Publications

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11 Jul 2016
News

Big U.S. investors strive for edge in private CEO meetings

02 Nov 2021
News

The Road to Racial Equity

and expand the leadership pipeline. Employers play an important role in moving the needle on racial equity, Rice says. MLT is helping that effort with the creation a first-of-its kind certification program called the MLT Black Equity at... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

June 2017
Teaching Note

Qalaa Holdings and the Egyptian Refining Company

By: Victoria Ivashina and Jeffrey Boyar

Teaching Note for HBS No. 217-011 View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Infrastructure; Emerging Markets; Africa; Structuring And Financing Large Projects; Financial Services Industry; Egypt

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Finance - Faculty & Research

Research Citation Related Ivashina, Victoria, and Srimayi Mylavarapu. "Subscription Lines Dilemma." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 225-110, June 2025. More Publications In the News 24 Jul 2025 HBS Working Knowledge Can Private... View Details

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Finance Club | MBA

finance-related activities and careers throughout the HBS community. As one of the largest clubs on campus, it caters to a wide variety of finance-related interests, particularly investment banking, sales and trading, private wealth... View Details

Article

Corporate Governance and Equity Prices

By: Paul A. Gompers, Joy L. Ishii and Andrew Metrick

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Equity; Price

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June 2001
Case

Privatization of Anatolia National Telekom, The: ANT Confidential Instructions

Anatolia National Telekom is a multiparty negotiation simulation patterned after the Turkish government's aborted attempt to privatize its state-owned telecommunications monopoly, Turk Telekom, in late 1997. Provides participants with an opportunity to identify and... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Process; Emerging Markets; Privatization; State Ownership; Telecommunications Industry; Turkey

August 2003 (Revised September 2008)
Background Note

Note on Financing of the U.S. Health Care Sector

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Jeff Grahling

This course describes the public and private sources of financing of the U.S. health-care sector,and identifies the characteristics of insurance policies, their costs, the structure of the insurance industry, and the role of consultants and brokers. The insurance... View Details

Keywords: Economic Sectors; Financing and Loans; Insurance; Industry Structures; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; United States

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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

Gerardo Lietz Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Nori Gerardo Lietz is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management Units. She presently teaches Real Estate View Details

April 2021 (Revised July 2021)
Case

Public Equities Impact Investing at BlackRock

By: Shawn A. Cole, Vikram S. Gandhi, Michael Norris and John Masko

In early 2021, BlackRock—the world’s largest asset manager with $9 trillion in assets under management (AUM)—sought to become a leader in promoting environmental and social sustainability. Over the previous ten years, CEO Larry Fink had written an annual open letter to... View Details

Keywords: Impact Investing; Renewable Energy; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Equity; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Management; Investment Funds; Investment Return; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Financial Services Industry; United States

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Finance Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Finance Ted Berk Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Real Estate Investing Dwight Angelini , W. Matt Kelly Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 Real Estate Private Equity (also listed under Entrepreneurial... View Details

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Research - Race, Gender & Equity

Negotiation, Organizations & Markets 3 results Edward H. Chang Negotiation, Organizations & Markets 8 results Katherine B. Coffman Negotiation, Organizations & Markets 26 results Alexandra C. Feldberg Organizational Behavior 7 results Sara L. Fleiss View Details

September 2019
Supplement

Hidrovias do Brasil – Environmental, Social and Governance Initiatives

By: Boris Groysberg

Keywords: Human Resources; Private Equity; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Growth and Development; Leadership; Operations; Problems and Challenges; Transportation; Human Capital; Transportation Industry; Brazil

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance

decentralized nature of building and financing homes posed obstacles to private organizations who tried to do the same. Anecdotal accounts, like this feature in the Ladies Home Journal in 1903, suggest that... View Details

October 2000
Article

The Equity Share in New Issues and Aggregate Stock Returns

By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler

The share of equity issues in total new equity and debt issues is a strong predictor of U.S. stock market returns between 1928 and 1997. In particular, firms issue more equity than debt just before periods of low market returns. The equity share in new issues has... View Details

Keywords: Equity; Borrowing and Debt; Stocks; Markets; Debt Securities; Forecasting and Prediction; Accounting Industry; United States

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March 2014 (Revised October 2014)
Teaching Note

ISS A/S: The Buyout

By: Lucy White and Carsten Bienz

Provides the opportunity to value a leveraged buyout; and to examine the nature and extent of a company's responsibilities to its bondholders. Here, the context is a "going private" transaction in Europe, where the financing plan called for the addition to the... View Details

Keywords: LBO; Private Equity; Contracts; Global Business; International Business; Finance; Ethics; Law; Service Industry; Europe

February 2014 (Revised October 2014)
Case

ISS A/S: The Buyout

By: Clayton Rose, Carsten Bienz and Lucy White

Provides the opportunity to value a leveraged buy-out; and to examine the nature and extent of a company's responsibilities to its bondholders. Here, the context is a "going private" transaction in Europe, where the financing plan called for the addition to the... View Details

Keywords: LBO; Private Equity; Contracts; Global Business; International Business; Finance; Ethics; Law; Service Industry; Europe

February 1997 (Revised March 1998)
Case

Smith Breeden Associates: The Equity Plus Fund (A)

By: Robert C. Merton and Alberto Moel

In early 1997, Smith Breeden Associates, a money management and consulting firm, was pondering the future of the Equity Plus Fund. The Equity Plus Fund was an S&P enhanced-index fund that tried to outperform the S&P Index by replicating the index using low-cost... View Details

Keywords: Assets; Cash; Financial Markets; Financial Strategy; Mortgages; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Marketing; Performance; Consulting Industry