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- December 2012
- Background Note
Glossary of Municipal Finance Terms
A note on municipal bond structuring.
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Keywords:
Local Government;
Political Process;
Debt Management;
Financial Planning;
Financial Management;
Bonds;
Urban Development;
Local Range;
Government Administration
Bergstresser, Daniel, Randolph Cohen, and Richard Ryffel. "Glossary of Municipal Finance Terms." Harvard Business School Background Note 213-063, December 2012.
- 07 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Can You Learn Finance through the Case Method?
confident in my business-related quantitative skills coming into HBS. I had never taken a single economics class in my life and had no exposure – and I truly mean zero – to accounting or finance. In fact, developing an understanding of basic View Details
- 2010
- Chapter
The Financing of R&D and Innovation
By: Bronwyn H. Hall and Josh Lerner
Evidence on the “funding gap” for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for underinvestment that exist even when externality-induced underinvestment is absent. We conclude that while small and new innovative firms experience high...
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Hall, Bronwyn H., and Josh Lerner. "The Financing of R&D and Innovation." Chap. 14 in Handbook of the Economics of Innovation: Volume 1, by Bronwyn H. Hall and Nathan Rosenberg, 609–639. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2010.
- Research Summary
Leading The Finance Function in the Future
Marc L. Bertoneche is analyzing, for research and teaching purposes, the trends of the finance function in various parts of the world and its increasing role as a strategic partner in business decisions.
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- June 2010 (Revised September 2011)
- Background Note
An Overview of Project Finance and Infrastructure Finance--2009 Update
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
Provides an introduction to the fields of project finance and infrastructure finance and gives a statistical overview of project-financed investments over the years from 2005 to 2009. Examples of project-financed investments include the $1.4 billion Mozal aluminum...
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Esty, Benjamin C., and Aldo Sesia. "An Overview of Project Finance and Infrastructure Finance--2009 Update." Harvard Business School Background Note 210-061, June 2010. (Revised September 2011.)
- November 2019 (Revised March 2021)
- Background Note
AI and Finance in 2019
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Marco Di Maggio, Marco Iansiti and Aldo Sesia
Lakhani, Karim R., Marco Di Maggio, Marco Iansiti, and Aldo Sesia. "AI and Finance in 2019." Harvard Business School Background Note 220-017, November 2019. (Revised March 2021.)
- May 12, 2010
- Article
Venture Financing and Entrepreneurial Success
By: William R. Kerr
Kerr, William R. "Venture Financing and Entrepreneurial Success." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 12, 2010).
- October 2006
- Article
Finance for the Non-Finance Professional
By: Blythe J. McGarvie
McGarvie, Blythe J. "Finance for the Non-Finance Professional." Shattered: Breaking the Glass Ceiling (October 2006).
- January 2003 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
VendQuest (C): Financing the Company
By: Dwight B. Crane and David Foster
Supplements the (A) case.
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Keywords:
Construction Industry
Crane, Dwight B., and David Foster. "VendQuest (C): Financing the Company." Harvard Business School Case 203-067, January 2003. (Revised May 2003.)
- 24 Sep 2008
- News
Harvard s Address Finance Fears
- 10 Nov 2022
- Video
Financing the MBA at HBS
- Fast Answer
HBS Course: Private Equity Finance
What resources are recommended for this course? Suggested Resources Private Equity - Funds, Firms, Transactions, etc. Preqin
Information on PE fund managers, funds, private companies, and... View Details
Information on PE fund managers, funds, private companies, and... View Details
- October 2019
- Article
Returns to Talent and the Finance Wage Premium
By: Boris Vallée and Claire Célérier
To study the role of talent in finance workers' pay, we exploit a special feature of the French higher education system. Wage returns to talent have been significantly higher and have risen faster in finance since the 1980s than in other sectors. Both wage returns to...
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Vallée, Boris, and Claire Célérier. "Returns to Talent and the Finance Wage Premium." Review of Financial Studies 32, no. 10 (October 2019): 4005–4040.
- 28 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness
“Fitness is your hobby. Finance is your career.” - Words so false that they changed my life. Finance After graduating from Yale University, I joined the fast-paced world of Foreign Exchange (FX) at a large...
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Keywords:
Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 1993
- Book
Case Problems in International Finance
By: W. C. Kester and T. A. Luehrman
Keywords:
International Finance
Kester, W. C. and T. A. Luehrman, eds. Case Problems in International Finance. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993.
- June 2017 (Revised January 2019)
- Case
Signet Jewelers: Assessing Customer Financing Risk
By: Gerardo Pérez Cavazos, Suraj Srinivasan and Monica Baraldi
Marc Cohodes, a renowned short seller, has identified weaknesses in Signet's business strategy, which he argues is heavily reliant on providing loans to customers with subprime credit scores. He believes that the company accounts for its receivables portfolio using...
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Keywords:
Short Selling;
Bad Debt Expense;
Accounting;
Financial Reporting;
Financial Statements;
Finance;
Financing and Loans;
Valuation;
Retail Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Pérez Cavazos, Gerardo, Suraj Srinivasan, and Monica Baraldi. "Signet Jewelers: Assessing Customer Financing Risk." Harvard Business School Case 117-038, June 2017. (Revised January 2019.)
- 2008
- Working Paper
Cost of External Finance and Selection into Entrepreneurship
By: Ramana Nanda
This paper examines the extent to which the positive relationship between personal wealth and entry into entrepreneurship is due to financing constraints. I exploit a tax reform and use unique micro-data from Denmark to study how exogenous changes in the cost of...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Cost;
Financing and Loans;
Personal Finance;
Human Capital;
Wealth;
Denmark
Nanda, Ramana. "Cost of External Finance and Selection into Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-047, January 2008.
- Aug 25 2016
- Testimonial