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  • 08 Dec 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Are There Too Many Safe Securities? Securitization and the Incentives for Information Production

Keywords: by Samuel G. Hanson & Adi Sunderam; Financial Services
  • 06 Apr 2020
  • News

America’s $350 billion emergency loan program for small businesses may run out of money

  • February 2011 (Revised January 2017)
  • Case

Countrywide plc

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott
One of the world's leading investors in distressed companies, Oaktree Capital Management, is contemplating a "loan to own" investment in the debt of Countrywide plc, a financially troubled residential real estate agent based in the U.K. Only sixteen months earlier,... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Restructuring; Financial Crisis; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Management; Investment; Real Estate Industry; United Kingdom
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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: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services
    • November 2023
    • Case

    Gabon Special Economic Zone

    By: John Macomber and Wale Lawal
    Tropical rain forest covers about 80% of the West African nation of Gabon, part of the Congo Basin and the "lungs of the world." Gabon is one of the first nations to earn revenue from carbon sequestration...as long as the rain forest remains intact. There are... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Development; Forestry; Wood; Carbon Credits; Supply Chain; Economic Growth; Developing Countries and Economies; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Government Administration; Business and Government Relations; Strategy; Forest Products Industry; Africa; Gabon
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    • 30 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    ‘Intrinsic Joy’ Sparks Ideas Better than Cash

    GitHub’s sponsorship program To parse how financial rewards help or hurt innovation, the authors examined data for some 100,000 GitHub users. GitHub introduced the sponsorship program in May 2019, and more than 14,000 users qualified for... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology
    • September 1986 (Revised February 1991)
    • Case

    Graves Industries, Inc. (C): Consumer Hardware Division

    Describes events occurring over a three-year period in a division of Graves Industries. The division is being squeezed for profit, and managers in the division get involved in some fraudulent financial reporting schemes involving revenues and capitalization of... View Details
    Keywords: Earnings Management; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Financial Reporting
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    • 18 Jul 2024
    • Blog Post

    Building the Future: An HBS Alumna’s Journey in Sustainable Infrastructure Investment

    Abisinuola David-Olusa (MBA 2024) is a recent graduate from Nigeria. Prior to HBS, she worked with an African-focused private equity fund deploying capital for infrastructure investing. At HBS, she was Section E’s Education... View Details
    • July 2009 (Revised August 2011)
    • Case

    What Happened at Citigroup? (A)

    By: Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
    What went wrong at Citigroup? In 1998, the Travelers Group and Citicorp merged to create Citigroup Inc., considered the first true global "financial supermarket" and a business model to be envied, feared, and emulated. By year-end 2006 the firm had a market... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Globalized Firms and Management; Leadership; Risk Management; Failure; Financial Services Industry
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    • September 2009 (Revised May 2011)
    • Case

    Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (A)

    By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
    Acumen Fund is a global venture capital firm with a dual purpose: it looks for a return on its investments, and it also seeks entrepreneurial solutions to global poverty. This case examines Acumen's new projects in Kenya. The organization's investment committee and its... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Investment Return; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Social Enterprise; Financial Services Industry; Kenya
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    • January 2010 (Revised April 2010)
    • Case

    Greenbriar Growth Partners and Microsurgery Devices

    Greenbriar Growth Partners (GGP), a venture capital (VC) firm, has been an investor in Microsurgery Devices (MSD) for four-plus years and has come into conflict with the company's founder. Should the Board's nominating committee re-nominate the VC investor, and should... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Initial Public Offering; Governing and Advisory Boards; Conflict of Interests; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
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    • September 2024
    • Case

    InfraCredit and the Project Inception Facility

    By: John Macomber, Namrata Arora and Maagatha Kalavadakken
    Around the world, large infrastructure projects are frequently stymied by the high cost and high uncertainty of the project inception phase: the research and engineering and planning prior to financial close and start of construction. Could there be a new kind of... View Details
    Keywords: Infrastructure; Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Cost; Cash Flow; Capital; Assets; Financial Markets; Financial Strategy; Insurance; Energy; Product Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Credit; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Africa; Nigeria
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    • 14 Apr 2017
    • News

    Humanizing Finance

    • 15 Mar 2020
    • News

    Lenders scour financing documents amid market volatility

    • November 2009 (Revised August 2010)
    • Case

    NovoCure Ltd.

    By: William A. Sahlman and Sarah Flaherty
    Venture capitalist William Doyle must raise $35 million for a portfolio company with a promising, novel cancer therapy, just as global capital markets are imploding in the fall of 2008. NovoCure, Ltd., has developed an electrical-field-based therapy, called Tumor... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Technological Innovation; Financial Services Industry
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    • March 1997 (Revised July 1997)
    • Case

    Morgan Stanley in China

    The Asian economy, particularly China's, is experiencing explosive growth. China needs capital to fund the growth, and this presents a tremendous opportunity for an investment bank that can penetrate the market. Morgan Stanley establishes a joint venture with the China... View Details
    Keywords: Joint Ventures; Investment Banking; Emerging Markets; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; China
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      Andre F. Perold

      André Perold is a Founder, Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of HighVista Strategies, a Boston-based investment firm. HighVista focuses on investing in structurally inefficient public and private markets, including in life sciences,  lower middle market private... View Details

      Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services

        Patient Capital: The Challenges and Promises of Long-Term Investing

        There has never been a greater need for long-term investments. And it is increasingly unlikely that the public sector will be willing or able to fill the gap. Those best positioned to address the long-run needs are likely to be the pools of capital in the hands of... View Details

          The Unintended Consequences of the Zero Lower Bound Policy

          Our novel evidence suggests that in the times of unusually low interest rates money market fund managers increased, on average, their portfolios’ risk. We also show... View Details

          • October 2004 (Revised May 2006)
          • Case

          Wells REIT II

          By: Arthur I Segel and Dwight Angelini
          Dr. Richard Planter, a dentist, asks his financial adviser, Michael Saris, to review an offering memorandum for a new, private real estate investment trust. After reviewing the documents, Saris needs to develop an analytical framework and provide concrete advice... View Details
          Keywords: Finance; Investment; Framework; Private Ownership; Mathematical Methods; Real Estate Industry
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