and her husband, private equity investor Alfred Giuffrida, collect are enjoying increased visibility. Major museums in the United States (and beyond) are reevaluating the artists’ careers and influence... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
and Entrepreneurship Institutional Innovation: Novel, Useful, and Legitimate By: Raffaelli, Ryan, and Mary Ann Glynn Abstract—This chapter advances the theoretical construct of institutional innovation,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'
credit market dynamics—and investor behavior. HBS Working Knowledge spoke with Robin Greenwood, the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking at Harvard Business School, about the role markets may play in shaping economic conditions.... 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
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607075 UBS and Climate Change—Warming Up to Global Action? Harvard Business School Case 707-511 Marco Suter, Executive Vice-Chairman, UBS Board of Directors, carefully studied the chart on his desk. It... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
though, was the additional obstacles that came from fundraising while female. “Trying to explain the needs and consumer behavior of women buying beauty products to investors who are predominantly men,” Barna recalls, “you notice that they... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
What Barna wasn’t fully prepared for, though, was the additional obstacles that came from fundraising while female. “Trying to explain the needs and consumer behavior of women buying beauty products to investors who are predominantly... 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
- 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
- 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
- 10 Jul 2018
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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
- 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
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
monetize the value they would create? Would investors see as much potential in BCM as its founders? And how would the company's cash constraints impact the strategy in the current economic environment? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
widely used? Merton: One answer is, simply, that it filled a need. It wasn't intellectual interest that made people want to apply it. In the 1970s, profit margins to options dealers were driven down, competition was going up, and options View Details
- 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