Investment Management / Hedge Fund - Publications - Faculty & Research

November 1999
Case

Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (C)

Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (LTCM) was in the business of engaging in trading strategies to exploit market pricing discrepancies. Because the firm employed strategies designed to make money over long horizons--from six months to two years or more--it adopted a... View Details

Keywords: Fluctuation; Capital; Financial Liquidity; Financing and Loans; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Management; Risk Management; Markets; Motivation and Incentives; Financial Services Industry

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14 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 14, 2009

York-based hedge fund must decide whether to invest in TravelCenters of America (TA), a recent spin-off from a U.S.-based real estate investment... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 14, 2010

on the loan used to finance the Momentive buyout and allow issuance of senior secured notes. The case is set up from the perspective of a hedge fund that holds a fraction of Momentive's syndicated loan. The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Career Coach

Juan Leung Li

former HBS professors and one of the co-founders of RackSpace. Work Experience: TMT Leveraged Finance Investment Banking (J.P. Morgan), Corporate Development and Strategy / Business Development (McGraw-Hill... View Details

Keywords: Angel Investing; Angel Investing; Angel Investing; Angel Investing; Angel Investing; Angel Investing; Angel Investing; Angel Investing; Angel Investing; Angel Investing; Angel Investing; Angel Investing; Angel Investing; Angel Investing

Profile

Raja Bobbili

HBS opened the world of investing to me. The school’s investing courses exposed me to the practical challenges faced by investors. I experienced some of these challenges first-hand while getting my feet wet... View Details

Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund

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

Keywords: Stock Options; Investment Funds; Price; Management; Software

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Alejandro Maldonado

also spent five years as a vice-president at H.I.G. Capital, a leading US private equity firm investing in diverse industries in the middle market space. In 2012, he founded Appian Education Ventures, a fund... View Details

Keywords: Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking

05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

NorrisHarvard Business School Case 113-035 In October 2011, noted hedge fund manager David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital delivered a presentation at an investors' conference... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Samuel G. Hanson

Samuel G. Hanson is the William L. White Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Economics department. He teaches Finance 1... View Details

Keywords: asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management

06 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

of investment because of whims: Investment managers or hedge fund managers can pull... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Jonathan Shepherd

Jonathan is CPD's Corporate Relations Director overseeing principal investing: VC/PE, investment management and real estate. Since 2007, he has coached thousands of students & alumni and forged... View Details

June 2025
Case

Vail Resorts: Responding to Activist Pressure (A)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer

On January 27, 2025, the head of a relatively small hedge fund named Late Apex Partners sent a highly critical letter to the board of directors of Vail Resorts, the world’s largest ski resort operator. In his letter, and the 88-slide presentation that accompanied his... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Finance; Capital Budgeting; Corporate Governance; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Leading Change; Valuation; Investment Activism; Climate Change; Management Succession; Financial Management; Risk Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Travel Industry; United States; Australia; Canada

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28 May 2013
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First Look: May 28

fund. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/813157-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 113-120 NovaStar Financial: A Short Seller's Battle The NovaStar case describes the challenges faced by short seller Marc Cohodes of hedge View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46882 Friends with Close Ties: Asset or Liability? Evidence from the Investment Decisions of Mutual Funds in China By: Gao, Xinzi, T.J. Wong,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 May 2021
Blog Post

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

Entrepreneurs rarely consider who will ultimately own their startups—and what that means for founders—when they court venture capitalists. New research suggests they should. A startup funded by VCs who tend to work with the same group of... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

basis of the task force's recommendation, Kearns decided to pursue a corporate venture capital program. He agreed to commit $30 million to invest in promising technologies developed at Xerox. As he commented at the time, "XTV is a... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

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14 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 14

increased during the 2007-2009 financial crisis. Diversification gave firms both financing and investment advantages. First, conglomerates became significantly more leveraged relative to comparable focused firms. Second, conglomerates'... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative

align? For example, when the VC hedges its bet by investing in multiple startups that may be competitors? A startup whose VC also invests in competitors may produce fewer new... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking

July 2010 (Revised March 2016)
Case

MacroMarkets LLC

By: Robin Greenwood and Luis M. Viceira

MacroMarkets co-founder and CEO Samuel Masucci III is meeting with a strategic partner for his firm. Co-founded with Yale University Professor Robert Shiller, MacroMarkets' main innovation is the "MacroShare," which allows investors to take long or short, levered or... View Details