Asset Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1998
News

Beyond the Numbers

says. "I wanted the practical methodology for solving problems you get from dealing with case studies. " These days, Robinson enjoys spending more time with his wife, Leila, who is managing director of global View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Jun 1999
News

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

Profile

Alex Slusky

has paid off. “By differentiating ourselves from the ordinary VC,” says Alex, “we have grown from a nascent start-up in 1997 to a partnership that now manages $2 billion in assets today. If you look at the... View Details

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Venture Capital and Private Equity - Course Catalog

does not help build deal-execution skills; students instead should enroll in Entrepreneurial Finance , Private Equity Finance , or Venture Capital Journey . The course covers three broad categories: THE INVESTORS AND FUND TERMS PRIVATE EQUITY VENTURE CAPITAL An LP’s... View Details

September 2010
Teaching Note

Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Alnoor Ebrahim

Teaching Note for 310011 and 310017. View Details

Keywords: Projects; For-Profit Firms; Networks; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Evaluation; Investment Portfolio; Asset Pricing; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Venture Capital; Investment Return; Poverty; Financial Services Industry; Kenya

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Purchase

01 Jun 2009
News

Too Big To Fail

panel last October when it enacted the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to rescue faltering financial institutions. Law-makers instructed the panel to monitor TARP expenditures and recommend regulatory reforms. Led by... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

24 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 24

performance on immaterial issues perform the best. These results speak to the efficiency of firms' sustainability investments, and also have implications for asset managers who have committed to the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2018
News

Case Study: On the Record

sell 100 vinyl records a month or have their songs stream on Spotify 1.5 million times,” says Kelleher, who led music app partnerships at Google Play before founding Austin-based record manufacturer Gold Rush Vinyl. The company grew out of a need Kelleher saw in her... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 May 2013
News

Patricia F. Bilden & Philip M. Bilden, MBA 1991

From the day he first set foot on Soldiers Field, Philip Bilden, managing director of HarbourVest Partners’ Asia business in Hong Kong, knew the relationships formed at HBS would have an enduring impact beyond Aldrich Hall. “For me as... View Details

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness

performance management system into corporate governance processes. The Balanced Scorecard strategy map portrays, on a single page, a company's strategy. It includes the financial outcomes expected; performance with targeted customers and... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

30 Dec 2013
HBS Case

HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers

manager with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for poor fundamental economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.' That sentiment made his Media General bid even more intriguing as a... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Journalism & News; Publishing

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?

a broadcast marketing regime. A program of general regulation that lets consumers build and manage identity assets and share in their value holds out the promise of jointly delivering more efficient... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls & Sean Silverthorne; Advertising

06 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem

company to transfer assets and liabilities to certain so-called special purpose entities (SPEs). According to the Powers report, which was published by a special committee of Enron's board after the company entered bankruptcy protection... View Details

Keywords: by William Sahlman

01 Feb 2002
News

Replicating Toyota's Success

Spear focused on the company's approach to solving problems and noticed the conscious way Toyota's managers involve employees in this process, even to the point of leaving a production line at suboptimal performance so that workers could... View Details

Keywords: Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

16 Jul 2024
Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

who doesn’t understand the nuances of the business or how to effectively manage its people. In recruiting Bob Nardelli from GE, Home Depot’s board failed to choose someone who understood the retail business enough to recognize that the... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

16 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate with Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016)

What were you doing prior to HBS? What made you decide to go to HBS? I graduated from Washington University with an undergraduate degree in civil engineering and, just before applying to HBS, I was a management consultant at Deloitte.... View Details

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Field Course: Public Markets Investing Seminar - Course Catalog

challenges, learn from each other and seek feedback across teams. Interactive guest lectures will provide focus on building skills in the investment process from data sourcing and research to risk management and operations to View Details

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Crypto Is Growing Up. Are Companies Ready? | Working Knowledge

audit quality and firm productivity. For example, blockchain adoption allows firms to better manage banking confirmations and reduce costly inefficiencies like overordering . But blockchain’s openness is a double-edged sword. Bad actors... View Details

02 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

M. Viceira and Ricardo De ArmasHarvard Business School Case 211-005 Windward Investment Management has experienced rapid growth in assets under management in just ten years,... View Details