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- 01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
redeemable shares, affordability, oversight by professional investors, asset diversification, and diminished risk. With these consumer-oriented advantages, with the flourishing postwar American economy, and with the industry's own... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Encouraging Women Leaders
and investment banking. She found her eclectic background to be an asset rather than a liability in the classroom, “because HBS looks for such diversity in its students.” Serra says that learning in this welcoming environment, “everything... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
States. The real lesson of this experience is that investing directly in corporate assets is a very different experience, and creates a distinct return profile, than investing as a portfolio investor. In the absence of a unique capability... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Global Leaders
and diverse business issues,” he says. Wahl, an investor based in Oslo, Norway, was cofounder and partner of the private equity firm IK Investment Partners Ltd. from 1989 to 2009. Presently he runs Stromstangen AS, a privately owned investment firm focusing on View Details
- 08 Jan 2019
- News
Raising Prospects for Female Funders
the tools to manage the risks of this asset class. There are already more than 200 women participating as investors in Europe. And this is not the only place where they exist. There is a Rising Tide Africa coming out, and one in the US.... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- News
Accounting for Real Change
independent auditors. The COVID pandemic has revealed a similar problem, Cohen writes. “This time, it is the measurement of companies’ social and environmental impacts that must be made transparent.” One-third of the world’s professionally managed View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
a mountain of cash — 40 to 50 percent of Baupost’s $14 billion–plus in assets — for several years, the firm’s recent investments have cut its cash stash in half. Distress selling, it seems, breeds the kind of bargains Klarman lives for.... View Details
- 24 Jan 2025
- News
The Network Effect
Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Dina Model and Karan Mathur (both MBA 2015) met through mutual friends during their first year at HBS, neither was envisioning a future business deal. “We didn’t realize that we had shared... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Faculty Books
democracy would fail and with them, society. Managing Network Resources: Alliances, Affiliations, and Other Relational Assets by Ranjay Gulati (Oxford University Press) These days firms are increasingly em-bedded in networks of alliances... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Navigating rough waters
James ("Jamie") Dimon's (MBA 1982) role on Wall Street has been much analyzed during his 30-year career. Since taking charge of JPMorgan Chase in 2005, the company has become one of the nation's largest banks, with assets of $2.4... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
P&G recently reported the strongest earnings in its long history, and its stock price has doubled since 2000. Key ingredients in the company's resurgence include innovation, micromarketing, and an emphasis on nurturing talent. Notes Lafley, "Our View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Extending a culture of equal treatment to all women
Traveling throughout the globe, J.P. Morgan Asset Management CEO Mary Callahan Erdoes (MBA 1993) is committed to making sure women are treated as equal partners. (Published December 2014) View Details
- 06 Jan 2015
- News
Helping a family business
HBS has given Ricardo Aguirre (MBA 2015) the ability to listen and learn from others, an asset he plans to take back to his family’s businesses in Venezuela. (Published January 2015) View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
Making smart investments in companies that solve critical social needs
Lisa Hall (MBA 1993), managing director of impact investing for Anthos Asset Management, talks about her work overseeing a financial portfolio of social enterprises that guarantee a financial return along with addressing critical social... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
ancient nation-state.” A number of HBS grads have contributed to the country’s success story, including Tal Keinan (MBA ’01), a cofounder of the nation’s first full-spectrum financial asset management firm, KCS Capital, and Tal Riesenfeld... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
Lee For Jonas Lee (MBA ’93) and his investment firm, Redbrick Partners, the purchase, refurbishment, rental, and maintenance of hundreds of low-cost, single-family urban homes represent a terrific, overlooked market opportunity. “It’s a $15 trillion View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
diagnose the problem and treat it. The rescue bill calls for the government to auction banks’ distressed mortgage assets to “try to restore the price discovery process so we can figure out what these things are actually worth.” Light... View Details
- 09 Dec 2020
- News
How to Fix America
(MBA 1992), CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, suggests that we address the issue of wealth inequality by creating “a way for those with no investment assets to participate in the success of capitalism.” His specific plan is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End
Are big banks using bankruptcy as a bullying tactic? A recent report by the American Bankruptcy Institute suggested that a longtime—and increasingly popular—mechanism in the US code that allows for expedited, less-democratic asset sales... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
Allan W.B. Gray, MBA 1965
focus on asset management and service would yield superior results. The approach worked so well that the company became the largest privately owned, independent asset management firm in southern Africa.... View Details