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  • Article

New Interest in Incentive Financing

By: Samuel Hayes
The article presents the findings of a study on incentive financings as they apply to institutional investors, particularly life insurance company investors. The author made contact with investment officers in 29 insurance companies, and have collected a considerable... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Financing and Loans; Institutional Investing
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  • May 2002 (Revised August 2006)
  • Case

Yangcheng: AES in China

By: Richard H.K. Vietor
AES, an American electric power company with 141 plants worldwide, is just completing construction of a 2,100-MW plant in China--the largest ever. The project, a joint venture with five local companies, has several environmental, ownership, and operational issues as... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Joint Ventures; Foreign Direct Investment; Environmental Sustainability; Problems and Challenges; Energy Industry; China
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  • January 2011 (Revised June 2011)
  • Supplement

Fixed Income Arbitrage in a Financial Crisis (C): TED Spread and Swap Spread in November 2008

Investment manager Albert Mills confronts an apparent arbitrage opportunity during the global financial crisis of 2008 when he notices an unusually low-- and briefly negative-- thirty-year U.S. dollar fixed-floating swap spread. Mills must decide if there is an... View Details
Keywords: Bonds; Financial Management; Investment Return; Financial Crisis; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 28 May 2024
  • In Practice

Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible

investments in their employees and place a higher value on candidates' foundational skills. In lower-trust societies, however, employers perceive the employer-employee relationship as more of a short-term transaction and prefer to select... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 03 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All

In August, mega venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz announced a $350 million investment in residential real estate company Flow—the single largest investment the VC titan had ever made. But a bigger... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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  • Article

Corporate Alignment with the EU Taxonomy for Sustainable Activities: First Evidence from Financial Accounting Data

By: Alex Cheema-Fox, Megan Czasonis, Piyush Kontu and George Serafeim
What is sustainable? This question is of paramount importance given the trillions of assets invested according to different sustainability criteria. While until now we have had no standard for answering this question, the European Union's (EU) Taxonomy for sustainable... View Details
Keywords: Financial Accounting; Capital Expenditures; Revenues; Sustainability; Regulation; Accounting; Finance; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Disclosure; Europe; European Union
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  • September 1995 (Revised March 1997)
  • Case

Bob Reiss and Valdawn (A): November 1994

Bob Reiss, a seasoned entrepreneur, "accidentally" started Valdawn in 1988 and in six years built the company into a $7 million marketer of "fun and fashion" watches. Valdawn, a "virtual" company, has very few employees or fixed assets and enjoys attractive profit... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Ethics; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • 16 May 2020
  • News

Businesses are proving quite resilient to the pandemic

    Christoph Schiess

    Keywords: Real Estate, Hotels, Diversified
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    An Empirical Guide to Investor-Level Private Equity Data from Preqin

    By: Juliane Begenau, Claudia Robles-Garcia, Emil Siriwardane and Lulu Wang
    This note provides guidance on the use of investor-level private equity data from Preqin for empirical research. Preqin primarily sources its cash flow data through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with U.S. public pensions. Our focus is on the components of... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity Returns; Prequin Data; Private Equity; Analytics and Data Science; Investment Return
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    • winter 1989
    • Article

    Split-Awards Procurement and Innovation

    By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao
    In many procurement settings, it is possible for a buyer to split a production award between suppliers. In this article, we develop a model of split-award procurement auctions in which the split choice is endogenous. We characterize the set of equilibrium bids and... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Cost; Supply Chain; Investment; Balance and Stability
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    • 24 Apr 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: April 24, 2007

    case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407076   PublicationsMultinationals as Arbitrageurs? The Effect of Stock Market Valuations on Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Malcolm C. Baker, Fritz Foley, and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

    who had been encouraged to see that they had a stake in industry success.” 13 U.S. Steel would find that investment in PR provided multiple benefits including interest from current and future investors, employees, and customers, as well... View Details
    • January 2010 (Revised October 2011)
    • Case

    The Congressional Oversight Panel's Valuation of the TARP Warrants (A)

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    The Congressional Oversight Panel wants to value the warrants issued to the government in connection with the TARP investments of 2008, in order to increase the transparency of options repurchases. The case describes the methodology used to value the warrants. Students... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Asset Pricing; Financial Instruments; Investment; Business and Government Relations; Mathematical Methods; Valuation; Banking Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
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    • 11 Apr 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

    Traditional investing classifications consider Walmart a consumer staples retailer, but the company owns more than 6,000 retail and distribution properties around the world—the portfolio dwarfs those of many commercial real estate firms.... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consumer Products; Real Estate; Financial Services; Retail
    • 2011
    • Chapter

    How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals' Mutual Fund Choices?

    By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
    We use an experiment to estimate the effect of the SEC's Summary Prospectus, which simplifies mutual fund disclosure. Our subjects chose an equity portfolio and a bond portfolio. Subjects received either statutory prospectuses or Summary Prospectuses. We find no... View Details
    Keywords: Information; Corporate Disclosure; Decision Choices and Conditions; Consumer Behavior; Retirement; Personal Finance; Investment Funds; Microeconomics
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    • February 2011
    • Exercise

    Carbon Trading Simulation: Green Cement Inc.

    By: Peter A. Coles
    This simulation presents students the opportunity to experience firsthand the economics of carbon markets and permit trading. Each student has private role information about a company he or she manages. The student must make decisions about pollution-reducing... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Investment; Markets; Agreements and Arrangements; Production; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants
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    • May 2022 (Revised June 2024)
    • Case

    LOOP: Driving Change in Auto Insurance Pricing

    By: Elie Ofek and Alicia Dadlani
    John Henry and Carey Anne Nadeau, co-founders and co-CEOs of LOOP, an insurtech startup based in Austin, Texas, were on a mission to modernize the archaic $250 billion automobile insurance market. They sought to create equitably priced insurance by eliminating pricing... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Technological Innovation; Equality and Inequality; Prejudice and Bias; Growth and Development Strategy; Customer Relationship Management; Price; Insurance Industry; Financial Services Industry
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    • 1993
    • Working Paper

    Currency Hedging Over Long Horizons

    By: K. A. Froot
    This paper reexamines the widely-held wisdom that the currency exposure of international investments should be entirely hedged. It finds that the previously documented ability of hedges to reduce portfolio return variance holds at short horizons, but not at long... View Details
    Keywords: Currency; Hedging; Transaction Costs; Exchange Rates; International Markets; Real Exchange Rate; Purchasing Power Parity; International Finance; Currency Exchange Rate; Asset Pricing; Investment; Globalized Markets and Industries
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      Geoffrey G. Jones

      Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative. He holds degrees of BA, MA and PhD from Cambridge University, UK. He has an honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration... View Details

      Keywords: banking; beauty products; construction; consumer products; energy; entertainment; fashion; financial services; food; food processing; green technology; petroleum; service industry