Investment Management / Hedge Fund - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Jul 2012
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A Hedge-Fund Manager With a Low Profile

Keywords: Hedge funds; value investing; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

09 Jan 2023
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Alumna Leads Biggest Ever Debut for a Woman-led Hedge Fund

Photo via Surgo Foundation Photo via Surgo Foundation Mala Gaonkar (MBA 1996) kicked off the new year with the debut of her hedge fund SurgoCap Partners, whose $1.8 billion under View Details

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

27 Jan 2019
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Harvard study questions benefits of fund manager diversity

24 Mar 2013
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A fresh take needed for risky funds

01 Oct 1998
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A Zest to Invest

pension fund administration group he would get to know many different kinds of investment outfits. In 1975, he joined one of these companies, New YorkÐbased Century Capital Associates, where he remained for... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.

01 Mar 2024
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3-Minute Briefing: Ilana D. Weinstein (MBA 1995)

average hedge fund lives three years and only a small percent of funds control the industry’s assets under management. The differentiator is people. So many people get into... View Details

Keywords: Edited by Julia Hanna; Photo by Chris Sorensen; search firm; entrepreneurship; hedge funds

01 Feb 1997
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Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar

Merton noted that "risk management will become an essential internal process for the lending institution if it expects to remain viable and competitive." By demonstrating mathematically how to determine and View Details

Keywords: Elizabeth McNair

01 Dec 2023
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Wide Horizon

There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson

05 Sep 2014
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Keeping Education in Check

David Berman (MBA 1991) is a successful hedge fund manager and a regular commentator on CNBC and Bloomberg TV, who has been deemed “the king of the retail jungle” by Fortune.... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Jan 2013
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André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973

global hedge fund initially focused on managing his own money. Over the last 15 years, Jakurski and his team have grown the now 80-person firm into one of Brazil's top five... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jun 1999
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Allison Hughes

summer, Hughes will join Lone Pine Capital, a billion-dollar hedge fund based in Greenwich, Connecticut, as a managing director. "I think my penchant for numbers and my love of... View Details

Keywords: Charlie Hogg

09 Jun 2015
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Yat-Pang (MBA 2000) and Helina Au

10th Reunion, and Howard Stevenson responded.” Stevenson, the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, introduced Au to principals of a major hedge fund who not only advised him but also... View Details

01 Jan 2011
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Seth Klarman, MBA 1982

situations," says Klarman. Also at HBS, Klarman met Professor William Poorvu, who recruited him to manage a pool of capital in the newly formed Baupost Group. While the job initially didn't pay particularly well, it gave him a platform on... View Details

01 Jun 2008
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You Only Thought You Were Republican

benefits of these cuts would go “to people at the bottom end of the economic ladder,” he assured voters. And yet, of course, CEOs — let alone hedge fund managers — now... View Details

Keywords: Andrew Tobias; national debt; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control

market was far from welcoming. His dream would, once again, have to be deferred. Instead, Platzer applied his quantitative background at a hedge fund and in other investment... View Details

11 Mar 2008
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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 of higher taxes for... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

20 Jan 2023
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Free Spirits

beers. Shufelt, a former hedge fund trader, had decided that all the boozy weeknight work dinners were incompatible with his life and fitness goals. He quit drinking and found sobriety to be a brilliant... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Dec 2010
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Additional alumni books for your consideration.

initiative, whether a simple project or a grand gamble. Money Mavericks: Confessions of a Hedge Fund Manager by Lars Kroijer (MBA ’98) (FT Prentice Hall) Kroijer charts the... View Details