Exchange - Publications - Faculty & Research

February 2000 (Revised March 2001)
Case

Alphatec Electronics Pcl

By: Stuart C. Gilson, C. Fritz Foley and Perry Fagan

The newly appointed CEO of an important high-technology company in Thailand must lead the company through a complicated debt restructuring. Due to the collapse of the Thai currency, the company's debt burden, like that of most Thai companies, has skyrocketed because it... View Details

Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Valuation; Management Teams; Restructuring; Laws and Statutes; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Developing Countries and Economies; Borrowing and Debt; Technology Industry; Electronics Industry; Thailand; United States

Citation

Educators

Purchase

07 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends

of time the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has spent trying to write the regulations around it. The SEC wants to encourage individuals to make investment decisions, but they don’t want to open the door for scammers. At the same... View Details

Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking

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Vanity and Virtue: Allegories on the Pursuit of Riches - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Vanity and Virtue Misers, Moneylenders, and Thieves Money Devil Biblical and Mythological Scenes Love and Money Politics and War Louis-Philippe Speculation and Credit Bankers, Financiers, and Statesmen Stock Exchanges printer-friendly... View Details

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Diversity | Employment

Allston. Third and fourth grade students at the Gardner School are matched randomly with volunteer staff and faculty at HBS. Pen pals exchange letters once a month, and twice a year the students and HBS employees get together in person.... View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

Collective Wisdom

prize. In a community-based setting, you give up IP in exchange for complementary assets that create value for customers. Then there's the fear that my competitors will find out what I'm working on. Open companies have adopted a nuanced... View Details

Keywords: crowdsourcing; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jan 2005
News

Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964

later adopted by the Securities and Exchange Board of India and the nation's stock exchanges. Bajaj's expertise in these matters has also been tapped by the New York Stock Exchange, where he serves as a member of its International... View Details

09 Feb 2017
Blog Post

Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Anddria Varnado (Clack-Rogers)

community, which has enabled me to continue my personal and professional development. Through continuing relationships with my classmates, it’s been refreshing to have a community of like-minded peers to exchange ideas and perspectives... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

Profile

Dave Vitello

After two years in Paris, Dave Vitello exchanged the banks of the Seine for the banks of the Charles with his wife, Brita, and his two daughters, Vera and Tess. “I see HBS as similar, a parallel to our time in France,” says Dave. “In both... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

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The Significance and Consequences of Financial Models - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Economic Sciences Chicago Board of Options Exchange Exhibit Home The Significance and Consequences of Financial Models Opening day of trading on the Chicago Board of Options Exchange, April 26, 1973. Courtesy of Chicago Board of Options... View Details

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Introduction - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Economic Sciences Chicago Board of Options Exchange Exhibit Home Introduction Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, 1997. Robert Cox Merton Papers, HBS Archives, Baker Library Historical Collections In October 1997, the Royal Swedish Academy of... View Details

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William Donaldson | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Yale’s School of Management and to head the NYSE. Among other leadership roles in business, philanthropy, and academia, he was selected in 2001 to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission under President George W. Bush. In March 2002,... View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System

to meet with BFFS faculty to promote the productive exchange of ideas. “We began by mobilizing Harvard research around the realities of how markets, individuals, and institutions behave ,” says Greenwood. “Ultimately though, we want the... View Details

January 2025
Case

Untapped Global: Financing Africa's Missing Middle

By: Raymond Kluender and Emanuele Colonnelli

In November 2024, Jim Chu, founder and CEO of Untapped Global, faced mounting internal tensions over the company’s strategic direction. Untapped had developed a data-driven revenue-based financing (RBF) model to address the “missing middle” problem—the $5.2 trillion... View Details

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Educators

Purchase

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

New Paths to Success in Asia

faculty, access to such information has been made easier since the 1999 opening of the School's Asia-Pacific Research Center in Hong Kong, which has served as a jumping-off point for scholars who are involved in a fascinating exchange of... View Details

Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg

28 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants

England Program for Kidney Exchange, is a pioneer in creating a system that allows living donors to exchange with others. So far, the program has been responsible for over 70 successful exchanges. Kidney View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Health

01 Jun 2001
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

Charlotte, North Carolina, make it possible for our graduates to gather together, network, and exchange ideas all over the world. Our creative and diligent reunion chairs — from Ashley Gordon Jacobs for this year’s 5th Reunion class to... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Mar 2005
News

Job Interviews

On the most basic level, job interviews provide an opportunity for companies and potential employees to exchange essential information. But in today’s crowded job market, applicants who really want to outclass the competition need to go... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Profile

Jonathan Bailey

through an English/U.S. exchange program and had earned it by being a champion debater at Oxford and by helping found a nonprofit that paired college mentors with high-school students. For a person deeply interested in "the roles of... View Details

30 Nov 2016
Blog Post

Why I Didn’t Think I’d Get in to HBS

that person has been more than willing to help me learn. On countless occasions in my RC year, I happily traded an hour of financial derivatives tutoring in exchange for an hour of accounting help, and along the way I learned a ton and... View Details

01 Jun 2004
News

Social Enterprise Celebrates Tenth Year, Looks Ahead

faculty chair), Allen Grossman, and F. Warren McFarlan each led a lively exchange that encompassed topics such as measuring SEI’s success in 2014, ensuring that the knowledge generated is applied, and mobilizing the HBS alumni network.... View Details

Keywords: SEI; Social Enterprise Initiative; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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