Investment Banking - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Sep 2007
Op-Ed

Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure

subprime market, that "somebody else" was the lender. If a borrower defaulted, the bank recouped its investment by foreclosing on the home. The house represented collateral that, ideally, would... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Banking; Banking; Banking

01 Dec 2016
News

HBS Alumni Contribute to Business and Society

Josh Lerner, Head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at HBS, recently led a research study aimed at quantifying the economic and social... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

After the Fall

traditional banks to one where non-bank financial intermediaries played a much more important role,” he says. These less regulated intermediaries, which included money market funds, hedge funds, and View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank

17 Nov 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

online well before any regulatory filing disclosed his holdings in the company. These tactics may have been designed for drama, but the investment strategy and its scale are nothing unusual today. Activist shareholders and the hedge funds... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Banking; Banking

Career Coach

Gavra Nwamadi

practices at Bain prior to joining HBS. Additionally, she has successfully recruited for internships and full-time roles in Investment Banking at large US and European banks. She is passionate about coaching... View Details

Keywords: Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking

20 Jun 2016
News

Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues

development challenges facing India and other emerging economies, through impact investing in areas such as affordable housing, financial inclusion, and access to energy. The other is VSG Capital Advisors, an View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

June 1995
Case

Banc One Corporation (A)

As Banc One's use of derivatives had proliferated, investors and analysts had expressed increasing concern about the size of derivative portfolios, the potential sensitivity of their value to interest rate swings, and the lack of standardized reporting on their use.... View Details

Keywords: Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Investment Banking; Financial Reporting; Annual Reports; Banking Industry

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01 Jun 2003
News

Alumni Bookshelf

profits. Investment Banking: Addressing the Management Issues by Steven I. Davis (MBA '58) (Palgrave Macmillan) In his eighth book, international banking consultant Davis offers a timely analysis of the... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

26 Sep 2018
News

Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure

opportunities with environmental benefits. With decades of experience in investment banking with Dillon Read in New York City—but little experience with environmental work—Cody joined the World View Details

Keywords: April White

March 2009 (Revised May 2011)
Case

The Credit Suisse/Gerson Lehrman Group Alliance

By: Robert G. Eccles and Laura Winig

The equity research department of Credit Suisse and the expert network firm of Gerson Lehrman Group, historically competitors, have established a strategic alliance which both believe will give them a competitive advantage. Under the leadership of its head of equity... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Financial Crisis; Investment Banking; Innovation and Invention; Alliances; Social and Collaborative Networks; Competitive Advantage; Banking Industry

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17 Apr 2019
News

Financing the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure

Decades in investment banking and a lifelong love of the outdoors set Pat Coady (MBA 1966) on the path toward conservation financing. What was a small sector in the early 1990s, when he led the US delegation... View Details

October 2014
Case

Grantham, Mayo, and Van Otterloo, 2012: Estimating the Equity Risk Premium (Abridged)

By: Samuel Hanson, Erik Stafford and Luis Viceira

Keywords: Equity Valuation; Investment Banking; Equity

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02 Jan 2018
News

Reconsidering Retirement

founded in 2013 with classmate Scott Puritz (MBA 1982). The company takes advantage of recent advances in financial products and cloud computing to make available the type of investment services that were once reserved for... View Details

Keywords: April White; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

01 Dec 1997
News

The World's Banker

was named chairman of Salomon Brothers International and remained with Salomon until 1981, when he opened his own Wall Street investment banking boutique, James D. Wolfensohn, Inc. From 1980 to 1986, in... View Details

November 2007
Case

The 1995 Release of the Institutional Investor Research Report: The Impact of New Information

By: Boris Groysberg, Nitin Nohria and Derek Haas

In 1995, Institutional Investor magazine began selling a complete ranking of the best equity research analysts. This report allowed research firms to assess the relative quality of each analyst across the industry, and this enabled firms to know nearly as much about... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Investment Banking; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Performance Evaluation; Banking Industry

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13 Dec 2011
News

Carry It On

these two areas, and that gives me a very good feeling.” With John Plukas (MBA ’68), with whom he had previously founded HCW Oil and Gas, an oil-industry real estate and investment firm, Glassman launched Wainwright View Details

Keywords: Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank

28 May 2019
News

Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble

December 2016, reached almost $20,000 in December 2017, and retreated to as low as $3,200 in December 2018.) So we called in an expert: Dianna Raedle (MBA 1993), CEO, president, and founder of Deer Isle Group, an investment View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Sep 2012
News

Expertise From The Front Lines Of The Eurozone

booms, plateaus, and shake-ups in global finance —and now, a new generation of future business leaders are benefiting from his extensive experience. After graduating from HBS, Roscini, formerly a nuclear engineer, entered the world of View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Dec 2008
News

Alumni Books

investment bank in the world. Ellis, a strategy consultant to Goldman Sachs for over thirty years, explains how it rose to leadership in the United States and abroad, made many partners great fortunes, and... View Details