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  • 13 Jul 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Economic Catastrophe Bonds

Keywords: by Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek & Erik Stafford; Financial Services
  • 14 Dec 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger, and Yanping Liu; Manufacturing
  • August 2008 (Revised July 2011)
  • Case

Consumer Payment Systems — United States

By: Benjamin Edelman and Andrei Hagiu
In 2008, the U.S. consumer payments landscape was characterized by the ongoing prevalence of credit and debit card networks, the decline of checks, the rise of stored value cards, and the growth of new payment methods such as PayPal, Bill Me Later, and decoupled debit.... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Financial Management; Personal Finance; Digital Platforms; Motivation and Incentives; Competitive Strategy; Internet and the Web; United States
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    Lauren H. Cohen

    Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
    • 25 Apr 2013
    • News

    HBS Professor Brings Jay-Z, Lady Gaga to the Classroom

    • 10 Apr 2020
    • News

    Managing the Liquidity Crisis

    • 21 May 2014
    • News

    Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn On The Cashless Society

    • 15 Feb 2022
    • News

    2022’s Best & Worst Cities at Money Management

    • 08 Dec 2021
    • News

    Who Read What: Business Leaders Share Their Favorite Books of 2021

    • 15 Aug 2011
    • News

    HBS Faculty Offer International Perspective On Debt Ceiling and Market Turmoil

    • 02 Nov 2017
    • News

    Trump’s tax bill is one tough sell

    • August 2008 (Revised May 2009)
    • Case

    Consumer Payment Systems — Japan

    By: Benjamin Edelman and Andrei Hagiu
    In 2008, the Japanese consumer payments landscape featured ongoing widespread use of cash, limited use of credit cards and rapid rise of e-money systems based on contactless technology embedded in cards and especially mobile phones. The case details the alliances that... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Digital Platforms; Alliances; Competitive Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Japan
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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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    • May 2014 (Revised March 2017)
    • Case

    Unilever's Lifebuoy in India: Implementing the Sustainability Plan

    By: Christopher A. Bartlett

    Unilever's new Global Brand VP must not only revitalize Lifebuoy soap's sagging market performance, but simultaneously impact the health of one billion people worldwide. The latter challenge comes from Unilever's new CEO who has introduced the Unilever Sustainable... View Details

    Keywords: Multinational Management; Corporate Social Responsibility; Strategy Implementation; Marketing Strategy; Mission And Purpose; Change Management; International Business; Global; Fast-moving Consumer Goods; Soap; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Health Care and Treatment; Environmental Sustainability; Global Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Health Industry; India
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    • October 2013 (Revised August 2016)
    • Case

    NOWaccount

    By: Ramana Nanda, William A. Sahlman and Lauren Barley

    It was September 2013, and NOWaccount Network Corporation (NOW®) co-founders John Hayes and Lara Hodgson were putting the final touches on the presentation deck for their annual shareholders' meeting. Along with co-founder Stacey Abrams, the pair had designed NOW's... View Details

    Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Finance; Entrepreneurship
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    • November 2023 (Revised January 2024)
    • Case

    Votorantim: Uniting Family and Business Across Generations

    By: Christina R. Wing, Carla Larangeira and Pedro Levindo
    Over a 105-year span, the Ermírio de Moraes family built Votorantim, one of Latin America’s largest industrial conglomerates, and among Brazil’s topmost businesses, also credited for helping “build” the country over decades. By early 2023, Votorantim included... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Family Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Family and Family Relationships; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Chemical Industry; Mining Industry; Financial Services Industry; Latin America
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    • December 2008 (Revised January 2011)
    • Case

    Arcadia Biosciences: Seeds of Change

    By: Arthur A. Daemmrich, Forest L. Reinhardt and Mary Louise Shelman
    Arcadia Biosciences is an entrepreneurial California agricultural biotech company seeking to earn carbon credits by modifying commodity crops for use in China and India. Eric Rey, Arcadia's CEO, faced a strategic inflection point in early September 2008. The company... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Science-Based Business; Climate Change; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Biotechnology Industry; China; India; California
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    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Crashes and Collateralized Lending

    By: Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford
    This paper develops a parsimonious static model for characterizing financing terms in collateralized lending markets. We characterize the systematic risk exposures for a variety of securities and develop a simple indifference-pricing framework to value the systematic... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Cost of Capital; Credit; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates; Investment; Framework; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry
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    • October 2022
    • Article

    Sovereign Risk, Currency Risk, and Corporate Balance Sheets

    By: Wenxin Du and Jesse Schreger
    We provide a comprehensive account of the evolution of the currency composition of sovereign and corporate external borrowing by emerging markets from 2003 to 2017. We show that a higher reliance on foreign currency debt by the corporate sector is associated with... View Details
    Keywords: Currency; International Finance
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    • October 1986 (Revised August 2015)
    • Case

    Advanced Medical Technology Corporation

    By: Thomas R. Piper and Steven Rogers
    A loan officer must decide whether to lend $8 million to a rapidly growing high technology company. The company has had a series of relationships with three other banks. Reports from loan officers at these banks are mixed and raise questions as to the ease with which a... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Commercial Banking; Financing and Loans; Financial Condition; Technology Industry
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