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- 2011
- Chapter
Asset Allocation by Institutional Investors after the Recent Financial Crisis
By: Robert C. Pozen, Betsy Palmer and Natalie Shapiro
Pozen, Robert C., Betsy Palmer, and Natalie Shapiro. "Asset Allocation by Institutional Investors after the Recent Financial Crisis." In Growing Old: Paying for Retirement and Institutional Money Management after the Financial Crisis, edited by Y. Fuchita, R. Herring, and R. Litan. Brookings Institution Press, 2011.
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
businesses were often treated as a portfolio of investments rather than an integrated worldwide business. Such cultural influences were very evident in Lever Brothers and later Unilever, where the important...
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- December 2009
- Article
Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk and Asset Returns
By: Christopher J. Malloy, Tobias J. Moskowitz and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen
We provide new evidence on the success of long-run risks in asset pricing by focusing on the risks borne by stockholders. Exploiting micro-level household consumption data, we show that long-run stockholder consumption risk better captures cross-sectional variation in...
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Malloy, Christopher J., Tobias J. Moskowitz, and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen. "Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk and Asset Returns." Journal of Finance 64, no. 6 (December 2009): 2427–2480. (Finalist for the 2010 Smith Breeden Prize for the best paper in the Journal of Finance.)
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
guaranteed. These investors might want to hold bonds in their portfolios for their ability to hedge their spending needs. Similarly, empirical research by academics and practitioners alike suggest that the annualized volatility of stock...
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by Ann Cullen
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan
of the wildly successful American technology stock market. Launched last year as a joint venture between the U.S. Nasdaq, Japan’s Softbank Corporation, and thirteen leading Japanese and foreign brokerages, Nasdaq Japan aims to break the...
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- January – February 2011
- Article
Benchmarks as Limits to Arbitrage: Understanding the Low-Volatility Anomaly
By: Malcolm Baker, Brendan Bradley and Jeffrey Wurgler
Contrary to basic finance principles, high-beta and high-volatility stocks have long underperformed low-beta and low-volatility stocks. This anomaly may be partly explained by the fact that the typical institutional investor's mandate to beat a fixed benchmark...
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Volatility;
Stocks;
Investment Return;
Investment Portfolio;
Risk Management;
Performance Expectations
Baker, Malcolm, Brendan Bradley, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "Benchmarks as Limits to Arbitrage: Understanding the Low-Volatility Anomaly." Financial Analysts Journal 67, no. 1 (January–February 2011).
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)
female corporate finance associate at Kidder, she became an equity analyst two years later, covering the computer industry. Joining Bear Stearns in 1979 as a risk arbitrage analyst, she rose to number two in the worldwide risk arbitrage department and managed the View Details
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Linda Goodspeed
- August 2022 (Revised November 2022)
- Supplement
Altos Ventures (B)
By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo
In December 2021, Han Kim, Anthony Lee, and Ho Nam reflected on how far they had come since 2012. This B case provides an update on Altos Ventures’ decision-making and performance since the events presented in the A case.
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Tango, Jo, and Alys Ferragamo. "Altos Ventures (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 823-036, August 2022. (Revised November 2022.)
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
Publications March 2015 Partners or Creditors? Attracting Foreign Investment and Productive Development to Central America and Dominican Republic Foreign Direct Investment:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- October 2011
- Teaching Note
Bridging the GAAPs (TN)
By: Gwen Yu
Teaching Note for 111-114.
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Equity;
Financial Reporting;
Investment Portfolio;
Valuation;
Framework;
Adoption;
Standards;
Globalization
Yu, Gwen. "Bridging the GAAPs (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 112-045, October 2011.
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
some risks and its politics will remain opaque and confusing to outsiders attempting to do business there." Is Foreign Investment Enough? NAFTA offers another insight into the economies of Mexico and...
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by Julia Hanna
- 08 May 2012
- News
Screen Saver
former investment banker, Apkon found the ideal focus for his passion for film by forming a nonprofit group in 1998 to purchase the defunct Rome Theater, a 1925 historic landmark located near his home in downtown Pleasantville, New York....
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- 25 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
at Schulze Global Investments in Ethiopia, the country’s first private equity fund. I specifically wanted to see, in a country with a banking system off-limits to foreign View Details
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Nonprofit / Government
- Web
Real Estate Private Equity - Course Catalog
investing, managing, and developing investments in real estate and private asset backed companies. The course will be divided into three modules. The first module will focus on portfolio construction and...
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- 19 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
the summer and worked at Schulze Global Investments in Ethiopia, the country’s first private equity fund. I specifically wanted to see, in a country with a banking system off-limits to foreign View Details
- March 2004 (Revised July 2004)
- Case
UCB: Managing Information for Globalization and Innovation (A) (Abridged)
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Brian DeLacey
A medium-size European manufacturer of pharmaceuticals and chemicals faces a number of information strategy issues. The case focuses on the issues of coordinating international IT activities and day-to-day operations as well as balancing the company's IT applications...
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Innovation and Invention;
Information Technology;
Operations;
System;
Corporate Strategy;
Investment Portfolio;
Globalization;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Brussels
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Brian DeLacey. "UCB: Managing Information for Globalization and Innovation (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 304-096, March 2004. (Revised July 2004.)
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
Chartered Bank) in India in 1982, rising through the ranks in a variety of merchant, retail, and investment banking assignments before moving to Morgan Stanley’s India operation in 1994. Through a joint venture with the View Details
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-004.pdf Investment Taxation and Portfolio Performance Authors:Daniel Bergstresser and Jeffrey Pontiff Abstract Taxes have a first-order impact on View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- June 2009 (Revised May 2013)
- Case
Australia: The Riches and Challenges of Commodities
By: Laura Alfaro and Renee Kim
Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd faced a daunting task that he never imagined he would have to face when he was elected two years ago. Australia at that time was poised to enter its 17th year of uninterrupted growth. Commodity exports were booming, largely driven...
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Financial Crisis;
Trade;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Policy;
Crisis Management;
China;
Australia
Alfaro, Laura, and Renee Kim. "Australia: The Riches and Challenges of Commodities." Harvard Business School Case 709-007, June 2009. (Revised May 2013.)
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
Statistics Survive Another Day: Using Changes in the Composition of Investments to Measure the Cost of Credit Constraints By: Garicano, Luis, and Claudia Steinwender Abstract—We introduce a novel empirical strategy to measure the size of...
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Sean Silverthorne