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- 10 Mar 2011
- News
An Educational Investment Strategy
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
A Legacy of Investment
interactive classrooms. Generous gifts have allowed the School to invest in student financial aid and professorships. View the exhibit's five historical panels online (PDF download 1.0 Mb). View Details
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Mutual funds: information
Where do I find information on mutual funds? Bloomberg has information on mutual funds. Type FPC and hit GO. The Investment Company Institute provides statistics, background... View Details
- Forthcoming
- Article
Passive Ownership and Price Informativeness
By: Marco Sammon
I show that passive ownership negatively affects the degree to which stock prices anticipate earnings announcements. Estimates across several research designs imply that the rise in passive ownership over the last 30 years has caused the amount of information... View Details
Keywords: Passive Ownership; ETFs; Market Efficiency; Price; Investment Funds; Stocks; Communication
Sammon, Marco. "Passive Ownership and Price Informativeness." Management Science (forthcoming). (Pre-published online September 17, 2024.)
- 21 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: CPP Investment Board
Organization Melissa Dalmacio, Senior Advisor, Campus Recruitment, CPP Investment Board Describe your organization in three to five sentences. CPP Investment Board (CPPIB) is one of the most respected and... View Details
- September 1998 (Revised May 2011)
- Background Note
Note on Private Equity Information Sources
By: Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Provides an overview of key information sources about venture capital and private equity. View Details
Lerner, Josh, and Ann Leamon. "Note on Private Equity Information Sources." Harvard Business School Background Note 299-018, September 1998. (Revised May 2011.)
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Industry Information - Alumni
Provides data, research, and news on the US and Global market for Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). Includes daily, monthly, quarterly, and yearly US and Global returns information as well as research... View Details
- March 2015
- Article
Signaling to Partially Informed Investors in the Newsvendor Model
By: William Schmidt, Vishal Gaur, Richard Lai and Ananth Raman
We investigate a puzzling phenomenon in which firms make investment decisions that purposefully do not maximize expected profits. Using an extension to the newsvendor model, we focus on a relatively common scenario in which the firm's investor has imperfect information... View Details
Schmidt, William, Vishal Gaur, Richard Lai, and Ananth Raman. "Signaling to Partially Informed Investors in the Newsvendor Model." Production and Operations Management 24, no. 3 (March 2015): 383–401.
- Summer 2015
- Article
Investment Incentives in Open-Source and Proprietary Two-Sided Platforms
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gaston Llanes
We study incentives to invest in platform quality in open-source and proprietary two-sided platforms. Open platforms have open access, and developers invest to improve the platform. Proprietary platforms have closed access, and investment is done by the platform owner.... View Details
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Gaston Llanes. "Investment Incentives in Open-Source and Proprietary Two-Sided Platforms." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 24, no. 2 (Summer 2015): 306–324.
- 09 Sep 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct Investing in Private Equity
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
Children in the United States today are at risk to live shorter lives than their parents. This sobering assessment is one reason big box retailer Target is investing $40 million this year to improve the health of communities around the... View Details
- October 2019
- Article
Limited Investment Capital and Credit Spreads
Using proprietary credit default swap (CDS) data, I investigate how capital shocks at protection sellers impact pricing in the CDS market. Seller capital shocks—measured as CDS portfolio margin payments—account for 12% of the time-series variation in weekly spread... View Details
Keywords: Credit Risk; Derivatives; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Capital Markets; Credit; Financial Institutions
Siriwardane, Emil N. "Limited Investment Capital and Credit Spreads." Journal of Finance 74, no. 5 (October 2019): 2303–2347.
- July 2001
- Exercise
Working with Your "Shadow Partner": Building a High Tech Investment Portfolio
By: Dwight B. Crane and Richard L. Nolan
Team-based exercise designed to illustrate the use of the Internet directly by executives. Requires going on the Internet to search for information required to construct a high-tech investment portfolio. View Details
Crane, Dwight B., and Richard L. Nolan. Working with Your "Shadow Partner": Building a High Tech Investment Portfolio. Harvard Business School Exercise 302-029, July 2001.
- 13 Dec 2012
- News
Is ESG Information for Investors Losing its Competitive Edge?
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Donors Invest in Students’ Future
shortcomings,” said Barcott, a recipient of three fellowships who spent spring break working in Kibera. Speaking for his fellow students, Barcott pledged to pay back donors in “service and deeds,” and he offered a toast to those who had View Details
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Sustainable investing and ESG resources
Information Type Recommended Resources Overview & News ImpactAlpha
News and information covering the sustainable and impact investment markets. Our subscription... View Details
News and information covering the sustainable and impact investment markets. Our subscription... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem
As a second-year student, Cissy Chen (MBA 2019) worked with Jingsheng Huang, managing executive director of the Harvard Center Shanghai, to organize an impact investing conference in Shanghai. (photo courtesy Harvard Center Shanghai) As a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
accessible and assure prospective students that the School will support them on their educational journeys. “The impact of the fellowship program on our students, who see how invested our alumni are in their success and the success of the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
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REITs (real estate investment trusts)
Where do I find information on real estate investment trusts (REITs)? General Background: National Association of Real Estate Investment TrustsView Details
- May 2009
- Article
Asymmetric Information Effects on Loan Spreads
The paper estimates the cost arising from information asymmetry between the lead bank and members of the lending syndicate. In a lending syndicate, the lead bank retains only a fraction of the loan but acts as the intermediary between the borrower and the syndicate... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates; Capital; Investment Portfolio; Credit; Diversification; Risk and Uncertainty
Ivashina, Victoria. "Asymmetric Information Effects on Loan Spreads." Journal of Financial Economics 92, no. 2 (May 2009): 300–319.