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- April 2011 (Revised June 2012)
- Background Note
Note on U.S. Pension Accounting
By: Robert C. Pozen and Brij Khurana
The purpose of this note is to describe the manner in which publicly traded corporations and local governments in the United States account for their pension plans. View Details
Pozen, Robert C., and Brij Khurana. "Note on U.S. Pension Accounting." Harvard Business School Background Note 311-115, April 2011. (Revised June 2012.)
- 2011
- Working Paper
Risky Trust: How Multi-entity Teams Develop Trust in a High Risk Endeavor
By: Faaiza Rashid and Amy C. Edmondson
This paper explicates the challenge of risky trust, which we define as trust that exists between parties vulnerable to high economic, legal, or reputational risks at individual or organizational levels. Drawing from analyses of data collected in a grounded case study... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Leadership; Business Processes; Groups and Teams; Risk and Uncertainty; Trust; Construction Industry; United States
Rashid, Faaiza, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Risky Trust: How Multi-entity Teams Develop Trust in a High Risk Endeavor." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-089, February 2011.
- January 2011 (Revised April 2012)
- Case
BBVA Compass: Marketing Resource Allocation
By: Sunil Gupta and Joseph Davies-Gavin
BBVA Compass, the 15th largest commercial bank in the U.S., is a part of the BBVA Group of Spain, the second largest bank in Spain with $755 billion in assets. In December 2010, Frank Sottosanti, Chief Marketing Officer of BBVA Compass, was reviewing the marketing... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Resource Allocation; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Performance Evaluation; Banking Industry; United States
Gupta, Sunil, and Joseph Davies-Gavin. "BBVA Compass: Marketing Resource Allocation." Harvard Business School Case 511-096, January 2011. (Revised April 2012.)
- January 2011
- Teaching Note
Online Pet Supply Retailing (TN)
By: Tom Nicholas
Teaching Note for 809-117. View Details
- August 9, 2010
- Article
It's Time to Invest in America
By: Bill George
George, Bill. "It's Time to Invest in America." New York Times (August 9, 2010).
- December 2010 (Revised September 2014)
- Background Note
Layoffs: Effects on Key Stakeholders
By: Sandra J. Sucher, Elana Sara Green, David Alberto Rosales and Susan J. Winterberg
From 2004-2009, almost 40,000 mass layoffs occurred in the US, representing over 7 million workers. This note describes the effects of layoffs on employees, firms, and communities. View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Decisions; Employees; Resignation and Termination; Business and Stakeholder Relations; United States
Sucher, Sandra J., Elana Sara Green, David Alberto Rosales, and Susan J. Winterberg. "Layoffs: Effects on Key Stakeholders." Harvard Business School Background Note 611-028, December 2010. (Revised September 2014.)
- October 2010
- Case
Narragansett Brewing Company
By: Tom Nicholas, Lindsey Marshall and Charles Anthony Miller
Mark Hellendrung, CEO of Narragansett Brewing Company, is deciding whether to partner with a local television station for the upcoming NHL Winter Classic outdoor hockey game between New England's own Boston Bruins and the Philadelphia Flyers at Fenway Park. He had... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Sports; Financial Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Investment; United States
Nicholas, Tom, Lindsey Marshall, and Charles Anthony Miller. "Narragansett Brewing Company." Harvard Business School Case 811-028, October 2010.
- October 2010 (Revised November 2010)
- Case
The Export-Import Bank of the United States
By: C. Fritz Foley and Matthew Johnson
In the fall of 2009, Fred Hochberg, chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im), and his team struggled to find a way to help finance the sale of Boeing aircraft to Emirates. Ex-Im responds to the challenges in the credit market with an innovative... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Credit; Financing and Loans; International Finance; Banking Industry; United States
Foley, C. Fritz, and Matthew Johnson. "The Export-Import Bank of the United States." Harvard Business School Case 211-032, October 2010. (Revised November 2010.)
- September 2011
- Article
Information Risk and Fair Value: An Examination of Equity Betas
By: Edward J. Riedl and George Serafeim
Using a sample of U.S. financial institutions, we exploit recent mandatory disclosures of financial instruments designated as fair value level 1, 2, and 3 to test whether greater information risk in financial instrument fair values leads to higher cost of capital. We... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Assets; Cost of Capital; Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Corporate Disclosure; Information; Risk and Uncertainty; Value; United States
Riedl, Edward J., and George Serafeim. "Information Risk and Fair Value: An Examination of Equity Betas." Journal of Accounting Research 49, no. 4 (September 2011): 1083–1122.
