Financials - Publications - Faculty & Research - Harvard Business School

Filter Results: (12,714)

Filter Results: (12,714)

Show Results For

← Page 393 of 12,714 Results →

Web

R. G. Dun & Co. Credit Reports | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Lehman Brothers Timeline Sept-Oct 2008 Video-Coverage of the Financial Crisis Download the Exhibition Catalog (PDF) Lehman Brothers Archives Lehman Brothers Deal Books Search Exhibition Lehman Brothers - Introduction 1840s – 1880s General... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Reinventing the Annual Report

"That's the report. Now, would anyone like to carp?" © James Stevenson/The New Yorker Collection/ www.cartoonbank.com I am always interested in reading what the companies I own stock in have to say about themselves in their ritualistic annual reports filled with View Details

Keywords: Robert G. Eccles

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

that restructuring addresses is very large—in the billions of dollars possibly. My research at companies suggests there are three primary motivations for restructuring. The first is the need to address poor financial performance. Here,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

January 1993 (Revised June 1995)
Case

Arbitrage in the Government Bond Market?

Documents a pricing anomaly in the large and liquid treasury bond market. The prices of callable treasury bonds seem to be inconsistent with the prices of noncallable treasuries and an arbitrage opportunity appears to exist. Permits instructors to introduce the... View Details

Keywords: Bonds; Price; Valuation; Capital Markets

January 1987 (Revised September 1991)
Case

Walt Disney Co.'s Yen Financing

By: W. Carl Kester and William B. Allen

Walt Disney is considering hedging future yen inflows from Disney Tokyo. It is evaluating techniques using FX Forwards, swaps, and Yen term borrowings. Goldman Sachs presents a rather unusual but potentially attractive solution: Disney could issue ECU Eurobonds and... View Details

Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Currency; Bonds; Valuation; Tokyo

2021
Working Paper

Limits to Bank Deposit Market Power

By: Juliane Begenau and Erik Stafford

Claims about the market power of bank deposits in the banking literature are numerous and far reaching. Recently, a causal narrative has emerged in the banking literature: market power in bank deposits, measured as imperfect pass-through of short-term market rates on... View Details

Keywords: Bank Deposits; Market Power; Net Interest Margin (NIM); Banks and Banking; Interest Rates; Risk and Uncertainty

2024
Working Paper

Loan Officers Impede Graduation From Microcredit: Evidence from a Large Microfinance Institution

By: Natalia Rigol and Benjamin N. Roth

Graduating microcredit borrowers to larger loans can increase livelihoods. We demonstrate that loan officers impede borrower graduation due to common features of their compensation. Through an experiment with one of Chile’s largest microfinance institutions (MFIs), we... View Details

Keywords: Loan Officers; Strategic Behavior; Strategic Disclosure; Microfinance; Financial Institutions; Financing and Loans

April 2018 (Revised September 2023)
Case

Sabine Oil & Gas Corporation

By: Stuart C. Gilson, Kristin Mugford and Sarah L. Abbott

In 2016, a trial began to determine the future of Sabine Oil & Gas Corporation’s $3 billion chapter 11 reorganization plan. The plan called for first- and second-lien-secured creditors to receive new claims representing approximately 98% of the reorganized company’s... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Reorganization; Chapter 11; Oil ＆ Gas; Bankruptcy; Bankruptcy Reorganization; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Energy; Restructuring; Valuation; United States

July 2014
Article

Network Effects in Countries' Adoption of IFRS

By: Karthik Ramanna and Ewa Sletten

If the differences in accounting standards across countries reflect relatively stable institutional differences (e.g., auditing technology, the rule of law, etc.), why did several countries rapidly, albeit in a staggered manner, adopt IFRS over local standards in the... View Details

Keywords: International Accounting; Financial Reporting; Network Effects

Find at Harvard

April 1994 (Revised November 1998)
Case

Kendall Square Research Corporation (A)

By: William J. Bruns Jr.

Kendall Square Research was a small competitor in the supercomputer industry. As sales grew rapidly in 1992 and early 1993, the company sold stock to the public for the first time and analysts forecast higher earnings for 1993. However, when the company's revenue... View Details

Keywords: Revenue Recognition; Standards; Accounting Audits; Computer Industry

January 2008 (Revised April 2008)
Teaching Note

Pilgrim Bank (B): Customer Retention (TN)

By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell

Teaching Note for [602095]. View Details

Keywords: Customers; Banks and Banking; Customer Focus and Relationships; Banking Industry

2008
Chapter

How XBRL Will Dramatically Improve Reporting and Control Processes

By: Robert G. Eccles, Liv Watson and Mike Willis

Keywords: Financial Reporting; Applications and Software; Standards

May 1997 (Revised March 2001)
Teaching Note

Sime Darby Berhad (A), (B), and (C) Teaching Note

By: Tarun Khanna

Teaching Note for (9-797-017), (9-701-117), and (9-701-118). View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Multinational Firms and Management; Malaysia

December 1991
Article

Intrinsic Bubbles: The Case of Stock Prices

By: Kenneth A. Froot and M. Obstfeld

Keywords: Rational Expectations; Equities; Fundamentals; Behavioral Finance; Price Bubble; Stocks; Information; Asset Pricing

Find at Harvard

2000
Other Unpublished Work

Private Versus Public Debt: Evidence from Firms that Replace Bank Loans with Junk Bonds

By: S. C. Gilson and J. Warner

Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Financing and Loans; Bonds; Banking Industry

November 1977
Article

An Application of Management Science to Bank Borrowing Strategies

By: D. B. Crane, Frederick Knoop and William Pettigrew

Keywords: Management; Banks and Banking; Borrowing and Debt; Strategy

Find at Harvard

November 1998 (Revised February 1999)
Case

Bolsa de Valores de Guayaquil (BVG): Reaching Worldwide Investors Through the Internet

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Ramiro Montealegre, Dusya Vera and Karen Barone

The Guayaquil Stock Exchange developed a Web site to provide information about the market in Ecuador. Though the system provided some dynamic information for potential investors and allowed for some transactions to occur via the Internet, it had not at the time of the... View Details

Keywords: Stocks; Foreign Direct Investment; Emerging Markets; Internet; Technology Industry; Ecuador

Find at Harvard

February 1997 (Revised March 1998)
Case

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in 1997, The: Defining a Market Exit Strategy

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Market Entry and Exit; Strategy; Banking Industry; Europe

Find at Harvard

Article

Sidelined Investors, Trading-Generated News, and Security Returns

By: H. Henry Cao, Joshua D. Coval and David Hirshleifer

Keywords: Investment; Trade; Information; Financial Instruments; Investment Return

Find at Harvard

November 1992 (Revised December 1994)
Case

BEA Associates: Enhanced Equity Index Funds

By: Andre F. Perold

BEA's enhanced index fund product uses derivatives and cash market securities to find the most efficient way to "track an index." The considerations involve transaction costs, custodial fees, withholding taxes on dividends, and fees from securities lending. In this... View Details

Keywords: Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Investment Portfolio; Management; Investment Banking; Competitive Advantage; Cost Management

←
393
394
…
635
636
→