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Investing in What You Know: The Case of Individual Investors and Local Stocks
By: Mark Seasholes and Ning Zhu
This paper tests the performance of individuals' equity investments. We study over 40,000
accounts and 950,000 trades from a large discount broker. Individuals invest heavily in
local stocks and put 14% more into these stocks than a market-neutral portfolio... View Details
Seasholes, Mark, and Ning Zhu. "Investing in What You Know: The Case of Individual Investors and Local Stocks." Journal of Investment Management 11, no. 1 (First Quarter 2013): 20–30.
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
Making smart investments in companies that solve critical social needs
Lisa Hall (MBA 1993), managing director of impact investing for Anthos Asset Management, talks about her work overseeing a financial portfolio of social enterprises that guarantee a financial return along with addressing critical social... View Details
- Web
Investing in Change | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Investing in Change Chuck Recorr Job Title Philanthropist Location Raleigh, NC Topics Nonprofit Strategy & Governance More Impact Stories A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations Mizuho Kanai 2018 While Mizuho Kanai (MBA 2018) was fulfilling her... View Details
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
thinking and analytical reasoning skills, complex problem solving, and oral and written communications. Investments that provide students with better insights into the career implications of various courses of study, plus initiatives to... View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
My HBS Financial Aid Story: Why I Chose to Invest in My Future
Everyone I spoke to told me the same thing: “Think of it as an investment in yourself.” Reframing the cost of attendance to view it as an investment was a game-changer for me. I used various lender-provided... View Details
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
and Syria; to the south is the booming Saudi Arabian metropolis of Jeddah. In front of me is a vast expanse of sand and hope, fueled by a huge investment towards a brand new city the size of Washington, DC. I can see intermittent puffs... View Details
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Spanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment
By: Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram
Global economic transactions such as foreign direct investment must extend over an institutional abyss between the jurisdiction, and therefore protection, of the states involved. Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), whose members are states, represent an important... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Market Transactions; Foreign Direct Investment; Government and Politics; Risk and Uncertainty; Networks; Culture; Complexity; Public Administration Industry
Alcacer, Juan, and Paul Ingram. "Spanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment." American Journal of Sociology 118, no. 4 (January 2013).
- 2008
- Working Paper
Spanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment
By: Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram
Global economic transactions such as foreign direct investment must extend over an institutional abyss between the jurisdiction, and therefore protection, of the states involved. Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), whose members are states, represent an important... View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governance Controls; International Relations; Social Issues
Alcacer, Juan, and Paul Ingram. "Spanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-045, September 2008.
- Research Summary
Is there a Relationship Between IT Investment and Industry Structure?
A provocative current argument is that 'IT doesn't matter' in a competitive sense -- that it benefits all companies equally, and so provides advantage and differentiation to none and leaves industry structures unchanged.
As we accumulate a longer history of IT... View Details
- 2002
- Other Unpublished Work
Investment Banking and Security Market Development: Does Finance Follow Industry?
By: Bharat Anand and Alexander Galetovic
Anand, Bharat, and Alexander Galetovic. "Investment Banking and Security Market Development: Does Finance Follow Industry?" 2002.
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers
Business needs to care about the performance of students in the public education system, from preschool through college. It is the primary source of future employees for every business. It’s also where the vast majority of teachers of their future employees will come... View Details
- November 2010 (Revised May 2012)
- Case
Innovating into Active ETFs: Factor Funds Capital Management LLC
By: Kenneth A. Froot, Lauren Cohen and Scott Waggoner
Kishore Karunakaran, President and COO of FFCM, faces a variety of challenges in launching an innovative investment management business in the rapidly evolving ETF space. View Details
Keywords: Investment Management; Institutional Investments; Entrepreneurial Finance; Financial Management; Innovation Strategy; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Capital Markets; Investment Funds; Financial Strategy; Management Teams; Financial Services Industry; Boston
Froot, Kenneth A., Lauren Cohen, and Scott Waggoner. "Innovating into Active ETFs: Factor Funds Capital Management LLC." Harvard Business School Case 211-031, November 2010. (Revised May 2012.)
- 27 Jun 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment
- 2015
- Working Paper
Organizational Decision-Making and Information: Angel Investments by Venture Capital Partners
By: Andy Wu
Wu, Andy. "Organizational Decision-Making and Information: Angel Investments by Venture Capital Partners." Working Paper, November 2015.
- December 1980 (Revised June 1985)
- Background Note
Management Accounting, Part V: Decision Support Systems, Capital Investment Analysis
Dearden, John. "Management Accounting, Part V: Decision Support Systems, Capital Investment Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 181-083, December 1980. (Revised June 1985.)
- 03 Feb 2016
- News
Ethical investing - putting your money where your mouth is
- 2015
- Working Paper
Replicating Private Equity with Value Investing, Homemade Leverage, and Hold-to-Maturity Accounting
By: Erik Stafford
Private equity funds tend to select relatively small firms with low EBITDA multiples. Publicly traded equities with these characteristics have high risk-adjusted returns after controlling for common factors typically associated with value stocks. Hold-to-maturity... View Details
Keywords: Value Investing; Endowments; Investment Management; Asset Pricing; Private Equity; Investment; Management; United States
Stafford, Erik. "Replicating Private Equity with Value Investing, Homemade Leverage, and Hold-to-Maturity Accounting." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-081, January 2016.
- 28 May 2015
- Working Paper Summaries