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- August 2015
- Article
Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices
By: Pol Antràs and C. Fritz Foley
This paper analyzes the financing terms that support international trade and sheds light on how these terms shape the impact of economic shocks on trade. Analysis of transaction-level data from a U.S.-based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily... View Details
Antràs, Pol, and C. Fritz Foley. "Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices." Journal of Political Economy 123, no. 4 (August 2015): 853–901. (Revised May 2014. Online Appendix.)
- 2022
- Working Paper
Buy Now, Pay Later Credit: User Characteristics and Effects on Spending Patterns
By: Marco Di Maggio, Justin Katz and Emily Williams
Firms offering "buy now, pay later" (BNPL) point-of-sale installment loans with minimal underwriting and low interest have captured a growing fraction of the market for short-term unsecured consumer credit. We provide a detailed look into the US BNPL market by... View Details
- March 1991 (Revised July 1996)
- Background Note
Sources of Financing for New Nonprofit Ventures
Designed to help nonprofit entrepreneurs design fund-raising strategies that are appropriate for their specific organizations. Discusses the major fund-raising alternatives, including foundations, corporations, government sources, wealthy individuals, and the public,... View Details
Dees, J. Gregory. "Sources of Financing for New Nonprofit Ventures." Harvard Business School Background Note 391-097, March 1991. (Revised July 1996.)
- October 1977 (Revised May 1993)
- Teaching Note
WJAC (B): Financing a Growing Organization, Teaching Note
- 1992
- Manual
Teacher's Manual for Case Problems in Finance
- June 2012
- Background Note
Note on Financing Growth in Family Firms
By: Belen Villalonga
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Family Business; Private Equity; Joint Ventures; Initial Public Offering
Villalonga, Belen. "Note on Financing Growth in Family Firms." Harvard Business School Background Note 212-121, June 2012.
- June 2024
- Supplement
Financing Matillion’s Scaleup (B2): Dharmesh Thakker
By: Ray Kluender, Emanuele Colonnelli and Ramana Nanda
(B2): Dharmesh Thakker confidential information for term sheet negotiation. View Details
Kluender, Ray, Emanuele Colonnelli, and Ramana Nanda. "Financing Matillion’s Scaleup (B2): Dharmesh Thakker." Harvard Business School Supplement 824-158, June 2024.
- June 2024
- Supplement
Financing Matillion’s Scaleup (B1): Matthew Scullion
By: Ray Kluender, Emanuele Colonnelli and Ramana Nanda
(B1): Matthew Scullion confidential information for term sheet negotiation. View Details
Kluender, Ray, Emanuele Colonnelli, and Ramana Nanda. "Financing Matillion’s Scaleup (B1): Matthew Scullion." Harvard Business School Supplement 824-157, June 2024.
- February 2018 (Revised March 2020)
- Teaching Note
Signet Jewelers: Assessing Customer Financing Risk
By: Gerardo Pérez Cavazos, Suraj Srinivasan and Quinn Pitcher
Teaching Note for HBS No. 117-038. View Details
- September 1998
- Teaching Note
Palm Computing, Inc. 1995: Financing Challenges TN
By: Myra M. Hart and Stephanie Dodson
Teaching Note for (9-898-090). View Details
Keywords: Technology Industry
- April 2004
- Supplement
Tax-Motivated Film Financing at Rexford Studios
By: Mihir A. Desai, Gabriel L. Loeb and Mark Veblen
Spreadsheet to (9-203-005). Download only. View Details
- March 2015
- Case
Entrepreneurial Finance Lab: A Founding Story (A)
By: Shikhar Ghosh, Joan Farre-Mensa and Christopher Payton
Ghosh, Shikhar, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Christopher Payton. "Entrepreneurial Finance Lab: A Founding Story (A)." Harvard Business School Case 815-119, March 2015.
The Future of Cities Depends on Innovative Financing
Today’s mega-cities have a footprint problem. They are developing horizontally, not vertically, with vast areas of low sprawl reaching out for miles from Sao... View Details
- Forthcoming
- Article
Weak Credit Covenants
By: Victoria Ivashina and Boris Vallée
Using novel data on 1,240 credit agreements, we investigate sources of contractual complexity in the leveraged loan market. While negative covenants are widespread, carve-out
and deductible clauses that qualify them are as frequent. We propose simple and comprehensive... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Loans; Loan Contracts; Debt Covenants; Carve-out; Creditor Governance; LBO; Credit; Agreements and Arrangements; Leveraged Buyouts
Ivashina, Victoria, and Boris Vallée. "Weak Credit Covenants." Management Science (forthcoming).
- February 2008 (Revised February 2009)
- Case
The International Finance Corporation's Grassroots Business Initiative
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Katharine Lee
Grassroots Business Initiative was set up to financially assist small enterprises engaged in creating social value. Three years later, Harold Rosen, its creator, wished to explore an alternative funding model to provide it with scale and sustainability. View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Microfinance; Investment Funds; Social Enterprise
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Katharine Lee. "The International Finance Corporation's Grassroots Business Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 508-063, February 2008. (Revised February 2009.)
- Article
Credit Access and Social Welfare: The Rise of Consumer Lending in the United States and France
By: Gunnar Trumbull
Research into the causes of the 2008 financial crisis has drawn attention to a link between growing income inequality in the United States and high household indebtedness. Most accounts trace the U.S. idea of credit-as-welfare to the period of wage stagnation and... View Details
Keywords: Household Finance; Welfare State; Credit; Personal Finance; Welfare; Borrowing and Debt; France; United States
Trumbull, Gunnar. "Credit Access and Social Welfare: The Rise of Consumer Lending in the United States and France." Politics & Society 40, no. 1 (March 2012): 9–34.
- 2024
- Working Paper
FinTech & Financial Frictions: The Rise of Revenue-Based Financing
We use data from a major South African payment processor to study how digital payments mitigate asymmetric information challenges in small business “revenue-based financing” contracts, which tie repayment schedules to future revenue. Eight months post-financing,... View Details
Russel, Dominic, Claire Shi, and Rowan Clarke. "FinTech & Financial Frictions: The Rise of Revenue-Based Financing." SSRN Working Paper Series, July 2024.
- February 2005 (Revised November 2012)
- Supplement
UAL 2004: Pulling Out of Bankruptcy (CW)
By: Daniel Baird Bergstresser, Kenneth A. Froot and Darren Robert Smart
UAL is a large air transportation company with roots that go back to the 1920s. As a legacy carrier, going back to before the 1978 deregulation of air transportation markets, United Airlines is burdened with cost structures that make it difficult to compete with newer... View Details