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October 2024 (Revised November 2024)
Case

SWEN Blue Ocean: Impact Investing Goes to Sea

By: Vikram S Gandhi and David Allen

In August 2023, SWEN Blue Ocean, a €170 million impact fund that invested in startups contributing to ocean sustainability, faced a critical investment decision. Part of SWEN Capital Partners, an €8 billion, Paris-based private equity fund, Blue Ocean was co-founded in... View Details

Keywords: Communication Technology; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Finance; Capital; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Investment; Investment Funds; Science-Based Business; Financial Services Industry; France; Paris; Italy

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Continental Airlines--1992 (Abridged)

By: Stuart C. Gilson

The CEO is preparing a recommendation to the board regarding several potential outside investments in the company, which is currently operating in bankruptcy. In making his decision, the CEO has to consider various financial and strategic factors, including possible... View Details

Keywords: Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Cost of Capital; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment; Taxation; Risk and Uncertainty; Valuation; Aerospace Industry; United States

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19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

of science and technology, law, management, and policy. The empirical contexts for their studies range from household goods to financial services. After discussing the fundamentals of user innovation, the contributors cover communities... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Loan Reduction - Entrepreneurship

to support students who were determined by the Financial Aid Office to have demonstrated need during enrollment at HBS and who have filed financial aid applications while at HBS. HOW IT WORKS The Rock Loan... View Details

14 Dec 2016
Working Paper Summaries

The State of Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation

Keywords: by Karen Gordon Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services

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Research - Global

Research February 2025 Teaching Material Preparing Business Leaders for an Era of Climate Instability: Understanding and Managing Physical Climate Risk By: Michael W. Toffel and Spencer Glendon In this compelling video, Spencer Glendon,... View Details

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About - Business & Environment

successful finance projects that brought together the private and public sectors, large financial institutions, and multilateral organizations. In previous roles at HBS she wrote case studies on impact investing and contributed to the... View Details

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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27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

and doing so efficiently so that a financial profit or surplus is created. Administration is about rules and procedures and whether or not they are being followed. These distinctions are very important to clear communications among us... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

08 Mar 2021
In Practice

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

is attracting increasing attention, and when business leaders are increasingly expected to contribute not only to financial value creation, but also to social value creation. In this context, it is important to prepare business school... View Details

13 Jan 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Intermediaries for the IP Market

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & David Yoffie

15 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 15

hiring and socialization policies. Institutional Demand Pressure and the Cost of Corporate Loans Authors:Victoria Ivashina and Zheng Sun Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Between 2001 and 2007, annual... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

about the impact of microfinance.” Bulletin: One of the great surprises of microfinance has been the astonishingly high rates of loan repayment, at around 96 or 98 percent. How do you interpret that? Ben Roth: One metric of success is just View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services

28 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

other financial improprieties. But new research shows that lawsuits against auditors for accounting violations have fallen over the past 20 years, and it’s not because accountants have become so much better at their craft or companies... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Financial Services

05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

methodologies such as machine learning. We highlight the importance of distinguishing between which customers are at risk and which should be targeted—as they are not necessarily the same customers. We identify trade-offs between reactive... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

individuals, subgroups, and teams perform. Paper: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=1534-0856&volume=15 The Political Economy of Bilateral Foreign Aid Author:Werker, Eric D. Publication:In Handbook of Safeguarding Global View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Reflections on My First Semester Teaching at HBS

to the visitors - it's intimidating to visit HBS; it definitely took me a month in the classroom to settle into my more authentic self.) 2. Taking risks - In our entrepreneurship teaching group, we talk about how the case method requires... View Details

October 2018
Case

African Bank Investments Limited (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz

Less than a year after joining the board of African Bank Investments Limited (ABIL), the newest director finds himself in difficult discussions with other directors about removing the struggling company’s CEO. The case is set in South Africa in mid-2014 as shares in... View Details