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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance
The Rise of Installment Selling Home Finance Cars on Time The Secondary Credit Market The Usurer's Grip Research Links Credits “About everyone who lives in what he calls his own house is in debt.” 20 &mdash Anonymous Boston leather... View Details
- October 2003
- Case
Financing Biodiversity Conservation by the Global Conservation Fund
By: Mihir A. Desai and Julia Stevens
The Global Conservation Fund is an international nonprofit organization with a $100 million endowment and an exclusive focus on land preservation. The fund and its director must decide which projects to fund over the next year and what financing mechanism to use.... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Protection; Project Evaluation; Environmental Sustainability; Projects; Finance; Decision Making; Financial Instruments; Nonprofit Organizations
Desai, Mihir A., and Julia Stevens. "Financing Biodiversity Conservation by the Global Conservation Fund." Harvard Business School Case 204-019, October 2003.
- 2021
- Article
Venture Capital Booms and Startup Financing
By: William Janeway, Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
We review the growing literature on the relationship between venture capital booms and startup financing, focusing on three broad areas: First, we discuss the drivers of large inflows into the venture capital asset class, particularly in recent years—which are related... View Details
Janeway, William, Ramana Nanda, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Venture Capital Booms and Startup Financing." Annual Review of Financial Economics 13 (2021): 111–127.
- March 1981 (Revised April 1999)
- Case
Brazil: Financing the Miracle
Wellons, Philip A. "Brazil: Financing the Miracle." Harvard Business School Case 381-140, March 1981. (Revised April 1999.)
- 2009
- Working Paper
Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship
By: William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda
Kerr, William R., and Ramana Nanda. "Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-013, August 2009.
- September 1995 (Revised July 1998)
- Background Note
Entrepreneurial Finance Suggested Readings
By: William A. Sahlman and Andrew S. Janower
Sahlman, William A., and Andrew S. Janower. "Entrepreneurial Finance Suggested Readings." Harvard Business School Background Note 396-040, September 1995. (Revised July 1998.)
- January 1987 (Revised January 1988)
- Background Note
Note on Trade Finance
By: David B. Yoffie
Yoffie, David B. "Note on Trade Finance." Harvard Business School Background Note 387-069, January 1987. (Revised January 1988.)
- 11 Apr 2008
- News
High finance laid low
The Growth of Finance
The U.S. financial services industry grew from 4.9% of GDP in 1980 to 7.9% of GDP in 2007. A sizeable portion of the growth can be explained by rising asset management fees, which in turn were driven by increases in the valuation of tradable assets, particularly... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- News
When Art Met Finance
Jeffrey Deitch, Jeff Koons, and Dakis Joannou at the opening of the exhibition “Everything That’s Interesting Is New,” The Dakis Joannou Collection, The Factory, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, 1996. (Photo via Artsy) Jeffrey Deitch, Jeff Koons, and Dakis Joannou... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 1993
- Book
Case Problems in International Finance
By: W. C. Kester and T. A. Luehrman
Keywords: International Finance
Kester, W. C. and T. A. Luehrman, eds. Case Problems in International Finance. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993.
- Aug 25 2016
- Testimonial
Mastering the Fundamentals of Finance
- October 2019
- Article
Returns to Talent and the Finance Wage Premium
By: Boris Vallée and Claire Célérier
To study the role of talent in finance workers' pay, we exploit a special feature of the French higher education system. Wage returns to talent have been significantly higher and have risen faster in finance since the 1980s than in other sectors. Both wage returns to... View Details
Vallée, Boris, and Claire Célérier. "Returns to Talent and the Finance Wage Premium." Review of Financial Studies 32, no. 10 (October 2019): 4005–4040.
- July 2015
- Case
Private Equity Finance Vignettes: 2016
By: Paul A. Gompers and Victoria Ivashina
This case contains four vignettes that provide an introduction to the issues covered in the course, Private Equity Finance. View Details
Gompers, Paul A., and Victoria Ivashina. "Private Equity Finance Vignettes: 2016." Harvard Business School Case 216-005, July 2015.
- 2010
- Chapter
The Financing of R&D and Innovation
By: Bronwyn H. Hall and Josh Lerner
Evidence on the “funding gap” for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for underinvestment that exist even when externality-induced underinvestment is absent. We conclude that while small and new innovative firms experience high... View Details
Hall, Bronwyn H., and Josh Lerner. "The Financing of R&D and Innovation." Chap. 14 in Handbook of the Economics of Innovation: Volume 1, by Bronwyn H. Hall and Nathan Rosenberg, 609–639. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2010.
- Research Summary
Leading The Finance Function in the Future
Marc L. Bertoneche is analyzing, for research and teaching purposes, the trends of the finance function in various parts of the world and its increasing role as a strategic partner in business decisions. View Details
- 03 Jan 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Banking Deregulation, Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship
- 07 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Can You Learn Finance through the Case Method?
confident in my business-related quantitative skills coming into HBS. I had never taken a single economics class in my life and had no exposure – and I truly mean zero – to accounting or finance. In fact, developing an understanding of basic View Details