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- January 2006 (Revised February 2006)
- Case
Deutsche Borse and the European Markets
By: Dwight B. Crane and Monika Stachowiak
In December 2004, Deutsche Borse proposed an offer for the London Stock Exchange. Some shareholders opposed the acquisition, leading to the offer's withdrawal and replacement of management, including the CEO and board members. Written from the viewpoint of Deutsche...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Strategy;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Capital Structure;
Stocks;
Valuation;
Corporate Governance;
Price;
Change Management;
Commercialization;
Financial Services Industry;
Europe
Crane, Dwight B., and Monika Stachowiak. "Deutsche Borse and the European Markets." Harvard Business School Case 206-082, January 2006. (Revised February 2006.)
- 20 Sep 2014
- News
Beyond cows
- 05 Jan 2014
- News
China must reform for life after the iron rice bowl
- 23 Jun 2015
- News
Governance reforms add significance to being a public company
- 2016
- Working Paper
Managers' Cultural Background and Disclosure Attributes
By: Francois Brochet, Gregory S. Miller, Patricia Naranjo and Gwen Yu
We examine how a manager’s ethnic cultural background affects managers’ communication with investors. Using a sample of earnings conference calls transcripts with 26,430 executives from 42 countries, we find that managers from ethnic groups that have a more...
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Keywords:
Disclosure Tone;
Individualism;
Conference Calls;
Ethnic Group;
Management Style;
Communication Intention and Meaning;
Ethnicity;
Corporate Disclosure;
Financial Reporting
Brochet, Francois, Gregory S. Miller, Patricia Naranjo, and Gwen Yu. "Managers' Cultural Background and Disclosure Attributes." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-027, October 2016.
- 10 Dec 2013
- News
Wall Street feeds the ravenous debt beast again
- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Three Key Considerations for TSR Awards
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Lessons for Private Equity Learned From the Last Merger Frenzy
- 27 Sep 2017
- News
Will a Corporate Tax Holiday Give Workers Anything to Cheer?
- February 2010 (Revised December 2010)
- Case
Lending Club
By: Peter Tufano
A new entrant in the nascent online peer lending space, Lending Club must decide whether or not to register with the SEC. Lending Club provided a platform through which individual borrowers could receive loans funded by individuals who chose to invest in them. The...
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Keywords:
Financial Instruments;
Price;
Personal Finance;
Financing and Loans;
Financial Services Industry
Tufano, Peter, Howell Jackson, and Andrea Ryan. "Lending Club." Harvard Business School Case 210-052, February 2010. (Revised December 2010.)
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows
Harvard Business School (HBS) has named its 2022-23 Blavatnik Fellows and the program’s ninth cohort. Launched in 2013, the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship is part of a gift to Harvard University from the Blavatnik...
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- 03 Sep 2017
- News
A welfarist role for non-welfarist rules
- June 2002
- Background Note
Convertible Securities
This case covers the general characteristics of convertible securities and briefly discusses their history, investors, issuers, and method of valuation.
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Keywords:
Debt Securities
Chacko, George C., and Eli Strick. "Convertible Securities." Harvard Business School Background Note 202-129, June 2002.
- 21 Oct 2016
- News
The barbarian establishment
- November 2008 (Revised January 2009)
- Case
Arcapita - 2002
In 2002, Arcapita Bank, B.S.C., then known as First Islamic Investment Bank, or FIIB, faced a liquidity crunch. Aracapita offered Islamic-compliant private equity, real estate, and venture capital products. In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attack, however, Islamic...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Private Equity;
Financial Liquidity;
Investment;
Globalized Firms and Management;
National Security;
Religion;
Financial Services Industry
El-Hage, Nabil N., and Leslie Pierson. "Arcapita - 2002." Harvard Business School Case 209-023, November 2008. (Revised January 2009.)
- 30 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers
- 05 Oct 2014
- News
SEC’s new rules give US money market funds a floating feeling
- May 2005 (Revised January 2006)
- Background Note
Note on Forward Contracts and Swaps
Introduces forward contracts and derives graphically through basic arbitrage principles the spot-forward parity. Introduces swap contracts as simply a portfolio of forward contracts. Also covers briefly the mathematics behind swaps as an extension of spot-forward...
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Keywords:
Financial Instruments
Chacko, George C., Peter A. Hecht, Vincent Dessain, and Anders Sjoman. "Note on Forward Contracts and Swaps." Harvard Business School Background Note 205-118, May 2005. (Revised January 2006.)
- 02 Feb 2012
- News
Harvard Business School Faculty Lead Immersion Trip to Israel
- 26 Jun 2020
- Working Paper Summaries