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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
Serena Ventures, a fund backed by Williams with an emphasis on startups that make diverse leadership and inclusivity a priority. Rapaport manages a portfolio of close to 60 early-stage investments focused on...
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- 2020
- Working Paper
Internal Models, Make Believe Prices, and Bond Market Cornering
By: Ishita Sen and Varun Sharma
Exploiting position-level heterogeneity in regulatory incentives to misreport and novel data on regulators, we document that U.S. life insurers inflate the values of corporate bonds using internal models. We estimate an additional $9-$18 billion decline in regulatory...
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Keywords:
Life Insurers;
Capital Regulation;
Internal Models;
Corporate Bonds;
Regulatory Supervision;
Concentrated Ownership;
Bonds;
Capital;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Insurance;
Investment Portfolio
Sen, Ishita, and Varun Sharma. "Internal Models, Make Believe Prices, and Bond Market Cornering." Working Paper, June 2020.
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2019
internal structure and culture, constructing a generalist investment team, establishing new investment processes, and putting in place new performance incentives. HMC’s View Details
- Fast Answer
HBS Course: Private Equity Finance
target="_blank">LSEG Workspace PE data includes investments, portfolio company and firm profiles, exits and fundraising information. Generous data download limit. Capital IQ Data on PE transactions, public and private companies,...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
hope of digging into Wall Street’s high profit margins. Current robo-advisors focus on passive “buy-and-hold” strategies, selecting a handful of low-cost exchange traded funds (ETFs), investing the funds according to a standard View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Surveying the VC Landscape
disclosure of strategic information critical to the companies in the private equity investors' portfolios. Q: What impact has the Sarbanes-Oxley Act had on how VC firms participate on the boards of their portfolio companies? Do you feel...
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- October 2011
- Teaching Note
Bridging the GAAPs (TN)
By: Gwen Yu
Teaching Note for 111-114.
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Keywords:
Equity;
Financial Reporting;
Investment Portfolio;
Valuation;
Framework;
Adoption;
Standards;
Globalization
Yu, Gwen. "Bridging the GAAPs (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 112-045, October 2011.
- Career Coach
Sarah Bua
Sarah (HBS ’98) is an executive coach and career advisor with 15+ years of experience coaching students, alumni and executives at Harvard Business School. She has a diverse business background, having worked across multiple industries and functions, including middle...
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- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Robert F. Greenhill, MBA 1962
achievement possibilities are limitless.” One of Wall Street’s preeminent investment bankers, Bob Greenhill has helped shape some of the world’s most successful corporations. Greenhill earned a reputation as a man of action during his 31...
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- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer In the early 1990s, Geeta Aiyer (MBA 1985) was an analyst and portfolio manager at the United States Trust Company of Boston. Among her investments was...
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Nimi Katragadda
Nimi Katragadda is a Partner at BoxGroup, a seed stage venture fund where she focuses on investments in financial tech, healthcare, and marketplaces. BoxGroup's portfolio includes companies such as Plaid,...
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Keywords:
Venture Capital
- March 1995 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
Smashing the Cube: Corporate Transformation at CIBA-GEIGY Ltd.
By: David J. Collis and Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
CIBA-GEIGY is a large, diversified multinational corporation that transforms itself in the 1990s through a massive structural and cultural change. The case describes the changes implemented and the processes used to effect change in portfolio, people, and structures....
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Keywords:
Restructuring;
Change Management;
Transformation;
Investment Portfolio;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Organizational Culture;
Corporate Strategy
Collis, David J., and Elizabeth Wynne Johnson. "Smashing the Cube: Corporate Transformation at CIBA-GEIGY Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 795-041, March 1995. (Revised March 1995.)
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Learning from Mistakes and Leveraging Personal Experiences: Tiffany Kent (MBA 2001) - Recruiting
me for its directness; you invest with conviction in undervalued assets and reap the rewards for your insights. I transitioned to a hedge fund, starting as an analyst before becoming a portfolio manager. I...
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- 01 May 2013
- News
George H. Strong, MBA 1951
his enthusiasm for his HBS experience, Strong was motivated to set up a series of charitable trusts to benefit HBS because it gave him access to the investment portfolio of the Harvard Management Corporation...
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- July 2010 (Revised March 2016)
- Case
MacroMarkets LLC
By: Robin Greenwood and Luis M. Viceira
MacroMarkets co-founder and CEO Samuel Masucci III is meeting with a strategic partner for his firm. Co-founded with Yale University Professor Robert Shiller, MacroMarkets' main innovation is the "MacroShare," which allows investors to take long or short, levered or...
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Keywords:
Macroeconomics;
Financial Instruments;
Financial Markets;
Investment Funds;
Investment Portfolio;
Innovation and Invention;
Risk Management;
Product Positioning;
Demand and Consumers;
Financial Services Industry
Greenwood, Robin, and Luis M. Viceira. "MacroMarkets LLC." Harvard Business School Case 211-006, July 2010. (Revised March 2016.)
Matt Higgins
Matt Higgins is one of the preeminent venture investors in next-generation technology companies and beloved consumer brands. Created alongside Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross, RSE Ventures has built an expansive multi-billion-dollar View Details
- January 2021
- Case
The FIRE Savings Calculator
By: Michael Parzen and Paul Hamilton
This case follows Carol Muñoz, a member of the Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) lifestyle movement. At the age of 45, Carol is considering retiring and living off the $1 million she has accumulated. Using Monte Carlo simulation, Carol forecasts the...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
He Begs to Differentiate
Sorrell also noted the irony of investment professionals with "all their portfolios in traditional businesses, who are now running hotfoot to invest in all these new models...
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- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
diversification for all investors regardless of their investment horizon. By contrast, correlated discount rate shocks imply that markets tend to move together only transitorily, and long-horizon investors can still benefit from global...
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Preqin | Baker Library
investment process with data pertaining to investors, fund managers, funds and performance, transactions, portfolio companies, service providers, and market trends. Get Access HBS Faculty, Students, and...
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