Asset Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Feb 2016
First Look

February 9, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50562 forthcoming Strategic Management Journal Entrepreneurial Beacons: The Yale Endowment, Run-ups, and the Growth of Venture Capital By: Bermiss, Y. Sekou, Benjamin J. Hallen, Rory... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem

minimized." Mercadona always takes store operations into account when making supply-chain decisions, Ton continues, and pays particular attention to the design and management of store processes. It also treats labor as an View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Food & Beverage

09 Mar 2021
Blog Post

New BEI Director: Lynn Schenk

Initiative in which she leveraged her structured finance background and expertise from her tenure at Citigroup to focus on issues ranging from the financial structuring of renewable energy and infrastructure assets to climate-related... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

Shareholders' Value?

if one excludes new start-ups, most new capital is provided by debt. Of course, liquidity in the stock market does enable investors to capture gains on their investments, and it also enables mergers and acquisitions. To provide adequate liquidity, however, an View Details

01 Mar 2003
News

A Casual Approach to Success

the things that sets the firm apart from its competitors is its investment in the service sector. “Human assets have different management requirements,” Hellman notes, adding, “We give a large part of the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jan 2009
News

Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985

was a senior partner for more than 25 years before selling the firm to Credit Suisse First Boston in 1998. At Garantia and later at GP Investimentos, Lemann invested in management talent and diverse acquisitions, including a retail chain,... View Details

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

The competitiveness of many multinational companies depends on their ability to transfer intellectual property and other intangible assets to their worldwide production processes. These sources of competitive advantage can be anything... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

10 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

and best options in-store along with the electrical supplies and tools you will need to install the fixture. Online they carry an endless aisle of products and they provide videos and expert advice to help with installation. They do not deploy their TIPS View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

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

01 Mar 2016
First Look

March 1, 2016

their demand for a risky asset by weighing two signals: an average of the asset’s past price changes and the asset’s degree of overvaluation. The two signals are in conflict, and investors “waver” over time in the relative weight they put... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Sep 2020
News

How To Make Diversity a Reality

start exposing people at a much earlier age about asset management and private equity and why it's a good industry so that you can attract more people to the industry. Chitra: But even when you think about... View Details

01 Sep 2020
News

Saving Grace

jobs an average of 11 times in the course of their careers, and beyond the potential to misplace all that paperwork, any number of things can happen before a person reaches retirement age, says Romina Savova (MBA 2012). “The institution View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

05 May 2022
News

Like-Minded

for Morgan Stanley and leading the Japan office of Clay Finlay, a New York–based asset management company. Matsui was the vice chair for Goldman Sachs Japan and the chief Japan equity strategist. On these... View Details

01 Jan 2006
News

Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969

venture capital and private equity. Last year, he stepped down from his management responsibilities to devote all his efforts to social investing in the United Kingdom and the Middle East. "Those who have had a successful career are... View Details

29 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

What Hath the United Kingdom Wrought?

trading block in the world. Financial markets had been complacent and were caught off guard by an early morning earthquake that affected most traded asset classes around the globe. Prime Minister David Cameron announced his resignation,... View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini

03 Dec 2020
Blog Post

The HBS Show Must Go On

resiliency the HBS community showed during a difficult time to be able to come together and produce something truly special. Lori Ossip Prior to HBS, Lori worked in Real Estate Investment and Asset View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

class; structuring asset classes and adding value-oriented or other opportunistic “tilts”; measuring and managing risks, avoiding common mistakes, and more. The Soul of a Patient: Lessons in Healing for... View Details

01 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 1

competing in the new, despite some dramatic early success. We suggest that these difficulties do not arise from cannibalization concerns or from inherited cognitive frames. Instead they reflect diseconomies of scope rooted in assets that... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Jan 2016
Blog Post

HBS and the Arts

opportunity to combine my interests in art and finance by working for an asset management firm where I helped to establish a group focused on financial services for the art community. We worked with museums,... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Entertainment / Media / Sports

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

experience when you failed at something? Roslyn Braeman Payne (MBA 1970), president, Jackson Street Partners, San Francisco, California In February 1986, I was selected to be the first CEO of the Federal Asset Disposition Association, a... View Details

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