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  • 12 Nov 2014
  • Op-Ed

A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform

stronger, more durable system, private capital would take the "first loss" in the event of a housing market downturn. After a multiyear transition period, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should wind... View Details
Keywords: by Nicolas Retsinas & Rob Couch; Construction; Real Estate
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

Ideas: Books

Case Studies in International Entrepreneurship by Walter Kuemmerle (McGraw-Hill) This collection of 29 cases based on real situations compares opportunities, financing contexts, valuation approaches, and entrepreneurial styles in the... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Golden State of Mind

(formerly Draper Fisher Jurvetson), the venture capital firm he founded in 1985 as a small business investment company called Draper Associates. Conventionally dressed, his tie nonetheless depicts a map of California divided into six... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 03 Nov 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize

It draws from previous work by Urde (an associate professor at the Lund University School of Economics and Management in Lund, Sweden), John Balmer (a marketing professor at Brunel University in London) and Greyser. In 2007, the three... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

Case 209-097 Perry Capital owns shares in King and, to facilitate approval of the merger, buys shares in Mylan, whilst hedging out its economic exposure to Mylan's share price using derivatives. The price at which Mylan proposes to merge... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 1997
  • Case

Tri Valley Growers: A New Age Co-op

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Mollie H. Carter
Tri Valley Growers is a dominant co-operative in its industry and, yet, still suffers from poor returns. The board of directors worked with the new CEO to change the product, market, and financing focus of the co-op to assure a long and profitable future for its... View Details
Keywords: Capital; Profit; Goods and Commodities; Product Marketing; Cooperative Ownership
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  • 02 Sep 2021
  • News

Elevating Ethiopian Entrepreneurs

on the country overall. “And we really understood why companies weren't scaling, and why they weren't growing, and why people were actually having trouble even starting businesses. So we provide a suite of services to any company that we start, anything from business... View Details
  • July 1997 (Revised September 1997)
  • Case

USAA: Catastrophe Risk Financing

By: Kenneth A. Froot and Mark Seasholes
Describes the first major risk financing using catastrophe bonds. Provides a basis for discussing the securitization of insurance risks. View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Insurance; Capital Markets; Natural Disasters; Risk Management; Bonds; Insurance Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • March 2001
  • Case

Sime Darby Berhad (C): Responding to the Asian Crisis

By: Tarun Khanna and Danielle Melito Wu
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Business Conglomerates; Economy; Capital Markets; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Corporate Strategy; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry; Malaysia
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    Thomas J. Burrell

    Burrell created his agency to capitalize on the untapped potential of the black market in America, and in the process, he became a pioneer of target marketing and built the... View Details
    Keywords: Services
    • 21 Nov 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

    longer profitable or missing new areas that might yield more profits as the market changes or both. Finally, when it comes to reducing the firm’s cost of capital, consider the basics: Financing needs are driven by the cash on hand and the... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 21 Jan 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: January 21, 2009

    http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-007.pdf Sweatshop Labor Is Wrong Unless the Jeans Are Cute: Motivated Moral Disengagement Authors:Neeru Paharia and Rohit Deshpandé Abstract While many consumers say they care about issues such as sweatshop labor, the existence of a... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • December 2013 (Revised August 2015)
    • Case

    Viva Macau (A)

    By: Dante Roscini and G. A. Donovan
    A fast-growing Macau-based airline backed by private US investors faces a dramatic expropriation in the wake of the first change of head of government since the former Portuguese colony became a Special Administrative Region of China. The case allows students to... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Air Transportation; Ownership; Foreign Direct Investment; Government and Politics; Emerging Markets; Venture Capital; China; Macau
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    • 07 Mar 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, March 7

    way without compromising the ability of conventional monetary policy to focus on its traditional dual mandate of promoting maximum employment and stable prices. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52330 December 2016 View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 03 Jun 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: June 3, 2008

    in the month of July. A sudden drop in capital market prices for an asset class can be caused by news affecting fundamental values or by a widespread liquidity shock. The implication of a shock to... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Jun 2008
    • News

    Alfaro Named Young Global Leader

    HBS associate professor Laura Alfaro, an expert on international capital flows, foreign direct investment, and sovereign debt, has been named a Young Global Leader 2008 by the World Economic Forum. The honor... View Details
    Keywords: Finance; Management
    • Fast Answer

    Africa: research, news, analysis

    Where can I find country, company, industry/market, and news about Africa? Industry and market research Passport Useful for: consumer-related industry reports across a variety of geographies/countries.  To begin, enter industry... View Details
    • 18 Sep 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance

    easier to achieve in a for-profit organization than in a comparable nonprofit," he writes in a recent working paper, "Philanthropic Social Capital Markets and Performance-Driven Philanthropy," and the most... View Details
    Keywords: by James E. Aisner
    • 18 Oct 2010
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech

    companies can crank out a marketable prototype in a matter of months, clean-tech companies can take years to develop products—solar panels, batteries, biofuels, and the like. And even when a working prototype is born, it's hard for a... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities; Financial Services
    • 01 Dec 2008
    • News

    Summit Sound Bites

    too.” —Yong Tao, Chairman, Strategic Decision Resources Group “Executives who now make 350 times what the lowest worker in their firms make are behaving in an especially unbecoming way when they seek to explain that raising the top marginal tax rate from 35 percent to... View Details