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  • 15 Sep 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

Debt Redemption and Reserve Accumulation

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
  • April 1993
  • Teaching Note

Grupo Industrial Alfa, S.A.,1982 (TN)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman
Teaching Note for (9-292-008). View Details
Keywords: Cash Flow; Borrowing and Debt; Restructuring; Rights; Business Strategy; Negotiation; System; Business Conglomerates; Currency Exchange Rate; Energy Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Mexico
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  • January 1987 (Revised November 1991)
  • Case

R.J. Reynolds International Financing

By: W. Carl Kester and William B. Allen
Reynolds must source a substantial portion of the financing of its Nabisco acquisition in offshore bond markets. Morgan Guaranty has proposed a yen/dollar dual currency Eurobond that could be hedged into dollars. This structure is compared to Eurodollar Bonds, Euroyen... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Capital Markets; Currency Exchange Rate; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Bonds; Financing and Loans
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  • November 2010 (Revised July 2011)
  • Supplement

Oriflame S.A. (B)

By: David F. Hawkins and Karol Misztal
Exercise for recording derivative hedging transactions, accompanied by a technical note on IFRS derivative accounting. View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; International Accounting; Currency Exchange Rate; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Risk Management; Standards; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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  • May 2006 (Revised November 2006)
  • Case

China: To Float or Not To Float? (F)- Alcatel and Strong Chinese Competition

By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
The Chinese operations of Alcatel, a global communications solution provider based in France, were faced with strong local competition and a difficult market. It remained unclear how Alcatel would be able to recover growth in the Chinese market. Initiatives were... View Details
Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; International Relations; Growth and Development Strategy; Research and Development; Competitive Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Communications Industry; China; France; United States
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  • October 2008
  • Teaching Note

Samoa Tala (TN)

By: Joshua D. Coval, Bhagwan Chowdhry and Konark Saxena
Teaching Note for [209053]. View Details
Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Risk Management; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Microfinance; Strategy; Borrowing and Debt; Currency; Cash Flow; Samoa
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  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

Be Our Guest: HBS Show 2002 Goes Off without a Hitch

which ran April 17–20 in Burden Auditorium. Since its first production in 1974, the event has showcased the dramatic, musical, and theatrical talent of HBS students. This year's performance was no exception. Titled Infernal Rate of... View Details
Keywords: Lee-Ann Landis; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 18 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

was recouped through a schedule of commission rates on stock transactions by the firm's clients. These commissions were regulated by the exchanges along with the Securities and View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Future Source

applicants the most in-demand programming languages and provides living expenses in exchange for contracted developer time with client organizations. Its acceptance rate is less than 1 percent, but the open... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • November 2010 (Revised December 2011)
  • Supplement

Oriflame S.A. (C)

By: David F. Hawkins and Karol Misztal
Notes from Oriflame's 2009 annual report relevant to the assessment of the monetary impact of Oriflame's FX risk management actions. View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; International Accounting; Currency Exchange Rate; Annual Reports; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Risk Management; Standards; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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  • 08 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform

recent Harvard Business Review article, "How the Quest for Efficiency Corroded the Market," proposes a number of radical remedies including tax breaks for long-term investors, the establishment of an investor's union, and making stock View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 08 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records

required to disclose any whiff of misbehavior to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), an independent monitoring organization regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. A research team examined those records to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Latin America's Decade

emerging markets where local stock exchange listings have grown, liquidity in many Latin American exchanges has diminished in recent years. The purchase of local, family-owned companies and state-owned... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Hospitality; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 1

  PublicationsThe New M&A Playbook Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Alton, Curtis Rising, and Andrew Waldeck Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) Abstract Companies spend more than $2 trillion on acquisitions every year, yet the M&A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 7

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-009.pdf The Need for (long) Chains in Kidney Exchange Authors:Itai Ashlagi, David Gamarnik, Michael A. Rees, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract It has been previously shown that for sufficiently large pools of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

Energy facility, when he suddenly had a brainstorm that he knew would help him as well as others solve an all-too-common problem. 1 Using the "gopher" technology that had long made the exchange of files and programs across... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
  • 15 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5

For most, these are just cases. For us, they are frequent reminders of the systems that were built and persist to the detriment of Black people. I hate the exchange that Black students have before each of these classes: “Who’s gonna do it... View Details
  • 19 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

capabilities. Forecasts are generally associated with many of the factors that money managers rate as important in their assessments of analyst contributions, including industry growth and competitiveness, low-price strategy, strategy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

couldn't get out. "Without access to stock exchanges at that time, we had to hold on to these enterprises for nine or ten years," Cohen recalled. The result was a drag on Apax's rate of return. To... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services
  • 16 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Delivering Solutions During a Crisis: an Interview with Hans Kristian Furuseth

through crisis while operating an ecommerce organization during Brexit. With business in the UK and across the EU, Furuseth and his team had to adjust to foreign exchange rates and find ways to quickly cut... View Details