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  • Portrait Project

Sabina Robinov

diagnosed with cancer. After an internal struggle, I made the difficult decision to move to the US and risk missing the precious time my father has left. I chose to focus on building myself professionally and personally. Every day I am... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Noted & Quoted

“We simply can’t call it capitalism if the biggest financial institutions enjoy a guarantee from the taxpayer that if they go bust, or risk going bust, they’ll be bailed out. That has to change.” — Professor Niall Ferguson, responding to... View Details
  • April 1993 (Revised December 1994)
  • Case

Lehman Brothers and the Securitization of American Express Charge-Card Receivables

By: Andre F. Perold and Kuljot Singh
In early 1992, Lehman Brothers had received a mandate from its affiliate, American Express Travel Related Services (TRS) Co., to securitize a portion of its consumer charge-card receivables portfolio. It is now July 22, and Lehman and TRS have just returned from a... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Credit Cards; Financial Instruments; Stocks; Asset Pricing
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  • September 2009
  • Supplement

Consumer Lending in Japan: Citi CFJ (B)

By: J. Gunnar Trumbull and Akiko Kanno
As the regulatory environment for consumer lending evolves, CFJ has to decide how to respond. View Details
Keywords: Personal Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Risk Management; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Japan
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  • September 2003 (Revised January 2004)
  • Case

Giant Cinema

By: Malcolm P. Baker, Richard S. Ruback, Erik Stafford and Kathleen Luchs
The owner of Giant Cinema must decide whether to invest in a digital projector, a new technology for screening films, or purchase a traditional projector. The impact of the new technology is uncertain, and the case describes probabilities for different outcomes that... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Film Entertainment; Technology Adoption; Financial Strategy; Investment; Outcome or Result; Risk and Uncertainty; Technology; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • June 2000 (Revised June 2000)
  • Case

Microsoft Office 2000

By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman
Describes the history of Microsoft's Office product suite. Discusses evolution of the Office 2000 project. Set at the end of the project when Steven Sinofsky, Office vice president, must decide upon the direction for the next version of Office, as well as make changes... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Product Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Change; Innovation and Management; Information Technology Industry
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  • October 1996 (Revised April 2004)
  • Case

Eric Wood (A)

By: Myra M. Hart
Describes the early career of an MBA who went to work in a small business, bought the company, and is now contemplating an acquisition to expand the business. The issues involve personal/business finance and financial risk, as well as valuation and financial... View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Business Growth and Maturation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Risk and Uncertainty
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  • 26 May 2011
  • News

A Prescription for 2011 Graduates

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 16 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 16, 2007

  Working Papers"Don'ts" And "Do's": Insights from Experience In Mitigating Risks Of Western Investors In Post-Communist Countries Authors:Charalambos A. Vlachoutsicos and Paul R. Lawrence Abstract No abstract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Mar 2012
  • Article

The Incentive Bubble

stewardship abilities of American managers and investors, and rising income inequality. When risk is repeatedly mispriced because investors enjoy skewed incentive schemes, financial capital is being misallocated. When managers undertake... View Details
  • 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Mar 2016
  • Webinars: Trending@HBS

How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network

to everyone who might use them. Who will take the risks and create viable businesses? This talk will outline how firms in various markets addressed the conundrums noted above during the commercialization of the Internet and will show how... View Details
  • 25 Jan 2012
  • News

Is Tax Reform Viable?

creates businesses, jobs, and prosperity? Sorry, I can’t buy that. Earned income has the potential to create the same sort of economic value as investment income. As for the argument that my investment was at risk and I deserved a little... View Details
Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • February 2011
  • Teaching Note

Citigroup's Exchange Offer (TN)

By: Robin Greenwood
Teaching Note for 210009. View Details
Keywords: Equity; Government and Politics; Stocks; Price; Capital; Banks and Banking; Performance Evaluation; Risk and Uncertainty; Capital Markets; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • June 2008
  • Article

Bringing the Context Back In: Settings and the Search for Syndicate Partners in Venture Capital Investment Networks

Most existing network-based theories of relationship formation, whether based on homophily or structural constraint, imply that actors form highly cohesive, homogenous clusters. Yet real networks also include many "bridging" ties—isolated links between parties that... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Networks; Theory; Partners and Partnerships; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Growth and Maturation; Size; Geographic Location
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  • January 1999
  • Case

Ciba Specialty Chemicals

By: Forest L. Reinhardt
Based on extensive interviews, this case discusses the environmental policies of a successful firm in the specialty chemicals business. Executives at Ciba have differentiated products along environmental lines and have used environmental scrutiny as a tool for cutting... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Business or Company Management; Cost Management; Risk Management; Business Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Competitive Advantage; Chemical Industry
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  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

"Economists are puzzle solvers..."

they really need to be able to analyze what the chances are that the mortgage will be prepaid - in other words, what the risk is to them. What our analysis did, in addition to improving the means to price options, was to provide a way to... View Details
  • 08 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607014 Asset Allocation I Harvard Business School Note 208-086 The goal of these simulations is to understand the mathematics of mean-variance optimization and the equilibrium pricing of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers

on compensation of talented people, then you stop this mechanism, and you run the risk of having your company be less profitable," Vallée says. "You're putting a friction on a competitive market that's doing what it's meant to do." He... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
  • 30 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism

Role of Business. "Our book argues that if we don't begin to address, in a systemic way, the issues and problems and the negative outcomes and challenges [of market capitalism], then we are likely to see a lot more movements like Occupy Wall Street," says Leonard.... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • Profile

Georges F. Doriot

create and nurture a startup, Doriot brought an innate skill to his concept for venture capital. In his book about Doriot, “The First Venture Capitalist,” Udayan Gupta wrote, “In a world in which the financing of risk... View Details