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- June 1986
- Teaching Note
SafeCard Services, Inc., Teaching Note
By: David F. Hawkins
Teaching Note for (9-182-156). View Details
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Investment Management and Capital Markets - Course Catalog
apply in each market and type of situation. Students get a broad understanding of capital markets, assets classes, investing styles, and instruments (equity markets, bond markets, credit markets, real estate, privates, active and index... View Details
- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
innovation, and just by ordinary people in their everyday work lives or their everyday lives in their communities and societies.” Amabile’s paper cites research showing that innovative users are responsible for some 76 percent of scientific View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- July 1991 (Revised August 1991)
- Case
Philip Morris Companies, Inc. (B)
Looks at the company's plans for a new debt offering under the Rule 415 shelf underwriting provision--in this instance from the vantage point of the lead investment banker for the deal. The decision-maker must assess the risks of the issuer, the tone of the market, the... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Stocks; Initial Public Offering; Consumer Products Industry; United States
Hayes, Samuel L., III. "Philip Morris Companies, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 292-006, July 1991. (Revised August 1991.)
- 2018
- Working Paper
Corporate Refinancing, Covenants, and the Agency Cost of Debt
By: Daniel Green
How valuable are restrictive debt covenants in reducing the agency costs of debt? I exploit the revealed preference decision to refinance fixed-coupon bonds, which weighs observable interest rate savings against the unobservable costs of a change in restrictive... View Details
Keywords: Covenants; Refinancing; Corporate Bonds; Agency Costs; Debt Policy; Borrowing and Debt; Bonds; Interest Rates
Green, Daniel. "Corporate Refinancing, Covenants, and the Agency Cost of Debt." Working Paper, 2018. (Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Finance.)
- 2016
- Working Paper
Options-Pricing Formula with Disaster Risk
By: Robert J. Barro and Gordon Y. Liao
A new options-pricing formula applies to far-out-of-the money put options on the overall stock market when disaster risk is the dominant force, the size distribution of disasters follows a power law, and the economy has a representative agent with Epstein-Zin utility.... View Details
Barro, Robert J., and Gordon Y. Liao. "Options-Pricing Formula with Disaster Risk." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 21888, January 2016.
- October 2005 (Revised July 2009)
- Case
MD Beauty, Inc.
By: William A. Sahlman and Elizabeth Kind
Describes some of the issues confronting the entrepreneurial team responsible for creating a highly successful natural beauty and skin care company. They are considering selling all or some portion of the company's stock. View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Stocks; Financial Strategy; Management Teams; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Elizabeth Kind. "MD Beauty, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 806-045, October 2005. (Revised July 2009.)
- June 1998
- Background Note
Share Buy-Backs: The European and Japanese Experience
By: Marc L. Bertoneche
Bertoneche, Marc L. "Share Buy-Backs: The European and Japanese Experience." Harvard Business School Background Note 298-134, June 1998.
- fall 1999
- Article
Stock Performance and Intermediation Changes Surrounding Sustained Increases in Disclosure
By: Paul M. Healy, Amy P. Hutton and Krishna G. Palepu
Healy, Paul M., Amy P. Hutton, and Krishna G. Palepu. "Stock Performance and Intermediation Changes Surrounding Sustained Increases in Disclosure." Contemporary Accounting Research 16, no. 3 (fall 1999).
- Article
What You Need to Know about Stock Options
By: Brian Hall
Keywords: Stock Options
Hall, Brian. "What You Need to Know about Stock Options." Harvard Business Review 78, no. 2 (March–April 2000): 121–129.
- October 1994
- Article
Stock Buybacks: Avoid Accounting and Financial Statistic Traps
By: David F. Hawkins
Hawkins, David F. "Stock Buybacks: Avoid Accounting and Financial Statistic Traps." Accounting Bulletin, no. 26 (October 1994).
- 27 Sep 1991 - 28 Sep 1991
- Lecture
Takeover Bids and the Relative Prices of Shares that Differ in their Voting Rights
By: W. Carl Kester
Keywords: Stock Shares
Kester, W. Carl. "Takeover Bids and the Relative Prices of Shares that Differ in their Voting Rights." Lecture at the Workshop on Corporate Control and Corporate Restructuring, Center for Economic Policy Research, Stockholm, Sweden, September 27–28, 1991. (Jointly sponsored by the European Science Foundation.
Discussant.)
- April 2005 (Revised January 2006)
- Background Note
Note on Basic Option Properties
Options are contracts that give the right, but not the obligation, to either buy or sell a specific underlying security for a specified price on or before a specific date. Explains the basis of options, covering fundamentals such as option terminology, the payoff... View Details
Keywords: Stock Options
Chacko, George C., Peter A. Hecht, Vincent Dessain, and Anders Sjoman. "Note on Basic Option Properties." Harvard Business School Background Note 205-105, April 2005. (Revised January 2006.)
- October 2003 (Revised December 2003)
- Case
STMicroelectronics N.V., 2003 Convertible Bond Offering
Focuses on the valuation of a complex option embedded in a convertible debenture with a negative yield to maturity. View Details
Fruhan, William E., Jr. "STMicroelectronics N.V., 2003 Convertible Bond Offering." Harvard Business School Case 204-092, October 2003. (Revised December 2003.)
- 08 Nov 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School’s Armed Forces Alumni Association
transition from active duty to business school can be daunting, and the AFAA was instrumental in helping me to navigate this transition and to succeed at HBS. Many veterans struggle with losing their ‘tribe’ when they leave service, but I... View Details
- January 1987 (Revised November 1991)
- Case
R.J. Reynolds International Financing
By: W. Carl Kester and William B. Allen
Reynolds must source a substantial portion of the financing of its Nabisco acquisition in offshore bond markets. Morgan Guaranty has proposed a yen/dollar dual currency Eurobond that could be hedged into dollars. This structure is compared to Eurodollar Bonds, Euroyen... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Capital Markets; Currency Exchange Rate; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Bonds; Financing and Loans
Kester, W. Carl, and William B. Allen. "R.J. Reynolds International Financing." Harvard Business School Case 287-057, January 1987. (Revised November 1991.)
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Bibliography - The Human Factor - – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
1890-1930. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1985. Otis Steel Company. Otis Steel Company—pioneer. Cleveland: Otis Steel Company, 1929. Peabody, Francis G. The Social Museum as an Instrument of University Teaching. Cambridge: Harvard University,... View Details
- 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
Das, Sanjiv R., and Jeffrey T. Slovin. "Treasury Inflation-Protection Securities (TIPS)." Harvard Business School Case 298-017, July 1997.
- July 1991 (Revised August 1991)
- Supplement
Philip Morris Companies, Inc. (C)
Supplements the (B) case. View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Stocks; Initial Public Offering; Consumer Products Industry; United States
Hayes, Samuel L., III. "Philip Morris Companies, Inc. (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 292-007, July 1991. (Revised August 1991.)
- Forthcoming
- Article
The Imperfect Intermediation of Money-Like Assets
By: Jeremy C. Stein and Jonathan Wallen
We study supply-and-demand effects in the U.S. Treasury bill market by comparing the returns on T-bills to the administered policy rate on the Federal Reserve’s reverse repurchase (RRP) facility. In spite of the arguably more money-like properties of an investment in... View Details
Stein, Jeremy C., and Jonathan Wallen. "The Imperfect Intermediation of Money-Like Assets." Journal of Finance (forthcoming).