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Focus Financial Partners and the U.S. RIA Industry in 2014
Viceira, Luis M.; Chien, Emily A.Case HBS-214103-EFinanceIn the Spring of 2014, Rudy Adolf, CEO and founder of Focus Financial, and the two other co-founders of the firm are considering alternative growth strategies to solidify Focus Financial position as a leading aggregator of independent wealth management firms in the U.S. Focus has grown from $3.5B in client assets at its inception in 2006 to over $70B in and it has acquired more than 30 RIA (Registered Investment Advisor) firms, capitalizing on a ...Starting at €8.20
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Joe Smith's Closing Analysis (B) (Spanish Version)
Khurana, Rakesh; Applegate, Lynda M.Case HBS-813S03Knowledge and CommunicationComplementa el caso (A).Starting at €5.74
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Joe Smith's Closing Analysis (C) (Spanish Version)
Applegate, Lynda M.; Khurana, RakeshCase HBS-813S04Knowledge and CommunicationComplementa el caso (A).Starting at €5.74
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Joe Smith's Closing Analysis (A) (Spanish Version)
Applegate, Lynda M.; Khurana, RakeshCase HBS-808S07Knowledge and CommunicationDestacados dar y recibir retroalimentación en un salón de clases de MBA.Starting at €8.20
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Prudential Financial - General Motors Pension Risk Transfer: Back to the Future
Viceira, Luis M.; Chien, Emily A.Case HBS-213126-EFinanceIn November 2012, Prudential Financial and General Motors closed on a $25.1B pension risk transfer (PRT) transaction, the largest of its kind to date by an order of magnitude both in the U.S. market and globally. In exchange for an in-kind transfer of $25.1B in assets, Prudential Financial agreed to irrevocably guarantee the full payment of pension benefits to approximately 110,000 participants of General Motors Retirement Program for Salaried Em...Starting at €8.20
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Revisiting the Meaning of Leadership
Podolny, Joel M.; Khurana, Rakesh; Besharov, MaryaBook Chapter HBS-6123BC-ELeadership and People ManagementThe authors of this chapter contend that the study of leadership in organizational theory went awry when interest in leadership became too tightly coupled with organizational performance. Leading organizational theorists in the latter part of the twentieth century, such as Max Weber, Chester Barnard, and Philip Selznick, were not concerned with leadership because of its ability to explain financial performance. Instead, they were concerned with l...Starting at €8.20
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Growing Talent as if Your Business Depended on It (Spanish version)
Cohn, Jeffrey M.; Khurana, Rakesh; Reeves, LauraArticle HBS-R0510CLeadership and People ManagementThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Traditionally, corporate boards have left leadership planning and development very much up to their CEOs and human resources departments--primarily because they don't perceive that a lack of leadership development in their companies poses the same kind of threat th...Starting at €8.20
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Prudential Financial and Asset-Liability Management
Seasholes, Mark; Sunderam, Adi; Viceira, Luis M.; Chien, Emily A.Case HBS-216076-EFinanceHow should a retirement fund that must make fixed payments to retirees invest its portfolio? This case introduces students to a variety of concepts in fixed income investing, focusing how on the need to make fixed payments changes portfolio management strategy. Students consider the advantages and disadvantages of asset-liability matching as an investment strategy and learn how to implement such a strategy in practice.Starting at €8.20