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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... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Strategy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Capital Structure; Stocks; Valuation; Corporate Governance; Price; Change Management; Commercialization; Financial Services Industry; Europe
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  • 06 Feb 2023
  • Blog Post

Meet the Black Investment Club

his career in renewable energy and came to HBS with seven years of experience in early-stage project development and due diligence for U.S. government energy resilience projects. His work history includes research, finance, and leadership... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital; Investment Management / Hedge Fund
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making

Jerry R. Green, using game-theory insights, studies the negotiation process within agencies as he looks for ways that business or government can make the right decision for an organization as a whole while still benefiting individual... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 12 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

must be profitable to be sustainable. Second, the WDC would take the initiative to target projects in countries that have a good chance of success, where the government is hospitable, the local business community eager for partners, and... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • Profile

Malcolm Little

contribution." New paths For his internship, Malcolm says he is "fighting against going back to what I’ve already done. I’d like to use finance in a different way and am talking to people in View Details
  • September 2025
  • Article

Sticky Capital Controls

By: Miguel Acosta-Henao, Laura Alfaro and Andrés Fernández
There is much ongoing debate on the merits of capital controls as effective policy instruments. The differing perspectives are due in part to a lack of empirical studies that look at the intensive margin of controls, which in turn has prevented a quantitative... View Details
Keywords: Capital Controls; Macroprudential Policies; Stickiness; Intensive; (S, S) Costs; Capital; Management; Macroeconomics; Governance Controls; Mathematical Methods
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  • March 2020 (Revised February 2023)
  • Case

Political Legitimacy and Global Capital Markets: Malaysia's 1MDB (A)

By: Meg Rithmire and Courtney Han
In May 2018, Malaysia’s 14th General Election saw a change of power that many thought they would never witness in their lifetimes. The political party that had ruled Malaysia for 60 year was kicked out of office by a 92 year-old challenger, Mahathir Mohamed, who had... View Details
Keywords: Government Administration; Crime and Corruption; Financial Markets; Malaysia
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  • September 2015 (Revised February 2016)
  • Supplement

Novell (B): Board of Directors Aftermath of Hedge Fund Attack

By: Richard L. Nolan
No corporation and its board of directors is immune to a disruptive shareholder activist attack. The Novell (A) and (B) cases take students through a shareholder activist attack and its aftermath—a saga that spanned 5 years. The cases outline the activist playbook in... View Details
Keywords: Investment Activism; Governing and Advisory Boards; Decision Making
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  • Web

Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the Finance & Accounting track. Introduction to Strategic Financial Analysis ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! New Strategic Financial Analysis $1,850 Next... View Details
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Return on Political Investment in the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004

By: Hui Chen, Katherine Gunny and Karthik Ramanna
Prior literature raises a "puzzle" of high rates of return on corporate political investment, but evidence for this puzzle is largely descriptive in nature. We exploit the setting of the American Jobs Creation Act's passage in 2004 to provide more robust estimates of... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Business and Government Relations; Corporate Finance; United States
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Savings in Transnational Households: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador

By: Nava Ashraf, Diego Aycinena, Claudia Martinez A. and Dean Yang
While remittance flows to developing countries are very large, it is unknown whether migrants desire more control over how remittances are used. This research uses a randomized field experiment to investigate the importance of migrant control over the use of... View Details
Keywords: Migration; Remittances; Intrahousehold Allocation; Savings; Immigration; Diasporas; International Finance; El Salvador
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  • March 2005
  • Case

Tribune Company: The PHONES Proposal

The Tribune Co. is considering issuing a structured note to monetize its investment in another company, America Online (AOL). Tribune originally invested in AOL in 1991 and currently has approximately 10 million shares left of that investment. However, these shares are... View Details
Keywords: Financial Instruments; Taxation; Investment; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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  • 01 Jan 2006
  • News

Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969

When the Egyptian government forced out all Jewish inhabitants after the Suez Crisis in 1956, the Cohens left with only one suitcase apiece. His mother’s British citizenship made it possible for them to immigrate to London, where they had... View Details
  • July 2021
  • Supplement

CIAM: Home-Grown Shareholder Activism in France (B)

By: Charles C.Y. Wang, Tonia Labruyere and Vincent Dessain
This case is a complement to CIAM: Home-Grown Shareholder Activism in France (A) and describes the events after CIAM learned about a potential misuse of corporate assets at Altice/SFR. View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Valuation; Investment Activism; Accounting; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; France
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  • 1993
  • Chapter

Banks in the Boardroom: Germany, Japan, and the United States

By: W. C. Kester
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Governing and Advisory Boards; Germany; Japan; United States
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  • 07 Nov 2013
  • News

Selig Choice for Commerce Dept. Post

  • January 1997 (Revised March 1997)
  • Background Note

Note on Money and Monetary Policy

By: David A. Moss and Wyatt C. Wells
Offers a brief overview of economic thinking about the nature of money and about how the central bank can affect the economy through monetary policy. View Details
Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Government Administration; Policy; Central Banking; Money; Inflation and Deflation; Financial Crisis
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  • 06 Jan 2012
  • Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing
  • 02 Jul 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Inflation with COVID Consumption Baskets

Keywords: by Alberto Cavallo
  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International

The emergence of civilian governments and market economies throughout the region presents the opportunity for people to be included in the shaping of their destiny - if they can participate. Microfinance helps people earn enough... View Details