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- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Susan Wilner Golden (PMD 59, 1990) had a very frustrating experience caring for her aging mother. With her background as a graduate of the HBS Program for Management...
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- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
levels of players, right? So when you think about the investors, there's foundations that have a different organizational structure and different culture and a different way of thinking. There is corporate investors who think differently. There is the state and local...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
Three important events happened at the end of the 1970s. 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...
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
promising to separate purpose and strategy from the question of financing. There are multiple sources of funds, from traditional to innovative. Pools of capital exist, including pension funds (aligned with a longer time horizon) and...
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- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
vice-chairman of the Blackstone Group, is the protagonist. At the time of the case, BAAM was considering two potential directions for future growth: 1) providing hedge fund products for the defined-contribution pension space and 2)...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
case:http://hbr.org/search/812177-PDF-ENG Altoona State Investment Board: July 2012 Lerner, Josh, and Nathaniel BurbankHarvard Business School Case 813-100 Considers the decision faced by state pension fund manager Rod Calhoun as he...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
in defined-contribution pension plans, such as stable value funds, balanced funds, and life-cycle (or target date) funds. We find that life-cycle funds designed to match the risk tolerance and investment horizon of investors have small...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
The trillion-dollar size of the union pension funds gave the Office a platform from which to work. The departure of Home Depot's CEO had been a significant step by Home Depot and the company had made other concessions as well. The AFL-CIO...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
Most books about the nation's financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. A financial industry veteran and chairman of MFS Investment Management, a Boston firm that oversees more than $170...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2017
HMC’s Board of Directors. Fiscal 2017 was a more favorable year for endowment and pension investment returns than fiscal 2016, which was the worst since the 2008‑09 financial crisis. The Harvard endowment generated an ß8.1 percent...
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- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
sectors. And then I think—perhaps a story that is still emerging—are asset allocators, sovereign funds, pension funds that are steadily embracing what are called, you know, ESG principles (environmental, social, governance criteria) and...
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- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
campaign urging shareholders to vote against the merger. However, the National Pension Service (NPS)—a major shareholder of Samsung C&T—votes in favor of the deal. The case sheds lights on the political ties between the government and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
ahead with new hires, even as pension and health care costs continued to rise. Cognetti says the teachers facing furloughs in Scranton have nothing to do with the financial mismanagement of previous years, which is what makes the layoffs...
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Print View - Course Catalog
offices, endowments, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds). They examine portfolio construction and risk management, identification of investment talent and skill, investment vehicles, and costs (types of fees, taxes, etc.). This...
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