Derivatives - Publications - Faculty & Research

January 1987 (Revised November 1991)
Case

R.J. Reynolds International Financing

By: W. Carl Kester and William B. Allen

Reynolds must source a substantial portion of the financing of its Nabisco acquisition in offshore bond markets. Morgan Guaranty has proposed a yen/dollar dual currency Eurobond that could be hedged into dollars. This structure is compared to Eurodollar Bonds, Euroyen... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Capital Markets; Currency Exchange Rate; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Bonds; Financing and Loans

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18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Tech Investment the Wise Way

the situation, rather than from some inherent characteristic of the technologyChesbrough & Rosenbloom Value thus derives from the structure of the situation, rather than from some inherent characteristic of the technology itself:... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough & Richard S. Rosenbloom

03 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

from the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board,” Serafeim says. Others are trying to derive an environmental profit and loss account, or social balance sheet. “The question is not only how do those corporate disclosure activities... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

serve as an accelerant to more efficient and effective experiments. We explore six modules: 1. Ideation and Customer Value Proposition Experiments. What are the best methods to develop and test startup ideas early in the development process? What are the right... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

Turning Point: Makeover

Vicky Tsai (MBA 2006) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Vicky Tsai (MBA 2006) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) My first job was as a derivatives trader. The markets fascinated me; the testosterone-driven culture of the trading floor did not.... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneurship; leadership; purpose; Asian American; beauty industry; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Apr 1997
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HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment

careers. "We wanted to provide an effective self-assessment tool," notes Butler, who describes the BCII as "an extremely sophisticated instrument derived from a ten-year study of over 650 business professionals." Together, the text and... View Details

Keywords: Bob Binstock

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Jessica Kramer

As an economics major at Dartmouth looking for career direction, Jessica Kramer saw Morgan Stanley’s employment offer as “a good way to earn my chops” in business. Two years selling interest-rate derivatives in New York City, plus another... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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Barbara Bry: Business is Blooming

friend in the electronic greeting-card business, who thought flower marketing could derive great advantages from the efficiencies of the Internet and wanted Bry's online expertise. Proflowers was the result. Seated in her no-frills office... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick; Arts, Entertainment

01 Apr 1996
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New Releases

text introducing risk-reducing strategies such as hedging, portfolio diversification, insurance, and derivative market mechanisms. In addition, the book trains the reader in relevant methodologies, including exposure analysis, the capital... View Details

05 Sep 2008
What Do You Think?

Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?

technologies such as the Internet. But the volume of positive responses leads to the question of whether case method instruction may even be gaining relevance over time. What do you think? Original Article The case method has become synonymous with education for... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Education

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia

Texas to Lithuania's West Virginia) and in economic might (second only to Russia in the region) has tried to tread—apparently with ambivalence—a middle ground between Russia and the West. As Abdelal points out, the choices of these post-Soviet governments clearly did... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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1.17 Field Based Learning / Independent Projects | MBA

work, they have access to insider information that would enable them to derive personal gain from such trades. This applies not only to trading stock for the company in which they are conducting the field study but also trading stock of... View Details

18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

engage in self-creation and the utility that they derive from such activities. We propose that creating products fulfills consumers' psychological need to signal competence to themselves and to others, and that feelings of competence... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon

most profitable. "Not only are merchandise profits higher under contingent free shipping than under free shipping, but our estimates imply that the firm could derive even higher merchandise profits by increasing both its flat... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

the Big Thinker." Gerald Nanninga cautioned us that "the big risk is that it gives executives a false sense of comfort." Clifford Francis Baker added, "My concern is primarily focused on the possibility of complacency data derived from... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

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Industrial Production & Materials - Business & Environment

most cement plants. Alternative fuels and low-carbon cement made with recovered fly ash offer significant potential. Plastic Globally, 310 million tons of plastic are produced each year, almost all made from fossil fuels. Experts estimate that 90% of current plastics... View Details

13 Jul 2022
Book

Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?

interests of shareholders. Since power derives from control over access to valued resources, this disparity in control over strategic decisions results in a great power imbalance among workers, top executives, and capital investors,... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

05 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

decisions to them. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53665 Expected Stock Returns Worldwide: A Log-Linear Present-Value Approach By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew R. Lyle, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Expected return proxies... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

the effect of a single drug on multiple adverse events by analyzing data that accumulate sequentially and explicitly captures interdependencies among the multiple events. The method continuously monitors a vector-valued test-statistic View Details