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  • January 2021 (Revised May 2021)
  • Case

Delta Air Lines: Navigating the COVID-19 Storm

By: Ted Berk and Ryan Flamerich
This case examines Delta Air Lines’ response as demand for its services plummeted in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on the company’s funding needs and capital structure. Following a series of initial actions, the company’s cash “burn” had reduced from... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Financial Condition; Capital Structure; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Air Transportation Industry
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  • 2022
  • Working Paper

How Do Investors Value ESG?

By: Malcolm Baker, Mark Egan and Suproteem K. Sarkar
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) objectives have risen to near the top of the agenda for corporate executives and boards, driven in large part by their perceptions of shareholder interest. We quantify the value that shareholders place on ESG using a revealed... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Governance; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 30 May 2019
  • News

How to Ensure ESG Investing Isn’t Whitewash

  • 14 Jul 2017
  • News

Aiming to Do Good, Not Just Well

    Rowan Clarke

    Rowan Clarke is a PhD candidate at Harvard Business School in the Strategy Unit. He researches entrepreneurship and technology/AI for economic development and social impact. His work assists small business entrepreneurs, and high-growth technology... View Details

    Keywords: management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting
    • December 2014 (Revised April 2015)
    • Case

    Apple, Einhorn, and iPrefs

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin, Hanoch Feit, Edward A. Minasian and Brandon Van Buren
    In March 2013, Apple Computer has a very large cash balance, and is under pressure to return cash to shareholders. Hedge fund manager David Einhorn thinks Apple can "unlock value" by issuing perpetual preferred stock, dubbed iPrefs. Henry Blodget, CEO of Business... View Details
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    • January 2009 (Revised December 2017)
    • Case

    Who Broke the Bank of England?

    By: Niall Ferguson and Jonathan Schlefer
    In the summer of 1992, hedge fund manager George Soros was contemplating the possibility that the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) would break down. Designed to pave the way for a full-scale European Monetary Union, the ERM was a system of fixed exchange rates... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Currency Exchange Rate; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Services Industry; European Union
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    • January 2023
    • Case

    The END Fund: To Eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Courtney Han
    Founded in 2012, the END fund focused on eliminating five Neglected Tropical Diseases that accounted for 80% of the tropical diseases affecting nearly 1.5 billion people worldwide. Its roughly $25 million/year annual budget was fully committed when it got news that the... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Resource Allocation; Global Range; Decisions; Investment Funds
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    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Bank Capital and the Growth of Private Credit

    By: Sergey Chernenko, Robert Ialenti and David Scharfstein
    We show that business development companies (BDCs), a significant source of private credit, are very well capitalized according to bank capital frameworks. These types of private credit funds have median risk-based capital ratios of about 36%, which is 26 percentage... View Details
    Keywords: Financing and Loans; Capital; Credit; Financial Institutions
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    • September 2016 (Revised August 2018)
    • Case

    State Street—The Development and Growth of SHE

    By: Vikram Gandhi
    State Street Global Advisors was the investment arm of State Street Corporation, one of the largest custodians and asset managers in the world with over $2.3 trillion in assets under management. Inspired by demand from a large pension fund client for better gender... View Details
    Keywords: ETF; Asset Management; Financial Services Industry
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    • April 2009
    • Case

    Young Presidents' Organization

    By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, John D. Macomber and David Chen
    The board of Young Presidents' Organization needs to decide on the future of its Networks Initiative, designed to connect its geographically dispersed membership base through 60 different interest-based networks. So far, one half of these networks have been considered... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Governing and Advisory Boards; Leadership Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizations; Social and Collaborative Networks
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    • 15 Dec 2011
    • News

    Chasing the New Angel Investors

    • Career Coach

    Okan Okutgen

    Okan (Princeton BSE ‘11, HBS MBA ’15) has years of experience in the tech startup world as a go-to-market leader, general manager and strategic finance leader. He has served as Head of Global Sales Operations & Strategy, Head of APAC... View Details
    • April 2008 (Revised December 2008)
    • Case

    North Goes East

    By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Elena Corsi
    In August 2006, Magnus Lofgren and Robert Provine, managing directors and co-founders of the "North Real Estate Opportunities Fund," need to decide which real estate investment the Fund should pursue as its first project. The Fund's target region, Central and Eastern... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Investment Funds; Risk Management; Emerging Markets; Opportunities; Real Estate Industry; Europe
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    • November 2016
    • Article

    Who Neglects Risk? Investor Experience and the Credit Boom

    By: Sergey Chernenko, Samuel Gregory Hanson and Adi Sunderam
    Many have argued that overoptimistic thinking on the part of lenders helps fuel credit booms. We use new microdata on mutual funds' holdings of securitizations to examine which investors are susceptible to such boom-time thinking. We show that firsthand experience... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Investment; Experience and Expertise
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      Stuart C. Gilson

      Professor Stuart Gilson is the Steven R. Fenster Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and former chairman of the Finance Unit.  His research, teaching, and consulting focuses on the financial, business, and legal strategies that companies... View Details

      Keywords: investment banking industry; legal services
      • March 2001 (Revised April 2001)
      • Case

      Sustainable Development & Socially Responsible Investing: ABB in 2000

      By: Forest L. Reinhardt
      Several investment firms and mutual funds position themselves as providers or facilitators of opportunities for socially responsible investment. This case addresses the impact of these firms on publicly traded companies. Focuses on managers at ABB, a large... View Details
      Keywords: Investment; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Social Enterprise; Corporate Governance; Business Strategy; Capital Markets; Management Teams; Business and Community Relations; Trade; Electronics Industry; Switzerland
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      • February 2003 (Revised May 2008)
      • Case

      AFP Provida

      By: Michael E. Porter, Arturo L. Condo and Andrea Prado
      Describes the evolution of AFP Provida, one of the early entrants into the Chilean pension fund system established in 1981. By 1999, AFP Provida was not only the largest pension fund administrator in Chile, but also the largest in Latin America in terms of number of... View Details
      Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Globalized Firms and Management; Industry Clusters; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Financial Services Industry; Chile
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      • November 2020 (Revised February 2021)
      • Case

      Integrating Beam Suntory (A)

      By: David G. Fubini, Rawi Abdelal and David Lane
      The spring 2014 acquisition of U.S. alcoholic spirits maker Beam Inc. by Japan’s Suntory Holdings vaulted Suntory from 15th to third-largest international spirits company in the world. Yet Suntory had borrowed nearly the entire $16 billion purchase price, and relied on... View Details
      Keywords: Family Business; Communication; Borrowing and Debt; Globalization; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Retention; Leadership; Supply Chain; Organizational Structure; Ownership; Relationships; Conflict and Resolution; Integration; Value Creation; Food and Beverage Industry; Japan; United States; Chicago
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      • January 2024 (Revised February 2024)
      • Case

      TPG Rise Climate: Deploying 'Climate Capital'

      By: Vikram S. Gandhi, David Allen, Sarah Mehta and Shannon Roche
      This case is about TPG Rise Climate, a $7.3 billion climate impact fund launched in 2021 by alternative asset manager TPG. Climate investing is a complex, capital-intensive endeavor; entering it has forced TPG to think and act differently. Relative to other funds, Rise... View Details
      Keywords: Energy; Environmental Management; Ownership; Science; Value; Asset Management; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Financial Markets; Financial Services Industry; California; San Francisco; New York (city, NY)
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