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    Lauren H. Cohen

    Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management
    • January 2011
    • Case

    A Slice of the Pie: Ruby Collins and Tenants in Common

    By: John D. Macomber and Kristian Peterson
    A securitized small real estate investment vehicle fails and the many individual owners have to decide how to manage or dispose of the asset. This case follows Ruby Collins, a small investor, through the logic of Section 1031 Like Kind Exchanges as well as the... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Instruments; Investment; Risk Management; Ownership Stake; Partners and Partnerships; Valuation; Real Estate Industry
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    • January 1994
    • Case

    China (B): Polaroid of Shanghai Ltd.

    By: Debora L. Spar
    Examines the experience of Polaroid of Shanghai Ltd. (PSL), a joint venture between the U.S.-based Polaroid Corp. and the Shanghai Motion Picture Industry Co., within the framework of China's foreign investment climate. Discusses the evolution of foreign investment in... View Details
    Keywords: Joint Ventures; Foreign Direct Investment; China; United States
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    • March 2001 (Revised February 2009)
    • Case

    HDFC (A)

    By: Lynn S. Paine, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Suma Raju
    The top management team at India's leading home finance company must decide how to deal with the emergence of intense competition at the end of the 1990s. Having founded the industry and dominated it for nearly 20 years, the well-respected company faces a bevy of new... View Details
    Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Management Style; Management Teams; Competition; Financial Services Industry; India
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    • 06 Dec 2021
    • News

    Truth Be Told

    Image by John Ritter In 2018, HBS associate professors Aiyesha Dey and Jonas Heese wrote a case about a whistleblower at a multi-national gambling company who exposed financial misstatements, first to his manager and later to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.... View Details
    Keywords: April White; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management
    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Accounting for Product Impact in the Consumer-Packaged Foods Industry

    By: Amanda Rischbieth, George Serafeim and Katie Trinh
    We apply the product impact measurement framework of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) in two competitor companies within the consumer-packaged goods industry. We design a methodology that allows us to calculate monetary impact estimates on customer... View Details
    Keywords: Product Innovation; Impact; Impact Investing; Impact Measurement; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Ratings; Social Corporate Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsibility; Social Impact; Nutrition Database; Nutritional Information; CPG; Consumer Packaged Goods; IWAI; Product Design; Product Positioning; Society; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Nutrition; Product; Safety; Consumer Products Industry
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    • 28 Feb 2018 - 1 Mar 2018
    • Other Presentation

    Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Africa—Part 1 & Part 2

    By: Euvin Naidoo
    Part 1: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Africa with Euvin Naidoo (February 28)

    Part 2: Developing Capital Market:A Conversation with Mr. Bola “Koko” Onadele, Managing Director of FMDQ (March 1)
    We cordially invite you to an exciting discussion... View Details
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    • August 2003
    • Case

    SEC Proposal for Nomination of Directors by Shareholders

    By: Jay W. Lorsch and Ashley Robertson
    Describes the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's 2003 proposal to allow shareholders to nominate a "short slate" of directors for the board of listed companies. Includes comment letters for and against the proposal. View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Management Teams; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States
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    • 17 May 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting

    Keywords: by Ioannis Ioannou & George Serafeim
    • June 2012
    • Article

    Leadership Is a Conversation

    By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
    Globalization and new technologies have sharply reduced the efficacy of command-and-control management and its accompanying forms of corporate communication. In the course of a recent research project, the authors concluded that by talking with employees, rather than... View Details
    Keywords: Employees; Management Style; Interpersonal Communication; Leadership; Cooperation; Partners and Partnerships
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    • March 2005 (Revised February 2006)
    • Case

    Advising on Currency Risk at ICICI Bank

    In March 2003, a client approached the Markets Advisory Group at ICICI Bank, India's second largest bank, about a hedging transaction. The hedge involved multiple interest rates and currencies. Shilpa Kumar, head of the Markets Advisory Group, has to put together a... View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Currency Exchange Rate; Capital Markets; Investment Funds; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; India
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    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    Pricing of Climate Risk Insurance: Regulation and Cross-Subsidies

