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  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

In Harmony

States from Seoul at age 12 and returns to his home country in his late 20s, MBA in hand, to help underwrite the sovereign bond offering that will save South Korea from financial ruin. It’s a novel of many elements, somehow managing to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

(19) Annual Reports (2) Annuities (1) Arts (2) Asset Management (3) Asset Pricing (4) Assets (11) Attitudes (18) Auctions (4) Balanced Scorecard (11) Banks and Banking (30) Behavioral Finance (7) Behavior (75) Bids and Bidding (1) Bonds... View Details
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Joy Chen

she studied government and economics. “I wanted to manage organizations that changed people’s lives for the better.” While there, she cofounded local chapters of two nonprofits, in education and healthcare respectively. “It solidified my... View Details
  • 09 Nov 2023
  • News

From the Brink

Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

government-introduced business lending and corporate bond purchase programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In contrast to the classic lender-of-last-resort thinking, the authors argue that an effective policy response to the... View Details
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Business History - Faculty & Research

American chemical industries until the 1970s, when the two German firms diverged from their American counterparts in using public relations strategies not only to contain fallout from criticism, but also as opportunities for changes in corporate culture aimed at... View Details
  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

the overall objectives of the firm in relation to customers, investors, and regulators. Now people are chosen to step into these roles and the organization is set in motion. What will happen in real time? Once on the job, the bonding... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
  • 05 Jul 2023
  • News

GCC Alumni Celebrate Grand Opening of New Club Center

located at the Park Hyatt Dubai Creek, Golf, and Yacht Club. "It epitomizes the city's modernity and grandeur and captures the essence of Harvard Business School through its elegant design," Lootah says. More than 90 people attended the grand opening on May 23,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 23 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

What Could Bring Globalization Down?

Business, Government and the International Economy unit of Harvard Business School and is a professor of history at Harvard University. Cynthia Churchwell: What drew you to seek historical parallels with our current state of... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
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Bankruptcy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

continued its aggressive growth strategy. Another dire sign of the state of the financial system occurred on September 7, 2008, when the government placed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two government-sponsored mortgage lenders, in... View Details
  • April 2017 (Revised February 2020)
  • Case

Restructuring Ukraine

By: Kristin Mugford, Seema Amble and Tian Feng
In June 2015, Ukraine found itself struggling with a volatile and devalued currency, dramatically diminished foreign reserves, and a projected financing shortfall of $40 billion. Ukraine’s new government sought to return the nation to stability following political... View Details
Keywords: Exchange Rates; Politics; Macroeconomics; Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Restructuring; Economy; Currency Exchange Rate; Banks and Banking; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Bonds; Sovereign Finance; Capital Markets; Credit; Debt Securities; Financial Liquidity; Financial Markets; Government and Politics; Ukraine
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  • 16 Jun 2021
  • HBS Case

Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm

year—and it’s still unclear when many ships will set sail again. "There was a lot at stake, with $20 billion in annual revenues and hundreds of thousands of passengers transported every year." Compounding the challenge of losing customers has been the lack of View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Travel
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The Railroads: The First Big Business - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

the need to create and adhere to exact timetables. 6 The resulting “Report on Avoiding Collisions and Governing Employees” called for a system of clearly defined responsibilities and lines of communication. As tracks expanded across... View Details
  • 09 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

embedded in the product. When you look at a rug, for example, you can't tell whether bonded or child labor were used to create it. Most of these programs have been initiated by industry associations, standards bodies like ISO, or NGOs.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

is set at the close of the annual meeting in May 2008, when shareholders have voted against all incumbent board members. Steel Partners must act quickly. The case serves as an overview of corporate governance issues in Japan, as well as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • June 1999 (Revised February 2013)
  • Case

The California Wine Cluster

By: Michael E. Porter and Gregory C Bond
Describes the California wine cluster, or the group of interconnected wineries, grape growers, suppliers, service providers, and wine-related institutions located in California. Also describes the wine cluster in France, Italy, Australia, and Chile, the four other... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Business and Government Relations; Competition; Food and Beverage Industry; California
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  • March 2021 (Revised April 2021)
  • Case

Making Impact Investing Markets: IFC (A)

By: Shawn A. Cole, John Masko and T. Robert Zochowski
In 2017, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) faced the first big investment decision in its new Scaling Solar project. Founded in 1956, IFC was an international investment body with national governments as shareholders, whose mission was to promote economic... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Renewable Energy; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Equity; Bonds; Financing and Loans; Growth and Development; Emerging Markets; Non-Governmental Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Investment; Decision Making; Financial Services Industry; Energy Industry; Zambia
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In The Classroom - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Business School. Many of our faculty members have also been involved in writing cases. Are you looking for something specific? Please email us and we will direct you to the right materials. Related... View Details
  • 28 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

worked. In the first decade of the 20th century, Charles Coffin demonstrated that he was an adept negotiator who amassed great wealth for GE in building generators and power equipment for local utilities in which GE also had a financial stake through View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

  PublicationsConcentrating on Governance Authors:Dalida Kadyrzhanova, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract This paper develops a novel trade-off view of corporate governance. Using a simple model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne