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    Christina R. Wing

    Christina Wing is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. Her research focuses primarily on topics surrounding families in business, and the course she created, titled Demystifying the Family Enterprise,... View Details

    • January 2017 (Revised January 2019)
    • Case

    The Rise and Fall of Lehman Brothers

    By: Stuart C. Gilson, Kristin Mugford and Sarah L. Abbott
    With nearly $700 billion in assets, Lehman was the largest U.S. bankruptcy in history. In 2007, Lehman achieved record earnings of over $4 billion on revenues of $60 billion. By September 2008 the fourth largest investment bank in the world was bankrupt. How had a... View Details
    Keywords: Bankruptcy; Financial Distress; Accounting Policies; Business Ethics; Financial Reporting; Volatility; Judgments; Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Liquidity; Investment Banking; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Failure; Business and Government Relations; Ethics; Banking Industry; New York (city, NY)
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    • 24 Mar 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Corporate Sustainability: First Evidence on Materiality

    Keywords: by Mozaffar Khan, George Serafeim & Aaron Yoon; Financial Services
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    Kelsey Young

    Kelsey worked in impact roles for five years prior to business school and switched careers from traditional finance to impact investing in 2022. Kelsey can help student navigating various recruiting processes including: 1) exploring a... View Details

      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; investment banking industry
      • 2024
      • Working Paper

      Antitrust Platform Regulation and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from China

      By: Ke Rong, D. Daniel Sokol, Di Zhou and Feng Zhu
      Many jurisdictions have launched antitrust enforcement and brought in regulation of large tech platforms. The swift and strict implementation of China’s Anti-Monopoly Guidelines for the Platform Economy (Platform Guidelines) provides a quasi-natural experiment... View Details
      Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competition; Venture Capital; Market Entry and Exit; Supply and Industry; China
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      • January 2005 (Revised August 2014)
      • Exercise

      Hamilton Real Estate: Confidential Role Information for the CEO of Estate One (BUYER)

      By: Deepak Malhotra
      Presents a two-party negotiation between the executive VP of Pearl Investments and the CEO of Estate One for the sale of real estate in the town of Hamilton. View Details
      Keywords: Ethics; Price; Information; Contracts; Managerial Roles; Agreements and Arrangements; Sales; Strategy; Value; Real Estate Industry
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      • February 2018 (Revised June 2021)
      • Case

      New Constructs: Disrupting Fundamental Analysis with Robo-Analysts

      By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Kyle Thomas
      This case highlights the business challenges associated with a financial technology firm, New Constructs, that created a technology that can quickly parse complicated public firm financials to paint a clearer economic picture of firms, remove accounting distortions,... View Details
      Keywords: Fundamental Analysis; Machine Learning; Robo-analysts; Financial Statements; Financial Reporting; Analysis; Information Technology; Accounting Industry; Financial Services Industry; Information Technology Industry; North America; Tennessee
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      • 2005
      • Working Paper

      Aggregate Corporate Liquidity and Stock Returns

      By: Robin Greenwood
      Aggregate investment in cash and liquid assets as a share of total corporate investment is negatively related to subsequent U.S. stock market returns between 1947 and 2003. The share of cash in total investment is a more stable predictor of returns than scaled price... View Details
      Keywords: Stocks; Financial Liquidity; Cash; Investment Return; Corporate Finance
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      • October 2020 (Revised June 2021)
      • Case

      Francisco Partners Private Credit Opportunity Fund

      By: Luis M. Viceira, John D. Dionne, Soracha Prathanrasnikorn and Ari Sunshine
      In April 2020, Scott Einsenberg, the Head of Credit at the private equity firm Francisco Partners, is deciding whether to go ahead with extending a private lending agreement to Eventbrite, Inc. (NYSE: EB), a leading global event management and online ticketing... View Details
      Keywords: Private Debt; Private Credit; Industry Evolution; Private Equity; Investment; Analysis
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      • March 1992 (Revised December 1992)
      • Case

