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- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
of potential funding sources to solve social problems, much of it stemming from an intergenerational transfer of wealth and new wealth from financial and high-tech entrepreneurs. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco - Addressing Extreme Weather, Climate Risk, and Resilience
hosted a panel and networking reception during San Francisco Climate Week at the University Club of San Francisco focused on how communities, businesses, and governments can respond to climate-driven disasters through innovative financial... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
upheaval - financial collapse, peasant uprisings, and political violence. What's going on? Some people see the repression in Mexico's political system and call the system... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Insights into Business in Islamic World
Bridging differences in political and economic systems has always been one of the challenges of international business. Where religious beliefs influence those systems heavily, as is increasingly the case in... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
evolving structure of corporate debt markets—and given rise to new questions about the private and social costs and benefits of leverage and, in particular, the role of leverage in affecting the likelihood and extent of systemic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Reforming Company Boards
Solutions for Better Corporate Governance (Bloomberg Press) emphasizes accountability, transparency, performance measurement, and a strong system of checks and balances in its practical approach to reform. Why did you write this book?... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
- Web
Impact Stories - Business & Environment
both great financial and environmental returns." Angela Amos MBA 2014 | Shaping the Big Picture “I believe stakeholder engagement is necessary to address climate change. At work, I evaluate diverse perspectives to craft legally sound,... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
says Kendall, executive director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, his family’s philanthropic organization, which is dedicated to creating a “resilient and healthy food system in New England that increases the production and consumption... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
changes had any impact in the lead-up to the financial crisis. HBS Associate Professor Suraj Srinivasan and Harvard Law School Professor John C. Coates leverage the benefit of hindsight to assess research findings from over 120 papers in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
September 2008, just one of its ten non-executive directors had any recent banking experience. He had joined the board five months before Lehman went bust. The backgrounds of Lehman’s independent directors were hardly suited to overseeing a complicated View Details
- 04 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
What MBAs can do in Defense of Black Lives
Sign the MBA Oath. Created in the wake of the 2008 Financial Crisis, the MBA Oath is a pledge for business school graduates who aspire to be ethical managers and leaders. Consider joining the community of signatories today. Ask your alma... View Details
- 01 Apr 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Miami
Are you interested in connecting with other alumni leveraging their careers to confront climate change? BEI invites HBS Alumni to join our Alumni in Climate Networking Series for a chance to connect with local alumni to discuss ideas, trends, opportunities, and... View Details
- September 1992 (Revised March 1997)
- Case
Summit Distributors (A)
By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Amy P. Hutton
Summit Distributors was in danger of violating loan covenants because of slow economic activity and forecasted losses and was faced with a choice. Changing the inventory valuation method from LIFO to FIFO would avoid default but would require higher future income... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; Cost Accounting; Cash Flow; Interest Rates; Economic Systems; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Statements; Valuation; Accounting Audits; Financing and Loans; Accounting Industry; Legal Services Industry
Bruns, William J., Jr., and Amy P. Hutton. "Summit Distributors (A)." Harvard Business School Case 193-053, September 1992. (Revised March 1997.)
- March 2005
- Article
Sovereign Debt As a Contingent Claim: A Quantitative Approach
By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
We construct a dynamic equilibrium model with contingent service and adverse selection to quantitatively study sovereign debt. In the model, benefits of defaulting are tempered by higher future interest rates. For a wide set of parameters, the only equilibrium is one... View Details
Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Interest Rates; Balance and Stability; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Mathematical Methods; Management Style; Segmentation; Debt Securities; Banking Industry
Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk. "Sovereign Debt As a Contingent Claim: A Quantitative Approach." Journal of International Economics 65, no. 2 (March 2005).
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
benefited from investor interest in the Internet in Latin America. Through two rounds of funding, they have secured $60 million from foreign investors. Says Oxenford, "In our sector, U.S. financial insti-tutions have been fairly active,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
decided to evaluate strategic alternatives due to financial difficulties. Parks Capital must now decide whether to acquire U.S. Retail, to fund ACCM so it acquires U.S. Retail, or to sit on the sidelines. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
The leaders of Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, know the strength of the area in which they sit. They aren’t looking for portfolio businesses with a Manhattan financial... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- Article
Are Buybacks Really Shortchanging Investment?
By: Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
It’s no secret that the American economy is suffering from the twin ills of slow growth and rising income inequality. Many lay the blame at the doors of America’s largest public corporations. The charge? These firms prefer to distribute cash generated from their... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Investment; Stocks; Business and Shareholder Relations; Equality and Inequality; United States
Fried, Jesse M., and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Are Buybacks Really Shortchanging Investment?" Harvard Business Review 96, no. 2 (March–April 2018): 88–95.
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
fragility of the financial markets. They thought the financial world had become detached from the real economy. And they were upset by the potential for populist reaction to these problems that could lead to... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
do; they get them with the confirmation of a purchase rather than ahead of time. Were there a five-day waiting period before an order could be placed, the current system would perform better. But people want to act quickly, and in markets... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills