asset management - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

because all economic transactions are embedded in a social supra-structure. Since most young firms are financially constrained, intangible assets that do not require outlays of financial resources are especially critical to new ventures.... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

04 Oct 2007
What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

private equity management were oversold companies taken over by private equity groups have been stripped of their assets and hold unsustainable debt burdens." Gerald Nanninga, in lamenting the decline... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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

15 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?

making people feel more comfortable using them,” Zlatev says. “If a manager puts one of these strategies in place, it’s not the employee’s decision, so that might lessen the negative evaluation.” In a business setting, he notes, one... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Web

Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online

is and how it can be used as a competitive advantage Craft a compelling positioning statement and resonant brand story Understand the roles brands play in consumers’ lives and the importance of building enduring brand communities Learn how to View Details

03 Feb 2018
Op-Ed

How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility

Larry Fink recently created a shockwave. As cofounder, chairman, and CEO of BlackRock, one of the world’s largest global asset management firms, in an open letter to CEOs he caught the attention of financial markets and beyond by insisting on the importance of... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Battilana

01 Dec 2015
News

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 Jan 2008
News

Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982

says with characteristic ease and candor. Those words are often used to describe Immelt, yet they belie the extreme complexity involved in leading a company that employs more than 300,000 people around the world, each working in areas that range from wind turbines to... View Details

16 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?

Administration at Harvard Business School. “This is technology that's going to help us to abate these issues around energy and climate, and it's the best technology in that space.” The spectacular rise of sustainable investing Almost 33 percent of the $51.4 trillion in... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy

13 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw

software update to the Falcon security platform managed by CrowdStrike, the giant cybersecurity company. “What happened in CrowdStrike is an illustration of the risk of picking up an upgrade immediately.” Greenstein’s work focuses on... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Information Technology; Computer; Web Services

01 Dec 2005
News

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

29 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

more important than the physical aspect." “Companies don't fully exploit the latest ideas that their product has created” In a paper published last year in the Academy of Management Review called "The Second Face of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

03 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 3

supply chain system. When commodity prices became more volatile in 2007 and 2008, executives at Domino's changed the way they worked with suppliers and franchisees to manage costs and risks and better leverage the View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 May 2017
News

Facing the Board

began with a review of the case, which was focused on two decisions facing asset management firm BlackRock, Inc.: Should the company license its Aladdin operating system? And should it acquire Merrill Lynch... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photos by Susan Young; Blackrock; The Boardroom

07 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

effect a change in asset allocation. The market for real estate derivatives is beginning to grow quite rapidly and the firm is trying to understand how to use these instruments in managing its business.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2018
News

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
News

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

20 Dec 2016
First Look

December 20, 2016

School Case 117-107 Management Control Systems Module 7: Designing Asset Allocation Systems This module provides tools for acquiring and allocating resources. Analytic techniques related to cash flow... View Details