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- 2015
- Working Paper
Customers and Investors: A Framework for Understanding Financial Institutions
By: Robert C. Merton and Robert T. Thakor
Financial institutions have both investors and customers. Investors, such as those who invest in stocks and bonds or private/public-sector guarantors of institutions, expect an appropriate risk-adjusted return in exchange for the financing and risk-bearing that they... View Details
Keywords: Financial Institutions
Merton, Robert C., and Robert T. Thakor. "Customers and Investors: A Framework for Understanding Financial Institutions." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 21258, June 2015.
- 2019
- White Paper
Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: The Missing Piece for an Impact Economy
By: George Serafeim, T. Robert Zochowski and Jennifer Downing
Reimagining capitalism is an imperative. We need to create a more inclusive and sustainable form of capitalism that works for every person and the planet. Massive environmental damage, growing income and wealth disparity, stress, and depression within developed... View Details
Keywords: Impact-Weighted Accounts; IWAI; Background; Economic Systems; Economy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Measurement and Metrics; Financial Statements
Serafeim, George, T. Robert Zochowski, and Jennifer Downing. "Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: The Missing Piece for an Impact Economy." White Paper, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, September 2019.
- August 1992 (Revised September 2004)
- Background Note
Accounting Framework, Financial Statements, and Some Accounting Concepts, The
By: William J. Bruns Jr.
Introduces the accounting framework, basic financial statements, and eleven accounting concepts. View Details
Bruns, William J., Jr. "Accounting Framework, Financial Statements, and Some Accounting Concepts, The." Harvard Business School Background Note 193-028, August 1992. (Revised September 2004.)
- 2021
- Working Paper
No-fault Default, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and Financial Institutions
By: Robert C. Merton and Richard T. Thakor
This paper analyzes the costs and benefits of a no-fault-default debt structure as an alternative to the typical bankruptcy process. We show that the deadweight costs of bankruptcy can be avoided or substantially reduced through no-fault-default debt, which permits a... View Details
Keywords: No-fault Default; Chapter 11; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Borrowing and Debt; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Institutions; Contracts
Merton, Robert C., and Richard T. Thakor. "No-fault Default, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and Financial Institutions." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28341, January 2021.
- September 1992
- Case
Star Cablevision Group (D): Financial Crisis and Managing Constituencies
Fourth case in a series of six cases. This case describes the company as it reaches financial crisis and manages constituencies. View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Finance; Management; Crisis Management; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Sahlman, William A. "Star Cablevision Group (D): Financial Crisis and Managing Constituencies." Harvard Business School Case 293-039, September 1992.
- August 2022
- Supplement
Sweet Teez Bakery: Projecting the Dough’s Rise Financial Supplement
By: Emily R. McComb, Mel Martin and Amy Klopfenstein
Abstract: In 2021, the HBS Impact Investment Fund student team met with entrepreneur Teresa Maynard, who had applied for a $25,000 impact investment loan. The students thought the former Harvard Data Scientist’s bakery business, Sweet Teez Bakery, showed promise.... View Details
- February 1990
- Case
Retail Financial Services Industry in 1988
By: Dwight B. Crane
Crane, Dwight B. "Retail Financial Services Industry in 1988." Harvard Business School Case 290-047, February 1990.
- Article
Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: A Paradigm Shift
By: Ethan Rouen and George Serafeim
The last decade has seen an exponential increase in corporate sustainability activities and efforts by investors to use these activities in their portfolio formation, valuation, and stewardship activities. This paper explains the need for a uniform strategy to measure... View Details
Keywords: Impact-Weighted Accounts; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Measurement and Metrics; Standards
Rouen, Ethan, and George Serafeim. "Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: A Paradigm Shift." CESifo Forum 22, no. 3 (May 2021): 20–25.
- Article
On the Management of Financial Guarantees
By: Robert C. Merton and Z. Bodie
Merton, Robert C., and Z. Bodie. "On the Management of Financial Guarantees." Financial Management 21, no. 4 (Winter 1992): 87–109.
- August 2007
- Article
Financial Contracting in Biotech Strategic Alliances
Robinson, David, and Toby E. Stuart. "Financial Contracting in Biotech Strategic Alliances." Journal of Law & Economics 50, no. 3 (August 2007): 559–596.
- 1982
- Appendix
Financial Aspects of Antarctic Mineral Regimes
- July 1991
- Supplement
Allied Chemical Corp., Supplementary Financial Information
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Chemical Industry
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. "Allied Chemical Corp., Supplementary Financial Information." Harvard Business School Supplement 392-006, July 1991.
- Research Summary
Negotiation Analysis and the Structuring of Financial Transactions
Jay O. Light is developing materials that will explore how negotiation analysis and related techniques can be used in structuring financial transactions in the context of entrepreneurial situations, and how they might be used to enhance value in private equity... View Details
- August 2018
- Article
Pension Policy and the Financial System
Scharfstein, David S. "Pension Policy and the Financial System." Journal of Finance 73, no. 4 (August 2018): 1463–1512.
- Article
A Functional Perspective of Financial Intermediation
By: Robert C. Merton
Keywords: Finance
Merton, Robert C. "A Functional Perspective of Financial Intermediation." Financial Management 24, no. 2 (Summer 1995): 23–41.
- January 2010
- Teaching Note
The Future of Financial Reporting (TN)
By: Karthik Ramanna
Teaching Note for [110701]. View Details