Portfolio Investment - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

New Learning at American Home Products

penicillin for Canada's armed forces, provided American Home Products with a learning base in the antibiotic revolution at its very beginning. Early in the postwar era, American Home Products moved out of chemicals but continued to expand its other lines, both by... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical

Profile

Kwame Owusu-Kesse

Fund, where he helped develop a for-profit investment strategy for an upcoming fund, plus due diligence on potential portfolio investments. Kwame is still considering options for his HBS internship.... View Details

01 Mar 2007
News

Letters to the Editor

While James Hoagland is correct that in recent years there is a growing tendency to flip or resell buyouts after a rapid turnaround, the general experience is actually quite different. As I mentioned, holding periods and investment time... View Details

10 Sep 2015
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: EF Education First

a great fit for you! There are numerous examples of HBS alumni joining EF and making an immediate impact through innovative projects that we’d simply never thought of before. One HBS alum launched a portfolio of eco-tours in our adult... View Details

06 Sep 2013
News

More Seats at the Table

excelling in the predominantly male-run world of business. "These women who make it through the corporate, investment banking, consulting, and even the legal gauntlet, and at 50 or 55, are ready and qualified to sit on a corporate... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Corporate Services

09 Mar 2021
Blog Post

New BEI Director: Lynn Schenk

the HBS community are already familiar with Lynn and her capacity for leadership at the intersection of business and social and environmental issues. Lynn initially joined HBS in 2017 to write case studies for a new course in impact View Details

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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

proposals but invested in only a small percentage of them. The firm's prized portfolio companies included Circo Products (automobile tools); High Voltage Engineering Corp (high-powered generators and nuclear... View Details

Career Coach

Vincent Dessain

Vincent (HBS MBA’87) draws on more than 25 years of experience as a higher education senior executive at HBS and INSEAD and in the corporate world both in the US and in Europe to counsel students and alumni as they evaluate, prepare for and pursue their career options.... View Details

04 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS

Mbanusi (MBA 2021) and Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021), who came to business school from nonprofit and chemical engineering backgrounds respectively, prove that experience outside of investing can also be highly transferable and valuable to the... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital

10 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

materiality map for each industry. In our paper, we take those maps and construct scores showing how different companies are investing on material ESG issues. That allows investors to construct better risk profiles and View Details

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim

12 Feb 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students

Students whose investments have fallen below margin requirement levels are being told they have sixty seconds to liquidate part of their portfolio to cover—effectively locking in a loss—or gamble that their... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Education

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions

portfolio managers and we're going to have to leverage our local knowledge with our partners." Cash Not On Hand But financial partners are becoming increasingly difficult to find, particularly after the devaluations of the last... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

10 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups

to recent research. Enter the era of “spray and pray,” where venture firms over the last decade have seeded more firms than previously, but with less upfront investment of time and money. As someone who teaches entrepreneurial finance,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services; Information Technology

01 Dec 1997
News

Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize

moving in a similar direction in collaboration with the late Fischer Black. Investors use derivatives to hedge their portfolios against the effects of sudden shifts in the market. Merton's work provides them with a formula for evaluating... View Details

08 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)

2021) prove not only is this goal attainable, but also that experience outside of investing can be highly transferable and valuable to the field. Mbanusi’s Road to HBS When sharing the story of his path to HBS and venture capital, Mbanusi... View Details

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories

deposits and withdrawals. Five were turned into "financial centers," spacious, relaxed outlets where customers would have access to the trained staff and advanced technologies required for sophisticated services such as stock trading and View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke; Banking; Financial Services

05 Dec 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?

that we have invested in significantly to understand deeply I'll trust our predictions. And I'll trust the prediction more if it's (from) someone who has an unbiased 3rd party interest in the outcome." Paul Lepley added that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog

corporate advantage statement. 3. Scope: Businesses and Portfolio Transformation Defining the boundaries of the firm - the limit to its scope - is critical to crafting the corporate portfolio. At the extreme, this determines which... View Details

05 Apr 2016
First Look

April 5, 2016

the recent launch of his new, $6 billion closed-end vehicle, Pershing Square Holdings, as well as the firm's lengthening investment horizon. Although always activist in nature, Ackman and his fund had in recent years become substantively... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

24 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

firms and shareholders. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51128 Harvard Business School Case 418-019 Sensing (and Monetizing) Happiness at Hitachi Inspired by research linking happiness and productivity, Hitachi had View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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