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Innovating into Active ETFs: Factor Funds Capital Management LLC
Froot, Kenneth A.; Cohen, Lauren H.; Waggoner, ScottCase HBS-211031-EFinanceKishore Karunakaran, President and COO of FFCM, faces a variety of challenges in launching an innovative investment management business in the rapidly evolving ETF space.Starting at €8.20
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Quadriserv and the Short Selling Market
Cohen, Lauren H.; Malloy, Christopher J.Case HBS-212021-EFinanceTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Ten years into Quadriserv's life, Greg DePetris and his company were at a crossroads. Perhaps more so than any of Greg's previous ventures, Quadriserv represented a move into an established marketplace with strong and entrenched incumbents. Greg had a tested record of startups in the trading and financial sectors, but the difference in this case was that Quadriserv would be ...Starting at €8.20
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Pershing Square 2.0
Greenwood, Robin; Hanson, Samuel G.; Biery, DavidCase HBS-216003-EFinanceIn June 2015 William A. Ackman, the CEO and Founder of New York Hedge Fund Pershing Square Capital, reflects on the success of the fund he has spent over a decade building. Since its inception in 2004, Pershing Square's assets under management had grown from $500 million to well over $18 billion. Ackman is now considering a sizable new portfolio position and must decide how he should raise capital to undertake this new investment. This choice is ...Starting at €8.20
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Grantham, Mayo, and Van Otterloo, 2012: Estimating the Equity Risk Premium
Hanson, Samuel G.; Stafford, Erik; Viceira, Luis M.Case HBS-213051-EFinanceStarting at €8.20
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Seeking Alpha in the Afterlife: CMG Life Services and the Life Settlement Industry
Cohen, Lauren H.Case HBS-214011-EFinanceThe work of CMG Life Services provides a window into the life settlement industry, showing the difficulties that one young company faces in trying to solve a market failure. This case uses CMG's strategic dilemma to both illuminate the mechanics of a small, inefficient market and show how the success or failure of a market can sometimes depend on more than intrinsic value. The case lays out disagreement about the future of the industry, and even ...Starting at €8.20
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Longbow Capital Partners
Baker, Malcolm P.; Hanson, Samuel G.; Weber, JamesCase HBS-215026-EFinanceLongbow Capital Partners is a value-oriented long/short hedge fund focused on stocks in the energy sector. In January 2011, Longbow invested in NiSource, a Fortune 500 company that owns a diverse portfolio of regulated energy businesses. In late 2014, Longbow was deciding whether or not to maintain its position in NiSource. To make this decision, students must perform a discounted dividend analysis to determine the fundamental value of NiSource's...Starting at €8.20
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Grantham, Mayo, and Van Otterloo, 2012: Estimating the Equity Risk Premium, Teaching Note
Hanson, Samuel G.Teaching Note HBS-215046-EFinanceTeaching note for case 213051.Starting at €0.00
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Shanda Family Office
Malloy, Christopher J.; Cohen, Lauren H.; Alamsyah, EssieCase HBS-218102-EFinanceTianqiao Chen, founder and CEO of Shanda Group, has set up his family office in the U.S. in 2016 after exiting from Shanda's Internet games business in China in 2014, again pioneering an unconventional approach to the management of a family office.Starting at €8.20
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The Financial Crisis: Hank Paulson in 2008
Sunderam, Adi; Greenwood, Robin; Hanson, Samuel G.; Scharfstein, David S.Case HBS-219037-EEconomicsOn the afternoon of Monday October 13, 2008, Hank Paulson Jr., the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, walked into the large conference room across the hall from his office in the Treasury Department. Joining him were Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Timothy Geithner, Chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporate Sheila Bair, and the Chief Executive Officers of nine of the lar...Starting at €8.20
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Dogs of the Dow - Teaching Note
Hanson, Samuel G.Teaching Note HBS-219066-EFinanceTeaching note to cases 215020 and 219051.Starting at €0.00