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  • March 2024 (Revised May 2024)
  • Case

Masterpiece for the Masses: The First Art Exchange ARTEX

By: Lauren Cohen, Anastasiya Siroochenko (Siro) and Sophia Pan
Yassir Benjelloun-Touimi, CEO of ARTEX, aspired to marry the world of art and finance. Hoping to promote transparent, fractionalized ownership of renowned artwork, the founder had spent years contemplating the birth of an art stock market. This exchange would allow... View Details
Keywords: Trading; Art Market; Art Fair; Tokenization; Democratization; Exchange Traded Fund; Price Monitoring; Trends And Opportunities; Financial Liquidity; Financial Markets; Arts; Financial Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Investment Return; Technological Innovation; Business Model; Trends; Stocks; Assets; Diversification; Trade; Financial Services Industry; Fine Arts Industry; Paris; France
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  • 28 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

Response to Covid-19 (Harvard Business Review) What Quarantine Can Teach You About Spending and Happiness (Wall Street Journal) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Chapter 11 doesn’t give companies a free pass, however. Cases can be converted to a View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking
  • January 2021 (Revised April 2022)
  • Case

Best Buy's Corie Barry: Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: William W. George and Amram Migdal
This case examines the leadership of Corie Barry, the new CEO of Best Buy, with a focus on actions the company took in 2020 to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic. The case includes a history of Best Buy’s strategy and leadership, including the transitions between the... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Change; Disruption; Volatility; Communication; Competency and Skills; Customers; Decision Making; Ethics; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Cash Flow; Financial Condition; Financial Liquidity; Goods and Commodities; Corporate Governance; Health Pandemics; Human Resources; Executive Compensation; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Resignation and Termination; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Innovation and Invention; Jobs and Positions; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Job Design and Levels; Job Interviews; Job Offer; Labor; Employment; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Law; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Management; Business or Company Management; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Management Succession; Management Systems; Management Teams; Risk Management; Operations; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Logistics; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Supply Chain; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Outcome or Result; Personal Development and Career; Retirement; Work-Life Balance; Planning; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Labor and Management Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Science; Strategy; Retail Industry; North and Central America; United States; Minnesota
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  • 14 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

not an option, this process helped companies share implementation costs and leverage each other’s competencies to discover new ways of doing things. Some companies took more extreme measures to support their ecosystem, for example sustaining suppliers’ View Details
Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa
  • November 2005
  • Teaching Note

Refinancing of Shanghai General Motors, The (A) (TN)

By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs
Keywords: Financial Liquidity; Auto Industry
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  • April 2004
  • Article

The Illiquidity Puzzle: Theory and Evidence from Private Equity

By: Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar
Keywords: Financial Liquidity; Theory; Information
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  • 30 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell

well, the family has a higher risk of losing its wealth through bad investment decisions and overconsumption. Starting now, before your sale and liquidity event, you need to adopt the attitudes of those families that endure as... View Details
Keywords: by Jonathan Pellegrin; Food & Beverage; Retail
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End

lenders and liquidating otherwise viable companies. As the theory goes, the deep-pocketed secured lenders at the front of the line have a bias toward shutting down viable operations, selling off the assets, and collecting the cash they’re... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
  • November 2020
  • Article

Accelerator or Brake? Cash for Clunkers, Household Liquidity, and Aggregate Demand

By: Daniel Green, Brian Melzer, Jonathan Parker and Arcenis Rojas
This paper evaluates the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS) by comparing the vehicle purchases and disposals of households with eligible "clunkers" to those of households with similar, but ineligible, vehicles. CARS caused roughly 500,000 purchases during the program... View Details
Keywords: Automobiles; Purchasing; Government Incentives; Household; Financial Liquidity; Income; Behavior
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  • 08 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform

as benefits from liquidity in the capital market. The benefits have been widely discussed—the costs have not. One suggestion we propose is to provide even stronger incentives for long-term investing—namely to create a much more... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

    Charles E. Merrill

    the first established broker to predict the Great Crash of 1929 and the only one that liquidated his firm’s stock portfolio. At his death, his firm boasted 115 offices with 400,000 clients and had become the largest brokerage firm in the... View Details
    Keywords: Finance
    • 29 Sep 2022
    • News

    Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal

    industry. The plan’s design was guided by several key outcomes: saving jobs; protecting businesses with liquidity and fiscal incentives; building tech infrastructure to support work-from-home initiatives; providing basic food and... View Details
    Keywords: Maureen Harmon
    • 05 Jan 2017
    • News

    Seven HBS Alumni Make Forbes 30 Under 30

    Under 30 entry VENTURE CAPITAL Nimi Katragadda (MBA 2015) Principal, BoxGroup 30 Under 30 entry Michael Ma (MBA 2015) General Partner, Liquid 2 Ventures 30 Under 30 entry Caitlin Strandberg (MBA 2016) Vice President, FirstMark 30 Under 30... View Details
    • November 2000 (Revised March 2001)
    • Case

    Yale University Investments Office: July 2000

    By: Josh Lerner
    David Swensen, chief investment officer at Yale University, reviews the $10 billion endowment strategy, that places an unusually heavy emphasis on private equity and other illiquid securities. Changing market conditions in July 2000 cause him to rethink historically... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Financial Liquidity; Investment; Strategy; Education Industry
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    • 22 Mar 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: March 22

    explicitly considering counterfactual histories had the innovations never been invented or adopted. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16780 An Empirical Decomposition of Risk and Liquidity in Nominal and Inflation-Indexed... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Mar 2013
    • News

    Sweet Deal

    Hostess Brands, the maker of some 30 iconic American bakery products such as Wonder Bread, Ho Hos, Ding Dongs, and Twinkies, declared itself in liquidation and its assets for sale last November. As an adviser to the Teamsters union, Harry... View Details
    Keywords: Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
    • 01 Jun 2010
    • News

    Paulson Advocates Regulatory Reform

    will look not at the trees, but at the whole forest.” He also called for new government power to impose an orderly liquidation of any failing financial institution. Lacking that authority, Paulson said he had to use “duct tape and baling... View Details
    Keywords: federal bailouts; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
    • 02 Aug 2016
    • First Look

    August 2, 2016

    the capital regulation of commercial banks? This paper builds a quantitative general equilibrium model with commercial banks and shadow banks to study the unintended consequences of capital requirements. A key feature of our model is defaultable bank liabilities that... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Financial Management of Smaller Firms - Course Catalog

    from those of larger, public firms and often require a different approach because of their small scale, lack of liquidity and the difficulty of attracting and deploying capital. The careers of small business entrepreneurs are also very... View Details
    • Portrait Project

    Sandy Ottensmann

    oxygen to rush into the vessel and transform what should have been a clear liquid into a black tar.  I wanted to toss it.  I have always been a perfectionist and have trouble facing my failures.  I wanted to rid myself of this mistake,... View Details