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- July 1997 (Revised September 1997)
- Case
USAA: Catastrophe Risk Financing
By: Kenneth A. Froot and Mark Seasholes
Describes the first major risk financing using catastrophe bonds. Provides a basis for discussing the securitization of insurance risks. View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Insurance; Capital Markets; Natural Disasters; Risk Management; Bonds; Insurance Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
Froot, Kenneth A., and Mark Seasholes. "USAA: Catastrophe Risk Financing." Harvard Business School Case 298-007, July 1997. (Revised September 1997.)
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-040.pdf Financial Guarantors and the 2007-2009 Credit Crisis Authors:Daniel Bergstresser, Randolph Cohen, and Siddharth Shenai Abstract More than half of the municipal bonds issued between 1995 and 2009... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
industry's release of an unprecedented total of twenty thousand new titles. Is there trouble brewing for the business with a beat, a virtually recession-free industry for the past fifty years? To shed some light on the situation, the Bulletin spoke with Jay R. Boberg... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Innovation: Crowdfunding College Costs
30 percent more than would otherwise be true." And how would Cordero respond to those who might find such a gift solicitation tacky? "The demand and desire to give the gift of education has always been with us," he says, citing the old standbys of savings View Details
- May 2013 (Revised January 2015)
- Teaching Note
H Partners and Six Flags
By: Robin Greenwood, Julie Messina and Jared Dourdeville
Teaching Note for #211090 & #211096 View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
They must also allow people to interact and bond with each other—to feel the camaraderie of being a part of a team. They must enable people to keep learning and to find ways of exercising their curiosity and expressing their own ideas—to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
It’s the Economy
Detroit from imminent bankruptcy will be futile. see article HBS professor Peter Tufano makes the case for allowing Americans to automatically buy U.S. savings bonds with their tax refunds, building family and national savings in a time... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Fall Reunions Stimulate and Revitalize
including the Boston Ballet, the John F. Kennedy Library, and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. The Class of 1972 held a celebration at International Place, thanks to 25th Reunion chairman Donald J. Chiofaro; a highlight of their gathering was a performance by Mary... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
some cases down to the source code level. Our study thus extends the concept of IP modularity to comprise the notion of hierarchy levels. Working PapersInflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
decomposes excess return predictability in U.S. and U.K. inflation-indexed and nominal government bonds. We find that nominal bonds reflect time-varying inflation and real rate risk premia, while inflation-indexed View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
estimated in advance by companies who specialize in this sort of analysis. Bonds can be purchased to cover cost overrun risks, too. And it doesn’t hurt to have the reality check of a bonding agent looking... View Details
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
expect bankers to have been less central than in Mexico and, perhaps, the United States. Second, I test if the availability of financing alternatives, like a well-developed bond market in Brazil, reduced the average importance of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Got Global?
differences, their shared experience at Soldiers Field created a common bond that helped increase trust and respect, which led to the desired de-escalation of tensions. In Shirazi’s view, this kind of global impact is “a uniquely HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Tradition and Outreach at HBS Club de France
addressed the needs of an increasing membership while maintaining strong bonds with the School. He instigated a tradition of monthly luncheons as well as an advisory interviewing committee to meet with French applicants to HBS. In the... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 28 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
B2B Branding: Does it Work?
cheerleader, loves the brand heritage, and is a great storyteller. The CMO sees his or her purpose as helping the CEO achieve this role. The CEO understands that building brand reputation reduces commercial risk, insulates the company in a crisis, and provides the... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Redefining the Term Networking at HBS
participated in FIELD, where I naturally developed relationships that still warm my heart to this day. I even remain close friends with my RC dorm room neighbor. We bonded over similar challenges and never looked back. In EC year I ended... View Details
- Web
Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring - Course Catalog
situations (including threats to their survival). Restructurings are often extremely complicated, and involve multiple issues around valuation, bond indentures, subordination agreements, bankruptcy law, employment law, taxes, litigation,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
kidding," Nichols says, "and then I realized he was serious." Although a few such Jurassic-like creatures roamed the School back then, Nichols notes that "women students got through such encounters by doing a lot of bonding - with men as... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
Aldo Sesia Jr.Harvard Business School Case 211-018 Investment manager Eliza Baena confronts an apparent convertible bond arbitrage opportunity when she notices a narrowing spread between two Boston Properties (BXP) bonds, one a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
theoretical and empirical investigation of the risks of globally diversified portfolios of stocks and bonds and of optimal intertemporal global portfolio choice for long horizon investors in the presence of permanent cash flow shocks and... View Details