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- October 2011 (Revised June 2014)
- Case
inge watertechnologies, GmbH
By: Ramana Nanda, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Markus Mittermaier
Using the financing history and exit choices of a German clean-tech startup as a lens, this case explores the reasons why venture-backed entrepreneurship is much lower in Germany than the US, despite a robust SME sector and large-corporate innovation in Germany. It... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Finance; Venture Capital; Negotiation; Entrepreneurship; Technology Industry; Germany
Nanda, Ramana, Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Markus Mittermaier. "inge watertechnologies, GmbH." Harvard Business School Case 812-002, October 2011. (Revised June 2014.)
- Teaching Interest
Large-Scale Investment (LSI, MBA Elective Curriculum)
By: Benjamin C. Esty
Large-Scale Investment (LSI) is a case-based course about project finance that is designed for second-year MBA students. Project finance involves the creation of a legally independent project company financed with nonrecourse debt for the purpose of investing in a... View Details
- September 2010 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
Capital for Enterprise Limited (CfEL): Bridging the SME Early-Stage Finance Gap
By: Josh Lerner, Eli Talmor, Ananth Vyas Bhimavarapu and Thibaud Simphal
The CEO of the company set up to manage a British government effort to promote the venture capital industry considers the progress made to date, as well as how the program can be adjusted. View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financing and Loans; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; Public Administration Industry; United Kingdom
Lerner, Josh, Eli Talmor, Ananth Vyas Bhimavarapu, and Thibaud Simphal. "Capital for Enterprise Limited (CfEL): Bridging the SME Early-Stage Finance Gap." Harvard Business School Case 811-027, September 2010. (Revised March 2013.)
- 2010
- Working Paper
Does Diversification Create Value in the Presence of External Financing Constraints? Evidence from the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis
We show that the value of corporate diversification increased during the 2007-2009 financial crisis. Diversification gave firms both financing and investment advantages. First, conglomerates became significantly more leveraged relative to comparable focused firms.... View Details
Keywords: Diversification; Financial Crisis; Resource Allocation; Investment; Financing and Loans; Business Conglomerates; Capital Markets
Kuppuswamy, Venkat, and Belen Villalonga. "Does Diversification Create Value in the Presence of External Financing Constraints? Evidence from the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-101, May 2010. (Revised November 2010.)
- Research Summary
The Role of the Media in Corporate Governance and Finance
Dyck studies the role played by media in financial markets: in transmitting information about a company, in shaping the market response to the information they communicate, in exposing mis-governance problems, and in forcing companies to behave in "politically correct"... View Details
- February 2016
- Supplement
The Valuation and Financing of Lady M Confections Case Supplement
By: Mihir Desai
- July/September 2005
- Article
Le consensus de Paris: la France et les règles de la finance mondiale
By: Rawi Abdelal
This article is about the institutional foundations of the globalization of finance. These institutional foundations are both informal and formal. Until the 1980s the formal rules of the international financial architecture – most consequentially in the European Union... View Details
Abdelal, Rawi. "Le consensus de Paris: la France et les règles de la finance mondiale." Critique internationale, no. 28 (July/September 2005): 87–115.
- July 2015
- Supplement
The Valuation and Financing of Lady M Confections Teaching Note Supplement
By: Mihir Desai and Elizabeth A. Meyer
- 1995
- Other Unpublished Work
L'Epargne de Proximité, Report for the Committee Finances Régionales et Budget
By: Marc L Bertoneche
Keywords: Saving
- June 2004
- Article
Why Study Large Projects? An Introduction to Research on Project Finance
By: B. C. Esty
Esty, B. C. "Why Study Large Projects? An Introduction to Research on Project Finance." European Financial Management 10, no. 2 (June 2004): 213–224.
- June 2017
- Article
The Social Trajectory of a Finance Professor and the Common Sense of Capital
By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
This paper traces the career of Michael Jensen, a Chicago finance PhD turned Harvard Business School professor to reveal the intellectual and social conditions that enabled the emergence and institutionalization of what we call the “neoliberal common sense of capital,”... View Details
Keywords: Executive Pay; The Firm; Michael Jensen; Neo-Liberalism; Shareholder Value; Agency Theory; Corporate Governance; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Transformation
Fourcade, Marion, and Rakesh Khurana. "The Social Trajectory of a Finance Professor and the Common Sense of Capital." History of Political Economy 49, no. 2 (June 2017): 347–381.
