Financials - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24

214-028 The Case of the Unidentified Industries-2013 This case helps students to understand how the characteristics of a business are reflected in its financial statements. This case consists of an exercise in which students are given... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Portrait Project

Brian Sykes

Syringe needles lining the sidewalk. I’m ashamed, yet I know these words are true. When people hear I grew up in SF, they automatically assume my childhood consisted of immense privilege. Million-dollar mansions and fancy jobs in tech. In reality, it consisted of... View Details

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MBA/DMD | MBA

the enthusiasm of faculty and the ambitions of degree candidates. Admissions & Financial Aid Applicants interested in the DMD/MBA Program apply to Harvard Business School (HBS) and apply to the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM)... View Details

01 Feb 2000
News

He Begs to Differentiate

three times the placing price. You had this financial bubble but it doesn't alter the fact that the underlying commercial activity - the way we live, the way we travel, the way we communicate - fundamentally changed as a result of the... View Details

01 Apr 2002
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Gold Mettle

City bidders interested in landing the Games, and to make matters worse, the local organizing committee was in financial and organizational disarray. The scandalous situation made news around the world. Searching for a savior, the Salt... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

12 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Accounting Information as Political Currency

Relations with oil companies can also be a liability for politicians in some districts. Perhaps, contributions from financial institutions perceived to have benefited from the mortgage crisis will also be sensitive. Q: In layman’s terms,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21

results are consistent with an experimentation hypothesis in which tight monitoring of decisions leads to more control but less learning. An Evolutionary Approach to Financial History Author: Niall Ferguson Publication: Cold Spring Harbor... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2025
Case

Untapped Global: Financing Africa's Missing Middle

By: Raymond Kluender and Emanuele Colonnelli

In November 2024, Jim Chu, founder and CEO of Untapped Global, faced mounting internal tensions over the company’s strategic direction. Untapped had developed a data-driven revenue-based financing (RBF) model to address the “missing middle” problem—the $5.2 trillion... View Details

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17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0733-558x&volume=33 Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements Authors:Krishna G. Palepu and Paul M. Healy Publication:5th ed. Cengage Learning, forthcoming An abstract is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?

In a first-ever look at the internal economics driving private equity partnerships, Harvard Business School researchers have found that many of these funds can be torn apart by greed among founding partners who take home a much bigger share of profits than other senior... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Financial Services

14 Aug 2014
Working Paper Summaries

The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game

Keywords: by Karen Mills & Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services; Financial Services

12 Feb 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students

In a Harvard Business School classroom, students in the Dynamic Markets class may have one minute to make a decision in a pressure cooker one called "the most stress I've experienced in ten years." It's margin call time in a real-world market investment... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Financial Services

1967
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Determinants of Mutual Fund Performance

By: Michael Jensen

Keywords: Investment Funds; Performance Productivity; Financial Services Industry

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May 1999
Teaching Note

Venture Capital in Ireland: Getting Their ACT Together TN

By: Paul A. Gompers

Teaching Note for (9-298-001). View Details

Keywords: Financial Services Industry; Republic of Ireland

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October 1998
Case

Farallon Capital Management: Risk Arbitrage (B)

By: Andre F. Perold and Robert Howard

Farallon Capital Management, an investment firm that specializes in risk arbitrage, has taken significant long and short positions in MCI Communications and British Telecommunications, respectively, in the belief that the proposed merger of these firms will be... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Capital Markets; Investment; Risk Management; Strategy; Financial Services Industry

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