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      • August 2008 (Revised June 2012)
      • Case

      Martingale Asset Management LP in 2008, 130/30 Funds, and a Low-Volatility Strategy

      By: Luis M. Viceira and Helen Tung
      In early July of 2008, William (Bill) Jacques, Chief Investment Officer at Martingale Asset Management, a quantitative value-oriented investment manager in Boston, Massachusetts, was busy preparing for an upcoming meeting with the group that made new product decisions... View Details
      Keywords: Volatility; Asset Management; Stocks; Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Product Development
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      Viceira, Luis M., and Helen Tung. "Martingale Asset Management LP in 2008, 130/30 Funds, and a Low-Volatility Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 209-047, August 2008. (Revised June 2012.)
      • August 2008 (Revised May 2009)
      • Case

      Kmart and ESL Investments (A)

      By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah Abbott
      A major bankrupt retailer is poised to emerge from Chapter 11. Two activist hedge funds ("vulture investors") will own over 50% of reorganized Kmart's common stock, based on prior investments in Kmart's debt claims, and an infusion of new equity financing. The Chapter... View Details
      Keywords: Restructuring; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment; Investment Activism; Valuation; Financial Services Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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      Gilson, Stuart C., and Sarah Abbott. "Kmart and ESL Investments (A)." Harvard Business School Case 209-044, August 2008. (Revised May 2009.)
      • August 2008 (Revised March 2010)
      • Case

      Finland's S Group: Competing with a Cooperative Approach to Retail

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Tarun Khanna, Samuli Skurnik and Jordan Mitchell
      The case looks at the two dominant Finnish retailers: S Group and Kesko. S Group is a customer-owned cooperative, which has a unique holding structure whereby 1.7 million residents (or 70 percent of Finnish households) own 22 regional cooperatives. In turn, the... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Cooperative Ownership; Public Ownership; Competitive Advantage; Retail Industry; Finland
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      Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Tarun Khanna, Samuli Skurnik, and Jordan Mitchell. "Finland's S Group: Competing with a Cooperative Approach to Retail." Harvard Business School Case 709-409, August 2008. (Revised March 2010.)
      • August 2008
      • Teaching Note

      Pawson Foundation: August 2006 (TN)

      By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
      Teaching Note for [806042]. View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Budgets and Budgeting; Investment Funds
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      Hardymon, G. Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Pawson Foundation: August 2006 (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 809-016, August 2008.
      • July 2008
      • Teaching Note

      Yale University Investments Office: August 2006 (TN)

      By: Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
      Teaching Note for [807073]. View Details
      Keywords: Investment Funds; Strategy; Cost vs Benefits; Resource Allocation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Assets; Leveraged Buyouts
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      Lerner, Josh, and Ann Leamon. "Yale University Investments Office: August 2006 (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 809-015, July 2008.
      • July 2008 (Revised February 2009)
      • Case

      (PRODUCT) RED (A)

      By: Youngme E. Moon, Michael I. Norton and David Chen
      Describes the launch and initial results of the (PRODUCT) RED campaign, a social marketing initiative conceived by U2's Bono and Bobby Shriver to combat AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. The company licensed the (RED) brand to partner companies, which initially included Gap,... View Details
      Keywords: Investment Funds; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Social Enterprise; Africa
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      Moon, Youngme E., Michael I. Norton, and David Chen. "(PRODUCT) RED (A)." Harvard Business School Case 509-013, July 2008. (Revised February 2009.)
      • July 2008 (Revised April 2009)
      • Case

      Advanced Micro Devices: Competing in the Shadow of a Giant (A)

      By: Willy C. Shih and Andrew A. King
      As the only significant competitor to Intel Corporation in PC microprocessors, Advanced Micro Devices faced daunting investment choices. Not only did it have to fund microprocessor design teams, it also had to fund silicon process R&D, and it faced huge capital... View Details
      Keywords: Investment; Operations; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Strategy; Technology Industry
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      Shih, Willy C., and Andrew A. King. "Advanced Micro Devices: Competing in the Shadow of a Giant (A)." Harvard Business School Case 609-002, July 2008. (Revised April 2009.)
      • June 2008
      • Teaching Note

      Transparent Value LLC (TN)

      By: Sharon P. Katz and Krishna G. Palepu
      Teaching Note for [108098]. View Details
      Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Valuation; Stocks; Price; Performance Expectations; Cash Flow; Revenue; Business Startups; Investment Funds; Product Launch; Financial Services Industry
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      Katz, Sharon P., and Krishna G. Palepu. "Transparent Value LLC (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 108-098, June 2008.
      • 2008
      • Chapter

      Allocating Marketing Resources

      By: Sunil Gupta and Thomas J. Steenburgh

      Companies spend billions of dollars on marketing every year because it is essential to organic growth. Given these large investments, marketing managers have the responsibility to optimally allocate resources and to demonstrate that their investments generate... View Details

      Keywords: Investment Return; Resource Allocation; Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Mathematical Methods
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      Gupta, Sunil, and Thomas J. Steenburgh. "Allocating Marketing Resources." In Marketing Mix Decisions: New Perspectives and Practices, edited by Roger A. Kerin and Rob O'Regan. Chicago, IL: American Marketing Association, 2008.
      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      Inexperienced Investors and Bubbles

      By: Robin Greenwood and Stefan Nagel
      We use mutual fund manager data from the technology bubble to examine the hypothesis that inexperienced investors play a role in the formation of asset price bubbles. Using age as a proxy for managers' investment experience, we find that around the peak of the... View Details
      Keywords: Investment; Stocks; Information Technology; Price Bubble; Asset Management; Experience and Expertise
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      Greenwood, Robin, and Stefan Nagel. "Inexperienced Investors and Bubbles." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 14111, June 2008.
      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      The Future of Social Enterprise

      By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Herman B. Leonard and Susan McDonald

      The Future of Social Enterprise considers the confluence of forces that is shaping the field of social enterprise, changing the way that funders, practitioners, scholars, and organizations measure performance. We trace a growing pool of potential funding sources to... View Details

      Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Investment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Performance Effectiveness; Social Enterprise; Consolidation; Value
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      Rangan, V. Kasturi, Herman B. Leonard, and Susan McDonald. "The Future of Social Enterprise." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-103, June 2008.
      • May 2008 (Revised July 2009)
      • Case

      Sovereign Wealth Funds: For Profits or Politics?

