Investment Conference 2018 | Harvard Business School | 24 March 2018 | Harvard Business School, Boston, MA 02163, USA

Welcome to the 2018 Investment Conference hosted by the Investment Club at Harvard Business School. This year’s speakers will discuss stock pitches, compelling investment themes, lessons learned, along with topics brought up by the audience during Q&A.

The Investment Club at the Harvard Business School is a ~400-member student organization focused on the investment management industry. Apart from organizing the annual HBS Investment Conference in the spring, one of the largest student-run investment conferences in the world, we host a range of distinguished speakers throughout the year. Speakers in past years have included Steve Mandel, Ray Dalio, Bill Ackman and Julian Robertson. The club also organizes student-coordinated treks to visit investment managers in New York, San Francisco, London and Hong Kong. For over a decade, we have arranged an annual trek to see Warren Buffett in Omaha. The Investment Club also invests and manages the Alpha Fund, a fund of the Harvard endowment that is invested in both long and short equity opportunities recommended by our membership.

2018 Speakers

Seth Klarman
Chief Executive Officer, The Baupost Group

Li Lu
Founder & Chairman, Himalaya Capital

Clifton Robbins
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Blue Harbour Group

Stephen Blyth
Professor of the Practice of Statistics, Harvard University

Joel Tillinghast
Portfolio Manager, Fidelity Management & Research Company

Barbara Ann Bernard
Founder & CIO, Wincrest Capital

Peter Brown
CEO, Renaissance Technologies

Sean Cameron, CFA
Investment Officer & Analyst, MFS Investment Management, Fixed Income Strategic Solutions Group

Marc Cohodes
Head Bull Fighter, Alder Lane Farm

Katherine Collins, CFA, MTS
Head of Sustainable Investing, Putnam Investments

Django Davidson
Founding Partner, Hosking Partners

Miguel Fidalgo
Founder, Triarii Capital Management

Carol Gallagher
Partner, New Enterprise Associates

Vikram Gandhi
Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School

Phil Hilal
Founder & Portfolio Manager, Clearfield Capital Management

Jerry Hsieh
Research Analyst, Westwood Global Investments, LLC

Mahesh Jayakumar
Vice President & Senior ESG Investment Strategist, State Street Global Advisors

Daniel Krizek
Portfolio Manager, Surveyor Capital

Andrew Left
Founder, Citron Research

Paul Martino
General Partner, Bullpen Capital

Jason Mudrick
President & Chief Investment Officer, Mudrick Capital Management

Arvind Navaratnam
Portfolio Manager, Fidelity Management & Research Company

Gerald Pambo-Awich
Director, Strategic Initiatives & Impact Investments, Prudential Financial

Shanta Puchtler, CFA
Chief Executive Officer & President, Man Numeric

Nitin Saigal
Founding Partner & Chief Investment Officer, Kora Management

Suraj Srinivasan
Philip J. Stomberg Professor, Harvard Business School

Adi Sunderam
Marvin Bower Associate Professor, Harvard Business School

Salim Syed
Managing Director & Head of Biotechnology Research, Mizuho

Luis Viceira
George E. Bates Professor, Harvard Business School

Stefan Vitorovic MS, MBA
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Vida Ventures

Grant Williams
Portfolio & Strategy Advisor, Vulpes Investment Management

Jacqueline Wilton-D’Elfant
Investor Relations Manager, Transtrend

Sponsors

PLATINUM:
• The Boupost Group
• D E shaw & co

GOLD:
• Fidelity

SILVER:
• Hosking Partners
• KORA