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- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
particular entrepreneurial project can identify key phases of uncertainty, yield a list of potential outcomes of each phase, and provide an assessment of the likelihood of those various outcomes. This kind of thoughtful review constitutes... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- February 1993 (Revised December 1994)
- Exercise
Corporate Financial Management: Options Exercises
By: Timothy A. Luehrman
This case presents four exercises designed to introduce students to applications of option pricing and decision-tree analysis to real corporate investment problems. Two of the four problems involve decision trees and two involve option pricing. Students should be... View Details
Luehrman, Timothy A. "Corporate Financial Management: Options Exercises." Harvard Business School Exercise 293-095, February 1993. (Revised December 1994.)
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
where the nature of work is more virtual, collaborative, and transparent, information flows every which way, careers zig and zag, and work is what you do, not where you go. A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Silver Lining
Despite the grim headlines, Sanjay Bhatnagar (MBA ’93) knows there’s a silver lining in Enron’s dark corporate cloud. In 1997, while supervising the company’s energy operations in South Asia, Bhatnagar worked with Andrea Miller, a member of Enron’s international View Details
- January 2018 (Revised January 2021)
- Case
Colombia's 4G Road Program: The Pacífico 3 Bond Offer
By: John Macomber, Maria Fernanda Miguel and Mariana Cal
Colombia conceived its 4G (Fourth Generation) Road Program to try to attract $17 billion from the private sector for investment in toll roads. The nation had also created the National Infrastructure Agency of Colombia (ANI) to oversee multiple investments, and the... View Details
Keywords: Private Public Partnerships; Infrastructure; Projects; Finance; Emerging Markets; Colombia
Macomber, John, Maria Fernanda Miguel, and Mariana Cal. "Colombia's 4G Road Program: The Pacífico 3 Bond Offer." Harvard Business School Case 218-062, January 2018. (Revised January 2021.)
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
went on to serve as deputy project manager for the $200 million renovation of Grand Central Terminal as a vice president with LaSalle Partners from 1994 to 1996. In 2012, the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art recognized his work... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
entrepreneurs to become franchisees. Keshavjee is also involved in a large affordable housing project in Thika, on the outskirts of Nairobi. He is bullish on Kenya, noting the country has "a youthful, well-educated population and is now... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
as a means of moving tax-evading money across borders, I conducted a highly structured research project involving 550 business owners and managers in 12 countries. Later, when I came to the Brookings Institution, I traveled to 23... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
Illustration by Martin Leon Barreto In a lot of ways, it didn’t seem like a very good experiment to run. A young HBS professor—a rising star in the Finance area, an economist by training, by then already looking down the road at an... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- June 2015
- Teaching Note
Schӧn Klinik: Measuring Cost and Value
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for Schon Klinik: Measuring Cost and Value. View Details
- March 2001 (Revised March 2003)
- Case
Chase's Strategy for Syndicating the Hong Kong Disneyland Loan (B)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Working Capital; Project Finance; Relationships; Financing and Loans; Financial Strategy; Tourism Industry; Hong Kong
Esty, Benjamin C., and Michael Kane. "Chase's Strategy for Syndicating the Hong Kong Disneyland Loan (B)." Harvard Business School Case 201-086, March 2001. (Revised March 2003.)
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Bolivia, to an energy project in India. Classroom discussion is supplemented with workshops (including a four-day finance workshop), study groups, and out-of-class projects. The week-long Poverty Module,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- November 1973 (Revised November 1991)
- Case
Economy Shipping Co. (Abridged)
By: Thomas R. Piper
Shipping company must choose among several mutually exclusive investment projects. View Details
Piper, Thomas R. "Economy Shipping Co. (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 274-092, November 1973. (Revised November 1991.)
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Four-Letter Word
to a calling — what can I do to help?” Miller said. “I always wanted to go into public service,” which he did, after writing a letter to Treasury Secretary and fellow Goldman alum Henry Paulson (MBA ’70). One Treasury project Miller has... View Details
- Career Coach
Oscar Mak
Oscar is currently a Senior Director at NORD/LB, a leading bank in financing renewable energy and infrastructure projects. He previously led strategic investments (e.g., M&A, corporate VC, joint ventures) in North America for Toyota... View Details
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
environmental department. At the end of his term, Coady was appointed to lead the U.S. delegation for the creation and implementation of the Global Environmental Facility, to finance projects in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Lee Scott (MBA 2023) - Scaling Climate Tech Innovation
Ideally, these companies can fund their projects with project finance since that has a lower cost of capital than venture dollars. However, infrastructure investors typically... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
greatest investment successes is Vistaar, a financing firm that offers funding to small- and medium-sized businesses in India that fall into the “missing middle”: too small for commercial bank loans, too big for microfinance. Since its... View Details
- 20 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
Scaling Climate Tech Innovation with Lee Scott (MBA 2023)
Ideally, these companies can fund their projects with project finance since that has a lower cost of capital than venture dollars. However, infrastructure investors typically... View Details
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
than households. Once banks are forced to cope with that load of unpaid debt, historically, the consequences amplify, says Ivashina, the Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration and Finance Unit Head at HBS. “It tells you that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne