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- 17 Jul 2015
- News
Investors Follow Their Conscience
- 2008
- Working Paper
Inexperienced Investors and Bubbles
By: Robin Greenwood and Stefan Nagel
We use mutual fund manager data from the technology bubble to examine the hypothesis that inexperienced investors play a role in the formation of asset price bubbles. Using age as a proxy for managers' investment experience, we find that around the peak of the...
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Keywords:
Investment;
Stocks;
Information Technology;
Price Bubble;
Asset Management;
Experience and Expertise
Greenwood, Robin, and Stefan Nagel. "Inexperienced Investors and Bubbles." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 14111, June 2008.
- May 2002
- Case
Mellon Investor Services
By: Thomas J. DeLong
James Aramanda, head of Mellon Investor Services, must decide how to change the focus of his business. He works with consultants to create a change strategy to enhance a business that is already doing well. Will he be able to interest his professionals in changing the...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Change Management;
Innovation Leadership;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Management Teams;
Financial Services Industry;
Insurance Industry;
United States
DeLong, Thomas J. "Mellon Investor Services." Harvard Business School Case 402-036, May 2002.
- Fast Answer
Angel investors
How do I find angel investors that might be interested in my startup? Search for angel investors using: Preqin Search for Company & Deals. Click on Venture Capital. In "More...
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- 2017
- Report
The American Angel: The First In-Depth Report on the Demographics and Investing Activity of Individual American Angel Investors
By: Laura Huang, Andy Wu, Min Ju Lee, Jiayi Bao, Marianne Hudson and Elaine Bolle
Early-stage financing from angel investors is critical to the success of high-growth startups. Recent estimates suggest that annual US angel investment activity may total as much as $24 billion each year, contributing to the growth and success of more than 64,000...
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Keywords:
Angel Investors;
Geography;
Risk;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Demographics;
Geographic Location;
Decision Making;
Financial Services Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States
Huang, Laura, Andy Wu, Min Ju Lee, Jiayi Bao, Marianne Hudson, and Elaine Bolle. "The American Angel: The First In-Depth Report on the Demographics and Investing Activity of Individual American Angel Investors." Report, Overland Park, KS, November 2017.
- Article
Integrated Reporting and Investor Clientele
By: George Serafeim
In this paper, I examine the relation between Integrated Reporting (IR) and the composition of a firm's investor base. I hypothesize and find that firms that practice IR have a more long-term oriented investor base with more dedicated and fewer transient investors....
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Keywords:
Integrated Reporting;
Sustainability Reporting;
Long-term Investing;
Short-termism;
Accounting;
Integrated Corporate Reporting;
Environmental Sustainability;
Investment;
Corporate Governance
Serafeim, George. "Integrated Reporting and Investor Clientele." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 27, no. 2 (Spring 2015): 34–51.
- January 2019
- Supplement
Gemini Investors
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "Gemini Investors." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 219-715, January 2019.
- July 1997 (Revised August 1997)
- Case
numeric investors l.p.
By: Andre F. Perold and Brian J. Tierney
Numeric Investors manages equity portfolios with the use of a momentum model and a value model. The momentum model is based on earnings surprise and analysts' revisions of their earnings estimates. The firm offers long-short as well as long-only strategies, and its...
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Keywords:
Asset Management;
Cost;
Equity;
Financial Strategy;
Investment;
Investment Portfolio;
Management;
Product Development;
Performance Efficiency;
Business Strategy
Perold, Andre F., and Brian J. Tierney. "numeric investors l.p." Harvard Business School Case 298-012, July 1997. (Revised August 1997.)
- 2022
- Working Paper
How Do Investors Value ESG?
By: Malcolm Baker, Mark Egan and Suproteem K. Sarkar
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) objectives have risen to near the top of the agenda for corporate executives and boards, driven in large part by their perceptions of shareholder interest. We quantify the value that shareholders place on ESG using a revealed...
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Keywords:
Investment;
Investment Portfolio;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Environmental Sustainability;
Governance;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Baker, Malcolm, Mark Egan, and Suproteem K. Sarkar. "How Do Investors Value ESG?" NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30708, December 2022. (Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-028, November 2022.)
- 06 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors
of individual investors and 30 percent of institutional investors appear to be more inertial than logical. They take the default option, passively accepting the shares offered as consideration in stock...
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by Julia Hanna
- December 2022 (Revised December 2023)
- Module Note
LCA Module Overview: Investors
By: Nien-hê Hsieh
This Note provides an overview of cases, key concepts, and overall arc for the module on responsibilities to investors in Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA).
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Hsieh, Nien-hê. "LCA Module Overview: Investors." Harvard Business School Module Note 323-052, December 2022. (Revised December 2023.)
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
influence that activist investors such as Icahn are gaining on Wall Street.) Carl Icahn made news last month when he announced he had accumulated a large ownership stake in American International Group (AIG) and said he wanted the company...
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- June 1984
- Case
National Property Investors
By: Jay O. Light
Keywords:
Real Estate Industry
Light, Jay O. "National Property Investors." Harvard Business School Case 284-097, June 1984.
- 03 Jun 2019
- News
The Investor Revolution
- 13 Jun 2011
- News
Welcoming Foreign Investors
- 19 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles
joining a bubble. In the recent paper, "Inexperienced Investors and Bubbles," Harvard Business School's Robin Greenwood and Stanford's Stefan Nagel compared the returns of young and older mutual fund managers during and after...
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- 24 Feb 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Integrated Reporting and Investor Clientele
- March 2010
- Article
The Evolution of Corporate Ownership after IPO: The Impact of Investor Protection
By: C. Fritz Foley and Robin Greenwood
We use firm-level data from 34 countries covering the 1995-2006 period to analyze how the characteristics of public markets shape the process by which firms become widely held. Firms in all countries in the sample tend to have concentrated ownership at the time they go...
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Keywords:
Blockholding;
Float;
Shareholder Rights;
Investor Protection;
Ownership;
Financial Liquidity;
Business History;
Market Timing;
Going Public;
Business and Government Relations;
Business and Shareholder Relations
Foley, C. Fritz, and Robin Greenwood. "The Evolution of Corporate Ownership after IPO: The Impact of Investor Protection." Review of Financial Studies 23, no. 3 (March 2010). (Formerly NBER Working Paper No. 14557.)
- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
If you're in search of startup funding, it pays to be a good-looking guy. A series of three studies reveals that investors prefer pitches from male entrepreneurs over those from female entrepreneurs, even when the content of the pitches...
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- Web
Investor - Entrepreneurship
Student Journey Investor Required Curriculum Elective Curriculum View Video FALL Attend the Rock/CPD Career Panels to learn about careers in VC. Learn about the role of a VC/Investor and recruiting approach. Meet with: Rock Venture...
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