Money Funds - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Mar 2002
What Do You Think?

Is This the Decade of the Investor?

their responsibility to represent the best interests of investors, who will? Will dynamics that determine flows of funds and foreign investment levels in the U.S. ultimately pose the threat of fewer funds—foreign or otherwise—to finance... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Web

Strategy for Entrepreneurs - Course Catalog

and predictions about how a firm can make money by solving a problem that the market has yet to solve. As with any new idea, knowing with certainty if your startup idea will work is impossible. Worse yet, a startup idea is a bet with an... View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

In the Zone

11,000 community members. Owusu-Kesse had already spent a year at Canada’s side, thanks to an externship sponsored by his employer, Morgan Stanley. Now Canada wanted him back. “I had no idea how much money I would make. I had no idea what... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; nonprofit management; urban development; leadership; public education; Educational Services

01 Jun 2018
News

Floor It

therapeutics; and disseminating findings in real time. Currently, the Kraft team is tracking ongoing trials for pancreatic cancer, glioblastoma, multiple myeloma, and immune therapies. Finding Funding Fixes The Kraft team is also focused... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li

26 Feb 2014
News

The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)

elements in life that drive you away from working on something you're passionate about. It can be peer pressure (e.g., 'you should do consulting or finance'); money (e.g., 'a hedge fund is the job with the... View Details

Keywords: online shopping; fashion; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

10 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

improves financial performance on measures such as profitable investments at the individual portfolio-company level and overall fund returns. And even though associating with similar people can have social benefits for those people, it... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

28 Mar 2016
News

Drawing Connections Between Business and Art

selling them at a charity auction, where the artists and buyers can meet. The money raised goes to scholarship funds for people studying the arts. “It helps support the artists, while at the same time... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

is the idea? A: It basically is giving us back the money we now hand over to our employers for health insurance, so we can buy our own. And if we're poor, the government will transfer money to us so that we... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

01 Apr 2021
Blog Post

An Aerospace Engineer Provides a Lift for Underrepresented Innovators and Entrepreneurs

knowledge, and I was able to learn so much from them.” As part of her product development work, Shodiya found herself pitching a new innovation to the company’s capital arm. The people she was trying to sway would decide whether her team would receive more View Details

20 Nov 2019
News

Lifting Fallen Families

Scott Roth (MBA 1994) in the Black Hills of South Dakota as the pair discussed ways to help. What Kim wanted to do was build a foundation that would aid in funding the college educations of military children who had lost a parent in the... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

28 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War

on mainframes. DEC moved up-market with a much lower cost structure and eventually attacked IBM. In the newspaper industry, we saw that firms can overcome this resource commitment problem by recognizing the challenge and framing the disruption as a threat to the core... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

01 Sep 2018
News

After the Fall

noting that these leaders were acting on what they believed to be true, rather than taking irresponsible risks, not seeing they were in any real danger until it was too late. Public pension funds, on the other hand, were the victims of bad incentives. Those View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

14 Nov 2012
News

Remembering His Roots

Curiel: Investing in young people who grew up as migrant farmworkers. Photo courtesy Martin Curiel Martin Curiel (MBA 2004) wants you to invest in dreams. Through the Rising Farmworkers Dream Fund (RFDF), the nonprofit he cofounded with... View Details

Keywords: farmworkers

19 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

maintained his control in part by creating a banking system that functioned more as a kind of investment club, Maurer says. Local businessmen would agree to lend each other money to finance one another's companies, while also selling... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2025
News

Patch Work

obsolescence. It has also placed Jameson in the midst of some of the era’s most vexing legislative conflicts—from regulating artificial intelligence to funding Ukraine’s war against Russia—as he revolutionizes the business of lobbying... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; Illustrations by Dan Bejar

29 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 29

Gary Kaplan became CEO of the Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. The hospital was facing significant challenges: it was losing money for the first time in its history, staff morale had plummeted, and area hospitals... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Feb 1997
News

Doing It Your Way

other factors when seeking startup opportunities. "Businesses where there are high margins available with low economies of scale are more likely to survive," he says, citing institutional money management as an example of an area that... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)

08 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

number of product unit sales needed, as two examples. The fictitious case protagonist, a business development manager at a leading money management firm, is looking to launch an exchange-traded fund (ETF)... View Details