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- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
because of a perfect storm of their falling sales and weakened collateral, and growing risk aversion among lenders. Those days are not over. While lingering cyclical factors from the crisis may still be constraining access to bank credit,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
repayment, and the idea that we are bringing new innovations and risk capital to the industry has piqued a lot of curiosity. So with these products you’re bridging the gap between research and practice? Rigol: Well, it’s a big gap, and... View Details
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Theorem." Journal of Financial Economics 5, no. 3 (November 1977): 241-249. Merton, Robert C. "On the Pricing of Corporate Debt: The Risk Structure of Interest Rates." Journal of Finance 29, no. 2 (May... View Details
- January 1996 (Revised February 1997)
- Case
Tennessee Valley Authority: Option Purchase Agreements
By: Peter Tufano
James Cross, VP of customer planning at the Tennessee Valley Authority, a major supplier of electric power in the Southeast United States, is considering meeting its incremental capacity needs by creating new financial contracts, Option Purchase Agreements (OPAs) to... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Energy Generation; Corporate Finance; Energy Industry; United States
Tufano, Peter, and Cameron Poetzscher. "Tennessee Valley Authority: Option Purchase Agreements." Harvard Business School Case 296-038, January 1996. (Revised February 1997.)
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
need to design a financial strategy that supports your business strategy. Media General is a real-life example of topics that we cover in our finance curriculum such as valuation, financing, and risk... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
California, Rock became a believer in the group's vision and set out to sell their idea to potential investors. Thirty-five companies turned him down; investing in something at the idea stage was too foreign to them. Eventually, Rock found Sherman Fairchild, an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
there is a real risk of oversimplifying the problem. If tough rhetoric becomes a substitute for tough regulation, we will — tragically — miss our best shot at a financially stable future. There are plenty of good reasons to crack down on... View Details
- Article
Lifetime Portfolio Selection under Uncertainty: The Continuous-Time Case
By: Robert C. Merton
Merton, Robert C. "Lifetime Portfolio Selection under Uncertainty: The Continuous-Time Case." Review of Economics and Statistics 51, no. 3 (August 1969): 247–257. (Chapter II of Ph.D. dissertation; Chapter 4 in Continuous-Time Finance.)
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
California where he led a space-mission analysis team. Convinced he needed more management training, he entered the new joint Doctoral Program at Harvard and developed a fascination with finance. After graduation, he joined the HBS faculty. An expert in corporate View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
entrepreneurial management and strategy. Anette Mikes came to HBS in 2007 as a postdoctoral fellow after earning her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. She’s now an assistant professor in the Accounting & Management unit with a focus on View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
studies in America, is used to overcoming challenges. “When we founded the company, the economy was contracting and no one wanted to take any risks. As it returned to some semblance of normal, people started feeling better about risks and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Reflecting on the Value of an MBA
professor left us with: “to increase the value of a call option, crank up the volatility.” At first, this doesn’t sound inspirational. Let me explain. When I arrived at HBS, after four years of building software, I had no finance training... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
these problems. When we stepped back from our discussions and considered what was being said, it was clear that the golden goose—global market capitalism—was at risk from the impact of an interrelated set of forces more powerful than the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
an economic crisis erupts, something that has happened with regularity. Nor does it stop governments from intervening at the risk of doing more harm than good. Few, it seems, learn from the lessons of history. In Ferguson’s view, the real... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
companies now find their best customers in China and India, where U.S. technology products are in high demand. More importantly, the free flow of ideas and capital have created entrepreneurial hot spots around the globe, challenging venture firms to follow or View Details
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
political risk influences the financing and operational decisions of U.S. multinational firms both at the subsidiary and firm-wide level. Several interesting results are emerging from this work—first,... View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
The Pass-Through of Uncertainty Shocks to Households
- January 1996
- Article
Reducing the Cost of Demand Uncertainty through Accurate Response to Early Sales
By: A. Raman and M. Fisher
Raman, A., and M. Fisher. "Reducing the Cost of Demand Uncertainty through Accurate Response to Early Sales." Operations Research 44, no. 4 (January 1996): 87–99.
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week
to business, the money and skills necessary to fund a decarbonized future, and different approaches to building a just and skilled workforce. Tufano’s session on financing highlighted the growing sense of urgency in finding sufficient... View Details