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- June 2014
- Article
Frictions in Shadow Banking: Evidence from the Lending Behavior of Money Market Funds
By: Sergey Chernenko and Adi Sunderam
We document the consequences of money market fund risk taking during the European sovereign debt crisis. Using a novel data set of security-level holdings of prime money market funds, we show that funds with large exposures to risky Eurozone banks suffered significant...
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Keywords:
Money Market Mutual Funds;
European Sovereign Debt Crisis;
Runs;
Contagion;
Risk Taking;
Investment Funds;
Financial Crisis;
Europe
Chernenko, Sergey, and Adi Sunderam. "Frictions in Shadow Banking: Evidence from the Lending Behavior of Money Market Funds." Review of Financial Studies 27, no. 6 (June 2014): 1717–1750.
- 2011
- Book
Getting to Giving: Fundraising the Entrepreneurial Way
By: Howard H. Stevenson and Shirley M. Spence
Getting to Giving is based on Stevenson's many years as a donor, fundraiser and entrepreneur. The book offers practical techniques and real life stories, and brings passion and humor to the art and science of asking for money. Topics included in the book...
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Keywords:
Fund Raising;
Fundraising;
Non-profit Management;
Strategy;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
Stevenson, Howard H., and Shirley M. Spence. Getting to Giving: Fundraising the Entrepreneurial Way. Belmont, MA: Timberline LLC, 2011.
- 03 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund
This year, HBS piloted its first student-run Impact Investing Fund, focused on investing in BIPOC-led and owned small businesses in the Massachusetts area. Since launching, the fund has raised $200k,...
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- 24 May 2012
- News
It Takes a Village to Raise an Entrepreneur
- 06 Aug 2014
- News
Why Raising Venture Capital is Wrong for Your Company
- October 2012
- Case
Winfield Refuse Management, Inc.: Raising Debt vs. Equity
By: W. Carl Kester and Sunru Yong
A small, publicly traded company specializing in non-hazardous waste management considers a major acquisition in the Midwestern U.S. The acquisition can provide entry into the region, help the firm compete in a competitive industry, and improve its cost position. The...
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Keywords:
United States;
Acquisitions;
Capital Structure;
Equity Capital;
Debt Management;
Expansion;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Financial Analysis;
Administrative/Support/Waste Management/Remediation Services;
Equity;
Borrowing and Debt;
Service Industry
Kester, W. Carl, and Sunru Yong. "Winfield Refuse Management, Inc.: Raising Debt vs. Equity." Harvard Business School Brief Case 913-530, October 2012.
- October 2020 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Francisco Partners Private Credit Opportunity Fund
By: Luis M. Viceira, John D. Dionne, Soracha Prathanrasnikorn and Ari Sunshine
In April 2020, Scott Einsenberg, the Head of Credit at the private equity firm Francisco Partners, is deciding whether to go ahead with extending a private lending agreement to Eventbrite, Inc. (NYSE: EB), a leading global event management and online ticketing...
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Viceira, Luis M., John D. Dionne, Soracha Prathanrasnikorn, and Ari Sunshine. "Francisco Partners Private Credit Opportunity Fund." Harvard Business School Case 221-002, October 2020. (Revised June 2021.)
- 22 Feb 2017
- News
Funding Solar’s Future
War, the pair met at HBS and launched Double Time in 2013. The piece details the firm’s rapid growth: In just over three years, the firm has raised seven funds, totaling $80 million, from investors including Prudential Financial, Burt’s...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The HBS Fund
develop and grow. Putting An HBS Education Within Reach Diamond Richardson (MBA 2019) gets her work ethic from her mother, who earned a college degree while raising two young children. “She taught me that you can do anything if you really...
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- 22 Apr 2012
- News
US hedge funds rules relaxed by accident
- May 2022 (Revised April 2023)
- Case
The Freedom Fund (A): Ending Modern Slavery
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Courtney Han
The Freedom Fund founded in 2013 to end modern slavery had raised more than half its intended target (by 2025) of $200 million. In 2021, impressed by its decentralized-partnering style of operations, philanthropist MacKenzie Scott awarded the Fund a gift of $35 million...
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Keywords:
Social Issues;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Spending;
Decisions;
India;
Thailand;
Ethiopia
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Courtney Han. "The Freedom Fund (A): Ending Modern Slavery." Harvard Business School Case 522-099, May 2022. (Revised April 2023.)
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
extraordinary 44-year career with IBM, ultimately serving as program director. As a volunteer at HBS, he served on the Alumni Board, raised over $25 million as Class of 1980 Fund Chair, and helped set a...
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- 13 Jun 2013
- News
Celtics CEO starts investment fund
- 08 Jun 2021
- News
Harvard MBAs Pilot First Student-Run Impact Investing Fund
- 30 Sep 2020
- News
How Nonprofit Foundations Can Sustainably Fund Disease Research
- January 2020
- Case
Blackstone at 35: Performance, Innovation, and the Next Generation
By: Josh Lerner
Keywords:
Finance;
Private Equity;
Investing;
Succession Planning;
Leadership;
Fund Management;
Fund Raising
Lerner, Josh. "Blackstone at 35: Performance, Innovation, and the Next Generation." Harvard Business School Case 220-051, January 2020.
- 06 Jul 2011
- News
Lessons From a $1 Billion Fund Raiser
- 18 Aug 2015
- News
New HBS Fund Chairs
Ashley Garrett and Alan K. “AJ” Jones’s term as HBS Fund Chairs began on July 1, 2015. The couple, who are both members of the MBA Class of 1987, are longtime Harvard supporters. They will serve as the School’s chief fundraising...
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- July 2008 (Revised October 2008)
- Case
Fidelity Investments' Charitable Gift Fund (A)
By: Robert C. Pozen
Deborah Pege, an attorney at Fidelity Investments, needs to decide whether Fidelity should attempt to patent business processes involved with its new charitable gift fund. The case explores the conditions that must be satisfied in order to receive a patent and raises...
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Pozen, Robert C. "Fidelity Investments' Charitable Gift Fund (A)." Harvard Business School Case 309-002, July 2008. (Revised October 2008.)
- Web
HBS Fund Council - Alumni
raising alumni understanding of and giving to the HBS Fund. This advisory group of alumni volunteers focuses on the following priorities: HBS Fund Investors Society membership, reunion giving, recent...
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