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  • July 2002 (Revised March 2003)
  • Case

Restructuring Bulong's Project Debt

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane
Preston Resources, a small Australian gold mining company, bought the Bulong nickel mine for A$319 million in November 1998 and financed the acquisition by issuing a US$185 million (A$294 million) project bond. At the time, mining had been underway for several months,... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Projects; Restructuring; Bonds; Borrowing and Debt; Business Startups; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Valuation; Mining Industry; Australia
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    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 23 Feb 2021
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Examining Race and Mass Incarceration in the United States

    Keywords: Re: Reshmaan N. Hussam
    • December 2012
    • Article

    The Microwork Solution: A New Approach to Outsourcing Can Support Economic Development—and Add to Your Bottom Line

    By: Francesca Gino and Bradely R. Staats
    What's the best way to lift people out of poverty? The social entrepreneurs in the new "impact sourcing" industry believe the answer is providing work, not aid. Their organizations hire people at the bottom of the pyramid to perform digital tasks such as transcribing... View Details
    Keywords: Outsourcing; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Nonprofit Organizations; Partners and Partnerships; Development Economics; Social Entrepreneurship; Welfare; Cooperation; San Francisco
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      The Surprising Power of Online Experiments

      In the fast-moving digital world, even experts have a hard time assessing new ideas. Case in point: At Bing a small headline change an employee proposed was deemed a low priority and shelved for months until one engineer decided to do a quick online controlled... View Details
      • 27 Oct 2002
      • Research & Ideas

      Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

      even more difficult than in the past. Why the concern about coordination between sales and marketing? Every business exists for financial performance—making money. We know generally how to measure it across different companies and... View Details
      Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
      • 14 Nov 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections

      conclusion—professional social networks “may have potential benefits to companies, and not only to the individual,” says Frank Nagle, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. “What we’re trying to say is there are many more jobs... View Details
      Keywords: by Ben Rand
      • Web

      Research Community - Doctoral

      Research Community Innovative Research, Lasting Relationships Harvard Business School invests more than $140 million in research annually—more than any other school. These funds give researchers at the School the freedom, flexibility, and... View Details
      • 06 Feb 2019
      • Blog Post

      7 Tips for a Successful Technology Venture Immersion

      I grew up in a small town in southern New Hampshire and graduated from Harvard in 2014 with an Engineering Sciences SB (Bachelor of Science). After spending 22 years on the east coast, I decided to try something new and moved to the Bay... View Details
      • April 2000 (Revised April 2004)
      • Case

      Infosys: Financing an Indian Software Start-Up

      Describes the financing and growth of Infosys, an Indian software start-up. Infosys defies a number of stereotypes about barriers to entrepreneurship in India. The company was founded by a small group of entrepreneurs with little equity and without backing from a large... View Details
      Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Applications and Software; Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology Industry; India
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      • 01 Dec 2023
      • News

      Research Brief: Staying in the Game

      Illustration by Peter Hoey In Monopoly, declaring bankruptcy has a very permanent consequence. Game over; you lose. In the paper “Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy,” HBS professor Shai Bernstein... View Details
      Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
      • 05 Nov 2014
      • HBS Seminar

      CV Harquail, Authentic Organizations and Stevens Institute of Technology

      • 23 Nov 2010
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations

      Keywords: by Ufuk Akcigit & William R. Kerr; Technology
      • November 1994 (Revised May 2002)
      • Case

      K-III: A Leveraged Build-Up

      By: George P. Baker III, Nicola Bamford and Nicolas Greenspan
      Explores the strategy, financing, and governance of a new type of organizational form, dubbed the Leveraged Build-Up by its inventor, Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co. The company makes leveraged acquisitions of small publishing companies, managing them in a very... View Details
      Keywords: Debt Securities; Financial Management; Leveraged Buyouts; Cash Flow; Organizational Structure; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Publishing Industry
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      • 02 Apr 2007
      • Lessons from the Classroom

      Making the Move to General Manager

      People achieve success in the early years of their career by specializing and becoming functional experts—in essence, they succeed by knowing more and more about less and less, says Benjamin C. Esty, chair of the General Management Program at Harvard View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • Web

      Faculty & Research - Entrepreneurship

      Faculty & Research Fall 2025 Article The Rise of Remote Work: Evidence on Productivity and Preferences from Firm and Worker Surveys By: Alexander Bartik, Zoë Cullen , Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca and Christopher Stanton Drawing on surveys of View Details
      • 04 Jan 2017
      • What Do You Think?

      How Much Bureaucracy is a Good Thing in Government and Business?

      bureaucracy.  Both themes have a certain attraction in the business boardroom as well. In business today, effective processes for decision making are associated with words like speed, agility, and... View Details
      Keywords: by James L. Heskett
      • Web

      Accounting & Management Faculty - Faculty & Research

      Accounting & Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students Unit Head Eugene F. Soltes McLean Family Professor of Business Administration Unit Head,... View Details
      • July 2015
      • Case

      Uncharted Play (A)

      By: Shikhar Ghosh and Ali Huberlie
      The case recounts the process of launching an early stage venture, from idea conception through initial efforts to validate the concept, followed by product launch, and fund raising. It emphasizes the Customer Value Proposition of the business model, and asks – Who is... View Details
      Keywords: Early Stage; Female Protagonist; Value Proposition; Team Building; Founders' Agreements; Start-up; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Business Startups; Sports; United States; North America; Nigeria; Africa
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      • May 2013 (Revised March 2014)
      • Case

      Benetton Group S.p.A., 2012

      By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
      On May 31, 2012, after 36 years on the Milan Stock Exchange, Benetton was officially delisted and taken private by Edizione, the Benetton family's holding company. Since 2000, Benetton shareholders had seen its market value fall from $4.3 billion to $720 million at the... View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; Fashion; Retail; Privatization; Family Ownership; Performance Improvement; Problems and Challenges; Management Teams; Globalized Firms and Management; Change Management; Restructuring; Competitive Strategy; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Italy
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