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John H. McArthur | About

on August 20, 2019 outside Boston, Massachusetts. His energy and leadership kept HBS at the forefront of business education and laid a foundation of intellectual growth and... View Details
  • 07 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

landscape for more than half a century, are too familiar to cause worry. But the rapid growth of these funds in recent years and their role in a few high-profile transactions... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 06 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB

Hedge funds are no different. Despite recent evidence showing hedge funds led by females or minorities performed better than their non-minority... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 10 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 10

FarriHarvard Business School Case 310-090 In late January 2009, Thomas Fekete, managing director at Barclays Wealth in London, redeemed the most illiquid positions in the so-called Wealth Absolute Return Fund (WAR), one View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 20, 2008

such as stable value funds, balanced funds, and life-cycle (or target date) funds. We find that life-cycle funds designed to match the risk tolerance and investment horizon of investors have small welfare... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • December 1998
  • Case

Retail Financial Services in 1998: First Union

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Takia Mahmood
Provides an overview of First Union's current strategy for retail financial services. Retail Financial Services in 1998 should be given to all students as background material. The class should then be split into groups, with each group receiving one of the following... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Industry Structures; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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  • 20 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

property technology for the Built World. The firm’s Climate Tech fund looks to invest in technologies built to help the real estate industry reduce its carbon footprint to zero and adapt in the face View Details
  • 13 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

pretty exciting to say why the mutual fund industry is terrible, why financial gurus don’t really know anything, and stuff like that, but it also requires a ton of time and... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail
  • December 1998
  • Case

Retail Financial Services in 1998: Travelers

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Takia Mahmood
Provides an overview of Travelers Group's current strategy for retail financial services. Retail Financial Services in 1998 should be given to all students as background material. The class should then be split into groups, with each group receiving one of the... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Industry Structures; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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  • December 1998
  • Case

Retail Financial Services in 1998: Merrill Lynch

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Takia Mahmood
Provides an overview of Merrill Lynch's current strategy for retail financial services. Retail Financial Services in 1998 should be given to all students as background material. The class should then be split into groups, with each group receiving one of the following... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Industry Structures; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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  • December 1998
  • Case

Retail Financial Services in 1998: Fidelity Investments

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Takia Mahmood
Provides an overview of Fidelity Investment's current strategy for retail financial services. Retail Financial Services in 1998 should be given to all students as background material. The class should then be split into groups, with each group receiving one of the... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Industry Structures; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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  • December 1998
  • Case

Retail Financial Services in 1998: Charles Schwab

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Takia Mahmood
Provides an overview of Charles Schwab's current strategy for retail financial services. Retail Financial Services in 1998 should be given to all students as background material. The class should then be split into groups, with each group receiving one of the following... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Industry Structures; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

High Fives

four investment funds with approximately $750 million of capital for private equity investments. Most important thing learned at HBS: “About my own limitations. I'm not a very analytical person, so I got a... 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 View Details
Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • Career Coach

Rohit Sahni

second focused on leveraged buyouts (LBO). During his time in private equity, Rohit traveled to Brazil, India, and multiple countries in Europe. After seven years in private equity, Rohit co-founded a long/short equity hedge View Details
  • Clubs

Investment Club

Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Investment Management / Hedge Fund
  • Web

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

now, and how will they use their power? Will we see bigger bets on likely blockbusters, more intense competition in areas such as streaming and esports, and more industry consolidation? Drawing on dozens of... View Details
  • 15 Aug 2007
  • Op-Ed

3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk

and, second, a growing threat of politically motivated changes to regulatory regimes. There has been much talk recently about the extent to which the proliferation of derivative products has allowed banks to... View Details
Keywords: by Mohamed El-Erian; Financial Services; Banking
  • 04 Oct 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

about hedge fund managers and private equity managers raking in billions while decimating companies and destabilizing markets more than we worry about whether the CEO of Ford... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 03 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

another EMR company offered eCW the chance to grow quickly in an industry that is estimated to take in more than $40 billion in overall revenues in 2007. But this acquisition would require outside financing View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace