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  • Research Summary

Corporate Risk Management

Traditionally companies have managed different kinds of risk individually: the corporate treasurer or finance director handles credit risk and foreign exchange risk, the human resources manager handles employment risk, and so on. Integrated risk management calls for... View Details

    The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access during the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game

    Small businesses are core to America’s economic competitiveness. Not only do they employ half of the nation’s private sector workforce – about 120 million people – but since 1995 they have created approximately two‐thirds of the net new jobs in our country. Yet in... View Details
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    The Venture Capitalist as Entrepreneur

    Noam's dissertation, entitled The Venture Capitalist as Entrepreneur, won Harvards George S. Dively award for dissertation research. In the dissertation, Noam examined the organizational dynamics and characteristics within venture capital firms themselves, viewing... View Details

    • April 2003 (Revised October 2003)
    • Case

    Banking on Germany?

    Explores the causes and consequences of transforming Germany's bank-oriented financial system into one more oriented to capital markets. The economics of globalization, international accords such as Basel II, EU financial policies, and Germany's own regulatory reforms... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Germany
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    • 01 May 2019
    • Blog Post

    Viewpoints: Synthetic Thinking with a Humble Mindset

    ideas by synthesizing them at a higher level. For instance, in the reimagining capitalism session, we explored the idea of “shared value”, which is a state where a business achieves both profitability AND social value. The process of... View Details
    • November 2019
    • Case

    Apple, Einhorn, and iPrefs (Abridged)

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and W. Carl Kester
    In March 2013, Apple Computer has a very large cash balance, and is under pressure to return cash to shareholders. Hedge fund manager David Einhorn thinks Apple can "unlock value" by issuing perpetual preferred stock, dubbed iPrefs. Henry Blodget, CEO of Business... View Details
    Keywords: Markets; Stock Shares; Value Creation; Business and Shareholder Relations
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      Robin Greenwood

      Robin is the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking at Harvard Business School. He serves as the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research. He is past faculty director of the Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability project, chair of... View Details

      Keywords: banking; financial services
      • 07 Dec 2015
      • Research & Ideas

      The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends

      industries in different ways. Venture capital, for example, was once mostly reserved for institutional investors backed by endowments and pension funds. Today, it increasingly includes individual investors who are using technological tools and data to steer View Details
      Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking
      • 16 Feb 2004
      • Research & Ideas

      Marketing Wine to the World

      "The Changing Structure of the Global Wine Industry," won the Best Paper award at the 2003 European Applied Business Research Conference. Roberto recently shared his thoughts on wine for HBS Working Knowledge in an e-mail... View Details
      Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage
      • September 2017 (Revised January 2025)
      • Case

      Dinesh Moorjani and Hatch Labs

      By: Christopher Stanton, Shikhar Ghosh, Allison Ciechanover and Jeff Huizinga
      This case is about Tinder. It discusses different business models and ways of structuring the initial team. With a $6 million investment from IAC/Interactive in 2010, Dinesh Moorjani founded Hatch Labs to build mobile apps. His mission was to attract entrepreneurial... View Details
      Keywords: Returns; Incubator; Mobile App; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Model; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Talent and Talent Management; Valuation; Equity; Finance; United States; North America
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      • October 2003 (Revised February 2004)
      • Background Note

      Introduction to the Large-Scale Investment (LSI) Course at Harvard Business School

      By: Benjamin C. Esty
      Introduces students to the Large-Scale Investment (LSI) course taught at Harvard Business School. LSI is a case-based course about project finance that is designed for second-year MBA students. The course is about project finance, which involves creation of a legally... View Details
      Keywords: Value Creation; Project Finance; Investment; Projects
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      • November 2013 (Revised January 2015)
      • Case

      Restructuring JAL

      By: Malcolm Baker, Adi Sunderam, Nobuo Sato and Akiko Kanno
      Hideo Seto, the recently appointed chairman of the investment committee of the Enterprise Turnaround Initiative Corporation, must decide whether to push JAL group, Japan's largest airline, into bankruptcy or to act as a sponsor in an out-of-court restructuring. The... View Details
      Keywords: Bankruptcy; Costs Of Financial Distress; Cost vs Benefits; Air Transportation; Restructuring; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Air Transportation Industry; Japan; United States
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      • October 2007
      • Background Note

      Price Formation

      By: Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford
      Investigates how prices are formed in competitive capital markets. Focuses on a single security called AOE. Students compete with computer traders and each other for market making and informed trading profits. Participants receive a variety of public news in the form... View Details
      Keywords: Capital Markets; Price; Profit; Corporate Disclosure; Newsletters; Industry Structures; Business Processes; Competitive Strategy
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      • August 2003 (Revised April 2004)
      • Case

      Building to a Crescendo

      By: Noam T. Wasserman and Vishesh Kumar
      Examines the efforts of an early-stage venture capital firm to formalize processes and build a pyramidal organization in an industry dominated by informal, unpyramidal structures. View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Organizational Structure; Business Startups
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      • February 2008
      • Case

      Moët Hennessy España

      By: Tiziana Casciaro, Vincent Dessain and Elena Corsi
      Since being appointed CEO of Moët Hennessy España (MHE), the Spanish subsidiary of the wine & spirits business of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH), the world's leading luxury products group, Ramiro Otano had overseen a spectacularly successful run at the company by... View Details
      Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; Groups and Teams; Food and Beverage Industry; Spain
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      • July 2004 (Revised July 2004)
      • Case

      Man Group plc

      By: Andre F. Perold and Herve Duteil
      In 2004, Man Group was the world's largest packager and distributor of investment vehicles tied to hedge funds. The firm had an equity market capitalization of $10 billion and funds under management of $38 billion. Man's offerings spanned a wide range of risk/reward... View Details
      Keywords: Capital Markets; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Funds; Global Strategy; Distribution; Product Development; Financial Services Industry
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      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      No-fault Default, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and Financial Institutions

      By: Robert C. Merton and Richard T. Thakor
      This paper analyzes the costs and benefits of a no-fault-default debt structure as an alternative to the typical bankruptcy process. We show that the deadweight costs of bankruptcy can be avoided or substantially reduced through no-fault-default debt, which permits a... View Details
      Keywords: No-fault Default; Chapter 11; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Borrowing and Debt; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Institutions; Contracts
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      • Article

      Real Effects of Relational Contracts

      By: Steven Blader, Claudine Gartenberg, Rebecca Henderson and Andrea Pratt
      How important are factors such as "firm culture" and "employee engagement" in driving firm performance? Increasing evidence from a wide range of fields suggests that productivity differs widely across firms, even after the inclusion of careful controls for factors such... View Details
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      • Teaching Interest

      Short Intensive Program (SIP): Agile at Scale: From OKR's and Agile to Execution Excellence

      What do you want to get out of your remaining time at HBS, your career and life-plan to make an impact, starting from Day 1 post-HBS? By developing tools to drive your personal success and strategy at HBS, in this interactive immersion, we will dive into how the... View Details
      • 20 Oct 2015
      • HBS Seminar

      Elizabeth Pontikes, University of Chicago Booth School of Business