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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: investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry

      HBS Case: FX Risk Hedging at EADS

      In 2008, EADS, the European aerospace group that owns Airbus, was faced with the decision of how best to hedge a large and growing mismatch between its dollar revenues and its euro manufacturing costs. Specifically, the company needed to decide if it would continue... View Details

      • March 2007 (Revised March 2010)
      • Case

      Rovna Dan: The Flat Tax in Slovakia

      By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella, Ane Damgaard Jensen and Vincent Marie Dessain
      Explores the tax policy choices made by Slovakia and the impact of reforms. Set in 2006, looks at the decision facing new Prime Minister Robert Fico as he faces the public's "reform fatigue." Traces the development of tax and fiscal policies since Slovakia's... View Details
      Keywords: Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Taxation; Labor; Welfare; Slovakia
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      • 15 Jul 2021
      • News

      Hubert Joly Turned Around Best Buy. Now He’s Trying to Fix Capitalism.

      • March 2005 (Revised January 2006)
      • Case

      Foreign Exchange Hedging Strategies at General Motors: Transactional and Translational Exposures

      By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen
      How should a multinational firm manage foreign exchange exposures? Examines transactional and translational exposures and alternative responses to these exposures by analyzing two specific hedging decisions by General Motors. Describes General Motors' corporate hedging... View Details
      Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Currency Exchange Rate; Expansion; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Financial Management; Investment Funds; Risk and Uncertainty; International Finance; Auto Industry
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      • 2005
      • Other Unpublished Work

      Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance

      By: Malcolm Baker, Joshua Coval and Jeremy Stein
      We explore the consequences for corporate financial policy that arise when investors exhibit inertial behavior. One implication of investor inertia is that, all else equal, a firm pursuing a strategy of equity-financed growth will prefer a stock-for-stock merger to... View Details
      Keywords: Decisions; Behavior; Stocks; Mergers and Acquisitions; Policy; Investment; Financial Institutions; Equity; Corporate Finance
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        Ashish Nanda

        Ashish Nanda is Senior Lecturer and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator at Harvard Business School. From 2018 to 2021, he was course head for the MBA Required Curriculum course in Strategy. Beginning in 2022, he is teaching an MBA Elective... View Details

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        • Fall 2024
        • Article

        The Problem of Good Conduct Among Financial Advisers

        By: Mark Egan, Gregor Matvos and Amit Seru
        Households in the United States often rely on financial advisers for investment and savings decisions, yet there is a widespread perception that many advisers are dishonest. This distrust is not unwarranted: approximately one in fifteen advisers has a history of... View Details
        Keywords: Personal Finance; Behavioral Finance; Trust; Financial Services Industry
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        • 2014
        • Working Paper

        Cleaning House: The Impact of Information Technology on Employee Corruption and Performance

        By: Lamar Pierce, Daniel Snow and Andrew McAfee
        This paper examines how firm investments in technology-based employee monitoring impact both misconduct and productivity. We use unique and detailed theft and sales data from 392 restaurant locations from five firms that adopt a theft monitoring information technology... View Details
        Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Information Technology; Ethics; Performance Productivity; Employees
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        • 24 Feb 2010
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Accelerating Innovation In Energy: Insights from Multiple Sectors

        Keywords: by Rebecca M. Henderson & Richard G. Newell; Energy; Utilities; Technology
        • February 1992 (Revised March 1993)
        • Case

        Intel Corp.--1992

        By: Kenneth A. Froot
        Intel Corp., the world's dominant designer and manufacturer of microprocessors (the "brains" of the personal computer), has accumulated a large amount of cash (net of debt). Furthermore, it expects to continue to accumulate cash at an unprecedented rate. Has the... View Details
        Keywords: Dividends; Financial Management; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Cash; Technological Innovation; Capital Structure; Investment Return; Equity; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Semiconductor Industry; United States
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        • 2008
        • Casebook

        The Rules of Globalization: Case Book

        By: Rawi Abdelal
        This is a book about the politics of the global economy — about how firms prosper by understanding those politics, or fail by misunderstanding them. Understanding the politics of globalization may once have been a luxury; it is now, for most high-level managers, simply... View Details
        Keywords: Trade; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations
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        • June 2011 (Revised November 2014)
        • Case

        Vehbi Koç and the Making of Turkey's Largest Business Group

        By: Asli M. Colpan and Geoffrey Jones
        The case describes the creation of Turkey's largest business group by Vehbi Koç. The foundation of this group in the interwar years, and its subsequent diversification into many industries, including automobiles, household goods, and services, is analysed. The case... View Details
        Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Organizational Structure; Diversification; Manufacturing Industry; Turkey
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        • 07 Dec 2015
        • Research & Ideas

        The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends

        and believe in. Consider that one of those tools, crowdfunding, is on track to account for more investment money than venture capital itself by 2016, rising from just $880 million in 2010 to an estimated $34 billion by 2015. To understand... View Details
        Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking
        • Web

        Admissions & Financial Support - Doctoral

        Kekre Business Economics Do Yoon Kim Strategy Hummy Song Health Policy (Management) Talia Gillis Business Economics Yueran Ma Business Economics Erica Moszkowski Business Economics Sagar Saxena Business Economics Aurora Turek... View Details
        • 25 Apr 2014
        • Research & Ideas

        To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market

        Editor's note. Argentina is in the midst of a continuing saga regarding its 2002 default on its sovereign debt, a case that the US Supreme Court will decide soon. HBS finance professor Laura Alfaro, who served from 2010 to 2012 as Minister of National Planning and... View Details
        Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
        • 02 Feb 2011
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector

        Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter; Financial Services

          Michael E. Porter

          Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details

          Keywords: biotechnology; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; internet; nonprofit industry; service industry; state government
          • Article

          Lessons from England's Health Care Workforce Redesign: No Quick Fixes

          By: Richard Bohmer and Candace Imison
          In 2000 the English National Health Service (NHS) began a series of workforce redesign initiatives that increased the number of doctors and nurses serving patients, expanded existing staff roles and developed new ones, redistributed health care work, and invested in... View Details
          Keywords: Health Care; Work Force Management; United Kingdom
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          • 22 May 2007
          • First Look

          First Look: May 22, 2007

          policy resolution. In so doing, they engender excess burden. This paper posits, calibrates, and simulates a life cycle model with earnings, lifespan, investment return, and future View Details
          Keywords: Martha Lagace