Sara L. Fleiss

Sara Fleiss was the co-founder and co-portfolio manager of Emeth Partners, an emerging markets arbitrage hedge fund.  Prior to founding Emeth, Sara was the lead analyst on the Emerging Markets Equities portfolio at Harvard Management Company (HMC). At HMC, Sara built and developed a team that focused on risk arbitrage, volatility arbitrage, and relative value trading strategies. She started her career on the Citigroup Equity Derivatives desk.  

Sara holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School (2006) and an A.B. in Applied Math from Harvard College (2002) where she was the captain of the Harvard Golf Team.  Sara serves on the board of The Park School, and she chairs the investment committee for United Way of Mass Bay and Merrimack Valley.  She sits on the advisory board of Match Education.

Sara lives in Brookline with her husband and three children.

Cases and Teaching Materials

• McComb, Emily R., and Sara L. Fleiss. "The Economics of Growing the Cartwright Family." Harvard Business School Case 223-051, December 2022. View Details
• McComb, Emily R., and Sara Fleiss. "The Cartwrights’ Next Home: To Rent or To Buy?" Harvard Business School Case 223-050, November 2022. View Details
• Fleiss, Sara, and Emily R. McComb. "Choose Your Own Adventure: Your Financial Health (B): 5 Years Later, What Now?" Harvard Business School Exercise 223-044, December 2022. View Details
• Fleiss, Sara, and Emily R. McComb. "Choose Your Own Adventure: Your Financial Health (A): Congratulations, HBS Grad! Now, What?" Harvard Business School Exercise 223-043, November 2022. (Revised December 2022.) View Details
• Khanna, Tarun, Sara Fleiss, and James Barnett. "FIELD Immersion 2022: San Antonio, Texas." Harvard Business School Background Note 722-450, June 2022. View Details
• Fleiss, Sara, Robin Greenwood, Eren Kuzucu, and Denise Han. "Grace Capital." Harvard Business School Case 222-052, December 2021. View Details
• Fleiss, Sara, Scott Duke Kominers, and Charles B. Ughetta. "Quantopian: A New Model for Active Management (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 219-115, June 2019. View Details
• Fleiss, Sara, and Luis Viceira. "Sustainable Investing at J.P. Morgan Private Bank." Harvard Business School Case 220-016, August 2019. (Revised November 2019.) View Details
• Fleiss, Sara L., and Samuel G. Hanson. "The Fidelity Growth Company Fund." Harvard Business School Case 218-090, March 2018. (Revised February 2019.) View Details
• Sunderam, Adi, and Sara Fleiss. "Investing in Commodities at Global Endowment Management." Harvard Business School Case 218-005, August 2017. View Details
• Fleiss, Sara, and Adi Sunderam. "Closed-End Funds at Saba Capital Management." Harvard Business School Case 218-015, July 2017. (Revised August 2017.) View Details
• Fleiss, Sara, Adi Sunderam, Luis M. Viceira, and Caitlin Carmichael. "Quantopian: A New Model for Active Management." Harvard Business School Case 218-046, October 2017. View Details