      By: Laura Alfaro and Renee Kim
      On March 21, 2008, the U.S. government secured an agreement from two leading sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) to adopt a new set of investment principles to govern the Funds' activities. SWFs, broadly defined as an investment fund owned by a national or a government, were... View Details
      Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Investment Funds; Sovereign Finance; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; International Relations; State Ownership; United States
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      Alfaro, Laura, and Renee Kim. "Sovereign Wealth Funds: For Profits or Politics?" Harvard Business School Case 708-053, May 2008. (Revised July 2009.)
      • May 2008 (Revised March 2009)
      • Case

      SKS Microfinance

      By: Shawn A. Cole and Theresa Chen
      Vikram Akula, CEO of SKS Microfinance, seeks a venture capital investment to fund his firm. SKS, one of the largest and fastest growing microfinance institutions in India, is a profitable, for-profit institution with a social mission. In what is one of the first... View Details
      Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Venture Capital; Microfinance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Valuation; Financial Services Industry; India
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      Cole, Shawn A., and Theresa Chen. "SKS Microfinance." Harvard Business School Case 208-137, May 2008. (Revised March 2009.)
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      Optimal Life-Cycle Investing with Flexible Labor Supply: A Welfare Analysis of Life-Cycle Funds

      By: Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Luis M. Viceira
      Keywords: Investment; Labor; Investment Funds
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      Gomes, Francisco J., Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira. "Optimal Life-Cycle Investing with Flexible Labor Supply: A Welfare Analysis of Life-Cycle Funds." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 98, no. 2 (May 2008): 297–303.
      • May 2008
      • Article

      Regulation and Bonding: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Flow of International Listings

      By: Suraj Srinivasan and Joseph Piotroski
      In this paper, we examine the economic impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) by analyzing foreign listing behavior onto U.S. and U.K. stock exchanges before and after the enactment of the Act in 2002. Using a sample of all listing events onto U.S. and U.K. exchanges... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Stocks; Government Legislation; Market Transactions; Motivation and Incentives; United Kingdom; United States
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      Srinivasan, Suraj, and Joseph Piotroski. "Regulation and Bonding: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Flow of International Listings." Journal of Accounting Research 46, no. 2 (May 2008).
      • April 2008 (Revised April 2010)
      • Background Note

      The Hedge Fund Industry

      By: William E. Fruhan Jr.
      This note describes the hedge fund industry as of the end of the year 2007. View Details
      Keywords: Investment Return; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Financial Services Industry
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      Fruhan, William E., Jr. "The Hedge Fund Industry." Harvard Business School Background Note 208-126, April 2008. (Revised April 2010.)
      • 2008
      • Mimeo

      Do Hedge Funds Profit from Mutual-Fund Distress?

      By: Joseph Chen, Samuel G. Hanson, Harrison Hong and Jeremy C. Stein
      This paper explores the question of whether hedge funds engage in frontrunning strategies that exploit the predictable trades of others. One potential opportunity for front-running arises when distressed mutual funds—those suffering large outflows of assets under... View Details
      Keywords: Investment Funds; Profit; Strategy; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Return; Opportunities; Asset Management; Sales
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      Chen, Joseph, Samuel G. Hanson, Harrison Hong, and Jeremy C. Stein. "Do Hedge Funds Profit from Mutual-Fund Distress?" 2008. Mimeo.
      • Second Quarter 2008
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      How Does Investor Sentiment Affect the Cross-Section of Returns

      By: Malcolm Baker, Johnathan Wang and Jeffrey Wurgler
      Broad waves of investor sentiment should have larger impacts on securities that are more difficult to value and to arbitrage. Consistent with this intuition, we find that when an index of investor sentiment takes low values, small, young, high volatility,... View Details
      Keywords: Volatility; Behavioral Finance; Stocks; Investment; Investment Return; Attitudes
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      Baker, Malcolm, Johnathan Wang, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "How Does Investor Sentiment Affect the Cross-Section of Returns." Journal of Investment Management 6, no. 2 (Second Quarter 2008): 57–72.
      • March 2008 (Revised June 2009)
      • Case

      Actis: January 2008

      By: Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
      Paul Feltcher, the CEO of Actis, a leading private equity investor in emerging markets, is preparing for an executive retreat at which the management team will consider how best to position the firm for the future. Actis could move in a number of different directions... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Private Equity; Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Emerging Markets; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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      Hardymon, Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Actis: January 2008." Harvard Business School Case 808-130, March 2008. (Revised June 2009.)
      • 2008
      • Casebook

      The Rules of Globalization: Case Book

      By: Rawi Abdelal
      This is a book about the politics of the global economy — about how firms prosper by understanding those politics, or fail by misunderstanding them. Understanding the politics of globalization may once have been a luxury; it is now, for most high-level managers, simply... View Details
      Keywords: Trade; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations
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      Abdelal, Rawi, ed. The Rules of Globalization: Case Book. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2008.
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