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  • November 1985 (Revised July 1989)
  • Supplement

Signode Industries, Inc. (B)

Describes whether the company adopts the price-flex policy discussed in the (A) case. Price increase in steel strapping raw materials is rescinded by steel industry. View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Price; Policy; Steel Industry
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  • October 2002 (Revised March 2009)
  • Background Note

Foreign Direct Investment

By: Laura Alfaro and Esteban Clavell
Briefly reviews motivations and trends behind foreign direct investment and multinational corporations as well as the policy debate that surrounds them. View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Policy; Business and Government Relations
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  • June 2013 (Revised August 2013)
  • Background Note

Note on Pension Guarantee Funds

By: Robert C. Pozen and Patricia Bissett Higgins
The United States and the United Kingdom both had quasi-government agencies that provided back-up insurance for individuals participating in defined benefit ("DB") pension plans. This note compares and contrasts the United Kingdom's Pension Protection Fund ("PPF") with... View Details
Keywords: Pensions; Pension Guarantee Funds; Pension Protection Fund; Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; Employee Retirement Income Security Act; PBGC; ERISA; MAP-21; Legislation; Insurance; Saving; Retirement; Labor; Labor and Management Relations; Employees; Insurance Industry; United States; United Kingdom
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  • October 1988 (Revised May 1990)
  • Case

Ford Motor Co.: The Product Warranty Program (A)

Raises powerful issues concerning product warranty policy as a strategic marketing variable. Also raises several exciting issues concerning the role of product policy in competitive battles, product line issues, interfunctional coordination issues, and some ethical... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Marketing Strategy; Insurance; Product; Policy; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; United States
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  • 13 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt

corporations back off and issue short-term instead. We called this "gap-filling," in the sense that firms fill in the gaps created by government financing policy. In that paper, we had thought about government maturity View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Financial Services
  • 07 Dec 2022
  • Blog Post

2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together

The theme of the 2022 Annual Climate Symposium was “Tackling Climate Together” with a focus on the intersectionality of climate change and the critical need for businesses, individuals, policy makers, and consumers to come together to... View Details
  • April 2011 (Revised April 2012)
  • Case

Angels in British Columbia

By: Josh Lerner, Thomas Hellmann and Ilkin Ilyaszade
The case study provides an overview of the angel investment practices and describes government policies towards angel and venture capital investing in British Columbia, Canada. It focuses in particular on the Equity Capital Program (BCECP henceforth), which provides... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Investment; Policy; Taxation; Performance Improvement; Programs; British Columbia
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    Lynda M. Applegate

    Lynda M. Applegate is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS and is Chair of the Advisory Committee for Harvard University’s Masters Degree of Liberal Arts in Finance and Management at the Harvard University Extension School.  She has also played a... View Details

    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    Customers and Investors: A Framework for Understanding Financial Institutions

    By: Robert C. Merton and Robert T. Thakor
    Financial institutions have both investors and customers. Investors, such as those who invest in stocks and bonds or private/public-sector guarantors of institutions, expect an appropriate risk-adjusted return in exchange for the financing and risk-bearing that they... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Institutions
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      Gunnar Trumbull

      Gunnar Trumbull is the Phillip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

      Professor Trumbull’s primary area of expertise in political economy, with a focus on consumer and regulatory politics. His book Strength in... View Details

      Keywords: agribusiness; consumer products; credit card; financial services; food; food processing; grocery; microfinance; retail financial services; retailing
      • 02 Jan 2020
      • Op-Ed

      Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?

      offer insurance at genuinely lower prices, but only if it is implemented without the financing gimmicks that have artificially lowered the costs of Medicare at the expense of future generations. The pricing of the public option must... View Details
      Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace; Health; Public Administration
      • 29 Jan 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: January 29, 2008

      1,582 loans financing private equity-sponsored leveraged buyouts between 1993 and 2005, we find that bank relationships explain cross-sectional variation in the loan interest rate and covenant structure. Our results indicate that two... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • December 2010
      • Supplement

      Fortis Industries, Inc. (C)

      Describes whether the company adopts the price-flex policy described in the (A) and (B) cases. View Details
      Keywords: Price; Decision Making; Steel Industry
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      • July 2017 (Revised September 2017)
      • Case

      GM's Capital Allocation Framework

      By: C. Fritz Foley, F. Katelynn Boland and Michael Lemm
      In March of 2015, General Motors announced the details of a newly established capital allocation framework. This framework provided a target for return on invested capital, guidelines for capital structure choices, and policies related to payouts. Senior managers face... View Details
      Keywords: Performance Metrics; Capital Budgeting; Capital Structure; Performance Evaluation; Measurement and Metrics; Auto Industry; Transportation Industry; United States
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      • 2008
      • Casebook

      The Rules of Globalization: Case Book

      By: Rawi Abdelal
      This is a book about the politics of the global economy — about how firms prosper by understanding those politics, or fail by misunderstanding them. Understanding the politics of globalization may once have been a luxury; it is now, for most high-level managers, simply... View Details
      Keywords: Trade; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations
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      • July 1995 (Revised October 1995)
      • Case

      Superior Clamps, Inc.

      By: David F. Hawkins
      An investor must prepare pro forma financial statements as a basis for a third-party investment in his new company. The investor must make a number of accounting policy decisions. View Details
      Keywords: Financing and Loans; Investment; Policy; Financial Statements; Business Startups; Manufacturing Industry
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      • April 1981 (Revised January 1987)
      • Case

      Atlantic Aviation Corp.: Westwind Division

      Raises issues on monitoring and controlling flight demonstration costs for the Westwind business jet. Atlantic's marketing vice president is concerned about rising demonstration costs, but doesn't wish to deny solid prospects an evaluation ride. He asks the general... View Details
      Keywords: Cost Management; Product Marketing; Air Transportation Industry
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      • 15 Nov 2012
      • Research & Ideas

      Funding the Design of Livable Cities

      active engagement with the Real Estate Academic Initiative (REAI) at the GSD, and his appointment at the GSD teaching the jointly listed course "Sustainable Cities: Urbanization, Infrastructure, and Finance," Macomber is keenly focused on the critical connection... View Details
      Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities
      • 15 Sep 2016
      • News

      Harvard study singles out a game-changing economic opportunity

      • 02 Nov 2016
      • Op-Ed

      Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses

      the cash flow edge. One aspect of this cash flow formula is the extent of time that small businesses wait for or don’t receive payment from the companies they supply. Insufficient or delayed financing is the second-most common reason for... View Details
      Keywords: by Karen Mills