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  • January 2004 (Revised March 2004)
  • Case

Redesigning Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanisms

By: Mihir A. Desai, Christina Pham, Julia Stevens and Kathleen Luchs
How should the debt of sovereign countries be restructured when countries approach default? Anne O. Krueger of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is proposing a new approach to sovereign defaults: the Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism (SDRM). The SDRM would... View Details
Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Globalized Economies and Regions; International Finance; Laws and Statutes; Latin America; Asia; Mexico
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  • 01 Apr 2020
  • Blog Post

How Scott Linzmeyer Crafted a Business He Loves at Reveler Beverage

If you ask Scott Linzmeyer (MBA 2012) about how he founded Reveler Beverage, he will take you back to 2008 when he kick started his career in corporate finance at General Electric. While that seems like a far cry from a craft beer and... View Details
  • Web

Academic Units - Faculty & Research

Academic Units Accounting and Management Business, Government and the International Economy Entrepreneurial Management Finance General Management Marketing Negotiation,... View Details
  • July 2005 (Revised October 2006)
  • Case

Global Fun: The Internationalization of Theme Parks

By: Geoffrey G. Jones and Steven Shaheen
A fictitious private equity firm considers whether to buy the international theme park business of the LEGO Group. Considers the origins of theme parks in the United States; the international expansion of Disney theme parks to Tokyo and Paris since the 1970s; and the... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Globalized Markets and Industries; Globalized Firms and Management; Global Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Germany; Tokyo; Great Britain; Denmark; United States; Paris
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  • August 1988 (Revised April 1998)
  • Case

IBM 360: Giant as Entrepreneur

By: Joseph L. Bower
Presents the ingredients that went into a major entrepreneurial shift by IBM--investing $5 billion into a new product line that would obsolete any existing computer product line offered by the competition, or by IBM itself. The economic and technical challenges of this... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Financial Management; Investment; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry
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    Gunnar Trumbull

    Gunnar Trumbull is the Phillip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

    Professor Trumbull’s primary area of expertise in political economy, with a focus on consumer and regulatory politics. His book Strength in... View Details

    Keywords: agribusiness; consumer products; credit card; financial services; food; food processing; grocery; microfinance; retail financial services; retailing
    • March 2020
    • Article

    Do Fire Sales Create Externalities?

    By: Sergey Chernenko and Adi Sunderam
    We develop three novel measures of how much of the price impact of their trading different mutual funds internalize. We show that mutual funds that internalize more of their price impact hold larger cash buffers and use these buffers more aggressively to accommodate... View Details
    Keywords: Fire Sales; Externalities; Investment Funds; Price; Financial Liquidity; Management
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    • 04 Dec 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: December 4, 2007

    real and sustainable; to decide how low a company must bid in order to win a competitive contract from a rival; to identify opportunities for internal cost reduction; to estimate, in the context of an acquisition, how much the costs of an... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 11 Oct 2017
    • Blog Post

    Designing Internship Projects for Greater Impact

    managing the recruiting process, and larger institutions may lack the structures needed to accommodate the more entrepreneurial candidate. In either case, large company or small, interns and employers must... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship
    • 22 Sep 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: September 22

    experience high costs of capital that are only partly mitigated by the presence of venture capital, the evidence for high costs of R&D capital for large firms is mixed. Nevertheless, large established firms do appear to prefer View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • May 2017
    • Case

    ATH Technologies: Making the Numbers

    By: Robert Simons and Jennifer Packard
    An exercise that takes students through five stages of growth in an entrepreneurial start-up in the medical devices industry: 1) founding, 2) growth, 3) push to profitability, 4) relocation process, and 5) takeover by new management. At each stage, students must... View Details
    Keywords: Balancing Innovation And Control; Performance Evaluation; Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Risk Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Profit; Geographic Location; Governance Controls; Innovation and Invention; Management Succession; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    • 20 Apr 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank

    Keywords: by Ashwin Kaja & Eric Werker
    • TeachingInterests

    Strategy Execution

    By: Dennis Campbell

    This course takes strategy as given and teaches what students need to know to execute and win in highly competitive markets. Using fundamental building blocks based on accountability systems and structures, this course is divided into seven modules:

    1.... View Details

    • June 2004 (Revised June 2006)
    • Supplement

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals: R&D Portfolio Management (A)

    By: Gary P. Pisano, Lee Fleming and Eli Strick
    Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a drug discovery company that recently decided to pursue a vertically integrated business model, chose to build up its clinical development and commercial capabilities and infrastructure. For the first time in its history, Vertex will... View Details
    Keywords: Research and Development; Investment Portfolio; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • September 2003 (Revised May 2004)
    • Case

    New Partnership for Africa's Development, The

    By: Laura Alfaro, Debora L. Spar and Cate Reavis
    In a world context of international institutions such as the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund and their interaction with developing countries, this case looks at an African development initiative to address its own problems: The New Economic... View Details
    Keywords: Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; International Finance; Investment; Poverty; Africa
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    • April 2002 (Revised September 2002)
    • Background Note

    Capital Controls

    By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Laura Alfaro
    Only in the waning years of the 20th century did international financial markets begin to enjoy the freedom from government regulation that they had experienced before the first world war. By 2002, international capital markets had grown to be enormous--$1.2 trillion... View Details
    Keywords: History; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Change Management; Cost vs Benefits; Governance Controls; Governance Compliance; Emerging Markets; Financial Markets; Network Effects; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
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    • 19 Dec 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

    pursue economic development, and rewarding officials on that basis, the country as a whole has been transformed into an entrepreneurial and industrial powerhouse. Case in point: China's economy enjoyed a sustained growth rate of 10... View Details
    Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing

      Henry W. McGee

      Henry McGee joined the HBS faculty in 2013 after retiring as President of HBO Home Entertainment, the digital and DVD program distribution division of Home Box Office, the pioneering premium television company. A member of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit,... View Details

      Keywords: television; motion pictures; media; e-commerce industry; entertainment; broadcasting; distribution; health care; journalism; wholesale; arts; nonprofit industry
      • Web

      Alumni

      strengthen your company's approach to managing both internal and external risks. Your Gift Matters $250 $500 $1,000 $5,000 Other Give Login to view your giving history View Your Giving History See your recent gifts/pledges as well as any... View Details
      • September 2011
      • Article

      Global Capitalism at Risk: What Are You Doing About It?

      By: Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard and Lynn S. Paine
      Market capitalism, a system that has proven to be a remarkable engine of wealth creation, is poised for a breakdown. That sounds dire, and it is. Increasing income inequality, migration, weaknesses in the global financial system, environmental degradation, and... View Details
      Keywords: Disruption; Economic Systems; Globalization; Corporate Governance; Markets; Risk and Uncertainty
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