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  • October 1987 (Revised September 1992)
  • Case

Hurricane Island Outward Bound School

Hurricane Island Outward Bound, a small, nonprofit school that helped pioneer experiential education in the United States, has recently recovered from a financial crisis. Students take the role of the school's new marketing manager, who is preparing his first marketing... View Details
Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Nonprofit Organizations; Marketing Strategy; Education; Education Industry; United States
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  • December 2001 (Revised February 2008)
  • Case

Borealis

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Bjorn N. Jorgensen
When Borealis, a European producer of plastics, used a traditional, time-consuming budgeting process, the budget was quickly out of date in a competitive environment characterized by continually changing input and output prices and dynamic market conditions. This case... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Budgets and Budgeting; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment; Governance Controls; Balanced Scorecard; Management Systems; Manufacturing Industry; Europe
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  • February 2012 (Revised December 2013)
  • Case

Saks Incorporated

By: Carliss Baldwin and Stefon Burns
Saks Fifth Avenue, a luxury department store chain, has been hard hit by the 2008 financial crisis and stock market crash. Speculation about impending bankruptcy is rampant in the press. The CEO, Stephen Sadove, must decide how to respond. View Details
Keywords: Retail; Fashion; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Crisis; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 12 Feb 2019
  • HBS Seminar

Gary Loveman, Harvard Business School

  • July 2007 (Revised November 2007)
  • Case

Leasing Computers at Persistent Learning

Newly public Persistent Learning is acquiring vital computer assets. They need to determine how the lease or purchase decision will impact their financial statements, and how the market will react given previously forecast earnings and competitor's accounting. View Details
Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Financial Statements; Leasing
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    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services
    • April–May 2017
    • Article

    Career Concerns of Banking Analysts

    By: Joanne Horton, George Serafeim and Shan Wu
    We study how career concerns influence banking analysts' forecasts and how their forecasting behavior benefits both them and bank managers. We show that banking analysts issue early in the year relatively more optimistic and later in the year more pessimistic forecasts... View Details
    Keywords: Sell-side Analysts; Analyst Forecasts; Analysts; Investment Recommendations; Career Advancement; Career Management; Labor Mobility; Labor Market; Prejudice and Bias; Personal Development and Career; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Banking
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    • 24 Mar 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Economic Uncertainty and Earnings Management

    Keywords: by Luke C.D. Stein and Charles C.Y. Wang; Financial Services
    • 27 Jul 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: July 27

    likely to perceive CSR strategies favorably. Our results show how CSR strategies can affect value creation in public equity markets through analyst recommendations. Institutional Stock Trading on Loan Market... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 11 Aug 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Structural GARCH: The Volatility-Leverage Connection

    Keywords: by Robert F. Engle & Emil N. Siriwardane
    • January 2004 (Revised June 2004)
    • Case

    Innovation at the Treasury: Treasury Inflation-Protection Securities (A)

    By: Kenneth A. Froot, Peter A. Hecht and Christopher Edward James Payton
    In 1997, the U.S. Treasury was deciding whether to proceed with a proposal to issue inflation-indexed bonds. This case explores the challenges facing innovation in the financial markets as the Treasury tries to determine whether to introduce Treasury... View Details
    Keywords: Inflation; Innovation; Federal Government; Securities; Debt Securities; Risk Management; Bonds; Investment Portfolio; Capital Markets; Inflation and Deflation; Government and Politics; Innovation and Invention; United States
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    • March 2005
    • Case

    Windhoek Nature Reserve: Financing a Sustainable Conservation Model in Namibia

    In 2003, a Namibian entrepreneur was deciding how to finance and manage the risks of an ecotourism, nature reserve, venture project. Explores the challenges facing an entrepreneur operating in an emerging market with imperfect local financial and legal institutions. View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship
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    • October 2014 (Revised November 2016)
    • Technical Note

    Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) vs. Customer Lifetime Return on Investment (CLROI)

    By: Elie Ofek
    This note presents two related measures for assessing the financial value of a customer to the firm. The first is the well-known measure of Customer Lifetime Value, or CLV for short. The second, which has received much less attention, treats the acquisition of a... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Lifetime Value; Return On Investment; Segmentation; Social Networks; Customer Relationship Management; Marketing Strategy; Investment Return; Social and Collaborative Networks; Social Media
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    • 19 Apr 2018
    • Video

    Alpha Vantage Final Pitch New Venture Competition 2018 Business Track

    • TeachingInterests

    Finance I

    By: Archie L. Jones

    This course examines the role of finance in supporting the functional areas of a firm, and fosters an understanding of how financial decisions themselves can create value.

    Topics covered include:

    • November 2010 (Revised October 2011)
    • Case

    Oriflame S.A. (A)

    By: David F. Hawkins, Karol Misztal and Daniela Beyersdorfer
    A direct-selling cosmetics company involved in emerging markets exhibits significant foreign exchange risk exposure and profitability swings in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Students must review the company's use of derivative instruments and other hedging... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Financial Crisis; Currency Exchange Rate; Financial Strategy; Investment; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Risk Management; Emerging Markets; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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    Executive Education: Leading Growth through Customer Centricity — India

    By: Rajiv Lal

    Establishing a strategic advantage in India's highly competitive marketplace requires a systemic shift in focus—away from selling products and toward meeting the needs of customers. But how many companies are prepared to carry out such fundamental change? By... View Details

    • April 2002 (Revised April 2003)
    • Case

    Malaysia: Capital and Control

    By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Laura Alfaro
    On September 1, 1998, the government of Malaysia imposed currency and capital controls in response to the financial crisis that had swept Asia. The controls sparked an enormous controversy in the world of international finance. Some celebrated the controls for... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Controls; Business and Government Relations; International Finance; Policy; Crisis Management; Balance and Stability; Globalized Economies and Regions; Malaysia
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    • March 2012
    • Article

    How to Make Finance Work

    By: Robin Greenwood and David S. Scharfstein
    Once a sleepy old boys' club, the U.S. financial sector is now a dynamic and growing business that attracts the best and the brightest. It is tempting to declare the industry a roaring success. But its purpose is to serve the needs of U.S. households and firms, and by... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Value; Competitive Advantage; Investment; Performance Evaluation; Household; Financial Crisis; Finance; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • December 2010
    • Article

    Implications for GAAP from an Analysis of Positive Research in Accounting

    By: S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna and Douglas J. Skinner
    Based on extant literature, we review the positive theory of GAAP. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus is on control (performance measurement and stewardship) and that verifiability and conservatism are critical features of a GAAP shaped by market forces.... View Details
    Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Standards; International Accounting; Financial Markets; Financial Reporting
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