Money Market Funds - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 1997
News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

of the most important things Bill taught is that the source of your funding is often more important than the terms and conditions of the agreement," says James A. Goldstein (MBA '94), founder and sales and View Details

29 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 29

cater to these preferences and beliefs by engineering securities perceived to be safe but exposed to neglected risks. Because the risks are neglected, security issuance is excessive. As investors eventually recognize these risks, they fly back to the safety of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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, her firm became highly profitable. In 2004, however, one of her... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2011
News

Happening Fast

the Street’s 24/7 demands. “There is no substitute for hard work,” Erdoes said. “There is a little luck on the way, but there is no substitute for really superhard work, first in, last out.” Erdoes’s investment group has been very successful, and View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

2010
Chapter

The Impact of Employer Matching on Savings Plan Participation under Automatic Enrollment

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian

Existing research has documented the large impact that automatic enrollment has on savings plan participation. All the companies examined in these studies, however, have combined automatic enrollment with an employer match. This raises a question about how effective... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Consumer Behavior; Personal Finance; Investment Funds; Microeconomics; Compensation and Benefits

30 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

raises her over-subscribed fund and begins the search process. The following useful information is included for students who are considering starting a search fund: offering memoranda, fundraising techniques, staffing, screening... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?

In a first-ever look at the internal economics driving private equity partnerships, Harvard Business School researchers have found that many of these funds can be torn apart by greed among founding partners who take home a much bigger... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

17 Jul 2023
Blog Post

From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?

innovations, companies and markets necessary to save the planet. To memorialize their content, organizers from the HBS Business and Environment Initiative asked panelists to share (in writing) the main messages they hoped attendees would... View Details

20 Apr 2016
News

Steps to Success

money and take loans out of a common fund and pay it back with interest. For these women who have nothing, this was the first time it was implemented successfully,” she says. Ruhr returned to her native... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

16 Dec 2020
News

A Creator in the Era of Disruption

competition so that I could then win some money that I could use to fund the company. Morrell: Aldi and his team won that competition and $25,000 dollars for the company. It was also their introduction to... View Details

25 May 2016
News

A Focus on Sustainability

improving the sustainability of our planet, Ferenbach believes that the best way to make progress in this arena is to work with—not against—business and government. “The vast majority of the economy is private. It is markets that... View Details

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

I see the Open Source Application Foundation (OSAF) as an example of the next wave. Mitch Kapor, a successful venture capitalist who founded Lotus Software, invested $5 million of his own money into building a personal-information... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

08 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 8

Korea's earliest and largest mutual fund company, plans to expand internationally. After first offering emerging market funds to its Korean customers, the company then began... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2003
News

HBS Releases First-Ever Financial Report

represents about 7.5 percent of Harvard’s overall endowment. Over 93 percent of the HBS endowment is restricted for purposes specified by donors. The University distributes approximately 4 to 5 percent of the market value of the endowment... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch

video we really want to see. But assuming a captive audience on these video sites may not make online marketers more effective at reaching consumers. Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Thales S. Teixeira notes that it's just as... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

01 Oct 2000
News

The Entrepreneurial Venture

companies challenged the status quo, and the old, "safe" jobs turned out to be not very safe at all, as large companies entered extended periods of malaise and restructuring. Ed O'Lear: It's important to note why money managers decided to... View Details

Fast Answer

Betas

How do I find current betas for companies? Historical? Industry Beta? Current BETA: Bloomberg Current and historical financial information on individual equities, stock market indices, fixed-income securities, currencies, commodities, and... View Details

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul

capital-intensive business, and it's important to consider how one's money is obtained. "There are many different funding options, from syndicates to institutions, and there are benefits and drawbacks... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women

Zipcar, which uses the Internet to "make access to cars as easy as getting money from an ATM" has approximately 1,500 member-users and expects to open in Manhattan in early 2002. The network for women isn't as developed yet, but... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance

easier to achieve in a for-profit organization than in a comparable nonprofit," he writes in a recent working paper, "Philanthropic Social Capital Markets and Performance-Driven Philanthropy," and the most important reason is capital. "It... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

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