      Salomon and the Treasury Securities Auction

      By: Dwight B. Crane
      Set in June 1991, two months prior to Salomon Brothers' announcement that the firm had violated the Treasury Department's rules governing the auctions of new Treasury securities. Salomon Vice Chairman John Meriwether must decide how to address problems that continue to... View Details
      Keywords: Debt Securities; Managerial Roles; Ethics; Market Transactions; Bonds; Investment Banking; Crisis Management; Auctions; Legal Liability; Banking Industry
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      • January 2007
      • Case

      Gobi Partners: Raising Fund II

      By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
      The three founding partners of Gobi Partners, a venture capital fund investing in early start IT and digital media companies in China, are planning to raise a second fund. The first $51.75 million fund is close to being entirely invested and the portfolio companies are... View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Investment Funds; Financial Strategy; Business or Company Management; China
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        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: investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry
        • July 2020
        • Supplement

        CSL Capital Management: Patriot Proppants (B)

        By: Victoria Ivashina and Yury Kapko
        This two-part case series follows CSL Capital’s 2009 investment in the greenfield manufacturing company, Patriot Proppants. CSL, a recently established investment firm, employs a unique investment model, funding new ("greenfield") energy service businesses that serve... View Details
        Keywords: Investment; Renewable Energy; Decision Making
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        Raja Bobbili

        HBS opened the world of investing to me. The school’s investing courses exposed me to the practical challenges faced by investors. I experienced some of these challenges first-hand while getting my feet wet... View Details
        Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund
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        Yanzhan Wen

        Yanzhan has four years of management consulting experience within the industrials, chemicals, and healthcare industries. Recently, he made a career pivot into investment banking, interning at Lazard over the summer in their healthcare... View Details
        • December 2016 (Revised December 2018)
        • Case

        From Start-Up to Grown-Up Nation: The Future of the Israeli Innovation Ecosystem

        By: Elie Ofek and Margot Eiran
        In June 2016, Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, wrestled with how to sustain Israel’s strong innovation track record and the country’s reputation as the “startup nation.” Despite the economic miracle the country had wrought since its founding, he... View Details
        Keywords: Israel; Israeli Start-up Nation; Innovation Economy; Entrepreneurial Mindset; Scaling-up; Unicorns; Innovation Clusters; High-tech; Innovation Management; Multinational Corporation R＆D Centers; Social Equality; Two-tier Economy; Liberalizing An Economy; Foreign Investment; Military Service; Quality Of Human Capital; Socioeconomic Gaps; Labor Force Participation; Government Initiatives; Innovation and Management; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Government and Politics; Economy; Equality and Inequality; Education; Resource Allocation; Globalization; Israel
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        • August 2017 (Revised January 2020)
        • Case

        PFA Pension: Expansion of Alternatives Portfolio

        By: Victoria Ivashina, Federica Gabrieli and Jérôme Lenhardt
        PFA Pension was the biggest commercial pension provider in Denmark. At the end of 2015, the company had decided to boost its investments into the alternative asset class, an area where it was lagging behind its competitors. The aim was to privilege direct investments... View Details
        Keywords: Asset Management; Private Equity; Investment; Denmark; Europe
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        • 2022
        • Working Paper

        Multinationals and Varieties of Capitalism: When U.S. Giants Stepped into the Swiss Coordinated Labor Market in the 1950s

        By: Sabine Pitteloud
        This working paper investigates unintended consequences of U.S. FDI in Switzerland in the 1950s-1960s: the increased competition that U.S. firms generated within the national labor market and the challenge their hiring practices constituted for the institutional... View Details
        Keywords: Multinationals; Capitalism; Business ＆ Government Relations; Foreign Direct Investment; Immigration Policy; History; Switzerland; Americanization; R＆D; Labor History; Labor Market Institutions; Tax Havens; ＂USA,＂; Business Interest Association; Lobbying; Labor and Management Relations; Business History; Multinational Firms and Management
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        • 2023
        • Working Paper

        Competition and Speculation in Cryptocurrencies

        By: Alex A. Wu and Justin Katz
        We examine how mutual fund managers' performance incentives generated speculative demand during the 2020-2022 cryptocurrency boom and bust. Managers with strong relative performance incentives began investing in crypto after their competitors began investing in it,... View Details
        Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Mutual Funds; Competition; Investment; Decision Making
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