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  • November 2006 (Revised May 2007)
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International Capital Markets and Sovereign Debt: Crisis Avoidance and Resolution

By: Laura Alfaro and Ingrid Vogel
Successive economic crises of the 1990s and early 2000s intensified focus on reform of the "international financial architecture." Because many of these crises involved defaults on sovereign bonds, an important component of the discussion revolved around the... View Details
Keywords: Capital; Markets; Sovereign Finance; Conflict and Resolution; Financial Crisis
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Alfaro, Laura, and Ingrid Vogel. "International Capital Markets and Sovereign Debt: Crisis Avoidance and Resolution." Harvard Business School Background Note 707-018, November 2006. (Revised May 2007.)

    Bank Capital and the Growth of Private Credit

    We show that business development companies (BDCs)—closed-end funds that provide a significant share of nonbank loans to middle market firms—are very well capitalized according to bank capital frameworks. They have median risk-based capital ratios of about 36% and,... View Details
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    Research - Private Capital Project

    Research Research June 2025 Teaching Material Blackstone Credit and Delaware Basin Resources By: Victoria Ivashina and Srimayi Mylavarapu Teaching note for case 224035 2025 Working Paper Performance Capital View Details
    • 30 Jun 2020
    • Book

    Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

    The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 28 Feb 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

    What fuels a global economy? Certainly the easy flow of capital across national boundaries would seem near the top of the list. But financial globalization is not an on/off switch, notes Professor Rawi... View Details
    Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
    • 17 Oct 2019
    • News

    Venturing Away from Venture Capital

    the National Venture Capital Association, the volume of capital flowing into startups in the first quarter of 2019 was up by 10.5 percent from the previous year, but the number... View Details
    Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
    • 30 Sep 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Real Effects of Capital Controls: Financial Constraints, Exporters, and Firm Investment

    Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Anusha Chari & Fabio Kanczuk
    • January 2011
    • Supplement

    Matrix Capital Management (C)

    By: Malcolm P. Baker and David Lane
    Ben Balbale, a partner at hedge fund Matrix Capital, must decide whether to exit their investment in Rovi Corporation, a company with a diverse portfolio of patents used primarily for digital interactive guides. Rovi's shares are up over 50% from the time Balbale... View Details
    Keywords: Public Ownership; Cash Flow; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Investment Funds; Financial Strategy; Valuation; Partners and Partnerships; Markets; Performance Efficiency; Patents; Stock Shares; Decisions; Financial Services Industry
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    Baker, Malcolm P., and David Lane. "Matrix Capital Management (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 211-060, January 2011.
    • January 2011
    • Supplement

    Matrix Capital Management (B)

    By: Malcolm P. Baker and David Lane
    Ben Balbale, a partner at hedge fund Matrix Capital, must decide whether to exit their investment in Rovi Corporation, a company with a diverse portfolio of patents used primarily for digital interactive guides. Rovi's shares are up over 50% from the time Balbale... View Details
    Keywords: Public Ownership; Cash Flow; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Investment Funds; Financial Strategy; Valuation; Partners and Partnerships; Markets; Performance Efficiency; Patents; Stock Shares; Decisions; Financial Services Industry
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    Baker, Malcolm P., and David Lane. "Matrix Capital Management (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 211-048, January 2011.
    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    Flight to Safety: How Economic Downturns Affect Talent Flows to Startups

    By: Shai Bernstein, Richard Townsend and Ting Xu
    Using proprietary data from AngelList Talent, we study how individuals’ job search and application behavior changed during the COVID-19 downturn. We find that job seekers shifted their searches toward more established firms and away from early-stage startups, even... View Details
    Keywords: Startup Labor Market; Flight To Safety; COVID-19; Recession; Business Startups; Human Capital; Business Cycles; Health Pandemics
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    Bernstein, Shai, Richard Townsend, and Ting Xu. "Flight to Safety: How Economic Downturns Affect Talent Flows to Startups." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-045, September 2020. (Revised March 2022.)
    • 2010
    • Case

    New Heritage Doll Company: Capital Budgeting: Brief Case No. 4212.

