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- May 2018 (Revised June 2018)
- HBS Case Collection
Cowen Inc.: Leveraging Data
By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah Abbott and Annelena Lobb
Abstract
Cowen Inc.’s broker-dealer, Cowen and Company, LLC, boasted a number of analysts who had made prescient stock calls on the basis of creative data analysis. Now Cowen Inc. had opened a new subsidiary, Kyber, which would attempt to monetize new data science products. Robert Fagin, head of research, had to consider what Kyber’s risks were, even as the unit uncovered the possibility for new revenue streams. How could Cowen continue to exploit its competitive advantage with data?
Keywords
Data Science; Equity Research; Research Analysts; Investment; Analytics and Data Science; Equity; Research; Analysis; Competitive Strategy
Citation
Groysberg, Boris, Sarah Abbott, and Annelena Lobb. "Cowen Inc.: Leveraging Data." Harvard Business School Case 418-035, May 2018. (Revised June 2018.)