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24 Apr 2014
News

Private-sector finance experience goes to work for nonprofit boards

Tom Kempner (MBA 1978) talks about using his experience in finance to help manage several nonprofit organizations in New York City. (Published April 2014) View Details

11 Dec 2017
Working Paper Summaries

The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Corporate Finance and Beyond

Keywords: by Josh Lerner and Amit Seru

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Market Perspectives (previously Finance and Capitalism) - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Market Perspectives (previously Finance and Capitalism) Course Number 1457 Professor Robin Greenwood Baker Foundation Professor Richard Ruback Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits Paper Video: Market Perspectives Course Overview... View Details

25 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures

Climate Stories Episode #15 – Hilton Augustine III - Finding and Funding Climate Technology Solutions Episode 15 of Climate Stories focuses on recent HBS alumnus, Hilton Augustine III. A veteran of consulting, electric vehicle manufacturing and venture investing, this... View Details

06 Sep 2016
News

New Study: Women Entrepreneurs Ask For Less Financing Than Men, Get Smaller Loans At Higher Rates

2010
Simulation

Finance Simulation: Capital Budgeting, Facilitator's Guide: Product No. 4046.

By: Timothy A. Luehrman

Keywords: Capital Budgeting

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1991
Book

Banks and Money: International and Comparative Finance in History

By: G. Jones

Keywords: Financial History; Banks and Banking; Money

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May 2001 (Revised January 2003)
Case

Calpine Corporation: The Evolution from Project to Corporate Finance

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane

In early 1999, Calpine Corp.'s CEO Pete Cartwright adopted an aggressive growth strategy with the goal of increasing the company's aggregate generating capacity from approximately 3,000 to 15,000 megawatts (MW) by 2004. He believed there was a fleeting opportunity to... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Cost of Capital; Project Finance; Adaptation; Profit; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Energy Industry; United States

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March 2019 (Revised May 2019)
Case

Space Angels, Multiple Equilibria, and Financing the Space Economy

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl and Alissa Haddaji

Chad Anderson had reason to be proud of his young space-focused investment firm, Space Angels. Since becoming CEO, Anderson had overseen growth along multiple dimensions, and Space Angels was “the preeminent name in space finance” according to one prominent space... View Details

Keywords: Space Economy; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Business Model; Aerospace Industry

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27 Aug 2019
News

Challenger NorthOne launches with digital finance toolkit for small business

26 Sep 2017
News

Understanding finance in the context of art, history and humanity

29 Jul 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Two Case Studies on the Financing of Forest Conservation

Keywords: by Andrew Baxter, Connor Cash, Josh Lerner, and Ratnika Prasad

November 1975
Article

Theory of Finance from the Perspective of Continuous Time

By: Robert C. Merton

Keywords: Theory; Finance

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winter 2000
Article

The Equate Project: An Introduction to Islamic Project Finance

By: B. C. Esty

Keywords: Projects; Finance; Information

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09 May 2024
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28 Courses to Boost Your ESG, Sustainable Finance Skills

January 2008 (Revised September 2009)
Case

Financing American Housing Construction in the Aftermath of War

By: David Moss and Cole Bolton

At the start of WWI, the United States faced a significant housing shortage. Public officials feared the spread of disease—and even communism—in the nation's cramped urban centers where vacancy rates held near zero and families often "doubled up" in single-housing... View Details

Keywords: Central Banking; Bonds; Mortgages; Government Legislation; Business History; Housing; Banking Industry; United States

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October 2015
Teaching Note

Molycorp: Financing the Production of Rare Earth Minerals (A)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield

Molycorp, the western hemisphere's only producer of rare earth minerals, was in the middle of a $1 billion capital expenditure project in its effort to become a vertically integrated supplier of rare earth minerals, oxides, and metals. Yet it had just reported lower... View Details

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04 Nov 2015
News

Google's VP of Finance Will Be Tesla's New CFO

Keywords: Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2017
News

Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance

Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return, seeks to redeem the oft-maligned finance industry. Desai argues that “viewing finance through the prism of the humanities will help us... View Details