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  • 07 Nov 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs

companies and their shareholders. It’s no secret that companies with similar financials often pay very dissimilar amounts of tax in a given year. The same is true of individuals. One need look no further than Republican presidential... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 01 Apr 1999
  • News

Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong

financial world demands steady if not increasing margins. Disruptive innovations often promise lower margins than sustaining innovations. It is extraordinarily difficult for good managers to pursue worse margins aggressively. Thousands of... View Details
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform

governance. According to Grace Hinchman, senior vice president for public affairs at Financial Executives International, chief financial officers need to become more responsive to a smarter audit committee,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Tales of the Newly-minted MBA

failing," he said. "Begin with the end in mind, and remember that faith is power—you have to believe in something, whether it's fruit flies or God." Beverly Anderson (HBS MBA '97) had ten years of experience in financial... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • Fast Answer

Stock Pitching: company, industry and market research

What resources should I use to formulate a stock pitch?   Research Topics Suggested Resources Company Bloomberg Current and historical financial information on individual... View Details
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

Monaco's Digital Transformation

size is its strength.” The substantial financial resources at Monaco’s disposal are also an advantage, enabling major investments in technology and the infrastructure to support it. In 2019, the country had the second highest GDP per... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

Books

until plummeting stock valuations in the spring of 2000 burst the Internet stock “bubble,” venture capitalists, investment bankers, mutual funds managers, accountants, and corporate leaders had sponsored a financial mania at the expense... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

    Kenneth Salas

    Kenny Salas is a fintech entrepreneur and operating executive, currently at the helm of nuDesk, which helps companies scale through AI-driven solutions and dedicated talent hubs in Mexico. As a Partner at Cintar Group, he actively invests in and builds View Details
    Keywords: Finance
    • 08 Mar 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: March 8

    Entrepreneurs in U.S. Financial History, 1775-1914 Author:T.K. McCraw Publication:Capitalism and Society 5, no. 1 (2010) Abstract Throughout its history, the U.S. has been the beneficiary of a worldwide in-migration of entrepreneurial... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Career Coach

    Alejandro Maldonado

    Alejandro (HBS '08) has spent most of his career in the areas of direct investing and strategy, with a recent focus on human capital leadership and development. He has had experience in investment banking at Credit Suisse First Boston and in strategy consulting at Bain... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All)
    • March 2024 (Revised March 2025)
    • Case

    Pakistan at 75: When Will the 'Nazuk Mor' End?

    By: Meg Rithmire, Salaar A. Shaikh and Hong Zhang
    In 2023, business leaders, politicians, and civil society were all describing Pakistan’s condition as “polycrisis.” The country faced decisions on elections after Imran Khan’s ouster and arrest, protests against the military’s involvement in politics and the crackdowns... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Crisis; Inflation and Deflation; Government and Politics; Health Pandemics; Conflict and Resolution; Pakistan
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    • December 1961 (Revised January 1994)
    • Case

    Plowman Poultry Farm

    By: Samuel L. Hayes III
    A poultry farmer wanted to expand production greatly and sought a large extension of his line of credit from his bank in addition to his existing loan on which he had not made payment. The Board of Directors must review a detailed account of events leading to this... View Details
    Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Expansion; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financing and Loans; Commercial Banking; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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    • November 2012
    • Supplement

    Shenzhen Development Bank (CW)

    By: Yuhai Xuan
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Commercial Banking; Investment; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; China
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    • February 2008 (Revised September 2010)
    • Case

    Enterprise Culture in Chinese History: Zhang Jian and the Dasheng Cotton Mills

    By: Elisabeth Koll
    This case focuses on the legal and managerial evolution of limited-liability firms in China, using the example of the Dasheng cotton mills in Nantong near Shanghai. Dasheng, one of the earliest and most successful industrial enterprises in pre-war China, was founded by... View Details
    Keywords: History; Law; Organizational Culture; Family Ownership; State Ownership; Corporate Governance; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations; Entrepreneurship; Change; Manufacturing Industry; Shanghai; China
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    • May 2009
    • Article

    Asymmetric Information Effects on Loan Spreads

    By: Victoria Ivashina
    The paper estimates the cost arising from information asymmetry between the lead bank and members of the lending syndicate. In a lending syndicate, the lead bank retains only a fraction of the loan but acts as the intermediary between the borrower and the syndicate... View Details
    Keywords: Cost; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates; Capital; Investment Portfolio; Credit; Diversification; Risk and Uncertainty
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    • April 2006 (Revised October 2006)
    • Case

    Best Buy Co., Inc.: Customer-Centricity

    By: Rajiv Lal, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Irina Tarsis
    With FY2005 sales of $27.3 billion, Richfield, Minn.-based Best Buy Co., Inc. was the leading retailer of consumer electronics, home-office products, and related services in North America. Its operations included the distinct store formats Best Buy, Future Shop in... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Service Operations; Business Earnings; Financial Crisis; Failure; Business Model; Leadership; Segmentation; Value Creation; Electronics Industry; United States; Canada; Mongolia
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    • August 2008
    • Article

    Economic Links and Predictable Returns

    By: Lauren Cohen and Andrea Frazzini
    This paper finds evidence of return predictability across economically linked firms. We test the hypothesis that in the presence of investors subject to attention constraints, stock prices do not promptly incorporate news about economically related firms, generating... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Price; Assets; Analytics and Data Science; Customers; Stocks; Equity; Strategy; Investment Return; Forecasting and Prediction
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    • 15 Jun 2021
    • News

    Diversifying HBS's Case Collection

    “The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations,” coauthored by Mihir Desai, the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance [see related story]. A PDF of this written case, as well as of the note “African American Inequality in the... View Details
    Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
    • 08 May 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Monetary Policy and Global Banking

    Keywords: by Falk Bräuning and Victoria Ivashina; Banking
    • July 1997
    • Case

    Treasury Inflation-Protection Securities (TIPS)

    Explores the development of a new product offering based on the first issuance of "real" bonds in the United States. Looks at a specific organization's efforts to position itself to profit from this market development. Follows naturally from a case on nominal bonds. View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Bonds; Inflation and Deflation; United States
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