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  • 22 Apr 2020
  • Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

March 4, Harvard Business School gathered senior executives, risk experts, and leading investment professionals from some of the world’s largest asset managers to share how they’re approaching these complex questions. The conference,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • 03 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

risk-taking activities. However, since market forces were shown to be an unreliable mechanism for ensuring the soundness of the financial system over the long term, there is real pressure for making fundamental changes in the way we deal... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate
  • January 1999 (Revised August 1999)
  • Case

Asia Property Limited

By: William J. Poorvu and Daniel J. Rudd
On October 23, 1998, Bud Lake leafed through his files on property markets in Asia. Lake was responsible for real-estate investments at an aggressive and eclectic investment fund with total assets of $1.5 billion--up from $400 million at its start in 1994. As the fund... View Details
Keywords: Private Ownership; Entrepreneurship; Investment Funds; Globalized Markets and Industries; Public Ownership; Real Estate Industry; Asia; United States; Europe
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    Howard H. Stevenson

    Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

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    • August 2021
    • Article

    Don't Take Their Word for It: The Misclassification of Bond Mutual Funds

    By: Huaizhi Chen, Lauren Cohen and Umit Gurun
    We provide evidence that bond fund managers misclassify their holdings, and that these misclassifications have a real and significant impact on investor capital flows. In particular, many funds report more investment grade assets than are actually held in their... View Details
    Keywords: Mutual Funds; Economics; Finance; Measurement and Metrics; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry
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    • 15 Jul 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: July 15, 2008

    the technology bubble to examine the hypothesis that inexperienced investors play a role in the formation of asset price bubbles. Using age as a proxy for managers' investment experience, we find that around the peak of the technology... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace

      Christina R. Wing

      Christina Wing is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. Her research focuses primarily on topics surrounding families in business, and the course she created, titled Demystifying the Family... View Details

      • July 1996 (Revised August 2017)
      • Case

      Continuous Casting Investments at USX Corporation

      By: Clayton Christensen
      Focuses on the difficulty established companies face when confronted with disruptive technological innovations. The power that their prior asset investments, their cost structures, and their customers have in constraining their investment and innovation decisions are... View Details
      Keywords: Disruption; Assets; Cost; Investment; Technological Innovation; Problems and Challenges; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry
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      • Career Coach

      Jonathan Shepherd

      Jonathan is CPD's Corporate Relations Director overseeing principal investing: VC/PE, investment management and real estate. Since 2007, he has coached thousands of students & alumni and forged recruiting relationships with hundreds... View Details
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      • 23 Apr 2014
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Corporate Financial Policies in Misvalued Credit Markets

      Keywords: by Jarrad Harford, Marc Martos-Vila & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf; Financial Services; Banking
      • 19 Sep 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

      colleagues’ hours, cutting into their personal time. After losing the hour of overlap, software engineers, for example, tended to shift their work times outside of local business hours more often, using their time in the early morning or evening to remain available to... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
      • 31 Oct 2016
      • Research & Ideas

      Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest

      Another tool to stimulate a distressed economy has made its way into the playbooks of central banks across the world. With quantitative easing, known as QE for short, a central bank makes it easier to borrow money by buying long-term View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
      • 29 Oct 2014
      • Research & Ideas

      Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

      against follow-on inventions and sometimes patenting eases the task for other to design around them," says Ahuja. "Whenever you invent something, you open up a trajectory and people are going to come after you. And if they have better View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
      • Research Summary

      Research Overview

      Eddie Riedl's research focuses on two primary topics: fair value accounting, and international accounting settings. 

      Regarding fair value accounting, his research examines both the critical reporting choices that managers make, as well as... View Details

      • 14 Apr 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: April 14, 2009

      York-based hedge fund must decide whether to invest in TravelCenters of America (TA), a recent spin-off from a U.S.-based real estate investment trust. The case confronts students with the question: To what extent is this spin-off... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace

        Hakeem I. Belo-Osagie

        Hakeem Belo-Osagie is an accomplished Nigerian professional and entrepreneur. He earned a degree in Political Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University as well as a law degree from Cambridge University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

        He is the... View Details

        • Article

        It's Not Easy Being Green: The Role of Self-Evaluations in Explaining Support of Environmental Issues

        By: Scott Sonenshein, K. A. DeCelles and Jane E. Dutton
        Using a mixed methods design, we examine the role of self-evaluations in influencing support for environmental issues. In Study 1—an inductive, qualitative study—we develop theory about how environmental issue supporters evaluate themselves in a mixed fashion,... View Details
        Keywords: Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Performance Evaluation; Cognition and Thinking
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        • 2021
        • Article

        Venture Capital Booms and Startup Financing

        By: William Janeway, Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
        We review the growing literature on the relationship between venture capital booms and startup financing, focusing on three broad areas: First, we discuss the drivers of large inflows into the venture capital asset class, particularly in recent years—which are related... View Details
        Keywords: Venture Capital; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention; Policy
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        • March 2012
        • Article

        The Incentive Bubble

        By: Mihir Desai
        The past three decades have seen American capitalism quietly transformed by a single, powerful idea—that financial markets are a suitable tool for measuring performance and structuring compensation. Stock instruments for managers, high-powered incentive contracts for... View Details
        Keywords: Economic Systems; Financial Markets; Executive Compensation; Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Governance; Equality and Inequality; Human Capital; United States
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          Ashish Nanda

          Ashish Nanda is Senior Lecturer and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator at Harvard Business School. From 2018 to 2021, he was course head for the MBA Required Curriculum course in Strategy. Beginning in 2022, he is teaching an MBA Elective... View Details

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