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  • January 1994
  • Exercise

Walt Disney Company's Sleeping Beauty Bonds

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
Walt Disney Co. issues a 100-year bond. This case describes the terms of the bond and immediate capital market reaction. View Details
Keywords: Capital Markets; Cash Flow; Debt Securities; Bonds; Interest Rates; Value
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    Bank Capital and the Growth of Private Credit

    We show that business development companies (BDCs) — closed-end funds that provide a significant share of nonbank loans to middle market firms — are very well capitalized according to bank capital frameworks. They have median risk-based capital ratios of about 36% and,... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Research

    The founding and expansion of new firms is central to innovation and economic growth, but the determinants of a new idea’s success are difficult to ascertain. The decision to form a new firm and its ultimate outcome are impacted by ownership structure, financing... View Details

    • 09 Sep 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: September 9

    assessing the startup health care company's 2014 marketing plan. On December 31, 2013, Vaxess had obtained an exclusive license to a series of patents for a silk protein technology that, when added to vaccines, reduced or removed the need... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America

    By: J. Gunnar Trumbull
    Theories of legitimate regulation have emphasized the role of governments either in fixing market failures to promote greater efficiency or in restricting the efficient functioning of markets in order to pursue public welfare goals. In either case, features of markets... View Details
    Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Financial Markets; Personal Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Welfare; France; United States
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    • 10 Feb 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: February 10

    entry) as a means of reconciling non-monotonic incentive responses to competition, effectively manipulating the number and skills distribution of contestants facing one another. February 2015 GfK Marketing Intelligence Review Beyond... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Curriculum - Case Method Project

    theories; majority rule vs. tyranny of the majority; dangers of small republics; “expanding the sphere”; the Constitutional Convention; origins of American federalism, Articles I-III of the U.S. Constitution In Detail: Debt and Paper... View Details
    • September 2006 (Revised November 2006)
    • Supplement

    SUN Brewing (A) (CW)

    The Khemka family of India--founders, managers, and majority owners of Russia-based SUN Brewing--faces a difficult decision in 1998. Following the ruble's massive devaluation in August 1998, the stock price of SUN brewing, which is publicly listed on the Luxemburg... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Emerging Markets; Family Business; Financing and Loans; Capital Markets; Decision Choices and Conditions; Food and Beverage Industry; India; Russia
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    Global Crises Data by Country - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    exchange rate crises, stock market crises, sovereign debt growth and default, and many other data series. To see Carmen’s related research, please visit her website here. The BFFS Project keeps this data... View Details
    • October 2023 (Revised December 2023)
    • Case

    Compound: Lending on the Blockchain

    By: Marco Di Maggio, George Gonzalez and Richard Dulude
    This case critically examines Compound, an innovative decentralized finance (DeFi) platform. Focusing on Compound’s blockchain-based borrowing and lending protocol, the case explores its automated, intermediary-free system using Ethereum smart contracts. This system... View Details
    Keywords: Blockchain; Cryptocurrency; Disruptive Innovation; Borrowing and Debt; Financing and Loans; Organizational Design; Technological Innovation
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    • 09 Nov 2023
    • News

    From the Brink

    Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details
    Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
    • 13 Jun 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet

    years than it is today,” says Viceira, “and I think that is safer than betting on any one specific economy.” Related Reading: Lessons Unlearned? Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
    • November 2007
    • Article

    If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business

    By: Robert C. Pozen
    This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. As the dust settles on the recent frenzy of private equity deals (including... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Capital Structure; Private Equity; Investment Return; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry
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      Meg Rithmire

      Meg Rithmire is the James E. Robison Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit. Professor Rithmire holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University, and her primary expertise is in the comparative political economy of development with a... View Details

      Keywords: real estate
      • Web

      Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

      and intermediary frictions have severely impaired arbitrage in the exchange rate and credit markets each on their own, but capital flows, such as international debt issuance, bundle together the two LOOP... View Details
      • Web

      Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

      execution velocity and expanding into enterprise markets required significant investment in security and infrastructure, intensifying the pressure to stay ahead of formidable competitors like OpenAI and Google. The case illustrates the... View Details
      • March 2005 (Revised May 2006)
      • Case

      Buckingham Park

      By: Arthur I Segel and Joshua A. Katzin
      In September, 2004, Stephen Lebowitz, President of CBL, a $6 billion publicly traded shopping mall real estate investment trust (REIT) with over 70 million square feet, is considering acquiring 170 acres for a new retail development at a racetrack site in Southern New... View Details
      Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Debt Securities; Investment; Real Estate Industry; New Hampshire
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      • October 2013 (Revised August 2016)
      • Case

      NOWaccount

      By: Ramana Nanda, William A. Sahlman and Lauren Barley

      It was September 2013, and NOWaccount Network Corporation (NOW®) co-founders John Hayes and Lara Hodgson were putting the final touches on the presentation deck for their annual shareholders' meeting. Along with co-founder Stacey Abrams, the pair had designed NOW's... View Details

      Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Finance; Entrepreneurship
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      Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

      Loan Marketing Association, 1973–1990 William Fox Fox Film Company, 1915–1929 Clarence Francis General Foods Corporation, 1935–1943 John M. Franklin United States Lines, 1946–1960 Frank M. Freimann Magnavox Company, 1950–1967 Jack Frye... View Details
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      Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

      States severely affected the flow of goods, manufacturing, and job growth in Europe and Asia. Stock markets plunged, resulting in the worst economic downturn in global markets since the Great Depression of... View Details