    By: Ishita Sen, Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva and Sangmin Oh
    We study the pricing of homeowners’ insurance, a $15 trillion market essential for hedging climate-related losses. We show that insurance premiums are subject to starkly different regulations across states, creating persistent cross-subsidies and price distortions. We... View Details
    Keywords: Climate Risk; Homeowners' Insurance; Price Controls; Financial Regulation; Cross-subsidization; Climate Change; Price; Risk and Uncertainty; Geographic Location; Insurance Industry; United States
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    • 07 Jul 2014
    • News

    Buzzfeed Is Officially A Case Study In Media Industry Disruption

    • 30 Aug 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers

    for process improvement. For incident-reporting systems to fulfill their promise, employees must use the system to "speak up" when they encounter a problem. Managers receive additional value when reporters speak up constructively by... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
    • March 2021 (Revised April 2021)
    • Case

    Wirecard: The Downfall of a German Fintech Star

    By: Jonas Heese, Charles C.Y. Wang and Tonia Labruyere
    Wirecard was a German fintech company, member of the DAX30, that provided payment processing and related services. Wirecard had enjoyed large growth rates over the years and most investors and analysts were enthusiastic about the company's prospects. Wirecard's... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting Fraud; Scandal; Accounting Audits; Accounting; Financial Reporting; Financial Institutions; Financial Markets; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Corporate Accountability; Governance Controls; Financial Services Industry; Germany; Singapore; Dubai
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    • Working Paper

    How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?

    By: Paul A. Gompers, William Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan and Ilya A. Strebulaev
    We survey 885 institutional venture capitalists (VCs) at 681 firms to learn how they make decisions across eight areas: deal sourcing, investment selection, valuation, deal structure, post-investment value-added, exits, internal firm organization, and relationships... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Decision Choices and Conditions
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    • 05 Oct 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: October 5, 2010

    tenure on the board and a prior career in investment banking/investment management are associated with proposing standards perceived as decreasing accounting "reliability"; while contributions to the Democratic Party are... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • February 2008 (Revised November 2011)
    • Case

    The International Monetary Fund in Crisis

    By: Rawi Abdelal, David Moss and Eugene Kintgen
    When Dominique Strauss-Kahn became the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund in late 2007, he faced a number of significant changes. The organization had lost much of its legitimacy over the previous decade, and countries seemed increasingly reluctant to... View Details
    Keywords: History; Globalized Economies and Regions; Problems and Challenges; Developing Countries and Economies; Borrowing and Debt; Government and Politics; Financial Institutions; Business Strategy; Macroeconomics; Financial Services Industry
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    • March 2023
    • Case

    Ransomware Attack at Colonial Pipeline Company

    By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
    On the morning of May 7, 2021, Colonial Pipeline Company became aware that the company had been the victim of a malicious ransomware attack that had stolen and locked up company data. The extortionists demanded 75 bitcoins (worth about $4.4 million at the time) in... View Details
    Keywords: Disruption; Communication; Communication Strategy; Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Policy; Employees; News; Cybersecurity; Digital Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Information Management; Internet and the Web; Crisis Management; Business or Company Management; Resource Allocation; Risk Management; Negotiation Tactics; Failure; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Attitudes; Behavior; Perception; Reputation; Trust; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Infrastructure; Distribution Industry; United States; Alabama
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    • Working Paper

    Benchmarking Against the Performance of High Profile 'Scandal' Firms

    By: Emre Karaoglu, Tatiana Sandino and Randy Beatty
    In recent years, several high profile firms engaged in accounting fraud that resulted in severe investor losses and erosion of trust in the capital markets. We examine high profile accounting "scandals" prosecuted by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Unlike most... View Details
    Keywords: Earnings Management; Ethics; Executive Compensation; Performance Evaluation; Financial Services Industry; United States
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