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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
- 15 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk
best equipped to handle such a complex task. Especially when compared with bank regulators and boards, bodies overseeing insurance companies and pension funds have had limited exposure to the structured... View Details
- July 1997
- Teaching Note
Jupiter Management Company, Teaching Note
By: W. Carl Kester
Teaching Note for (9-292-107). 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
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Taking Flight
Fund, he invested millions of dollars for pension fund clients. In the early 1990s, Thayer taught himself a database program that he thought could be useful for shareholder... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
companies that would eventually become big successes in the 1960s, including ACNielsen, Dun & Bradstreet, and Xerox. During those years, as DLJ began to diversify by managing corporate pension funds in its... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
service. They each provided alternative visions of the world. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317100-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-022 Altoona State Investment Board & Bain Capital View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
going to the annual dinner." In addition, says Grossman, there's growing pressure from the government and other funders for "outcome-based" funding -- an approach based on nonprofits achieving certain goals. "It comes down to people... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
Alliance, a public-private partnership based at the United Nations. Today, 100 million unbanked adults worldwide receive government transfers, wages, or pensions in cash, a payment method that is highly vulnerable to fraud and theft.... View Details
- June 2025
- 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 71, no. 6 (June 2025): 4582–4598.
- 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
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Elevator Pitch: Spread the Wealth
a dual purpose. First, to help companies build loyalty with employees and customers and to introduce individuals to share ownership. In addition to receiving share rewards, Upstreet users can buy shares on the Australian and New York stock exchanges at a competitive... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
focus from advising to investing in start-ups just as the UK and Europe embarked on major economic reforms. In addition, the U.S. venture capital industry got a huge boost when a 1978 clarification in the Employee Retirement Income... View Details
- Profile
Sherrese Clarke Suarez
Wall Street banker Sherrese Clarke Suarez (MBA 2004) works with the Council for Urban Professionals to help minority professionals advance in their careers to the C-suite and corporate boards. View Details
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
a company remains in the index they will keep holding the stock. Second, large pension funds such as Norges Bank Investment Management, AP, and the New York State Common... View Details