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  • 23 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

one, while passive maturity transformation strategies have CAPM betas near zero; and (4) portfolios of bank equities consistently underperform portfolios designed to passively mimic their economic exposures. The very strong View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Connect with Clubs - Recruiting

Esham Macauley emacauley@mba2026.hbs.edu Black Investment Club Co-Presidents Dion Boyd dboyd@mba2026.hbs.edu Dawit Wondimagegn dwondimagegn@mba2026.hbs.edu Club Email blackinvestment@studentclubs.hbs.edu Brazilian-Portuguese Cultural Club... View Details
  • 12 Feb 2024
  • News

Dale LeFebvre to Receive Horatio Alger Award

Dale LeFebvre (MBA 1998), founder and executive chairman of 3.5.7.11 Investments, was recently named by the nonprofit Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans as a recipient of the 2024 Horatio Alger Award. For more than 75 years, the award has been... View Details
Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 28 Jun 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Leviathan in Business: Varieties of State Capitalism and their Implications for Economic Performance

Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio & Sergio G. Lazzarini
  • 28 May 2024
  • In Practice

Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible

expectations, things soon settled back down, and project volumes decreased. At the same time, adjacent industries like tech, venture capital and private equity also experienced slowdowns, which meant fewer consultants left their firms for... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 11 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

Traditional investing classifications consider Walmart a consumer staples retailer, but the company owns more than 6,000 retail and distribution properties around the world—the portfolio dwarfs those of many commercial real estate firms.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consumer Products; Real Estate; Financial Services; Retail
  • Web

Latin America - Global

expectations of business in society. The conversation focused on actionable measures for Latin American firms to address inequality, highlighting emerging strategies for expanding equity ownership, poverty alleviation, and fostering... View Details
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Aggregate and Firm-Level Stock Returns During Pandemics, in Real Time

By: Laura Alfaro, Anusha Chari, Andrew Greenland and Peter K. Schott
We show that unexpected changes in the trajectory of COVID-19 infections predict U.S. stock returns, in real time. Parameter estimates indicate that an unanticipated doubling (halving) of projected infections forecasts next-day decreases (increases) in aggregate U.S.... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Stock Returns; Health Pandemics; Stocks; Investment Return; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • August 2010
  • Article

Sell-Side School Ties

By: Lauren H. Cohen, Christopher J. Malloy and Andrea Frazzini
We study the impact of social networks on agents' ability to gather superior information about firms. Exploiting novel data on the educational backgrounds of sell-side equity analysts and senior officers of firms, we test the hypothesis that analysts' school ties to... View Details
Keywords: Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Knowledge Acquisition; Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • October 2019 (Revised June 2020)
  • Case

Pantheon Ventures in 2019

By: Victoria Ivashina and Tonia Labruyere
The case discusses the strategy of Pantheon, a UK-based fund of funds investing in private equity. Client demands and preferences had changed in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis and Pantheon had to adapt its business model to accommodate requests for... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Private Equity; Corporate Strategy; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom
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  • July 2016 (Revised July 2019)
  • Teaching Plan

Doctor My Eyes: The Acquisition of Bausch & Lomb by Warburg Pincus (A)

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Ricardo Andrade
In early 2010, senior partners at Warburg Pincus met to review a report on Bausch & Lomb Incorporated, the firm's largest investment at the time. Warburg Pincus had led a group of investors in acquiring Bauch & Lomb on October 26, 2007, taking the company private and... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Governance; Buyout; Private Equity; Finance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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  • January 2008 (Revised May 2009)
  • Case

Restructuring at Delphi Corporation (A)

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott
Delphi Corporation, operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, has filed a plan of reorganization with the court, under which a consortium of hedge funds led by Appaloosa Management will invest up to $2.6 billion in new equity. Also participating in the plan is... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Capital Structure; Private Equity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment Funds; Labor and Management Relations; Auto Industry; Service Industry
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Credit-Market Sentiment and the Business Cycle

By: David Lopez-Salido, Jeremy C. Stein and Egon Zakrajsek
Using U.S. data from 1929 to 2013, we show that elevated credit-market sentiment in year t – 2 is associated with a decline in economic activity in years t and t + 1. Underlying this result is the existence of predictable mean reversion in credit-market conditions.... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Credit; Macroeconomics
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  • March 2021 (Revised October 2021)
  • Case

Aligning Mission and Margin at Southern Bancorp

By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Brian Trelstad and Eren Kuzucu
In October 2020, after spending almost a decade to turnaround Southern Bancorp, an Arkansan bank founded with the mission to provide financial services to rural, underserved communities, CEO Darrin Williams is wondering how Southern Bancorp should continue to grow.... View Details
Keywords: Racial Wealth Gap; Banks and Banking; Growth and Development; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Going Public; Investment Return; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; Arkansas
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  • 07 Jul 2022
  • HBS Case

How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

way. We’ve got to do this.’” They invested their entire life savings—$225,000—into opening the store. The store sold all of its products within four days of opening, forcing it to temporarily close. Earning $1 million in total sales, the... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • Web

California - Global

Company San Francisco, 2015 #tech #inequality Sephora Direct: Investing in Social Media Accounting for the iPhone at Apple, Inc. Warner Bros. Entertainment Keeping Google “Googly” Location California Research Center Burlingame,... View Details
  • 09 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 9, 2007

is well documented that the venture capital industry is highly volatile and that much of this volatility is associated with shifting valuations and activity in public equity markets. This paper examines how changes in public market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

For MBA Students - Entrepreneurship

of must-attend events. See All Events Student Clubs Entrepreneurship Club Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Club Tech Club Venture Capital & Private Equity Club Women in Investing Club Insights Get... View Details
  • Web

Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

(6) Entertainment (21) Entrepreneurship (290) Environmental Accounting (8) Environmental Sustainability (180) Equality and Inequality (44) Equity (25) Ethics (172) Ethnicity (8) Executive Compensation (13) Executive Education (11)... View Details
  • Web

Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

Brian K. Baik , Johan Ludvig S. Karlsen and Katja Kisseleva 2025 | Working Paper | Faculty Research Using Norwegian administrative data, we identify family equity investments in startups and examine their... View Details