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  • April 2005 (Revised April 2005)
  • Background Note

An Overview of Project Finance - 2004 Update

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
Introduces the field of project finance and provides a statistical overview of the project-financed investments over the last five years. Defines project finance and contrasts it with other well-known financing structures. Describes the evolution of project finance,... View Details
Keywords: Project Finance; Investment; Projects; Trends
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  • January – February 1969
  • Article

Sophisticated Financing Tool: The Warrant

By: Henry B. Reiling and Samuel L. Hayes III
Keywords: Financing and Loans; Financial Instruments
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  • Teaching Interest

Economics of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital

Designed for Harvard College sophomores.

Course Description: Why do so many individuals choose to pursue entrepreneurship despite substantial risks? How do these entrepreneurs raise money to finance their ventures? And what is the impact of... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Venture Capital
  • September 2003
  • Case

Growing Up in China: The Financing of BabyCare Ltd.

By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen
The CFO of this infant nutritional products company must choose among competing financing offers. The interplay of Chinese legal and customs restrictions and venture capitalists' bargaining techniques challenge the CFO to navigate a tricky negotiation and to devise a... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Working Capital; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; China
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  • 02 Mar 2018
  • HBS Seminar

William F. Maloney, World Bank, Chief Economist, Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions

  • 2009
  • Simulation

Finance Simulation: M&A in Wine Country: No. 3289.

By: Timothy A. Luehrman and W. Carl Kester
In this simulation, students play the role of CEO at one of three publicly-traded wine producers: Starshine, Bel Vino, or International Beverage. Each player evaluates merger and/or acquisition opportunities among the three companies and then determines reservation... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Negotiation; Valuation; Value Creation; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • Web

People - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

People People Faculty Malcolm P. Baker Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration Malcolm Baker is the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He was the Unit Head for finance from... View Details
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing Social Enterprises

By: Benjamin N. Roth
I present a model of financing social enterprises to delineate the role of impact investors relative to “pure” philanthropists. I characterize the optimal scale and structure of a social enterprise when financed by grants, and when financed by investments. Impact... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Investment; Mathematical Methods
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  • Web

Data - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

The Growth of Finance ” by Robin Greenwood and David Scharfstein . Appendix Data US Government Debt Project members Robin Greenwood , Sam Hanson , Jeremy Stein , and Lawrence... View Details
  • Mar 2012
  • Article

How to Make Finance Work

of the U.S. economy by increasing capital and liquidity requirements, reorienting the discussion around housing finance reform from keeping mortgage credit cheap to ensuring financial stability, View Details
  • 21 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

The United States has been both credited and criticized for its powerful role in promoting global financial liberalization—the flow of capital across country borders. But research by Harvard Business School Professor Rawi Abdelal has... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies

While HBS scholars have long appreciated the value of field-based research, the broader academic community in the field of finance has been slower to accept this method of inquiry. Field-based research, which closely studies the actions... View Details
  • Web

2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

makers, HBS faculty members, and leading HBS alumni to examine and reflect on the events of the fall of 2008. In preparation for this event, the Behavioral Finance View Details
  • 03 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

As waves of globalization wash across the business world, tremendous new opportunities for financing and investment present themselves to savvy enterprises. In a new casebook, HBS professor Mihir A. Desai... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • July 1999
  • Comment

Commentary: Finance Theory and Future Trends: The Shift to Integration

By: Robert C. Merton
Keywords: Theory; Finance; Trends; Change; Integration
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  • 01 Jul 2015
  • News

A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan

  • 22 Jan 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

Financial Patent Quality: Finance Patents After State Street

Keywords: by Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, Mark Baker & Andrew Speen; Financial Services
  • 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
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  • 14 Oct 2014
  • News

Working capital loans have a big impact on India’s small business owners

Maya Chorengel (MBA 1997), managing director of Elevar Equity, describes her investment firm’s work to provide working capital loans to small business owners in India. (Published October 2014) View Details
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Behavioral Finance (Econ 970, Spring 2015)

Second-year undergraduate course covering recent advances in the field of behavioral finance. The course begins by examining some of the most canonical pricing anomalies, such as claims to identical cashflows trading at different prices in different markets, and... View Details