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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
This month marks the first anniversary of the American-led invasion of Iraq. Within weeks of their initial military assault, U.S. and coalition troops triumphed over the Iraqi army and took on a new mission — rebuilding a country devastated by decades of warfare, View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
these international actors to fund everything is just not realistic. However, according to Sifma research, more than $120 trillion (with a T) in private money from insurance companies, pension funds, endowments, sovereign funds, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
such investments have already begun to percolate. Are these concerns warranted? If history is any guide, foreign investors in the United States have more to worry about than domestic regulators do. The singular fact about foreign direct... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
between generating wealth for the firm’s investment professionals via the fee stream, which is strictly a function of how many dollars you manage, and the investors in the firm — the so-called limited partners, who make money only when... View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
tradition in architecture when it gave him its Stanford White Award. In his current role of directing real estate investments for his family’s Samson Investment Partners, Zuckerberg works to stay grounded in... View Details
- April 2023
- Article
Are Intermediary Constraints Priced?
By: Wenxin Du, Benjamin Hebert and Amy Wang Huber
Violations of no-arbitrage conditions measure the shadow cost of intermediary constraints. Intermediary asset pricing and intertemporal hedging together imply that the risk of these constraints tightening is priced. We describe a “forward CIP trading strategy” that... View Details
Du, Wenxin, Benjamin Hebert, and Amy Wang Huber. "Are Intermediary Constraints Priced?" Review of Financial Studies 36, no. 4 (April 2023): 1464–1507.
- Profile
Arjun Goyal
pitched Foresight to HBS Business Angels, an alumni investment group, and have high hopes for the annual New Venture Competition. “On a commercial level,” Arjun explains, “Foresight is innovative in the way it applies new technology to... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
CFO: Unefon, Grupo Salinas, and Grupo Elektra 2002 Named CEO, Farmacias Benavides 2003 Named CFO, Vitro 2005 Named Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum 2007 Cofounds IGNIA 2007 Named Chairman of the Board, Accion International 2009... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
our capital so that we can get a return on it. Potentially, we can even garner some strategic advantage from the relationships.” When evaluating offshore deals, cost saving isn’t the primary motivating factor, explains Breyer of Accel Partners. “One of the... View Details
- Career Coach
Michele Biamonte
J.P.Morgan (Investment Management/Private Banking, Internal Consulting Services, Recruiting/Training/Leadership Development/Program Management); Harvard Business School (MBA Admissions Board Member, Career & Professional Development... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
Governing Council. A member of a prominent Shia family who fled after the revolution of 1958, Allawi was educated in England and the United States, worked for the World Bank, and later became an investment banker. He watched the fall of... View Details
- Career Coach
Eileen Stephan
challenges MBA students, alumni and other job seekers encounter, and has extensive insight into how businesses approach talent acquisition. Eileen holds a BA in History and International Relations from Boston University. She lives in... View Details
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- 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 reimburse the lender. Thanks to... View Details
- March 2001 (Revised February 2004)
- Case
Power to the States: "Fiscal Wars" for FDI in Brazil
By: Laura Alfaro, Yasheng Huang and Marios S. Kalochoritis
On January 6, 1999, Itamar Franco, the governor of the state of Minas Gerais, the second-largest state in Brazil, declared a 90-day moratorium on its debt payment to the federal government. The announcement triggered a run on the Brazilian currency, the Real, and... View Details
Alfaro, Laura, Yasheng Huang, and Marios S. Kalochoritis. Power to the States: "Fiscal Wars" for FDI in Brazil. Harvard Business School Case 701-079, March 2001. (Revised February 2004.)
- Career Coach
Sarah Bua
Sarah (HBS ’98) is an executive coach and career advisor with 15+ years of experience coaching students, alumni and executives at Harvard Business School. She has a diverse business background, having worked across multiple industries and functions, including middle... View Details
- 08 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Private Equity
our experience tells a different story. Industry leaders who have taken summer interns have typically found it to be a great investment of their time and resources as the internship program allows the firm... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- Fast Answer
Social Entrepreneurship & Systems Change
about the missions, programs, and finances of more than 1.7 million nonprofit organizations. Foundation Directory Online - information and funding history for 140,000+ foundations, corporations, and federal agencies. Yearbook of View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
world's poorest countries. The International Finance Corporation invests some $2.5 billion in private-sector enterprise in developing nations. The Multilateral Investment... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
international banking, I am familiar with “the old shell game” of tax evasion via the transfer pricing mechanism. Differentiating between tax avoidance and tax evasion in this area is often very difficult indeed. But very big money is... View Details
- February 2010
- Article
Global Currency Hedging
By: John Y. Campbell, Karine Serfaty-de Medeiros and Luis M. Viceira
Over the period 1975 to 2005, the US dollar (particularly in relation to the Canadian dollar) and the euro and Swiss franc (particularly in the second half of the period) have moved against world equity markets. Thus these currencies should be attractive to... View Details
Keywords: Currency; Equity; Financial Markets; International Finance; Investment Return; Globalized Markets and Industries; Risk Management
Campbell, John Y., Karine Serfaty-de Medeiros, and Luis M. Viceira. "Global Currency Hedging." Journal of Finance 65, no. 1 (February 2010): 87–121.