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- February 2008 (Revised May 2008)
- Supplement
Lincoln Financial Group (C)
LFG reorganizes its business in order to improve customer intimacy. However, to implement the strategy, they need to effect significant changes in the skills of their salespeople. This case series straddles human resource management, corporate strategy, and sales... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Salesforce Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Financial Services Industry
Godes, David B., and David Lane. "Lincoln Financial Group (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 508-030, February 2008. (Revised May 2008.)
- Article
Financial Innovation and Endogenous Growth
By: Luc Laeven, Ross Levine and Stelios Michalopoulos
Is financial innovation necessary for sustaining economic growth? To address this question, we build a Schumpeterian model in which entrepreneurs earn profits by inventing better goods, and profit-maximizing financiers arise to screen entrepreneurs. The model has two... View Details
Laeven, Luc, Ross Levine, and Stelios Michalopoulos. "Financial Innovation and Endogenous Growth." Journal of Financial Intermediation 24, no. 1 (January 2015): 1–24.
- October 2003
- Article
Anti-Competitive Financial Contracting: the Design of Financial Claims
By: Giacinta Cestone and Lucy White
Cestone, Giacinta, and Lucy White. "Anti-Competitive Financial Contracting: the Design of Financial Claims." Journal of Finance 58, no. 5 (October 2003): 2109–2141.
- March 1986 (Revised July 1986)
- Case
Applications for Financial Futures
Consists of a series of four brief descriptions of the use of financial futures as hedging vehicles: a savings and loan hedging the rollover of three-month money market certificates with T-bill futures, a corporate debt issuer hedging the cost of a future debt issue... View Details
Keywords: Financial Instruments
Mason, Scott P. "Applications for Financial Futures." Harvard Business School Case 286-109, March 1986. (Revised July 1986.)
- June 2019
- Article
Financial Development and Technology Diffusion
By: Diego Comin and Ramana Nanda
We examine the extent to which financial market development impacts the diffusion of 16 major technologies, looking across 17 countries, from 1870 to 2000. We find that greater depth in financial markets leads to faster technology diffusion for more capital-intensive... View Details
Comin, Diego, and Ramana Nanda. "Financial Development and Technology Diffusion." IMF Economic Review 67, no. 2 (June 2019): 395–419.
- 2018
- Other Teaching and Training Material
Financial Accounting Reading: Shareholders' Equity
By: Suraj Srinivasan
Core Curriculum Readings in Financial Accounting cover the fundamental concepts in financial accounting. Many readings include videos and Interactive Illustrations to help students master complex concepts.
This is a standalone reading designed to introduce... View Details
This is a standalone reading designed to introduce... View Details
Srinivasan, Suraj. "Financial Accounting Reading: Shareholders' Equity." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Boston: Harvard Business Publishing 5075, 2018.
- January 2010
- Case
The Future of Financial Reporting
By: Karthik Ramanna
Multimedia/video case on the SEC's work on improvements to financial reporting. Students review topical audio and video from various sources including SEC footage, and interviews with others involved, such as Bob Pozen, (past head of Fidelity and chairman of the SEC's... View Details
Ramanna, Karthik. "The Future of Financial Reporting." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 110-701, January 2010.
- January 2009
- Article
FDI, Productivity, and Financial Development
By: Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Selin Sayek
This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on growth by focusing on the complementarities between FDI inflows and financial markets. In our earlier work, we found that FDI is beneficial for growth only if the host country has well-developed... View Details
Keywords: Human Capital; Income; Performance Productivity; Financial Markets; Foreign Direct Investment; Financial Institutions; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek. "FDI, Productivity, and Financial Development." Special Issue on Multinational Enterprises and Foreign Direct Investment. World Economy 32, no. 1 (January 2009): 111–135.
- 05 Nov 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
The Litigation of Financial Innovations
Keywords: by Josh Lerner
- January 2018 (Revised February 2020)
- Case
Financial Inclusion at Omidyar Network
By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Caitlin Lindsay Reimers Brumme and James Barnett
A team of investors at Omidyar Network explore two different investment possibilities in the budding financial inclusion space using their investment framework to consider capital alternatives available for both investments, each of which carries highly divergent... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Micro Finance; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Portfolio; Microfinance; Africa; Philippines
Gandhi, Vikram S., Caitlin Lindsay Reimers Brumme, and James Barnett. "Financial Inclusion at Omidyar Network." Harvard Business School Case 318-004, January 2018. (Revised February 2020.)
- September 1985 (Revised March 1987)
- Case
Winthrop Financial Associates
By: William A. Sahlman and William J. Poorvu
Sahlman, William A., and William J. Poorvu. "Winthrop Financial Associates." Harvard Business School Case 386-077, September 1985. (Revised March 1987.)
- February 2018 (Revised January 2020)
- Supplement
Ant Financial (C)
By: Feng Zhu, Ying Zhang, Krishna G. Palepu and Anthony K. Woo
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Zhu, Feng, Ying Zhang, Krishna G. Palepu, and Anthony K. Woo. "Ant Financial (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 618-042, February 2018. (Revised January 2020.)
- September 1980 (Revised January 1981)
- Case
Bay Financial Corp.
By: William J. Poorvu and John H. Vogel Jr.
Keywords: Financial Services Industry
Poorvu, William J., and John H. Vogel Jr. "Bay Financial Corp." Harvard Business School Case 381-032, September 1980. (Revised January 1981.)
- January 2009
- Case
Sue Whitman at MBB Financial
This case describes some issues confronting the leader of a major investment bank. She is pleased with the financial performance of her firm but concerned about signs of a bubble in the market. View Details
- March 2021 (Revised December 2021)
- Supplement
Ant Financial (D)
By: Feng Zhu, Krishna G. Palepu, Kerry Herman and Susie Ma
The (D) case updates the case series from the time of Ant’s planned IPO, and the Chinese government’s regulatory shifts. View Details
Keywords: Finance; Information Technology; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; China; Beijing
Zhu, Feng, Krishna G. Palepu, Kerry Herman, and Susie Ma. "Ant Financial (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 621-089, March 2021. (Revised December 2021.)
- 1990
- Other Unpublished Work
Understanding Financial Statements
By: Marc L Bertoneche
Keywords: Financial Statements
- 2013
- Working Paper
Financial vs. Strategic Buyers
By: Marc Martos-Vila, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Jarrad Harford
This paper introduces the impact of debt misvaluation on merger and acquisition activity. Debt misvaluation helps explain the shifting dominance of financial acquirers (private equity firms) relative to strategic acquirers (operating companies). The effects of... View Details
Martos-Vila, Marc, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, and Jarrad Harford. "Financial vs. Strategic Buyers." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-098, April 2012. (Revised April 2014.)
- 05 Sep 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurship
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Andrew Charlton