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- 15 Mar 2019
- News
JP Morgan Chase Opens New Office in Dublin
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HBS Releases 2003 Financial Report
achieving our strategic objectives for the year,” said Richard P. Melnick (MBA 1992), the School’s chief financial officer. The Harvard Business School 2003 Financial Report, scheduled for release this...
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- September 2020 (Revised December 2021)
- Case
Building India's 2.0: PayNearby
By: Lauren Cohen and Spencer C. N. Hagist
Headquartered in Mumbai, India, FinTech startup Nearby Technologies has seen its flagship brand, PayNearby, rapidly flourish across most of its target market within just four years. The unprecedented success of its payment app, which allows users to access banking...
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Fintech;
Developing Markets;
Payments;
Financial Inclusion;
Finance;
Entrepreneurship;
Emerging Markets;
Competitive Strategy;
Banking Industry;
India
Cohen, Lauren, and Spencer C. N. Hagist. "Building India's 2.0: PayNearby." Harvard Business School Case 221-027, September 2020. (Revised December 2021.)
- 19 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value
Public company shareholders have long complained that corporate boards don't always act in the best interest of their investors. But does the addition of a shareholder-sponsored board member increase the market value of the firm? The...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Aug 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Non-Audit Services and Financial Reporting Quality: Evidence from 1978-1980
- 2007
- Working Paper
Investor Sentiment in the Stock Market
By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
Real investors and markets are too complicated to be neatly summarized by a few selected biases and trading frictions. The "top down" approach to behavioral finance focuses on the measurement of reduced form, aggregate sentiment and traces its effects to stock returns....
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- March 2007 (Revised September 2019)
- Case
Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd.: An IPO in India
By: Felda Hardymon, Joshua Lerner and Ann Leamon
The executives of Motilal Oswal Financial Services, Ltd., one of the largest brokerages in India, are considering an IPO on the Indian markets. The company recently received a small private equity investment from two global private equity firms, which it has not yet...
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Keywords:
Private Equity;
Initial Public Offering;
Investment;
Emerging Markets;
Financial Services Industry;
India
Hardymon, Felda, Joshua Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd.: An IPO in India." Harvard Business School Case 807-095, March 2007. (Revised September 2019.)
- January 2019 (Revised November 2019)
- Case
Ajeej Capital: Investing in Emerging Markets
By: Luis M. Viceira and Eren Kuzucu
In October 2007, Tarek Sakka and Fouad Dajani launched Ajeej Capital, the first independent investment advisory in the MENA region. Fittingly named ajeej, an Arabic word that translates to “growth and propagation in a chaotic setting,” the firm’s AUM grew from $20...
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Keywords:
Security Selection;
Investments;
Growth;
Culture;
UAE;
Finance;
Asset Management;
Emerging Markets;
Capital Markets;
Investment;
Growth Management;
Risk Management;
Middle East;
Saudi Arabia;
Dubai;
United Arab Emirates;
Egypt;
North Africa
Viceira, Luis M., and Eren Kuzucu. "Ajeej Capital: Investing in Emerging Markets." Harvard Business School Case 219-029, January 2019. (Revised November 2019.)
- February 2002 (Revised March 2002)
- Case
Customer Profitability and Customer Relationship Management at RBC Financial Group
By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
The Royal Bank of Canada uses customer relationship management and customer profitability tools to gain a competitive advantage in Canada's increasingly crowded financial services market. The case presents two pricing and customer management issues: one from the point...
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Keywords:
Competitive Advantage;
Price;
Customer Relationship Management;
Marketing;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Canada
Narayanan, V.G., and Lisa Brem. "Customer Profitability and Customer Relationship Management at RBC Financial Group." Harvard Business School Case 102-043, February 2002. (Revised March 2002.)
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Providing lessons in financial literacy
2008, oversees finance, IT, sales operations, and marketing at CEE. “I love to come in and find ways to start and grow businesses, and create opportunities,” she says. (Published April 2014)
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- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
"brave new world" had actually wanted governments to come in and regulate the market that technology had created. For about a year after the book's publication, I gave speeches about it. And...
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- Web
About - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
measure investor sentiment or risk neglect and understand its influence on security prices? Do credit market conditions reveal bubbles? How are credit market bubbles different from equity View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Marketable Skill
by the parents' associations of two West Side schools and the New York Council on the Environment, the market had outgrown its volunteer managers when Gehrke took over. She has since automated almost every aspect of the reservation and...
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Deborah Blagg
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
progress in all forms of nuclear power is impossible. We need to challenge that belief. The barriers to rapid progress in next-generation nuclear power are certainly not technical and probably not even economic. The greatest barriers today are in outdated nuclear View Details
- 13 Mar 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions
- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge....
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by John Quelch
- June 2016 (Revised May 2017)
- Case
FANUC Corporation: Reassessing the Firm's Governance and Financial Policies
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Nobuo Sato and Akiko Kanno
In February 2015, Daniel Loeb (a U.S.–based activist investor) announced his firm had a large investment in FANUC Corporation, a leading producer of industrial robots and software for machine tools. Loeb was demanding that the Japanese firm change its financial and...
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Keywords:
Hedge Funds;
Economic Policy;
Investments;
Government Policy;
Deregulation;
Financial Management;
Valuation;
Investment Funds;
Policy;
Corporate Governance;
Macroeconomics;
Investment Activism;
Change Management;
Financial Strategy;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Japan;
United States
Esty, Benjamin C., Nobuo Sato, and Akiko Kanno. "FANUC Corporation: Reassessing the Firm's Governance and Financial Policies." Harvard Business School Case 216-042, June 2016. (Revised May 2017.)
- July 2012
- Article
The Real Consequences of Market Segmentation
By: Sergey Chernenko and Adi Sunderam
We study the real effects of market segmentation due to credit ratings using a matched sample of firms just above and just below the investment-grade cutoff. These firms have similar observables, including average investment rates. However, flows into high-yield mutual...
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Keywords:
Segmentation;
Credit;
Investment;
Investment Funds;
Quality;
Markets;
Measurement and Metrics;
Business Ventures
Chernenko, Sergey, and Adi Sunderam. "The Real Consequences of Market Segmentation." Review of Financial Studies 25, no. 7 (July 2012): 2041–2069. (Winner of the RFS Young Researcher Prize 2012.)
- 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...
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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.