- September 2010 (Revised December 2010)
- Supplement
Enman Oil, Inc. (E)
By: David F. Hawkins
Company pursues ways to reduce its debt to equity ratio by resorting to off balance sheet debt transactions. View Details
Keywords: Energy Sources; Capital Structure; Financial Statements; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; United States
Hawkins, David F. "Enman Oil, Inc. (E)." Harvard Business School Supplement 111-046, September 2010. (Revised December 2010.)
- September 2010 (Revised December 2010)
- Supplement
Enman Oil, Inc. (C)
By: David F. Hawkins
Company pursues ways to reduce its debt to equity ratio by resorting to off balance sheet debt transactions. View Details
Keywords: Energy Sources; Capital Structure; Financial Statements; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; United States
Hawkins, David F. "Enman Oil, Inc. (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 111-044, September 2010. (Revised December 2010.)
- September 2010 (Revised August 2011)
- Case
Enman Oil, Inc. (A)
By: David F. Hawkins
Company pursues ways to reduce its debt-to-equity ratio by resorting to off-balance sheet debt transactions. View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Borrowing and Debt; Equity; Financial Condition; Financing and Loans; United States
Hawkins, David F. "Enman Oil, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 111-042, September 2010. (Revised August 2011.)
- August 2010
- Supplement
Batson International, S.A. (C)
By: David F. Hawkins
Senior management must sign a management letter. An internal audit reveals a number of questionable accounting practices (B case). How should senior management respond? View Details
Keywords: Accounting Audits; Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Managerial Roles; Standards; United States
Hawkins, David F. "Batson International, S.A. (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 111-025, August 2010.
- August 2010 (Revised August 2011)
- Case
Batson International, S.A. (A)
By: David F. Hawkins
Management seeking to make up a shortfall in interim period earnings is seeking an accounting solution to close the gap. View Details
Keywords: Earnings Management; Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Financial Management; Standards; United States
Hawkins, David F. "Batson International, S.A. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 111-023, August 2010. (Revised August 2011.)
- 4 Nov 2007 - 7 Nov 2007
- Conference Presentation
From Demon Rum to Dr. Pepper: Social Movements, Entrepreneurial Opportunity, and the Emergence of the American Soft Drink Industry
By: Shon R. Hiatt and Wesley Sine
- 2011
- Other Unpublished Work
From Farms to Fuel Tanks: Collective Actors and New-Venture Innovation in the U.S. Biodiesel Fuel Sector
By: Shon R. Hiatt
Little is known about the influence of collective actors on innovative technological recombinations by new ventures. Using data from U.S. biodiesel producers, I examine how the efforts of multiple collective actors (farm associations) to promote varying types of... View Details
- July 2010
- Teaching Note
Chrysler's Sale to Fiat (TN)
By: C. Fritz Foley and Lena G. Goldberg
Teaching Note for 210022. View Details
- December 2010
- Article
The Case for Professional Boards
By: Robert C. Pozen
When the world's largest financial institutions had to be rescued from insolvency in 2008, many experts laid the blame at the feet of corporate boards. But insufficient board oversight is a problem that had supposedly been solved in 2002. As the United States... View Details
Keywords: Financial Institutions; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Failure; Accounting Audits; Quality; Behavior; Legal Liability; Experience and Expertise; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Performance Effectiveness; United States
Pozen, Robert C. "The Case for Professional Boards." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010).
- July 2010
- Technical Note
Note on the Insurance Industry
By: Clayton S. Rose and Scott Waggoner
This note provides an overview of the structure and function of the Insurance industry, with a primary focus on the U.S. It was designed to support the HBS MBA course "Managing the Financial Firm." View Details
Keywords: Insurance; Business or Company Management; Industry Structures; Insurance Industry; United States
Rose, Clayton S., and Scott Waggoner. "Note on the Insurance Industry." Harvard Business School Technical Note 311-012, July 2010.
- July 2010
- Technical Note
Note on the Asset Management Industry
By: Clayton S. Rose and Scott Waggoner
This note provides an overview of the structure and function of the asset management industry, with a primary focus on the U.S. It was designed to support the HBS MBA course "Managing the Financial Firm." View Details
Keywords: Asset Management; Business or Company Management; Industry Structures; Financial Services Industry; United States
Rose, Clayton S., and Scott Waggoner. "Note on the Asset Management Industry." Harvard Business School Technical Note 311-013, July 2010.