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  • October 2008
  • Teaching Note

Samoa Tala (TN)

By: Joshua D. Coval, Bhagwan Chowdhry and Konark Saxena
Teaching Note for [209053]. View Details
Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Risk Management; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Microfinance; Strategy; Borrowing and Debt; Currency; Cash Flow; Samoa
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  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

and Finance (forthcoming). (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 05-053 and NBER Working Paper No. 13131.) Abstract The main arguments in favor of and against nominal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 13

employee confusion about or neglect of the tax properties of Roth balances and (2) partition dependence. Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w20738 The Rise and Fall of Demand for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission

the number of active borrowers plummeted, and the profit margin dropped, too. "They basically had to deal with conflict that became intractable," Battilana says. Los Andes's launch in 1995 came three years... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • March 2006
  • Case

Wells Fargo Convertible Bonds

By: Malcolm P. Baker and Elizabeth Kind
Howard Atkins, the chief financial officer of Wells Fargo, is considering issuing $3 billion in convertible debt. With an investment-grade credit rating, Wells Fargo is not the typical issuer of convertible securities, but the market conditions in 2003 are unusual.... View Details
Keywords: Capital Structure; Financial Institutions; Banks and Banking; Debt Securities; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Strategy; Banking Industry
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  • 23 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

Examining mechanisms, we demonstrate that cognitive ability increases participation; however, and in contrast to previous research, financial literacy education does not affect decisions. We conclude by discussing how education may affect... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

  PublicationsThe Strategic Use of Brand Biographies Authors:Jill Avery, Neeru Paharia, Anat Keinan, and Juliet Schor Publication:Research in Consumer Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract We introduce the concept of a brand biography to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Oct 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

private equity management were oversold companies taken over by private equity groups have been stripped of their assets and hold unsustainable debt burdens." Gerald Nanninga, in lamenting the decline... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

external finance constraints is more pronounced for firms with higher degrees of informational opacity. Specifically, it is particularly strong for small firms, firms without debt ratings, firms that are not included in the S&P 500... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

programming challenge. We find that greater amounts of new code and novel recombinations of others' code, in a contest submission, increases both the probability of achieving top rank and the subsequent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
  • Case

Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment

By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Amram Migdal
This case examines Blue Haven Initiative (BHI), an impact investing fund and family office, and one of its investments, PEGAfrica (PEG). BHI founder Liesel Pritzker Simmons’ motivations for using her family wealth to start a family office focused on impact investing,... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Family Office; Development; International Development; International Development Investing; Development Fund; Sustainability; Solar Energy; Solar; Pay As You Go; PAYG; MFI; Social Venture; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Economics; Development Economics; Energy; Energy Conservation; Energy Sources; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Assets; Asset Pricing; Capital; Capital Budgeting; Capital Structure; Venture Capital; Cash; Cash Flow; Currency; Currency Exchange Rate; Equity; Private Equity; Financial Instruments; Debt Securities; Stock Shares; Financing and Loans; Microfinance; International Finance; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Price; Geography; Geographic Location; Emerging Markets; Ownership; Ownership Stake; Private Ownership; Social Enterprise; Value; Valuation; Value Creation; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Green Technology Industry; Africa; United States
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  • 25 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?

everyone’s transactions, you could predict whether a particular customer is going to run themselves into debt and default in the future.” Machine learning is even being used to learn more about machines,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology
  • 04 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 4

act like debt during "normal times" but would convert to create capital should the bank hit a "triggering event." How should these instruments be designed? Can they be made attractive for both the bank View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

are commonly called thrifts: savings banks, savings and loan associations, and credit unions. Savings institutions were really the first financial intermediaries established specifically to serve the... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services
  • 06 Aug 2014
  • What Do You Think?

What Is Warren Bennis’s Legacy?

party hosted by HBS Professor Jay Lorsch and his wife for Fritz Roethlisberger in 1968 in their modest digs that one could rent in those days from Harvard University. While several of us were talking with Fritz, Warren, who had View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 02 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2006

mistake. Sandra Cha of McGill University and Amy Edmondson of Harvard Business School discuss what to do when values backfire. Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation Borrowing a practice that is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • April 1994 (Revised September 1994)
  • Case

KENETECH Corporation

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.
Involves a strategic decision about how fast to ramp up sales. Improvements in technology have driven down the cost of electric power generated from wind turbines to the point where they are competitive with fossil-fuel plants. KENETECH needs to raise equity capital to... View Details
Keywords: Renewable Energy; Borrowing and Debt; Equity; Initial Public Offering; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Going Public; Sales; Competition; Energy Industry
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  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Professors Introduce Valuation Software

In an age when mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs are increasingly common in business, you need a new skill in your kit bag: the ability to analyze and value potential partners, deals, investments—even... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

American multinational firms respond to politically risky environments by adjusting their capital structures abroad and at home. Foreign subsidiaries located in politically risky countries have significantly more View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 15

identifying the effects of bank credit supply. First, we focus on firms' choice between two close forms of external financing: bank debt and public bonds. By conditioning the sample of firms raising new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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