Asset Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2009
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Cynthia Carroll

in three years’ time. One is on the procurement side, where we’re applying global procurement practices and integrating all parts of the business. The second is what we call Asset Optimization: getting the most out of each and every... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management; Management

01 Dec 2019
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What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter An estimated $30 trillion in assets worldwide—including half of all professionally managed assets in Europe—are already evaluated... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2011
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Harvard Endowment Grows to $32 Billion

The Harvard endowment grew by 21.4 percent to $32 billion for the fiscal year ended June 30, up $4.4 billion from the year before, according to the annual report by Harvard Management Company. Every asset... View Details

Keywords: Endowment

01 Dec 2015
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Case Study: Bionic Banking

(Thinkstock/Getty Images) Robo-advisors, like Betterment and Wealthfront, are built for millennials-automated asset management for those with lower account balances or an aversion to traditional financial... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Made in the USA

includes a dozen years at General Foods, “our strengths were highly flexible assets and a deeply skilled workforce. Our niche clearly was in products where skilled cheese making was more important than capital investment for high... View Details

Keywords: Blagg, Deborah; cheese; lobster fishing; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Dec 2011
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Rising Star

enrolling at HBS, there came a stint as manager of South Africa’s Tourism Board in Paris. As Dhlomo related to Forbes magazine (June 6, 2011), “I was in my favorite city outside South Africa and promoting my country to the French market,... View Details

Keywords: Broadcasting (except Internet); Information; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Oct 2001
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Making a World of Difference

having been promoted to partner, Slifka founded Alan B. Slifka and Company, an asset management firm that specializes in event investing. Today, the firm (which joined with Halcyon in 1996) View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

management capability and skills once reserved for institutions or wealthy individuals. They provide a strong incentive to save and invest and have been a great source of wealth accumulation for individuals. Mutual funds also represent an... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

24 Apr 2014
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A founding father of Silicon Valley venture capital guides entrepreneurs

their companies, they would usually invite us in.” Johnson later founded Asset Management Company in 1967, investing primarily in computer and health care concerns. His advice and counsel also have benefited... View Details

01 Jun 2006
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Jay Light Named New HBS Dean

a degree in engineering physics, Light earned a DBA from Harvard’s joint program in decision and control theory in 1970. Light’s research and teaching have focused on capital markets and institutional asset management, including the View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Dec 2015
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Encouraging Women Leaders

Veronica Serra (MBA 1997) In describing the impact of the HBS experience on her life, Veronica Allende Serra (MBA 1997) says, “Ask me how it hasn’t had an impact.” Serra, the founder of Pacific Investments, a private equity firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, where she... View Details

01 Dec 2005
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A Renter’s Market

Lee For Jonas Lee (MBA ’93) and his investment firm, Redbrick Partners, the purchase, refurbishment, rental, and maintenance of hundreds of low-cost, single-family urban homes represent a terrific, overlooked market opportunity. “It’s a $15 trillion View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Real Estate

01 Dec 2018
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Preparing Global Leaders

and diverse business issues,” he says. Wahl, an investor based in Oslo, Norway, was cofounder and partner of the private equity firm IK Investment Partners Ltd. from 1989 to 2009. Presently he runs Stromstangen AS, a privately owned investment firm focusing on View Details

08 Jan 2019
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Raising Prospects for Female Funders

the tools to manage the risks of this asset class. There are already more than 200 women participating as investors in Europe. And this is not the only place where they exist. There is a Rising Tide Africa... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Seth Klarman

Klarman Illustration by David Cowles While other money managers scrambled to survive the financial market meltdown, value investor extraordinaire Seth Klarman (MBA ’82), president of The Baupost Group in Boston, cautiously pursued buying... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

16 Jul 2020
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Accounting for Real Change

independent auditors. The COVID pandemic has revealed a similar problem, Cohen writes. “This time, it is the measurement of companies’ social and environmental impacts that must be made transparent.” One-third of the world’s professionally View Details

01 Apr 1996
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New Releases

Fast Forward edited with an introduction and epilogue by James Champy and Nitin Nohria (HBS Press) Fast Forward, the latest title in the Harvard Business Review Book Series, brings together some of the best ideas from the Harvard Business Review on View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Inside Modern HR

officer and managing director at New York–based BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management firm, Breitfelder talked to Young Hee Yoo (MBA 2017) about an area that isn’t... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2015
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Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow

Jakurskis were inspired to support junior faculty during a pivotal point in their careers. “By investing in associate professors, Maria and I feel we are helping HBS sustain and further its world-class faculty,” says André Jakurski, founding partner of JGP View Details