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October 2009 (Revised January 2010)
Case

The University of Notre Dame Endowment

By: Andre F. Perold and Paul Michael Buser

The Endowment Model of Investing, which was based on creating high risk-adjusted performance through diversification, a long time horizon, top-notch outside managers, and illiquid investments, had served Notre Dame and other large universities well over the past... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Higher Education; Asset Management; Private Equity; Financial Liquidity; Investment; Risk Management; Performance Evaluation; Education Industry; Financial Services Industry

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11 Apr 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste

global companies with high water usage include “agriculture, manufacturing, oil & gas, electric utilities, coal, textiles, and metals & mining.” The global water crisis is putting some $392 billion in assets at risk, the report... View Details

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HBS - Key Metrics

Reserves 227 211 174 129 Endowment 5,086 5,265 4,092 3,985 Total Assets $6,603 $6,755 $5,558 $5,420 MBA 2022 2021 2020 2019 Incoming Class Applications 8,264 9,773 9,304 9,228 Percent Admitted 15% 13% 13% 12% Yield 86% 87% 85% 89% Gender:... View Details

Portrait Project

Rishon Benjamin

Profit Margin. Asset Turn. Leverage. Three simple ingredients that have become near daily fixtures of my MBA experience. Is this the education that is supposed to help me make a difference in the world? Can it really be so easy? Profit... View Details

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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

introductory finance course or equivalent at some point during their education and possess a basic understanding of investment management, capital markets, and asset classes. 5 hrs Module 1 Overview of Sustainable Investing Learn key... View Details

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Events - Private Capital Project

Indian Private Capital Industry” with Rajan Anandan (Managing Director, Sequoia Capital), Prakul Kaushiva (Managing Director Private Equity, CPP Investments), Renuka Ramnath (Founder, MD and CEO, Multiples Alternate Asset Management), and... View Details

September 2023
Case

Diamond Standard

By: Lauren H. Cohen, Zhaoheng Gong and Grace Headinger

Cormac Kinney, Founder and CEO of Diamond Standard, was on a mission to transform the U.S. diamond market through unlocking the precious gems as market-traded assets. As a serial FinTech entrepreneur, he hoped to add an additional service to his vault: Carats. The... View Details

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12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

Company” In 1997, a portion of the Manila Metropolitan Water and Sewage System is taken over by a joint venture, the Manila Water Company, which must develop the newly acquired employees and assets into a profitable firm. I work in... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

02 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

resulting intellectual property assets (e.g., product development). We're not talking about patenting strategies here, but rather the set of processes that contribute to building and evolving a firm's knowledge base.—Marco Iansiti and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1998
News

Simmons Family Endows Professorship

ambitious program of expansion, increasing the bank's assets from $150 million in 1964 to more than $3 billion in 1986 and expanding the bank statewide. In 1985, under Roy's leadership, Zions bought Nevada State Bank in Las Vegas, setting... View Details

15 Dec 2023
News

Like-Minded

Yumiko Murakami (MBA 1994), Miwa Seki (MBA 1993), and Kathy Matsui share the same month and year of birth, so the friends started an annual birthday get-together to reflect on the year ahead. Work was always a hot topic of discussion. Each woman had built a strong... View Details

15 Jul 2019
Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

systematically overpaying? The answer is, they must be doing something wrong in valuation: Ignoring incentives The first, and most pervasive, mistake is that it is easy to ignore the incentives of the people involved in an acquisition. Certainly, sellers of View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jan 2013
News

André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973

Founding Partner and Managing Director, JGP Asset Management Download Jakurski profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1948 Born, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1971 Earns BS, Mechanical Engineering, Pontifícia Universidade... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

22 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

Can Amazon Remake Health Care?

like shopping for the other items that Amazon might be selling.” Chandra: Amazon is an enormous company. I think we’re all excited because it’s Amazon, but the reality is that it’s a $4 billion expense for a company that has $160 billion dollars of current View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Health

08 Feb 2024
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

students to new careers and opportunities that they may not have been aware of before graduate school. I hope applicants are aware of the incredible asset that is HBS’s ability to expand students’ views of what is possible. Michael Amoako... View Details

06 Jun 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly

Keywords: by Malcolm Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler; Banking; Financial Services

01 Dec 2018
News

In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor

Genesee & Wyoming, a railroad holding company. “It was a complex deal, and our thesis generated some uncertainty, but when we sold our assets a year later we had almost doubled our money.” Favorite PD investment: An eight-unit apartment... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

15 May 2017
Sharpening Your Skills

The Promises and Limitations of Big Data

replacement of physical assets by digital technologies. But a bigger and more impactful trend, according to researchers Frank V. Cespedes and Amir Peleg, is the use of online tools to improve physical asset... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Utilities; Public Administration; Health

23 Mar 2023
News

Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition

US to treat elective procedures and a patient-centric platform with end-to-end support to connect both sides. Aldo Farah Orozco, MBA 2019, Cofounder & Co-CEO Region: International Track The Endowment Project The Endowment Project is an outsourced alumni development,... View Details

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

it. For many nonprofit organizations and consumer goods companies, their brand is, along with their people, the most important asset they have. Tracking the value of that asset and understanding what... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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