Publications

Educators

March 2017
Other Article

The Program in Corporate Finance

By: Malcolm Baker

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2008
Working Paper

The Economics of Structured Finance

By: Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford

November 1999 (Revised March 2002)
Teaching Note

Financing the Mozal Project TN

By: Benjamin C. Esty

Teaching Note for (9-200-005). View Details

Keywords: Mozambique

12 May 2010
News

Venture Financing and Entrepreneurial Success

Fourth Quarter 2002
Article

Corporations and the Financing of Innovation

By: Paul A. Gompers

Keywords: Financing and Loans; Innovation and Invention

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April 2000
Case

Financing of Project Achieve, The (B)

By: Mihir A. Desai

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Forecasting and Prediction; Venture Capital; Cash Flow; Equity; Negotiation Deal; Valuation

Educators

November 1997 (Revised October 2001)
Background Note

A Note on Government Sources of Financing for Small Businesses

By: Paul A. Gompers and Catherine M. Conneely

Discusses issues related to government sources of financing for small business in the United States. In addition to presenting motivations for government financing programs, the note gives a detailed presentation of major federal programs to assist small business. View Details

Keywords: Corporate Finance; Business and Government Relations

Educators

2015
Article

International Trade, Multinational Activity, and Corporate Finance

By: C. Fritz Foley and Kalina Manova

An emerging new literature brings unique ideas from corporate finance to the study of international trade and investment. Insights about differences in the development of financial institutions across countries, the role of financial constraints, and the use of... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Investment; Trade; Corporate Finance

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03 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

As waves of globalization wash across the business world, tremendous new opportunities for financing and investment present themselves to savvy enterprises. In a new casebook, HBS professor Mihir A. Desai discusses the numerous challenges... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

06 Sep 2017
News

The Book Making Us Re-think the World of Finance

30 Jan 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Cost of External Finance and Selection into Entrepreneurship

Keywords: by Ramana Nanda

22 Jan 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Financial Patent Quality: Finance Patents After State Street

Keywords: by Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, Mark Baker & Andrew Speen; Financial Services

Web

Finance & Investing - Business & Environment

Confronting Climate Change Finance & Investing Understanding risk, identifying opportunity, and managing investments in the context of climate change The global financial landscape is increasingly being shaped by factors associated with... View Details

January 2014
Article

The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance: Evidence from Angel Financings

By: William R. Kerr, Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar

This paper documents that ventures that are funded by two successful angel groups experience superior outcomes to rejected ventures: they have improved survival, exits, employment, patenting, web traffic, and financing. We use strong discontinuities in angel funding... View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Financing and Loans; Interests; Employment; Patents; Internet and the Web; Operations; Entrepreneurship; Business Exit or Shutdown