    By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Heide Diener Abelli
    A manufacturer and retailer of specialty doll products must decide which of two projects to fund. The decision requires the student to compute cash flows for the 2 projects, discount values to the present and compare and contrast different project performance measures. View Details
    Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Projects; Decision Making; Cash Flow; Performance Evaluation; Production
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    Luehrman, Timothy A., and Heide Diener Abelli. "New Heritage Doll Company: Capital Budgeting: Brief Case No. 4212." Watertown, MA: Harvard Business Publishing Case, 2010.
    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Stock Investors' Returns Are Exaggerated

    By: Jesse M. Fried, Paul Ma and Charles C.Y. Wang
    The stock market generates less wealth than it appears. We show that total shareholder return (TSR), the standard measure of stock investor performance, substantially exaggerates returns earned by these investors in aggregate, and thus by most investors. The main... View Details
    Keywords: All-shareholder Returns; Capital Flows; Dividend Reinvestment; Equity Premium; Total Shareholder Returns; Stocks; Investment Return; Market Timing
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    Fried, Jesse M., Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Stock Investors' Returns Are Exaggerated." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-036, November 2021.
    • January 2024 (Revised May 2024)
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    Pioneer Natural Resources: Enhancing the Capital Return Strategy with Variable Dividends

    By: Benjamin C. Esty, Elisabeth Kempf and E. Scott Mayfield
    In February 2021, Scott Sheffield, the CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources (an independent oil and gas company based in Texas), was considering the possibility of enhancing the firm’s capital return strategy by introducing a variable dividend tied to cash flows in... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Finance; Cash Flow; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Value Creation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment Return; Profit; Policy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Energy Industry; United States; North America; Texas
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    Esty, Benjamin C., Elisabeth Kempf, and E. Scott Mayfield. "Pioneer Natural Resources: Enhancing the Capital Return Strategy with Variable Dividends." Harvard Business School Case 224-001, January 2024. (Revised May 2024.)
    • 2010
    • Casebook

    Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture

    By: Laura Alfaro
    All managers face a business environment in which international and macroeconomic phenomena matter. International capital flows can significantly affect countries' development efforts and provide clear investment opportunities for businesses. During the 1990s and early... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Capital; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations
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    Alfaro, Laura. Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2010.
    • July 2020
    • Article

    The Persistent Effect of Initial Success: Evidence from Venture Capital

    By: Ramana Nanda, Sampsa Samila and Olav Sorenson
    We use investment-level data to study performance persistence in venture capital (VC). Consistent with prior studies, we find that each additional IPO among a VC firm's first ten investments predicts as much as an 8% higher IPO rate on its subsequent investments,... View Details
    Keywords: Performance; Monitoring; Selection; Status; Venture Capital; Performance Consistency; Investment
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    Nanda, Ramana, Sampsa Samila, and Olav Sorenson. "The Persistent Effect of Initial Success: Evidence from Venture Capital." Journal of Financial Economics 137, no. 1 (July 2020): 231–248.

      Eaton Corp.: Portfolio Transformation and the Cost of Capital

      In 2000, Eaton Corporation was broadly diversified industrial conglomerate.  But its strategy was evolving and its focus was narrowing around “power management” and more recently on “intelligent power,” the use of digitally enabled products and services designed... View Details
      • February 2020 (Revised August 2021)
      • Case

      Australia: Commodities, Competitiveness, Climate and China

      By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Laura Alfaro
      For the past few decades, Australia has dealt with the benefits and costs of repeated mining booms—inflation, a housing bubble, a current account deficit, and growing dependence on China. Between 1996 and 2007, however, Australia had most of these issues under control... View Details
      Keywords: Commodities; Competitiveness; Carbon Tax; Environment; Capital Flows; Current Account; Mining; Economy; Problems and Challenges; Climate Change; Taxation; Competition; Financial Condition; Government and Politics; Inflation and Deflation; Environmental Sustainability; Australia
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      Vietor, Richard H.K., and Laura Alfaro. "Australia: Commodities, Competitiveness, Climate and China." Harvard Business School Case 720-028, February 2020. (Revised August 2021.)

        Pioneer Natural Resources: Enhancing the Capital Return Strategy With Variable Dividends

        In February 2021, Scott Sheffield, the CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources (an independent oil and gas company based in Texas), was considering the possibility of enhancing the firm’s capital return strategy by introducing a variable dividend tied to cash... View Details
        • 24 Feb 2014
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        A Capital Idea for Small Business

        their research. That encouraged them to move ahead and form the company. "Small businesses are the engine of job growth in this country," says Callaghan. "The JOBS Act is an attempt to facilitate capital View Details
        Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; crowd-funding; online communities; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
        • August 2012 (Revised June 2017)
        • Case

        Australia: Commodities and Competitiveness

        By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Laura Alfaro
        For the past few decades, Australia has dealt with the benefits and costs of repeated mining booms—inflation, a housing bubble, a current account deficit and growing dependence on China. Between 1996 and 2007, however, Australia had most of these issues under control... View Details
        Keywords: Commodities; Competitiveness; Carbon Tax; Environment; Capital Flows; Current Account; Mining; Economy; Problems and Challenges; Australia
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        Vietor, Richard H.K., and Laura Alfaro. "Australia: Commodities, Competitiveness, Climate and China." Harvard Business School Case 720-028, August 2012. (Revised June 2017.)
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