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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
Innovation Institute and the high-growth startup, Stella Service. Phil began his career at Moody's Investors Service and McKinsey & Co. In his spare time he founded and runs two innovative nonprofits that... View Details
- March 2025
- Case
Silicon Valley Bank: Gone in 36 Hours
This case examines factors contributing to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in March 2023, an event as unpredicted as it was quick. SVB funded nearly half of all U.S. venture-backed startups and at the end of 2022 held $173 billion in deposits, largely... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Standards; Bank Runs; Financial Accounting; Financial Reporting; Social Media; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Investment Portfolio; Interest Rates; Debt Securities; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Statements; Risk Management; Failure; Fair Value Accounting; Credit; Corporate Governance; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; United States
Kang, Jung Koo, Krishna G. Palepu, Charles C.Y. Wang, and David Lane. "Silicon Valley Bank: Gone in 36 Hours." Harvard Business School Case 125-094, March 2025.
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Investing for Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
students the opportunity to learn from our entrepreneur partners, and to further HBS’ partnership with our neighboring communities. The fund currently seeks to make investments of $25,000 - $50,000 , either as a lead investor or as part... View Details
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People - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
the National Bureau of Economic Research from 2011 to 2018. His research is in the areas of behavioral finance, corporate finance, and capital markets, with a primary focus on the interactions among corporate finance, investor behavior,... View Details
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Recognizing Our Donors - Alumni
the School’s continued excellence. HBS Fund Investors Society Leadership donors to the HBS Fund, the School's annual fund, enjoy membership in the HBS Fund Investors Society. John C. Whitehead Society Donors... View Details
- September 2020 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Algramo
By: Michael Chu, Monica Silva and Mariana Cal
Founded in 2013 by José Manuel Moller in Chile, Algramo first became known for addressing the “poverty tax” (the surcharge paid by lower income families for staples sold in smaller sizes) through specially-designed dispensers in low-income neighborhood grocery stores... View Details
Keywords: Packaging-as-a-wallet; Plastic Waste; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Reusable Packaging; Alliances With FMCGs To Meet ESG Goals; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Value Creation; Goals and Objectives; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Latin America; South America; Chile
Chu, Michael, Monica Silva, and Mariana Cal. "Algramo." Harvard Business School Case 321-079, September 2020. (Revised June 2021.)
- 2014
- Book
Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond
By: Aldo Musacchio and Sergio G. Lazzarini
In this book we describe the transformation of state capitalism from a model in which governments owned and ran corporations and broadly controlled the allocation of financial resources into two new varieties of state capitalism: Leviathan as a majority and as a... View Details
Keywords: State Capitalism; State-owned Enterprises; Industrial Policy; Development Banks; Capitalism; Financial Markets; Corporate Governance Theory; CEO Effects; Public Sector; Economic Systems; Financial Institutions; Corporate Governance; Business and Government Relations; Governing and Advisory Boards; State Ownership; Privatization; Public Ownership; Emerging Markets; Banking Industry; Mining Industry; Energy Industry
Musacchio, Aldo, and Sergio G. Lazzarini. Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
lives of people and their societies. Rather, some organizations would be better off measuring shorter-term outputs or individual outcomes. Funders such as foundations and impact investors are better positioned to measure systemic impacts.... View Details
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Bankruptcy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
22, 2008. Barclays Group Archives. View as PDF Barclays Group. Press Release, September 22, 2008. Barclays Group Archives. View as PDF In the mortgage securitization process, a borrower takes out a loan from a lending institution. The lending View Details
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About - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
stability, pioneered by researchers at Harvard, is that financial instability often follows periods when financial institutions, like investors and policy makers, have underestimated risks. These errors in beliefs were an important cause... View Details
- 13 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions
readily be reclaimed by investors in the firm who lost money." In a new research paper, coauthored with World Bank economists Martin Kanz and Leora Klapper, Cole explores how various performance incentives affect lending decisions... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
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The New History of American Capitalism
forces following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the end of the Cold War. “Capitalism of a wide variety of institutional and ideological stripes, now characterizes all developed countries,” they observe.... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
of the debt has partially offset the Federal Reserve's attempts to reduce the supply of long-term bonds held by private investors through its policy of quantitative easing. We then examine the appropriate debt management policy for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
Review of Financial Studies Structural GARCH: The Volatility-Leverage Connection By: Engle, Robert F., and Emil N. Siriwardane Abstract—During the financial crisis, financial firm leverage and volatility both rose dramatically. Consequently, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
John C. Mulliken
Strategy consultant, former CTO & CPO, public & private company board member, retail & climatetech entrepreneur, early stage investor. Father of two, husband, sailor, hiker, and aspirational road biker.
John is a senior lecturer in the... View Details
John is a senior lecturer in the... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
expectations into a standard setting of price formation in which investors learn about the fundamental value of an asset and trade it. They study the interaction of diagnostic expectations with learning from prices and speculation (buying... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016
jurists, including Louis Brandeis and institutional economist E.R.A. Seligman, supported RPM as a protection to independent proprietors. The breakdown of legal and economic consensus regarding what constituted “unfair competition” allowed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2023
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Build as Much Buzz as Booze? Inside the Epic Challenge of Cannabis-Infused Drinks
successes haven’t come easy. At the very outset, fundraising was hampered by challenges unique to the cannabis industry, such as investors’ fears about backing ventures while sales were still illegal under federal law. Other investors... View Details
- 07 Jul 2021
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Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust
with customers, employees, and investors by being “the real deal,” creating valuable products and services, acting on good intentions, treating people fairly, and taking responsibility for how an organization impacts business and society,... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
technologies. Iberdrola was an early investor in renewables, positioning itself as a leader driving the electric industry's role in the fight against climate change. In the case, chairman and CEO Ignacio Galán is weighing the firm's... View Details