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- June 2009 (Revised August 2010)
- Background Note
How Institutional Investors Think About Real Estate
By: Arthur I Segel
Real estate is an increasingly important component in the portfolios of institutional investors. This note discusses the issues these investors must consider when investing in real estate from the legal forms of ownership, to separate or commingled funds, to property... View Details
Segel, Arthur I. "How Institutional Investors Think About Real Estate." Harvard Business School Background Note 209-152, June 2009. (Revised August 2010.)
- 28 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms
iPhoto Marketplace lending platforms such as LendingClub and Prosper have made significant competitive inroads against traditional banks in recent years by bringing together people who want to borrow with investors ready to bankroll them.... View Details
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
not just in (what is now) the Czech Republic, but also in any country that lacks strong institutions and investor protections. As HBS professor Mihir A. Desai and the Monitor Group's Alberto Moel explain in the Review of Finance, in their... View Details
- 21 Jul 2016
- Video
How Modest Investors Can Still Bet Big
- 22 Jul 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Banks as Patient Fixed-Income Investors
- November 2016
- Supplement
PunchTab, Inc. Investor Presentation Deck
By: William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda
- Other Article
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
By: Joseph B. Fuller
Fuller, Joseph B. "How Activist Investors Became Respectable." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (November 17, 2015).
- 24 Aug 2010
- News
Investors question 'public' private equity
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
- 12 Aug 2020
- News
Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser
- 08 Jan 2018
- News
What Do Investors and Companies Talk About?
- 17 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
‘Not a Bunch of Weirdos’: Why Mainstream Investors Buy Crypto
In a little more than a decade, investors have transformed cryptocurrency from a techno-curiosity into a trillion-dollar-plus opportunity that has the potential to one day reshape the global economy. Yet in the past 10 years, little has... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
If you want to become good at early-stage investing, you need to learn how to size up the fundamental elements of an opportunity. Many investors use checklists or think of evaluation as a process of judging an entrepreneur, or an idea, or... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- January 2015
- Technical Note
Investor 'Short-Termism': Really A Shackle?
By: Rebecca Henderson and Clayton Rose
Henderson, Rebecca, and Clayton Rose. "Investor 'Short-Termism': Really A Shackle?" Harvard Business School Technical Note 315-084, January 2015.
- March 1979
- Article
Developing Country Investors in Indonesia
By: Louis T Wells Jr and V'Ella Warren
Wells, Louis T., Jr, and V'Ella Warren. "Developing Country Investors in Indonesia." Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies 15, no. 1 (March 1979).
- 31 Oct 2013
- News
Home Bias Hurts Institutional Investors
- September 2006
- Case
IR at BP: Investor Relations and Information Reconnaissance
By: Gregory S. Miller, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Anders Sjoman
BP's IR director has begun a program to use information regarding external views of BP and the industry as part of the firm's planning and operational activities. This information is generated as a portion of their award winning investor relations program, and had... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Use and Leverage; Operations; Information Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Planning
Miller, Gregory S., Daniela Beyersdorfer, and Anders Sjoman. "IR at BP: Investor Relations and Information Reconnaissance." Harvard Business School Case 107-026, September 2006.
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor
Cedric Bobo (MBA 2004) was bitten by the business bug at the age of eight, when he visited his mother, who was a secretary at FedEx’s Memphis office. “I was drawn to the creative, all-hands-on-deck energy of the place,” he says. “In 1983, FedEx was reinventing domestic... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 2005
- Working Paper
Investor Sentiment and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns
By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
We examine how investor sentiment affects the cross-section of stock returns. Theory predicts that a broad wave of sentiment will disproportionately affect stocks whose valuations are highly subjective and are difficult to arbitrage. We test this prediction by studying... View Details
Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "Investor Sentiment and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns." NBER Working Paper Series, No. w10449, April 2005. (First draft in 2003.)