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- January 2006
- Teaching Note
Foreign Exchange Hedging Strategies at General Motors: Transactional and Translational Exposures (TN)
By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs
- August 2008
- Teaching Note
Pawson Foundation: August 2006 (TN)
By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Teaching Note for [806042]. View Details
- September 2000 (Revised April 2011)
- Background Note
Note on the Private Equity Fundraising
By: Josh Lerner, G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
Provides an overview of raising venture capital and private equity funds. View Details
Lerner, Josh, G. Felda Hardymon, and Ann Leamon. "Note on the Private Equity Fundraising." Harvard Business School Background Note 201-042, September 2000. (Revised April 2011.)
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
HBS alumnus Philip Rettger on partnering with the Harvard endowment
Philip Rettger (MBA 1985) has focused his career on renewable and sustainable energy. "While none of us knows what the future will offer for investment returns, I am pleased that the charitable remainder trust that I established several... View Details
- 2014
- Chapter
Who Uses the Roth 401(k), and How Do They Use It?
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
Using administrative data from twelve companies that added a Roth 401(k) option between 2006 and 2010, we describe the characteristics of Roth contributions. Approximately one year after the Roth is introduced, 9% of 401(k) participants have positive Roth balances.... View Details
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "Who Uses the Roth 401(k), and How Do They Use It?" Chap. 12 in Discoveries in the Economics of Aging, edited by David A. Wise. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
As Head of Fidelity, Abigail Johnson Is Just Getting Started
After 29 years with the family business, 55-year-old Abigail Johnson (MBA 1988) has been making a series of bold moves since assuming the role of chairman of Fidelity Investments in December 2016, according to a report in the Boston... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
these international actors to fund everything is just not realistic. However, according to Sifma research, more than $120 trillion (with a T) in private money from insurance companies, pension funds, endowments, sovereign funds, and... View Details
- August 2008
- Teaching Note
North Goes East (TN)
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Ben Creo
Teaching Note for [208136]. View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
hire enough people to develop ideas to invest all $4 billion. To match talent and fund size, we would have to enter more auctions.” Yudkoff believes that pursuing auction deals would result in a lower IRR,... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- News
Soak the Rich?
Venture capital, private equity, and hedge fund partners — a group heavily laden with HBS alumni — may have dodged a tax bullet late last year, but they can expect Congressional advocates of higher taxes for View Details
- August 2010 (Revised January 2012)
- Teaching Note
Breaking the Buck (TN)
By: Robert C. Pozen and Elizabeth Leonard
Teaching Note for 310135. View Details
- 12 Nov 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Catering to Investors Through Product Complexity
- Forthcoming
- Article
Passive Ownership and Price Informativeness
By: Marco Sammon
I show that passive ownership negatively affects the degree to which stock prices anticipate earnings announcements. Estimates across several research designs imply that the rise in passive ownership over the last 30 years has caused the amount of information... View Details
Keywords: Passive Ownership; ETFs; Market Efficiency; Price; Investment Funds; Stocks; Communication
Sammon, Marco. "Passive Ownership and Price Informativeness." Management Science (forthcoming). (Pre-published online September 17, 2024.)
- October 1994 (Revised November 1994)
- Case
Hedging with FCOJ Futures
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Phil Herndon and Katherine L. Morris
Goldberg, Ray A., Phil Herndon, and Katherine L. Morris. "Hedging with FCOJ Futures." Harvard Business School Case 595-030, October 1994. (Revised November 1994.)
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
strategy. PE funds can offer digital strategies, investment, and talent to their portfolio companies that the individual companies cannot access by themselves.” Why invest in digital technology? The... View Details
- 29 Jan 2010
- News
Back to Glass-Steagall?
President Obama shocked Wall Street recently with his proposal to cut down to size too-big-to-fail banks by imposing new rules to separate commercial and investment activities. Specifically, Obama would prohibit banks that take customers... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
investing soared from under $10 billion in the mid-1990s to over $100 billion in 2000, before plunging back to earth after the tech bubble burst. Since then, annual venture investing has hovered in the range... View Details
- Profile
Anddria Clack
Why was earning your MBA at Harvard Business School important to you? I have been a student and practitioner of business for several years. I started requesting to attend college-level business camps and internships while I was a still a high school sophomore in... View Details
- April 2004
- Teaching Note
IBET Pension Fund, The (TN)
By: Arthur I Segel
Teaching Note to (9-800-133). View Details
- November 1984
- Background Note
Black-Scholes Option Pricing Program for the HP 12C Calculator
By: Andre F. Perold
Contains a program that can be used on the HP12C pocket calculator to compute the Black-Scholes option price and the associated hedge ratio. The program must be given the following parameters: the exercise price, the risk-free rate, the time to expiration, and the... View Details
Perold, Andre F. "Black-Scholes Option Pricing Program for the HP 12C Calculator." Harvard Business School Background Note 285-057, November 1984.