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  • September 2002 (Revised June 2003)
  • Case

Ian Woods at Wellington Peterson & Co.

By: John J. Gabarro and Leslie Freeman
Ian Woods, the head of an IT systems group in an investment bank, us facing a dilemma. Though the group is meeting its technical goals, Woods is encountering a series of managerial and leadership-related problems. View Details
Keywords: Investment Banking; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Problems and Challenges; Information Technology
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  • 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 10 Nov 2016
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Impact Investing: Challenges and Opportunities

Never has there been a time when so many believed in both the ability and responsibility of the private sector to combat the world's greatest social challengesfrom poverty to climate change to accessible health care. Recent years have seen the creation of thousands of... View Details
  • January 2020
  • Article

The Job Rating Game: Revolving Doors and Analyst Incentives

By: Elisabeth Kempf
Investment banks frequently hire analysts from rating agencies. While many argue that this "revolving door" creates captured analysts, it can also create incentives to improve accuracy. To study this issue, I construct an original dataset, linking analysts to their... View Details
Keywords: Credit Rating Agencies; Investment Banking; Recruitment; Performance Evaluation; Financial Services Industry
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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Who Clears the Market When Passive Investors Trade?

By: Marco Sammon and John J. Shim
We find that firms are the primary sellers of shares when index funds are net buyers, providing shares at a nearly one-for-one rate. Rather than provide liquidity, most demand-side institutions trade in the same direction as index funds, especially over long horizons.... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Institutional Investing; Price; Investment Portfolio; Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments
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  • August 2009
  • Case

Nomura's Global Growth: Picking Up Pieces of Lehman

By: C. Fritz Foley and Linnea Meyer
What issues commonly arise in international financial management? Kenichi Watanabe and Takumi Shibata, CEO and COO of Nomura Holdings Inc., one of the leading investment banks in Asia, have the opportunity to expand their firm internationally through the acquisition of... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment Banking; International Finance; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Expansion; Financial Services Industry; Japan
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  • 18 Jul 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Cumulative Innovation & Open Disclosure of Intermediate Results: Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Bioinformatics

Keywords: by Kevin J. Boudreau & Karim Lakhani
  • Web

Faculty & Advisors | MBA

Co-Director of Harvard Stem Cell Institute Program Advisors Students have access to a network of program advisors who serve as mentors, speakers, and career advisors for the community. Christiana (Chris) Bardon MBA ‘03, Harvard... View Details
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Firm Visibility and Acquisition Likelihood: Evidence from Seeking Alpha Coverage

By: Pu Gu, Benjamin Yost and Yuan Zou
This study investigates whether social media coverage influences a firm’s likelihood of being acquired. Specifically, we hypothesize that coverage of a firm on the Seeking Alpha platform raises its visibility to potential acquirers and M&A advisers (i.e., investment... View Details
Keywords: Social Media; Mergers and Acquisitions; Marketplace Matching; Investment Banking
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  • 16 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

The importance of naming and addressing institutional racism has many people focusing on what can be done—as individuals and as employers—to improve diversity, inclusion, and understanding in an organization. Below are several resources... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Avoiding Idiosyncratic Volatility: Flow Sensitivity to Individual Stock Returns

By: Marco Di Maggio, Francesco Franzoni, Shimon Kogan and Ran Xing
Despite positive and significant earnings announcement premia, we find that institutional investors reduce their exposure to stocks before earnings announcements. A novel result on the sensitivity of flows to individual stock returns provides a potential explanation.... View Details
Keywords: New Trading; Mutual Funds; Fund Flows; Limits To Arbitrage; Financial Constraints; Earnings Announcements; Institutional Investing; Stocks
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  • January 2000 (Revised September 2000)
  • Case

Casablanca Finance Group

Examines the founding and development of an investment bank in Morocco. Two Moroccan expatriates return from Paris and enter the brokerage business. Over the next six years they build the leading financial services firm in the country. Concludes with a series of... View Details
Keywords: Investment Banking; Business Startups; Financial Services Industry
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  • Mar 2012
  • Article

How to Make Finance Work

crisis. Second, trillions of dollars have been steered into residential real estate and away from more productive investments. Third, the cost of professional investment management is too high, which drains talent from other industries.... View Details
  • May 2023
  • Article

Political Ideology and International Capital Allocation

By: Elisabeth Kempf, Mancy Luo, Larissa Schäfer and Margarita Tsoutsoura
Does investors' political ideology shape international capital allocation? We provide evidence from two settings—syndicated corporate loans and equity mutual funds—to show ideological alignment with foreign governments affects the cross-border capital allocation by... View Details
Keywords: Capital Flows; Syndicated Loans; Mutual Funds; Partisanship; Polarization; Elections; Political Ideology; Banks and Banking; Institutional Investing; Behavioral Finance; Decision Choices and Conditions
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  • 07 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends

industries in different ways. Venture capital, for example, was once mostly reserved for institutional investors backed by endowments and pension funds. Today, it increasingly includes individual investors who are using technological... View Details
Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking
  • 31 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 31

and D. Hofmann Publication:European Business Review (May-June 2011) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://www.francescagino.com/uploads/4/7/4/7/4747506/grant_gino_hofmann_europeanbusinessreview_2011.pdf Winning in Emerging Markets: Spotting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Featured Topics - Faculty & Research

History Case Method Project Creating Emerging Markets Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard Entrepreneurship Global Health Care Impact Investments Impact-Weighted Accounts View Details
  • Web

Faculty & Research

for acute symptoms, more than improving patient education, may reduce avoidable health care. Featured Case Blue Owl Financing of Ping Identity By: Victoria Ivashina and Srimayi Mylavarapu In the fall of 2022, Blue Owl Capital's investment... View Details
  • January 2009
  • Case

Sue Whitman at MBB Financial

By: William A. Sahlman
This case describes some issues confronting the leader of a major investment bank. She is pleased with the financial performance of her firm but concerned about signs of a bubble in the market. View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Investment Banking; Financial Condition; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
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  • 2022
  • Working Paper

High-Yield Debt Covenants and Their Real Effects

By: Falk Bräuning, Victoria Ivashina and Ali Ozdagli
High-yield debt including leveraged loans is characterized by incurrence financial covenants, or “cov-lite” provisions. A traditional loan agreement includes maintenance covenants, which require continuous compliance with the covenant threshold, and their violation... View Details
Keywords: Debt Covenants; Incurrence Covenants; Borrowing and Debt; Banks and Banking
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  • Web

Admissions & Financial Support - Doctoral

verbal communications skills. All applicants are required to submit either a GRE or GMAT score. Additionally, students who have not received a degree from a 4-year English-speaking institution must also submit a TOEFL or IELTS score. All... View Details