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  • 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
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  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

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
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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
  • First Look

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
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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
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    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
    • 28 May 2013
    • First Look

    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
    • First Look

    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
    • 14 Dec 2010
    • First Look

    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
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    3% Entertainment / Media 3% Health Care 6% Investment Banking 5% Investment Management / View Details
    • 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
    • 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
    Keywords: Macroeconomics; Financial Instruments; Financial Markets; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Innovation and Invention; Risk Management; Product Positioning; Demand and Consumers; Financial Services Industry
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    • 18 May 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: May 18

    Roasters, which has dropped in value by more than 40% in recent months. Tremblant is a hedge fund that specializes in forecasting consumer behavioral change and capitalizes on the disconnect between stock... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 25 Apr 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market

    managers who trade in foreign debt as well as for emerging market countries. "The cost of funds will go up," naysayers may cry. "We won't get any money; no one will View Details
    Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
    • 29 Apr 2015
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks

    think it's the Wild West—if they come and shoot enough bad guys they'll get to the top," says Cohen. "But your ability to make other people's ideas better is a big component of your success at a firm." To stress this point, a real-life View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services