Fund Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Dec 2022
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention

don’t have enough capital to invest in the best deals. Why don’t we have the ability to get the same returns as infrastructure limited partnerships or banks or private equity firms?” Here’s the thesis: Nisha has found only two managed... View Details

21 Dec 2016
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CPP Investment Board

at approximately $300 billion (CDN), CPPIB is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan to help ensure its long-term sustainability. CPPIB... View Details

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

(MBA 1976)—to raise an additional $6 million. APRIL 21 Martin Dober (MBA 1998), managing director of Invest Detroit Ventures, recently teamed up with investors and donors to launch the Tech Startup Stabilization Fund, a $3 million View Details

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Elizabeth Washburn Archives | Social Enterprise

Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details

01 Mar 2017
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In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)

appointment as director general of Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission. MORE The Amazing Life of One of America’s Earliest Black, Female Entrepreneurs MORE The Amazing Life of One of America’s Earliest Black, Female Entrepreneurs Today, Oteh and her World Bank... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

Portrait Project

Randolph Rodrigues

I tread along in the footsteps of those who have accomplished so much with so little... My father was a shepherd for the first decade of his life until a teacher offered to enroll him in school. My mother grew up with her grandmother who just View Details

25 Aug 2016
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Announcing the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative

File photo by Jon Chase - Harvard Staff Photographer File photo by Jon Chase - Harvard Staff Photographer Bloomberg Philanthropies and Harvard University have announced the launch of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative. View Details

Keywords: Government

Career Coach

Tricia Peralta

Tricia has always been passionate about healthcare, social impact, and strategy, and has explored career paths including corporate strategy, management consulting, project management across private, public,... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

New Wave

growing pains. RITE is the first commercially licensed tidal power project in the United States, and reaching that milestone was an odyssey: Smith reckons that the technical challenges, funding crunches, and regulatory hurdles involved in... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

02 Aug 2016
First Look

August 2, 2016

Liquidity Transformation in Asset Management: Evidence from the Cash Holdings of Mutual Funds By: Chernenko, Sergey, and Aditya Vikram Sunderam Abstract—We study liquidity transformation in mutual funds... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 2000
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HBS Honored for Addressing Business and Societal Issues

1993, the HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise, supported by the John C. Whitehead (MBA 11/ '47) Fund for Not-for-Profit Management and other resources, has engaged in a wide range of activities. Among the... View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

Elevator Pitch: Spread the Wealth

Australian brand Maggie Beer. Building on a $5 million early fundraise, Upstreet has opened a funding round to build its share rewards program and begin expansion into the United States and Europe. View Details

Keywords: entrepreneurship; stock ownership; customer rewards; employee retention; financial literacy; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Jun 2012
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From Fellowship Recipient to ‘The Most Influential Business Thinker On Earth’

had I not received assistance from HBS.” Currently the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at HBS, Christensen earned his MBA in 1979 with the assistance of two fellowships: the Sidney J. Weinberg–Goldman, Sachs & Co. Fellowship and the Donald Kirk David... View Details

Keywords: awards

01 Dec 2015
News

Encouraging Women Leaders

Veronica Serra (MBA 1997) In describing the impact of the HBS experience on her life, Veronica Allende Serra (MBA 1997) says, “Ask me how it hasn’t had an impact.” Serra, the founder of Pacific Investments, a private equity firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, where she... View Details

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Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship

funding , Tom Eisenmann Go Big or Go Home Scaling a Startup: Pacing Issues , Tom Eisenmann Going from Good to Great Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership , Linda Hill... View Details

01 May 2015
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Celebrating and Supporting Leadership

(MBA 2013), James E. Lysinger (MBA 2013), Cory Rothschild (MBA 2014), Thiago Santelmo (MBA 2013), Jordan Strebeck (MBA 2014), and Maxeme Tuchman (MBA 2012). At each of the HBS Campaign regional events, Dean Nohria has spoken about the need to position the School for... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

01 Feb 2000
News

Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

fields of management control and health care. Her latest book, Market-Driven Health Care, won the 1998 Book of the Year Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives. Herzlinger opened the conference by reporting on the forces... View Details

14 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 14

of investing at home than those where external managers are involved. At the same time, SWFs with external managers tend to invest in lower P/E industries, which see an increase in the P/E ratios in the year... View Details