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Exchange rates: current & historical

exchange rate indices. Bloomberg. For current and historical currency exchange rates use the Security Finder function. Type SECF and hit GO.  Select "Currencies" from the Category drop-down menu, then the... View Details
  • 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9

Transforming Public Education: Cases in Education Entrepreneurship. Winning in Emerging Markets: A Road Map for Strategy and Execution Authors:Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu, and Richard Bullock Publication:Harvard Business Press, forthcoming April Abstract The best... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • May 2020 (Revised December 2022)
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Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Amy Klopfenstein and Amram Migdal
In November 2019, Sandra Richter, co-founder and CEO of Soofa, a network of advertising-supported digital bulletin boards, must decide between two different fundraising and expansion plans for her company. One plan entails raising $15 million in a Series A round and... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Model; Business Plan; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Decision Making; Decisions; Ethics; Geography; Geopolitical Units; Finance; Investment; Markets; Market Entry and Exit; Demand and Consumers; Network Effects; Media; Society; Urban Development; Sustainable Cities; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Digital Platforms; Strategy; Business Strategy; Expansion; Relationships; Partners and Partnerships; Capital; Venture Capital; Advertising Industry; Technology Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; North and Central America; United States; Massachusetts; Cambridge
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General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

Flying J. Flying J owned and operated hundreds of truck stops—which it called Travel Plazas—nationwide and was a growing multi-billion dollar business, but broader problems in the oil and credit markets in late 2008 forced it to declare... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

officer Ken Lay made him president of Enron's new trading operations. In 2001, Skilling was named CEO. Before 1997, Enron was an innovative and profitable player in the newly deregulated natural gas industry. Skilling's big idea was to create fluid and transparent... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 06 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

risk is highest because of confidence in their ability to manage uncertainty, and perhaps because they enjoy the process of creating clarity from uncertainty. Other factors that set serial entrepreneurs apart from one-timers include confidence in their skills at... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
  • 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016

reached a scale of approximately $150 million of funds in use for receivable purchases, the co-founders planned to tap into the securitization market for capital by issuing asset-backed securities (ABS),... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

so that it would act in the national interest. Exporting began to be seen as a route to development, and foreign firms offered both the technology and access to markets that might make exports possible. Many state-owned firms—some of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities
  • 26 May 2022
  • HBS Case

Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?

championing privacy as controversy was swirling around an extensive US government surveillance program that had been disclosed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Snowden had leaked information indicating that... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 25 Aug 2015
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monetary effect of athletic success to many academic institutions in the United States. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49494 Forthcoming IMF Economic Review An Evaluation of Money Market Fund Reform... View Details
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

  PublicationsMisvaluing Innovation Authors:Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether, and Christopher Malloy Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We demonstrate that a firm's ability to innovate is predictable, persistent, and relatively simple to compute,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Mar 2023
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What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?

the confidence is eroded—banks tend to face revolving credit runs and market funding runs. The deposits run in the US might feel like a thing of the past, but the history of the 2008 crisis saw many such examples. Regulation and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking
  • December 2006
  • Case

Southern Company's Investment in CEMIG

In the spring of 1997, Southern Company had the opportunity to acquire a significant portion of the electric utility in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The shares in the utility, CEMIG, were being sold by the state government as part of a comprehensive... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Privatization; Investment; Acquisition; Globalized Markets and Industries; Utilities Industry; Brazil
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  • 15 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 15

governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank-are no more likely, on average, to get a negative quality rating than other projects. When aid is given to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7

  Publications 2006 Review of Financial Studies Unstable Equity: Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing By: Fang, Lily H., Victoria Ivashina, and Josh Lerner Abstract—Bank-affiliated private equity groups account for 30% of all private equity investments.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

8 The Devil Is In The Details The decisions that managers have to make as part of implementing a restructuring plan are often critical to whether the restructuring succeeds or fails. In the language of economics, implementation is the process of managing View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
  • 20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007

developing countries than developed countries, but necessity is often the main driver in lower income countries. Explores the challenges facing women arising from societal inequality, including lack of educational provision, and difficulties in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

then-controversial decision to refuse to fight in the Vietnam War. Robert Simons discusses how Ali made decisions throughout his life and career to leave a lasting impact on the world. Managing the Future of Work AI: The Good, the Bad, and the transformative Is it too... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 30 Nov 2021
  • In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman