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  • June 1992 (Revised June 1995)
  • Case

RJR Nabisco Holdings Capital Corp.--1991

By: Peter Tufano
An investment manager notices a large apparent discrepancy in the prices of two nearly-identical bonds issued in conjunction with a major leveraged buyout. The manager must figure out whether the instruments are mispriced relative to one another, and if so, how to... View Details
Keywords: Asset Management; Financial Instruments
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    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 01 Apr 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: April 1

    intermediary organizations. To test our theory, we examine every relationship between entrepreneurial firms and their venture capital investors in the minimally invasive surgical segment of the medical device industry over a 22-year... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • January 1994 (Revised June 1994)
    • Case

    Dean Witter, Discover & Co.

    By: Dwight B. Crane and W. James Whalen
    Early in 1993, Sears was in the process of spinning off its Dean Witter, Discover subsidiary. This subsidiary consisted of a securities brokerage that was acquired in 1981 and also the Discover Card, a general purpose credit card, the firm introduced in 1985. The key... View Details
    Keywords: Valuation; Business Subsidiaries; Initial Public Offering; Credit Cards; Corporate Strategy; Asset Pricing; Financial Services Industry
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    • 17 Nov 2015
    • First Look

    November 17, 2015

    April 5–6, 2013 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In its call for the submission of theoretical and empirical papers for the symposium, the NBER noted that the global financial crisis of 2007–2008 and its aftermath have focused attention on the growing use of leverage by... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • March 2008 (Revised February 2009)
    • Case

    Transparent Value LLC

    By: Sharon P. Katz, Krishna G. Palepu and Aldo Sesia, Jr.
    Leading index company Dow Jones recently signed a license and joint marketing agreement with Transparent Value LLC, the creator of a new fundamentals-based valuation methodology. The agreement allowed Dow Jones to offer a family of indexes based on the Transparent... View Details
    Keywords: Asset Management; Stocks; Price; Performance Expectations; Mathematical Methods; Valuation
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    • 19 Feb 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 19

    and when buyers and sellers do manage to find each other, they usually negotiate under enormous uncertainty: prices of similar patents vary widely from transaction to transaction, and the terms of the transactions (including prices) are... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 23 Apr 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Corporate Financial Policies in Misvalued Credit Markets

    Keywords: by Jarrad Harford, Marc Martos-Vila & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf; Financial Services; Banking
    • 22 Apr 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Competing with Privacy

    Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell & Andres Hervas-Drane; Publishing
    • 17 Aug 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    ‘Not a Bunch of Weirdos’: Why Mainstream Investors Buy Crypto

    between crypto tokens and other assets has increased over time, Di Maggio found indications that household investors still saw crypto as a hedge against price increases. Many in the investment community have... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • March 2011
    • Article

    Accounting Scholarship That Advances Professional Knowledge and Practice

    By: Robert S. Kaplan
    Recent accounting scholarship has used statistical analysis on asset prices, financial reports and disclosures, laboratory experiments, and surveys of practice. The research has studied the interface among accounting information, capital markets, standard setters, and... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Asset Pricing; Risk Management; Surveys; Capital Markets; Measurement and Metrics; Valuation; Fair Value Accounting; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Financial Reporting
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      Charles C.Y. Wang

      Charles C.Y. Wang is the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and an associate editor of Management Science and Journal of Accounting Research,... View Details

      • Web

      Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

      Crises By: Robin Greenwood , Samuel G. Hanson , Andrei Shleifer & Jakob Ahm Sørensen JAN 2022 Using historical data on postwar financial crises around the world, the authors show that the combination of rapid credit and asset View Details
      • Web

      Faculty & Advisors | MBA

      Centerview in 2009, the firm has been a leading advisor to the global Biopharmaceutical industry most notable representing biotechnology companies on strategic defense. In the period from 2019 to 2021, Centerview represented 18 companies in transactions where the... View Details
      • November 2007 (Revised March 2011)
      • Case

      Mubadala: Forging Development in Abu Dhabi

      By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Irina Tarsis
      In 2007, Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, the CEO of Mubadala Development Company (Mubadala), had every reason to be optimistic about the future of his home, Abu Dhabi, one of the emirates comprising the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The tiny, sandy, and dry emirate with a... View Details
      Keywords: Development Economics; Economy; Non-Renewable Energy; Globalization; Leading Change; State Ownership; Diversification; Abu Dhabi
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      • Web

      Hiring Organizations

      Bridges Fund Management Brightleaf Holdings Brightline Trains Brookfield Asset Management Brooklyn Museum Bubble Burq Buttonwood Capital C CAKE Calvert Impact Cambridge Associates LLC Cambridge Group, The Cambridge Mobile Telematics... View Details
      • 06 Nov 2006
      • Research & Ideas

      How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

      pushing the envelope on offering products for an emerging market, the need to go in and set up a business or acquire your own company in order to have exposure to this area is lessened. What many firms or asset managers who want exposure... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • Web

      Placement - Doctoral

      Katz , Gautam Rao , and Katherine B. Coffman Spencer Yongwook Kwon Business Economics, 2023 Placement: Brown University, Department of Economics Dissertation: Essays in Expectations and Asset Prices... View Details

        Boris Groysberg

        Boris Groysberg is a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at the Harvard Business School. Currently, he teaches courses on talent management and leadership in the school's MBA and Executive Education programs. He has won numerous... View Details
        Keywords: asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management
        • 11 Dec 2012
        • First Look

        First Look: Dec. 11

        network-based technologies, and for the median technology, the frequency of interactions decays by 73% every 1000 kms. Overall, we document the significant role that geography plays in determining technology diffusion across countries. Download the paper:... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne