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  • December 2004 (Revised May 2005)
  • Case

Levenger Company

By: Myra M. Hart, Kristin Lieb and Victoria Winston
The Leveens started a high-end catalog business as a small home-based venture in 1987. It grew into a nationally recognized, $60 million company, offering products that ranged from unique pens and pencils to leather briefcases and fully furnished offices. In 1999, it... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Financial Liquidity; Business Exit or Shutdown; Expansion; Business Growth and Maturation; Value; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Globalization; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 16 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Peeling Back the Global Brand

Few would argue that detergent is about as dull a product as might exist. Yet the odyssey of laundry soap and dishwashing liquid in Europe, according to two presenters, shines a streak of sunlight on some of the messier issues of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 16 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Surveying the VC Landscape

investors. Second, venture capitalists and limited partners might explore the possibility of longer-lived funds: today, the typical venture fund is expected to liquidate its holdings at the end of ten to twelve years. If a fund was... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

at around $450 for months). I don’t expect volatility to go away anytime soon, as it is still highly speculative, highly concentrated and doesn’t have enough liquidity yet. Most people think gold and silver have always been extremely... View Details
Keywords: alumni; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information
  • 21 Nov 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

stock indexes can be a mechanism for transforming long-standing corporate behavior. After decades of low corporate profitability in Japan, the JPX-Nikkei400 Index was introduced in 2014. Each year the index selected 400 large and liquid... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

in the month of July. A sudden drop in capital market prices for an asset class can be caused by news affecting fundamental values or by a widespread liquidity shock. The implication of a shock to fundamental value is that the price drop... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 24

creditors of the struggling bank. The decision takes place just one day after CIT was denied access to the Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program (TLGP). This case provides a platform for discussing what constitutes a good attractive... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 16

a valuation objective, are critical features of an economic GAAP. We recognize the advantage of using fair values in circumstances where these are based on observable prices in liquid secondary markets, but caution against expanding fair... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

also reflect on whether to modify the current structure of TDF, particularly regarding its liquidity provisions. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210008-PDF-ENG The University of Notre Dame Endowment Andre F.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Vive la Madeleine!

finally liquidated at the end of 2013, it employed a few dozen people. Now some of those workers, mostly women in their 50s, were occupying the factory around the clock in eight-hour shifts to prevent the sale of the equipment and to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova
  • Web

Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024

unrestricted reserves outside of the endowment is crucial to providing HBS with sufficient liquidity to finance ongoing campus renewal and expansion projects and to capitalize on emerging strategic opportunities through economic cycles... View Details
  • May 2015 (Revised March 2016)
  • Supplement

Thomas Cook Group on the Brink (B): Transformation Year 1 Results

By: Benjamin C. Esty
Analyzes the results of the Thomas Cook turnaround plan after the first year under Harriet Green's leadership (November 2013). View Details
Keywords: Turnaround; Corporate Restructuring; Female Ceo; Transformation; Change Management; Communication Strategy; Cost Management; Financial Liquidity; Financial Management; Management Succession; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Value Creation; Leadership; Travel Industry; United Kingdom
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  • August 2011
  • Teaching Note

Going to the Oracle: Goldman Sachs, September 2008 (TN)

By: Clayton Rose and Sally Canter Ganzfried
Teaching Note for 309-069. View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Investment; Negotiation Deal; Capital; Financial Liquidity; Decisions; Management Teams; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 15 Aug 2024
  • Blog Post

Navigating the Future of Renewable Energy at Port Esbjerg

Carbon Capture and Storage We then visited INEOS Energy, a sustainable energy business conducting the Greensand Pilot Project, an INEOS-led consortium of 25 companies and institutions, for carbon capture and storage (CCS). The project uses View Details
  • February 2019 (Revised October 2022)
  • Case

Scandal at Steinhoff

By: Kristin Mugford and Phil Caruso
Keywords: Volatility; Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Liquidity; Bonds; Corporate Accountability; Failure; International Finance; Restructuring; Business Conglomerates; Crime and Corruption; Retail Industry; South Africa; Austria; Netherlands
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  • May 2013
  • Teaching Plan

High Wire Act: Credit Suisse and Contingent Capital

By: Clayton Rose and David Lane
Late in 2010, Credit Suisse CEO Brady Dougan and his team considered whether or not to issue contingent capital, which Swiss regulators would require by 2019. They faced a number of substantial issues, including: Would contingent capital actually work as conceptualized... View Details
Keywords: Financial Institutions; Capital Markets; Financial Crisis; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; International Finance; Financial Liquidity; Risk and Uncertainty; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Switzerland
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  • 31 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 31

past year. Now, in March 2009, the bank is faced with several choices as a result of the new reforms spawned from the financial crisis: the FDIC's Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program and the U.S. Treasury's Capital Purchase Program.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 3, 2007

realize liquidity from its successful investment in American Seafoods Corp., Inc. An apparently innovative solution is developed, which calls for issuing Income Deposit Securities. Does this innovation make sense, and is it practical?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Profile

Adam Kanner

year or two. Now the realities of running a business set in. You’re a mature startup and the expectations change. Raising Series C and D rounds is different. The board dynamics and liquidity issues are all different. Does all this change... View Details
  • 16 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy

Production immersive field course, we met with the HySynergy-Crossbridge Energy partnership that was created to produce liquid e-fuels in Fredericia, Denmark. Many of the companies we visited in Denmark and the Netherlands emphasized... View Details