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December 1996
Background Note

Financial Engineering and Tax Risk: The Case of Times Mirror PEPS

Provides general background on the taxation of corporate securities, and shows how the inconsistent taxation of functionally-similar securities can permit financial engineers to bear tax risk to earn positive returns. Designed to be used with Times Mirror Co. PEPS... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Taxation; Corporate Finance

October 1995 (Revised December 1998)
Supplement

ABN-AMRO Holding N.V. and Smit Transformatoren N.V. (B)

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

March 1994 (Revised February 2001)
Background Note

Why Manage Risk?

Conventional finance theory demonstrates that, under simplistic assumptions, firms cannot add to shareholder value through the use of risk management activities. Modern finance theory has begun to carefully consider and examine those circumstances under which firms can... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management

October 18, 2017
Editorial

Why We Must Embrace, Not Fear, the Technology That Is Revolutionising Education and Jobs

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Technology Adoption; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Change

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August 20, 2019
Other Article

An Encouraging Step to Reorient Corporate Purpose

Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Business Education

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July 2009
Supplement

Spreadsheet Supplement to Blue Ocean or Stormy Waters? Buying Nix Check Cashing (CW)

These spreadsheets will allow students to analyze financials for Kinecta Federal Credit Union and Nix Check Cashing. They also provide insight into the banking and AFS markets in which both organizations operate. View Details

Keywords: Financial Statements; Financial Institutions; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry

April 2001
Supplement

HBS Inc.

Spreadsheet to (9-201-095). Download only. View Details

01 Feb 2022
News

Business Schools Must Do More to Address the Climate Crisis

19 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

Working PapersDon't Just Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad (revised) Authors:Lynda M. Applegate and Bruce Harreld Abstract Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Harvard Business School

Broadcast executive and businessman W. Don Cornwell was hired by Goldman Sachs in 1971 and later promoted to chief operating officer of the investment banking division's corporate finance department. In 1988, Cornwell left the securities... View Details

05 Dec 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

that we can thrive. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53562 forthcoming Customer Needs and Solutions In Pursuit of Enhanced Customer Retention Management: Review, Key Issues, and Future Directions By: Ascarza, Eva, Scott A. Neslin, Oded... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Feb 2014
Conference Presentation

Men as Cultural Ideals: How Culture Shapes Gender Stereotypes

By: Amy Cuddy, Elizabeth Baily Wolf, Peter Glick and Michael I. Norton

Four studies test whether cultural values moderate the content of gender stereotypes, such that male stereotypes more closely align with core cultural values (specifically, individualism vs. collectivism) than do female stereotypes. In Studies 1 and 2, using different... View Details

Keywords: Stereotypes; Gender; United States; South Korea

01 Dec 2000
News

Faculty News

Eisenmann (Assistant Professor and MBA Class of 1961 Fellow); Allen Grossman (Bloomberg Professor of Management Practice in Philanthropy); Peter Tufano (Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management);... View Details

Keywords: H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

August 1998
Case

General Motors Corporation (C), The : 1990-1992

The third in a four-part series, this case details the financial policies and practices at General Motors from 1990 to 1996. This part describes the firm's financial responses to the business stresses it faced in the 1992 time period. View Details

Keywords: Corporate Finance; Auto Industry; United States

March 1994 (Revised June 1995)
Background Note

Interest Rate Derivatives

Introduces and explains the six major interest rate derivative products: swaps, forward rate agreements, Eurodollar futures, bond options, caps/floors/collars, and swap options. View Details

Keywords: Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Interest Rates

November 1990 (Revised June 1995)
Case

Shearson Lehman Hutton, Inc. (A): Entry into the Covered Warrant Business

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February 2010
Supplement

Valuing Visa? Priceless (CW)

Students must determine whether or not Visa, which had an IPO one month prior, is a good investment. The case provides an overview of multisided platform businesses and the payments industry in general. Visa's business model and economics are reviewed. View Details

Keywords: Credit Cards; Initial Public Offering; Valuation; Multi-Sided Platforms; Microeconomics

February 2009
Background Note

An Introduction to Consumer Credit

This note reviews a variety of shorter-term consumer credit products in the U.S. with an emphasis on the types of products that low- and moderate-income consumers use. Included here are the following: credit cards, bank overdraft products, payday lending, personal... View Details

Keywords: Credit; Financing and Loans; Personal Finance; United States

September 2005 (Revised January 2009)
Case

E-Duction, Inc.

E-Ductions, a small privately held start-up, developed a new voluntary employee benefit: a payroll-deduction-linked credit card. The CLEAR card provided workers, especially low-income and credit-challenged employees, access to a card with tight credit limits, zero APR,... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Credit; Credit Cards; Compensation and Benefits; Employees