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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: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 17 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Are Companies Getting Away with 'Cheap Talk' on Climate Goals?

    Companies regularly set ambitious climate goals, but these plans often end up like many people’s New Year’s resolutions: unmet aspirations that quietly fizzle out. While companies often gain positive media attention by trumpeting plans for reducing greenhouse gas... View Details
    Keywords: by Tim Gray
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    Finance - Faculty & Research

    "Heterogeneous Beliefs and Stock Market Fluctuations." Working Paper, June 2025. (WFA Brattle Group Ph.D. Award for Outstanding Research.) Blackstone Credit and Delaware Basin Resources By: Victoria Ivashina and Srimayi Mylavarapu June... View Details
    • 21 Jul 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

    stubbornly high. To fight these forces, we need appropriate risk-taking and credit extension to fuel economic growth. This regulation creates safeguards, but it may in fact discourage and impede these activities. Regulators need to think... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 01 Nov 2021
    • What Do You Think?

    How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture?

    any kind of change. "Are Nadella and Microsoft the exception to the rule?" Exhibit A is CEO Satya Nadella, who is credited with leading the reshaping of Microsoft’s culture. In 2014, he found an organization that, among other things, had... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
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    Finance Curriculum - Faculty & Research

    interest and different legal/regulatory rules. MBA Elective Curriculum (SECOND YEAR) Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits Corporate Finance: Corporate Financial Operations (CFO) C. Fritz Foley Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Creating Value... View Details
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Financial Regulation in a Quantitative Model of the Modern Banking System

    By: Juliane Begenau and Tim Landvoigt
    How does the shadow banking system respond to changes in the capital regulation of commercial banks? This paper builds a quantitative general equilibrium model with commercial banks and shadow banks to study the unintended consequences of capital requirements. A key... View Details
    Keywords: Capital; Commercial Banking
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    • October 2013
    • Case

    Oaktree and the Restructuring of CIT Group (A)

    By: Victoria Ivashina and David Scharfstein
    CIT's prepackaged bankruptcy marked the first time a major financial institution was able to successfully restructure and emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, challenging conventional views that a financial firm could not survive bankruptcy proceedings as a going... View Details
    Keywords: Debt Securities; Restructuring; Financial Services Industry
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    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance

    By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen
    We examine in this paper the differential response of establishments to the global financial crisis, with particular emphasis on the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in determining micro economic performance. Using a new worldwide dataset that reports the... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Local Range; Multinational Firms and Management; Production; Performance Evaluation; Networks
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      The Limits of Algorithmic Measures of Race in Studies of Outcome Disparities

      We show that the use of algorithms to predict race has significant limitations in measuring and understanding the sources of racial disparities in finance, economics, and other contexts. First, we derive theoretically the direction and magnitude of measurement... View Details
      • September 2017 (Revised January 2019)
      • Case

      FJ Management Inc.

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and Matthew G. Preble
      In late 2015, Crystal Call Maggelet, president and CEO of FJ Management, is working with her investment committee to help set the company’s strategic direction. Maggelet, daughter of the company’s founder, has led FJ Management since 2009 when she stepped in as CEO... View Details
      Keywords: Turnaround; Company History; Family Business; Transformation; Volatility; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Cash Flow; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Liquidity; Financial Management; Governance; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Leadership; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Negotiation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Family Ownership; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business Strategy; Energy Industry; Travel Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Utah
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      Frequently Asked Questions - Doctoral

      source). Recommendation letters must be submitted online through the online application system. Hard copy recommendation letters will not be accepted. $105 application fee via credit card. May I submit a hard-copy of the application? No.... View Details
      • March 2012
      • Article

      Subprime Foreclosures and the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform

      By: Donald Morgan, Benjamin Iverson and Matthew Botsch
      This article presents arguments and evidence suggesting that the bankruptcy abuse reform (BAR) of 2005 may have been one contributor to the destabilizing surge in subprime foreclosures. Before BAR took effect, overly indebted borrowers could file bankruptcy to free up... View Details
      Keywords: Mortgages; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Borrowing and Debt; United States
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      • 07 Nov 2013
      • HBS Seminar

      Shawn Cole, Harvard Business School

        Winning in Emerging Markets: A Roadmap for Strategy and Execution

        Most books thus far on emerging markets are either investing-oriented (Mobius, Pereiro), or country - or market-specific (Farrell, Lindahl), or descriptive (Friedman, van Agtmael). No book has definitively targeted the corporate strategists who need a practical... View Details

        • 2023
        • Working Paper

        The Limits of Algorithmic Measures of Race in Studies of Outcome Disparities

        By: David S. Scharfstein and Sergey Chernenko
        We show that the use of algorithms to predict race has significant limitations in measuring and understanding the sources of racial disparities in finance, economics, and other contexts. First, we derive theoretically the direction and magnitude of measurement bias in... View Details
        Keywords: Racial Disparity; Paycheck Protection Program; Measurement Error; AI and Machine Learning; Race; Measurement and Metrics; Equality and Inequality; Prejudice and Bias; Forecasting and Prediction; Outcome or Result
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        • February 2019 (Revised January 2020)
        • Case

        Pierre Foods Acquisition of Advance Foods (A)

        By: Guhan Subramanian and Mike Harmon
        This case (A), and its related cases (B-E), establish a setting to discuss an M&A transaction and some of the key legal contracts that are associated with it. In 2010, private equity backed food manufacturer Pierre Foods is contemplating the acquisition of a key... View Details
        Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation; Complexity
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          Applications or Approvals: What Drives Racial Disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program?

          We use the 2020 Small Business Credit Survey to study the sources of racial disparities in use of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Black-owned firms are 8.9 percentage points less likely to receive PPP loans than observably similar white-owned firms. About... View Details
          • 14 Feb 2022
          • Research & Ideas

          Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

          Their outward confidence might mask fear and anxiety, but they must be ready to admit misconceptions and misinterpretations, and acknowledge early on what they don’t know or what isn’t working. Executives must be prepared to shoulder responsibility for mistakes and... View Details
          Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology
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          Lehman Brothers: 1850 - 2008 | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

          Skip to Main Content Lehman Brothers Collection Resources Baker Library Collections Corporate Reports Collection R. G. Dun & Co. Credit Reports HBS Cases Baker Old Class Collection Related Archival Collections Bibliography Site View Details