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  • 08 May 2019
  • Blog Post

Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent

“At the end of the day, I think we are very good recruiters,” says Cheney. “Most recruiters have never been in a business role. My HBS education allows me to sit with any founder in any industry, from the most complex 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
  • 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
  • 30 Nov 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy
  • Web

Can Private Equity Reach Regular People? One Company’s Mission | Working Knowledge

base, says a case study by Victoria Ivashina . What will it take to scale? Private equity has come a long way since the classic book Barbarians at the Gate detailed the excesses of 1980s Wall Street—an earlier move-fast-and-break-things... View Details
  • 25 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

and college students to share the stories of marginalized communities across campuses. “While at HBS, I look forward to hosting film screenings and collaborating with my peers to ensure that the future of... View Details
  • 17 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

started her own hedge fund firm in 2001 after nearly 20 years as a star biotechnology analyst and hedge fund manager. After the start-up phase,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

unexpectedly in the midst of chaos brought by the resistance of its staff who feared losing their civil servant status after privatization. Also facing Mao was the forthcoming deregulation View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 21

society as a whole. Publisher's link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118646983.html April 2015 Management Science Private Equity and Industry Performance By: Bernstein, Shai, Josh Lerner, Morten Sorensen, and Per... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

Publication:Academy of Management Annals Abstract The concept of imprinting has attracted considerable interest in numerous fields-including organizational ecology, institutional theory, network analysis,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 24 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 24

Fisman, and Lauren WeberHarvard Business School Case 711-054 In June 2007, the offices of Russian hedge fund Hermitage Capital were raided by Moscow police; in the months that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
Keywords: Investment Funds; Stock Options; Profit; Price; Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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  • 05 Jul 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?

Source: Raw Pixel Stockbrokers are taking advantage of their privileged position to increase profits for favored investors and hedge funds, all at the expense of their other... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Private Equity under Investigation

collaborative practices constituted an anticompetitive conspiracy. The judge observed that activities the government depicted as nefarious were “nothing more nor less than a gradual, natural, and normal growth or evolution by which an... View Details
Keywords: Josh Lerner; syndication; antitrust enforcement; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 04 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 4

spending) are unleashed when givers are aware of their positive impact. In Study 1, an experiment using real charitable appeals, giving more money to charity led to higher levels of happiness only when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2006 (Revised August 2006)
  • Case

Putnam Investments: Rebuilding the Culture

By: Nitin Nohria and Charles Nichols
Charles "Ed" Haldeman Jr. is promoted CEO of Putnam Investments after the firm was badly damaged by a series of improper trading practices. He is charged with the task of managing the crisis, repairing the company culture, and putting the firm back into a pattern of... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Ethics; Investment Funds; Investment; Leading Change; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 12 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

most intense battles of the cola wars were fought over the $66 billion CSD industry in the United States, where the average American consumes 52 gallons of CSD per year. In a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 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