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- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
larger class of financial and managerial consultants who sought to refine business decision-making through the introduction of statistical data and scientific analysis. The failure of most forecasting agencies to predict the stock market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2014
- Blog Post
Turnaround & Restructuring Club Conference Recap
moderated by HBS Professor Kristin Mugford. Mr. Toy spoke in detail about his vast turnaround experiences and when asked about current trends stated, “Currently the market is doing pretty well, so there’s not as much restructuring needed.... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
oversees more than $16 billion. Compare these figures with data from 2003, when the entire asset class consisted of only a handful of funds managing about $12 billion. Activist investors, once considered Wall Street outcasts, are now... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
How Does the HBS Endowment Work?
the payout rate—typically around 5 percent of the endowment’s prior year-end market value —that can be withdrawn and used to support activities in accordance with the donor’s intentions and the terms of each gift. A large majority of... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
single, highly value-added package: the marketability of its instantly redeemable shares, affordability, oversight by professional investors, asset diversification, and diminished risk. With these... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter An estimated $30 trillion in assets worldwide—including half of all professionally managed assets in Europe—are already evaluated through environmental, social, and... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
like—whether it will be U-shaped, V-shaped, or L-shaped. When VCs begin to raise their next funds, if the market doesn’t have appetite for that asset class, then we’ll inevitably see a shrinkage of VCs.... View Details
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
considerable amount of high-quality research has been done regarding financial stability. Some of these steps were prompted by regulatory changes—or anticipation of such changes. But perhaps the biggest force in stabilizing the financial system has been greater public... View Details
- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
FDI to the United States has averaged 4.3 percent while the average for outbound FDI from the United States has been 12.1 percent. Second, this remarkable return differential doesn't reflect a more general differential in investment returns. During this same period,... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- Web
HBS - Financials | Financial Highlights
million from $22 million in fiscal 2021. The School generated an operating surplus of $58 million, compared with $26 million for the prior year. HBS ended fiscal 2022 with an unrestricted reserves balance of $227 million, compared with $211 million a year earlier. The... View Details
- Web
Preqin | Baker Library
Preqin data covers the entire 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 Staff... View Details
- 14 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition
Despite their best efforts, most companies continue to squander what may be their greatest asset in today's knowledge economy: the wealth of expertise, ideas, and latent insights that lies scattered across or deeply embedded in their... View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger
- Web
Robin Greenwood | Working Knowledge
markets and asset pricing in the Journal of Financial Economics (second place), and the inaugural 2014 Jack Treynor Prize awarded by the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance. Robin received a Ph.D.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
global alliances and networks, and internationalization. Deep Smarts by Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap (Harvard Business School Press) Each time an employee leaves a firm, an asset most valuable to its future is lost: the know-how that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
panel last October when it enacted the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to rescue faltering financial institutions. Law-makers instructed the panel to monitor TARP expenditures and recommend regulatory reforms. Led by... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)
- a strategy, marketing, and athlete representation firm she founded - has been selected by the league's seed investors to create and manage the new league. The league's marketing strategy is "a hybrid of the ABL and WNBA women's... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
Sidney W. Winslow
Machine Company in 1899, which had the largest market share in the shoe machinery business. Under Winslow’s leadership, the company acquired 59 more firms and became the third largest machine producer of any kind in the United States,... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
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Pension and retirement funds
Where can I find information on pension plans and retirement funds? To find out more on individual pension funds or create a list: Pensions & Investments Research Center: Screen by asset owner or money manager, or... View Details
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
won't," he says. "If it doesn't, private equity investors can walk away." Factoring In Co-insurance Rhodes-Kropf says a co-insurance effect combined with debt market misvaluation plays out in different ways. A strategic... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
But they are riskier than the stock market, so cryptocurrency markets are dominated by speculators or traders. Another constituent is the long-term investors, who take a long-horizon macro view on these View Details