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- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
Gerald Marwell and Ruth Ames. In their 1979 study, groups of high school students were given funds to invest. Participants could opt to invest individually, at a relatively low rate View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- Profile
Robert Leke
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? An MBA at HBS was important in providing the opportunity for me to step back, assess my current capabilities, and develop the additional skills I lacked to become a successful manager in the future. The diversity View Details
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
Summing Up: Which Schools Will Produce the Next Generation of Transformative Leaders? This month’s column featured two leaders who were able to build organizations that literally transformed the mutual fund... View Details
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
Case 518-064 A Note on the Snack Food Industry This note provides an overview of the snacking industry in 2017. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
to then cover their positions once asset prices start recovering. Predation leads to profits of about 25 basis points over ten days and increases the liquidation costs for the distressed fund by 40%. These... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
students, and achieve top-quality research. Publisher Link: http://www.amazon.com/Building-World-Class-Universities-Asia/dp/1453707778 The Fund Industry: How Your Money Is Managed Authors:Robert Pozen and Theresa Hamacher Publication:John... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
First, there were changes in ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) legislation that allowed pension funds to invest in private equity; second, the growth of the... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
Chesbrough XTV was given $30 million to manage. It was set up formally as a corporate division within Xerox, but Adams negotiated special terms that mimicked many aspects of independent venture capital firms. Eighty percent View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
reputational costs. Saving local newspapers isn’t Heese’s specialty, but he points to a recent trend of hedge funds buying up distressed local media outlets as having the... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- January 1995
- Case
Keller Fund's Option Investment Strategies, The
By: W. Carl Kester
A closed-end mutual fund's decision to study option trading provides an opportunity to study the profit profile and pricing of multiple option investment strategies (e.g., buy a call, buy a put, write a call, buy stock-write call, etc.). This case is designed to... View Details
Kester, W. Carl. "Keller Fund's Option Investment Strategies, The." Harvard Business School Case 295-096, January 1995.
- 26 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)
elements in life that drive you away from working on something you're passionate about. It can be peer pressure (e.g., 'you should do consulting or finance'); money (e.g., 'a hedge fund is the job with the... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
crisis? Did the International Monetary Fund (IMF) help or hinder recovery? Did democracy help or hinder recovery? Seen as an economic miracle, Korea succumbed to the wave of currency crises sweeping Asia in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
discuss the spread of mutual funds to Asia, Europe, and Latin America; compare them with other investment vehicles like hedge funds; and show how to sort mutual View Details
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
sustainability issues, institutional and socially responsible investment fund ownership, and coverage from analysts with less firm-specific experience and lower portfolio complexity. Moreover, we find intra-industry information transfers... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
its diverse geographies and business lines? Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/112097-PDF-ENG Man Group (A) Robert C. Pozen and Thomas M. ClayHarvard Business School Case 312-128 The Man Group was a huge and successful UK-based View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
Administration. “The person who can go out and find the diamond gets the highest return.” Once they do, students present their idea—a stock pitch—to an actual hedge fund manager who is invited to each class... View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
the effective allocation of work. Cases & Course MaterialsSotheby's & Christie's Inc. Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and C.J. WiseHarvard Business School Case 710-412 The fine art auction business has remained a duopoly over its 250... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
outside opportunities in the labor market. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52495 March 2017 Review of Industrial Organization Challenges for Empirical Research on RPM By:... View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
against governments and corporations and accepts funding only through individuals and foundation grants. Explores the detailed history and business models of both organizations. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
brand shouldn’t be about erecting barriers to keep consumers out; indeed, growth requires the welcoming of new faces,” concludes HBS marketing professor Anat Keinan in a July 2014 Harvard Business Review... View Details