Financing and Loans - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jul 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices

Keywords: by Pol Antras & C. Fritz Foley; Agriculture & Agribusiness

18 Oct 2021
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Alumnae-founded Fintech Startup Secures $29M in New Financing

Photo via Harvard Innovation Labs Lara O’Connor Hodgson (MBA 1998), cofounder of Now, recently spoke to Yahoo Finance Live to discuss its recent $29 million funding round. Hodgson cofounded Now in 2010 with former Georgia gubernatorial... View Details

06 Sep 2012
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FIN Around the World: The Contribution of Financing Activity to Profitability

Keywords: by Russell Lundholm, George Serafeim & Gwen Yu

2013
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FIN Around the World: The Contribution of Financing Activity to Profitability

By: Russell Lundholm, George Serafeim and Gwen Yu

We study how the availability of domestic credit influences the contribution that financing activities make to a firm's return on equity (ROE). Using a sample of 51,866 firms from 69 countries, we find that financing activities contribute more to a firm's ROE in... View Details

Keywords: Domestic Credit; Return Of Equity; Corporate Performance; Financial Statement Analysis; Financial Statements; Valuation; Cost of Capital; Asset Pricing; Economic Growth

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Banking System - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Holding Company Y9C Data After peaking during the financial crisis, loan loss provisions as a fraction of loans plummeted and remain low. Note that View Details

27 Oct 2021
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HBS Impact Investing Fund Course: An Experiential Education in Social Financing

This fall, Harvard Business School launched its first Impact Investment Fund Course after a successful pilot in the Spring of 2021. The fund expands access to affordable, flexible financing for Black, Brown, View Details

06 Nov 2012
News

Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities

09 Jul 2024
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Preparing for Your Finance Job Search with Wall Street Prep (CPD)

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Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance

By: Rawi Abdelal

Keywords: Capital; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Finance

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Finance Simulation: M&A in Wine Country (Facilitator's Guide)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman, W. Carl Kester and Heide Diener Abelli

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Negotiation; Valuation; Value Creation; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

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26 Jun 2020
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Will I Be Able to Reapply for an SBA Loan If There’s Another Crisis?

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Other Unpublished Work

Financing the Cleanup of Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Sites

By: Dutch Leonard, Henry Lee and Susan Bender

Keywords: Pollutants; Environmental Sustainability; Finance

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January 2018 (Revised February 2018)
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Michael Belkin: Personal Financing Planning as an Entrepreneur

By: V.G. Narayanan and Shawn O'Brien

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Japanese Corporate Finance and Governance: Implications for the Privatization of Eastern European Economies

By: David S. Scharfstein

Keywords: Privatization; Corporate Governance; Developing Countries and Economies; Corporate Finance; Japan; Europe

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January 2013 (Revised June 2014)
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Key Challenges of Applying IFRS to Islamic Finance

By: David F. Hawkins and Lee Hodder

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November 2017
Teaching Note

State Street—The Development and Growth of SHE

By: Vikram Gandhi and Lynn Schenk

Teaching Note for HBS No. 317-040. View Details

Keywords: Finance

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Do Equity Financing Cycles Matter?: Evidence from Biotechnology Alliances

By: Josh Lerner, Hilary Shane and Alexander Tsai

Keywords: Equity; Financing and Loans; Science; Alliances; Biotechnology Industry

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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Railroads Finance Management Business Analysts Mass Distribution Mergers & Syndicates Research Links New Levels of Capitalism: Finance The rapidly growing industry required an extraordinary amount of capital... View Details

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Measuring Sentiment & Expectations - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Data Measuring Sentiment & Expectations Download Data Set in Excel Credit Market Sentiment: High Yield Share Greenwood and Hanson developed the High Yield Share as a measure of credit market sentiment . The measure takes on high values... View Details