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  • May 2014
  • Case

Building a High Performance Culture at IDFC

By: V.G. Narayanan and Vidhya Muthuram
IDFC was set up in 1997 to direct private finance to infrastructure projects in India. Over the years, it expanded its capabilities to become a 'complete solutions provider' offering financing solutions including debt and equity, investment banking, brokerage and asset... View Details
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  • June 2010 (Revised July 2012)
  • Supplement

Dubai: Debt, Development, and Crisis (C)

By: Aldo Musacchio, Andrew Christopher Goodman and Claire K. Qureshi
On November 25, 2009, the city state of Dubai stunned markets by announcing that Dubai World, its flagship state holding company, would seek a six month "standstill" on at least $4 billion U.S. dollars of its $26 billion in debt obligations. This case describes Dubai's... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Investment; Emerging Markets; Trade; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Development Economics; Financial Crisis; State Ownership; Sovereign Finance; Business Strategy; Dubai
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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

issued to investors in Europe or Asia. Additionally, Lehman Brothers had been a major issuer of short-term debt in the form of commercial paper, and its collapse caused a credit freeze of this vital source of lending throughout the world.... View Details

    Meg Rithmire

    Meg Rithmire is the James E. Robison Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit. Professor Rithmire holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University, and her primary expertise is in the comparative political economy of development with a... View Details

    Keywords: real estate
    • April 2018
    • Case

    Globalizing Japan's Dream Machine: Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd.

    By: Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
    Recruit Holdings, an advertising media, staffing, and business support conglomerate was founded in 1960 by Hiromasa Ezoe. Recruit was built on the principle that the company should add value to society. To do this, it hired young and talented employees and created a... View Details
    Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Crime and Corruption; Transition; Globalization; Japan
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    • February 2023
    • Supplement

    Performance Management at Afreximbank (B)

    By: Robert S. Kaplan, Siko Sikochi, Anna Ngarachu and Namrata Arora
    Supplements the (A) case. Founded in October 1993, the Cairo-based African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) was a specialized continental financial institution designed to address the low level of intra-African trade, the decline in financial flows to Africa, the... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Performance Evaluation; Organizational Culture; Crisis Management; Banking Industry; Africa
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Credit-Market Sentiment and the Business Cycle

    By: David Lopez-Salido, Jeremy C. Stein and Egon Zakrajsek
    Using U.S. data from 1929 to 2013, we show that elevated credit-market sentiment in year t – 2 is associated with a decline in economic activity in years t and t + 1. Underlying this result is the existence of predictable mean reversion in credit-market conditions.... View Details
    Keywords: Investment; Credit; Macroeconomics
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    • February 2013
    • Case

    New Earth Mining, Inc.

    By: William E. Fruhan and Wei Wang
    New Earth Mining is one of the largest producers of precious metals in the U.S. While the firm operates mines primarily in the U.S. and Canada, it has also made substantial investments in gold exploration projects in Australia and Chile. New Earth has been very... View Details
    Keywords: South Africa; Capital Budgeting; International Business; Return On Investment; Mining; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Valuation; Investment; Diversification; Mining Industry; Australia; South Africa; Chile; Canada; United States
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    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Laws vs. Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890–1950

    By: Aldo Musacchio
    The early development of large multidivisional corporations in Latin America required much more than capable managers, new technologies, and large markets. Behind such corporations was a market for capital in which entrepreneurs had to attract investors to buy either... View Details
    Keywords: Voting; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Governance Controls; Contracts; Laws and Statutes; Ownership Stake; Brazil
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    • Web

    Finance - Faculty & Research

    Financial Crisis ; Macroeconomics ; Assets ; Asset Management ; Borrowing and Debt ; Corporate Finance ; Capital Markets ; Equity ; Public Equity ; Private Equity ; Financial Liquidity ; Financial Instruments ; View Details
    • Web

    Help - Alumni

    Loan Repayment Assistance Program? The HBS Nonprofit/Public Sector Loan Repayment Assistance Program can help reduce the need-based educational debt repayment burden for alumni taking managerial positions in the US or abroad where... View Details
    • February 2019 (Revised January 2020)
    • Case

    Pierre Foods Acquisition of Advance Foods (A)

    By: Guhan Subramanian and Mike Harmon
    This case (A), and its related cases (B-E), establish a setting to discuss an M&A transaction and some of the key legal contracts that are associated with it. In 2010, private equity backed food manufacturer Pierre Foods is contemplating the acquisition of a key... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation; Complexity
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    • February 2019 (Revised March 2019)
    • Case

    Banorte and the Capital Call Facility: Infrastructure Finance in Mexico

    By: John D. Macomber, Carla Larangeira and Fernanda Miguel
    As a result of Mexico´s pension industry deregulation, pension funds were able to invest in energy and infrastructure projects through a variety of financial instruments, particularly through Capital Development Certificates (CKDs), an asset class that served as a... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Products; Fund Management; Capital Call Facility; Pension Funds; Infrastructure; Energy; Finance; Decision Making; Investment Funds; Financial Instruments; North America; Mexico
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    • December 2017 (Revised June 2021)
    • Case

    Tesla's Bid for SolarCity

    By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Raaj Zutshi
    In October 2016, Tesla asked its shareholders to ratify their $2.4 billion bid for SolarCity. Tesla had announced a series of large projects in the preceding months including the unveiling of the Model 3, the new Solar Roof, and pushing forward the opening of the... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business and Shareholder Relations; Project Finance
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    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    The Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Portfolio Firms' Corporate Tax Planning

    By: Brad Badertscher, Sharon P. Katz and Sonja Olhoft Rego
    This study investigates whether private equity (PE) firms influence the tax practices of their portfolio firms. Prior research documents that PE firms create economic value in portfolio firms through effective governance, financial, and operational engineering. Given... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Governance; Taxation; Ownership Stake; Value Creation
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    • October 1997 (Revised March 1998)
    • Case

    Appalachian Mountain Club: Transforming Governance

    By: Walter J. Salmon and Jaan Elias
    Starting in 1988, the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) began a controversial transformation in management and governance. For its first 112 years, the AMC's structure had resembled that of a country club--volunteer leaders directed the club's operations and its small,... View Details
    Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Transformation; Corporate Governance; Employee Relationship Management; Recruitment; Leading Change; Organizational Culture; Labor and Management Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Education Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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    • 16 Jul 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: July 16

    low and unstable income, but also by heavy debt burdens. We find that the inability to save contributes to this indebtedness. Access to free savings accounts substantially decreases participants' propensity to use short-term credit. In... View Details
    Keywords: Anna Secino
    • 10 Nov 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: Nov. 10

    no. 11 (November 2009) Article: http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org/2009/11/what-would-peter-say/ar/1 Teach Workers About the Perils of Debt Authors:Annamaria Lusardi and Peter Tufano Publication:Harvard Business Review 87, no. 11 (November... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 23 Dec 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: December 23

    answer might have appeared just too obvious: payouts are funded with free cash flow-at least over long enough time periods. In stark contrast to this commonly held view, we find that firms rely on the capital markets to finance a third of aggregate payouts, mainly with... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 24 Mar 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Fiduciary Duties and Equity-Debtholder Conflicts

    Keywords: by Bo Becker & Per Stromberg