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  • December 1987 (Revised May 1991)
  • Case

One Leather Street

By: William J. Poorvu and Jeffrey A. Libert
Presents a problem involving rehabilitating a small office building in Boston. Describes an investment decision which is knowingly underfunded. As construction proceeds, the developer realizes that it is not up to building code and faces difficult business and ethical... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Ethics; Investment; Decisions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Property; Real Estate Industry; Construction Industry; Boston
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  • Research Summary

Non-Financial Incentives

My research shows how firms combine many facets of internal governance to motivate managers. A perspective that underlies much of my research is that managers are not motivated by financial rewards alone: “it’s not just about the... View Details

  • June 2010 (Revised November 2013)
  • Case

Momentive Performance Materials, Inc.

By: Victoria Ivashina and David Scharfstein
After nearly violating its loan covenants in 2009, Momentive Performance Materials, backed by its financial sponsor Apollo Global Management, took a variety of actions to restructure its debt. The restructuring steps included an open market repurchase of publicly held... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Private Equity; Financing and Loans
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  • 20 Jun 2023
  • Cold Call Podcast

Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover: Lessons in Strategic Change

Keywords: Re: Andy Wu; Technology

    Reza R. Satchu

    Reza Satchu is a Senior Lecturer in... View Details

    • June 2007 (Revised August 2007)
    • Case

    Dressen (Abridged) (A)

    By: Thomas R. Piper
    John Lynch, CEO of the Dressen Division of Westinghouse, was elated by the proposed leveraged buyout by the private equity firm, Warburg Pincus Ventures. The buyout would rid the division of a 'bad' parent and place the division's destiny in its own hands. A recently... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Forecasting and Prediction; Private Equity; Bids and Bidding; Valuation
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    • January 1966 (Revised April 1983)
    • Case

    Economy Shipping Co.

    The situation requires a decision to repair a steam river boat, to substitute a diesel-powered boat, or to lease a diesel boat. View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Corporate Finance; Shipping Industry
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    • February 2007
    • Background Note

    BASIX Simulation Model

    By: Peter Tufano and Shawn A. Cole
    Explains how to use Crystal Ball to simulate the insurance decision in the BASIX case. View Details
    Keywords: Insurance; Business Model; Valuation; Decisions; Finance; Insurance Industry
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    • 04 Dec 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: December 4, 2007

    many high-growth businesses in China, Gome has only moderate financing needs. Its charismatic and ambitious chairman Wong Kwongyu has built an expansive retail network in China and successfully used trade credits by suppliers and banks to... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • June 2011 (Revised August 2012)
    • Case

    Coca-Cola in 2011: In Search of a New Model

    By: David B. Yoffie and Renee Kim
    Muhtar Kent, CEO of the Coca-Cola Company, faced a critical decision in 2011 after closing a $12 billion deal to buy its troubled North America bottling operations from its biggest bottler, Coca-Cola Enterprises. The decision was prompted by several changes in the U.S.... View Details
    Keywords: Beverage Industry; Strategic Positioning; Mergers And Acquisitions; Competition; Business Model; Vertical Integration; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Franchise Ownership; Investment; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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    • January 2002 (Revised December 2002)
    • Background Note

    A Note on the Value of Information in an Entrepreneurial Venture

    By: Paul W. Marshall
    Uses a decision analysis framework to analyze the value of gaming information before making a full investment in an entrepreneurial venture. View Details
    Keywords: Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Framework; Business or Company Management
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    • March 2020 (Revised May 2020)
    • Case

    Generation Investment Management

    By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Sarah Mehta
    By January 2020, sustainable investment firm Generation Investment Management (Generation), founded in London in 2004, had grown from a shared vision among seven founders to a 90-person firm managing $27 billion in public and private equity. Throughout its history,... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainable Investing; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Finance; Equity; Governance; Private Equity; Public Equity; Financial Markets; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Institutional Investing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom; England; London
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    • March 2010 (Revised June 2010)
    • Case

    Malden Mills (A) (Abridged)

    By: Nitin Nohria and Thomas R. Piper
    CEO Aaron Feuerstein of Malden Mills decided to pay idled workers after a massive fire at his mill in 1995. Focuses on the decisions made post-fire and the rebuilding process and eventual bankruptcy of the company. Also outlines creditors' struggle to decide whether to... View Details
    Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financing and Loans; Employees; Leadership; Crisis Management; Social Issues; Manufacturing Industry; Massachusetts
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    • 22 Jan 2025
    • Blog Post

    Career risks and professional growth: Finding a fulfilling career with Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991)

    conversation with a friend during a post-banking trip helped shift my perspective. When she asked me what I liked most about my finance job, my answer—running ads, planning events, and creating promotional items—had nothing to do with... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • 10 May 2020
    • Blog Post

    Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

    before. I wasn’t sure. I made a calculated decision to have a baby at business school. Sure, I could have deferred for a year and taken advantage of my consulting firm’s generous maternity leave policy. Yet, while that would have been... View Details
    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures

    By: Thomas F. Hellmann and Noam Wasserman
    This paper examines the division of founder shares in entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the decision of whether or not to divide the shares equally among all founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Equity
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Behavioral Attenuation

    By: Thomas Graeber, Benjamin Enke, Ryan Oprea and Jeffrey Yang
    We report a large-scale examination of behavioral attenuation: due to information-processing constraints, the elasticity of people’s decisions with respect to economic fundamentals is generally too small. We implement more than 30 experiments, 20 of which were... View Details
    Keywords: Decisions; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Behavioral Finance
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    How ESG Issues Become Financially Material to Corporations and Their Investors

    By: George Serafeim
    Management and disclosure of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues have received substantial interest over the last decade. In this paper, we outline a framework of how ESG issues become financially material, affecting corporate profitability and valuation.... View Details
    Keywords: Materiality; ESG; Pharmaceutical Companies; Business Ethics; Sustainability; Environment; Disclosure; Disclosure And Access; Regulation; Social Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Corporate Governance; Ethics; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Accountability; Resource Allocation; Finance; Accounting; Valuation
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    • September 1997 (Revised March 2000)
    • Case

    Adelphia Communications Corporation

    By: Paul M. Healy
    A bank officer must make a loan application decision for a large but financially troubled cable broadcaster. View Details
    Keywords: Financial Condition; Financing and Loans; Decision Choices and Conditions; Contracts; Telecommunications Industry
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    • December 2017 (Revised July 2020)
    • Case

    Opportunity Growth at Grupo Torre Médica

    By: Juan Alcácer, J. Ramon Lecuona-Torras and Katherine Grozier
    Senior management must make a decision for how to grow their search fund to reach the final margins for investors. View Details
    Keywords: Investment Funds; Growth Management; Decision Making; Strategy; Mexico; Latin America
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