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  • 16 Jun 2021
  • News

Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm

    Marco Sammon

    Marco Sammon is an assistant professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches FIN2 in the required curriculum.

    His research is focused on asset pricing. Currently, he is working on several projects regarding the factors that affect the... View Details

    • December 2006 (Revised March 2008)
    • Case

    Prosper Marketplace, Inc.

    By: William A. Sahlman and Elizabeth Kind
    Describes a set of financial and strategic decisions confronting the founding management team of a new online financial services company. Prosper Marketplace is an internet-based market for individuals to borrow money from other individuals who wish to invest in such... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Financial Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Management Teams; Financial Services Industry
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    • 23 Apr 2008
    • Op-Ed

    The Gap in the U.S. Treasury Recommendations

    The U.S. Treasury recommendations for restructuring the nation's system of financial regulation are an important start in the process of strengthening the United States financial system. The proposal is to... View Details
    Keywords: by Dwight Crane; Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services

      Lauren H. Cohen

      Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

      Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services

        Laura Nicolae

        Laura Nicolae is a doctoral student in the Business Economics program. Her current research interests are in financial economics, monetary policy, and macroeconomics. She previously worked on the U.S. Economics research team at Goldman... View Details

          John Beshears

          John Beshears is the Albert J. Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit, teaching the second-year MBA course "Negotiation." He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.... View Details

          • 02 Nov 2023
          • Blog Post

          Getting a Peek Into the HBS Experience

          current students to learn about the HBS community and student experience, and hear about MBA admissions and financial aid. Recently, we had the privilege of interviewing Greg Asare, a graduate with a major in Biological Sciences from the... View Details
          • 2008
          • Book

          Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage

          By: Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
          In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organizations struggle in this area--not with formulating strategy but with executing it, or putting their strategy into action. Owing to execution failures, companies realize... View Details
          Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Operations; Performance; Strategic Planning; Business Strategy
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            Stuart C. Gilson

            Professor Stuart Gilson is the Steven R. Fenster Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and former chairman of the Finance Unit.  His research, teaching, and consulting focuses on the financial, business, and legal strategies that companies... View Details

            Keywords: investment banking industry; legal services
            • June 1996 (Revised July 1997)
            • Case

            Hostile Bid for Red October, The

            By: Benjamin C. Esty and Alan Bigman
            Manatep Bank, a Russian investment bank, has just announced the country's first hostile tender offer for Red October, a confectionery company located in Moscow. As the chief financial officer of the target company, Yuri Yegorov must decide how to respond, how much his... View Details
            Keywords: Capital Markets; Cash; Governance Controls; Financial Condition; Investment Banking; Financial Markets; Trade; Valuation; Financial Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Moscow
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            • 13 Jun 2011
            • HBS Case

            Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

            we need.” The Harvard Business School case study Mobile Banking for the Unbanked explores two very different examples of mobile financial service models: WIZZIT, a third-party startup that teamed with a major bank to provide standard... View Details
            Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications
            • June 1994
            • Case

            Harvey Cohen

            By: F. Warren McFarlan
            An introductory case in the construction of financial statements from basic financial transactions where inflation accounting is an issue. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
            Keywords: Accounting; Financial Statements; Inflation and Deflation
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            • March 2020 (Revised November 2020)
            • Case

            FinTech Hive at DIFC: Creating a Fintech Ecosystem in Dubai

            By: Marco Di Maggio and Gamze Yucaoglu
            The case opens in 2019 as Raja Al Mazrouei, executive vice president of FinTech Hive (the Hive) at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the first and largest financial technology accelerator in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia region, contemplates her... View Details
            Keywords: Fintech; Emerging Markets; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Management; Information Technology; Growth Management; Financial Markets; Financial Institutions; United Arab Emirates; Middle East; Dubai
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              Deborah M. Winshel

              Deborah Winshel is a member of the Faculty of the Harvard Business School where she teaches Leadership and Corporate Accountability to first year MBAs and executives.

              Most recently, Deborah was a Managing Director and Global Head of Social Impact at... View Details

              • October 2005 (Revised February 2010)
              • Background Note

              Calculating Free Cash Flows

              By: Robin Greenwood and David S. Scharfstein
              Outlines the mechanics of calculating free cash flows from historical and proforma financial statements. Focuses on the mechanical process of transforming numbers from financial forecasts into cash flows. View Details
              Keywords: Financial Statements; Forecasting and Prediction; Cash Flow; Mathematical Methods
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                Richard S. Ruback

                Richard S. Ruback is a Baker Foundation Professor and the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He is currently focusing his research in applied corporate finance, especially... View Details

                • January 2023
                • Exercise

                Identify the Health Care Venture

                By: Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace
                This case enables rapid learning of the key financial characteristics of many types of health care organizations and to diagnose their financial status. It is a surprisingly fun exercise (see the Teaching Note) accomplished by organizing groups of students that compete... View Details
                Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Spending; Health Care Financing; Health Care Industry; Health Care Operations; Health Care Delivery; Health Care and Treatment; Financial Condition; Health Industry
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                • November 2009 (Revised June 2012)
                • Supplement

                Crisis and Reform in Japan's Banking System (B)

                By: Thierry Porte, Rawi E. Abdelal, Laura Alfaro and Jonathan Schlefer
                In 1997, amidst Japan's ongoing financial problems, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto sought to restructure the financial sector to make it more transparent and globally competitive. He hoped that this effort, dubbed the "Big Bang" after the British financial... View Details
                Keywords: History; Adaptation; Policy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations; Macroeconomics; Restructuring; Global Strategy; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Japan
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                • May 2009
                • Case

                Ceres Gardening Company: Funding Growth in Organic Products

                By: John H. McArthur and Sunru Yong
                Ceres is a leading player in the growing organic gardening industry, selling seeds, small plants, and related items. Their distribution depends heavily on retail sales through independent nurseries and garden centers. Because these small dealers are unable to finance... View Details
                Keywords: Accounting Procedures; Marketing; Business Growth; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Marketing Strategy; Expansion; Business Growth and Maturation; Marketing Channels; Credit; Financial Statements; Sales; Retail Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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