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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Private Equity and COVID-19

By: Paul A. Gompers, Steven N. Kaplan and Vladimir Mukharlyamov
We survey more than 200 private equity (PE) managers from firms with $1.9 trillion of assets under management (AUM) about their portfolio performance, decisionmaking and activities during the Covid-19 pandemic. Given that PE managers have significant incentives to... View Details
Keywords: Health Pandemics; Private Equity; Management; Investment Portfolio; Performance; Decision Making; Value Creation
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  • Research Summary

Optimal Portfolios with Housing Derivatives

Households that contemplate moving to different cities or trading up or down in the fu-ture are exposed to substantial housing risk. In order to mitigate this risk, I derive the op-timal portfolios using housing futures. In addition to the optimum growth portfolio,... View Details
  • Mar 2012
  • Article

How to Make Finance Work

crisis. Second, trillions of dollars have been steered into residential real estate and away from more productive investments. Third, the cost of professional investment management is too high, which drains talent from other industries.... View Details
  • June 2013 (Revised November 2016)
  • Case

Goldfinger: Charles W. Engelhard Jr. and Apartheid-era South Africa

By: Geoffrey Jones and Elliot R. Benton
This case considers the strategies of Charles W. Engelhard, an American mining magnate who made large investments in apartheid-era South Africa. Engelhard was widely believed to have been the model for the James Bond villan Auric Goldfinger. During the 1950s and 1960s... View Details
Keywords: Political Economy; Business History; FDI; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; South Africa; Mining; Ethics; Globalization; Government and Politics; History; Mining Industry; Africa; South Africa
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  • 14 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout

reduced vaccine costs. But again, in the case of COVID-19, the value of these investments would have far outstripped the potential costs. Time to invest in horseshoe crab... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 31 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

regulation has aimed to increase competition among raters ever since the Enron debacle. "As researchers we feared that increased competition may have detrimental effects in this setting." In our e-mail Q&A, Becker discusses the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • Web

Alumni

Stories Search the Alumni Directory Be found. Update your profile Programs & Events Jun 23 TBD Investment Management Workshop Acquire insights you can apply to your business as you explore recent changes in the industry, emerging... View Details
  • Web

Faculty & Research

overseas. The company had evolved from a prewar industrial giant into a globally integrated investment and trading firm. Originally focused on commodity trading, Mitsui gradually shifted toward strategic View Details
  • 15 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

Course MaterialsPerforming Industry Research to Inform Investment Decisions Harvard Business School Note 207-069 Conducting thorough research about an industry is often an important component of investment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2018
  • Case

Rosslyn Resource: Monetization and Sales Strategy

By: Robert J. Dolan and Sunru Yong
Rosslyn Resource identifies exploration targets (potential mineral deposits) in the mining industry and advances them until the project can be monetized, usually through sale to a larger mining company, in return for an upfront fee and a royalty on future revenues.... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mining Industry
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    Shawn A. Cole

    Shawn Cole is the John G. McLean Professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches and conducts research on financial services, impact investing, and Social Enterprise. He serves as faculty chair of the Social Enterprise... View Details

    Keywords: banking; financial services; microfinance
    • March 2024 (Revised April 2024)
    • Case

    Angel City Football Club: Scoring a New Model

    By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Jennifer Fonstad and Nicole Tempest Keller
    In January 2024, Kara Nortman, Julie Uhrman, and Natalie Portman, the founders of Angel City Football Club (ACFC) were developing the club’s first three-year strategic plan. Founded in 2020, ACFC had a star-studded investor group, including Portman and celebrities such... View Details
    Keywords: Sports; Entertainment; Entrepreneurship; Brands and Branding; Venture Capital; Business Model; Corporate Strategy; Digital Marketing; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; California; Los Angeles
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    • July 2022
    • Article

    Private Equity and COVID-19

    By: Paul A. Gompers, Steven N. Kaplan and Vladimir Mukharlyamov
    We survey more than 200 private equity (PE) managers from firms with $1.9 trillion of assets under management (AUM) about their portfolio performance, decisionmaking and activities during the Covid-19 pandemic. Given that PE managers have significant incentives to... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Health Pandemics; Private Equity; Management; Investment Portfolio; Performance; Decision Making; Value Creation
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    • 24 Jun 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: June 24

    argue that this rule is feasible despite the limited powers of central authorities. We also offer a framework for reasoning about future prices of IP addresses and then explore the role of rentals in sharing information about the value of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 10 Mar 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: March 10, 2009

    in defined-contribution pension plans, such as stable value funds, balanced funds, and life-cycle (or target date) funds. We find that life-cycle funds designed to match the risk tolerance and investment... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 22 May 2017
    • Blog Post

    Changing How You Think at HBS

    Video I wanted to go to business school as I hoped my roles would evolve from individual contributor, to team manager, to stakeholder with wider influence. I also wanted to explore different business areas besides investment banking and... View Details
    • 26 Sep 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes

    economies, the smaller economies pay the price. The problem is exacerbated by continuing structural weaknesses in developing countries where foreign investments are not necessarily anchored in long-term commitments to infrastructure or... View Details
    Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
    • Web

    Overview | MBA

    relevant timeframes, opportunity-costs, rewards, and organizational behavior. Assess the potential therapeutic value of discoveries emanating from lab-discovery in the life sciences and understand ways to accelerate these discoveries into... View Details
    • June 2025
    • Case

    Accounting for OpenAI at Microsoft

    By: Jonas Heese, Joseph Pacelli, Nicole Zelazko and Michael Norris
    In early 2025, Microsoft was evaluating the impact of its $14 billion investment in OpenAI. As OpenAI’s computing needs expanded, Microsoft positioned Azure as the exclusive provider for training and inference of their large language models. Despite the scale of the... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Financial Reporting; Revenue Recognition; Corporate Finance; Capital; Investment; Revenue; AI and Machine Learning; Valuation; Governance; Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; Web Services Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States
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    HBS Working Knowledge – Harvard Business School Faculty Research

    businesses on open source software, code that would cost firms $8.8 trillion to create from scratch if it weren't freely available. Research by Frank Nagle and colleagues puts a value on an economic necessity that will require View Details