- 2010
- Working Paper
Banking Market Concentration and Consumer Credit Constraints: Evidence from the 1983 Survey of Consumer Finances
This paper uses data from the 1983 Survey of Consumer Finances to test the relationship between the banks' market power and households' self-reported levels of credit constraints. The 1983 Survey was the last to identify households' geographic location, making it... View Details
Keywords: Age Characteristics; Household Characteristics; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Banks and Banking; Interest Rates; Geographic Location; Banking Industry
Bergstresser, Daniel B. "Banking Market Concentration and Consumer Credit Constraints: Evidence from the 1983 Survey of Consumer Finances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-077, March 2010.
- March 2018
- Article
Financing the African Colonial State: The Revenue Imperative and Forced Labor
Although recent studies on African colonial tax systems have deepened our understanding of early fiscal capacity building efforts in the region, they have largely ignored the contributions from a widely used but invisible source of state revenue: that of labor... View Details
van Waijenburg, Marlous. "Financing the African Colonial State: The Revenue Imperative and Forced Labor." Journal of Economic History 78, no. 1 (March 2018): 40–80.
- October 2017
- Case
The Market for Justice: Burford Capital and the Litigation Finance Industry
By: Lauren Cohen, Christopher Malloy and William Powley
Cohen, Lauren, Christopher Malloy, and William Powley. "The Market for Justice: Burford Capital and the Litigation Finance Industry." Harvard Business School Case 218-007, October 2017.
- 1995
- Chapter
Interest Allocation Rules, Financing Patterns, and the Operations of US Multinationals
By: Kenneth A. Froot and James R. Hines Jr.
Keywords: Corporation Taxation; Interest Deductibility; Cost of Capital; Taxation; Financing and Loans; Corporate Finance
Froot, Kenneth A., and James R. Hines Jr. "Interest Allocation Rules, Financing Patterns, and the Operations of US Multinationals." Chap. 10 in The Effects of Taxation on Multinational Corporations, edited by Martin S. Feldstein, James R. Hines Jr., and G. Hubbard, 277–312. University of Chicago Press, 1995. (Also featured in The NBER Digest, November 1994. Revised from NBER Working Paper No. 4924.)
- fall 1999
- Article
Petrozuata: A Case Study on the Effective Use of Project Finance
By: B. C. Esty
Esty, B. C. "Petrozuata: A Case Study on the Effective Use of Project Finance." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 12, no. 3 (fall 1999): 26–42.
- April 2002
- Article
Where Does State Street Lead? A First Look at Finance Patents, 1971-2000
By: Josh Lerner
Lerner, Josh. "Where Does State Street Lead? A First Look at Finance Patents, 1971-2000." Journal of Finance 57, no. 2 (April 2002). (Earlier versions distributed as HBS Working Paper No. 01-005 and NBER Working Paper No. 7918; Supplemental information on financial patents. Spreadsheet of financial patents, 1971-February 2000.)
- March 1993
- Article
Monetary Policy and Credit Conditions: Evidence from the Composition of External Finance
Kashyap, Anil, Jeremy Stein, and David Wolcox. "Monetary Policy and Credit Conditions: Evidence from the Composition of External Finance." American Economic Review 83, no. 1 (March 1993): 78–98.
- September 15, 2020
- Article
Moving the Financing of Graduate Medical Education Into the 21st Century
By: Justin A. Grischkan, Ari B. Friedman and Amitabh Chandra
Grischkan, Justin A., Ari B. Friedman, and Amitabh Chandra. "Moving the Financing of Graduate Medical Education Into the 21st Century." JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association 324, no. 11 (September 15, 2020).
- March 2022 (Revised May 2022)
- Case
Reclaiming the Land of Purple: Purpl’s Mission to Unlock Finance in Lebanon
By: Lauren Cohen and Grace Headinger
Karl Naim, Co-Founder and CEO of Purpl, embarked on a venture to lower remittance costs for his native Lebanon. Since October 2019, the Lebanese economy had entered a free fall as its banking sector collapsed and large swathes of its population were plunged into... View Details
Keywords: Business Startup; Fintech; Inflation; Deflation; Cross-border Frictions; Remittances; Business Startups; Diasporas; Financial Crisis; Money; Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Poverty; Financial Institutions; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Lebanon
Cohen, Lauren, and Grace Headinger. "Reclaiming the Land of Purple: Purpl’s Mission to Unlock Finance in Lebanon." Harvard Business School Case 222-078, March 2022. (Revised May 2022.)