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  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

Turning a Profit by Helping the Poor

  • 17 Aug 2011
  • News

Americans Facing More Inequality, More Debt and Now More Trouble?

  • August 2002 (Revised June 2003)
  • Case

New Wachovia (A), The

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Jeremy Swinson
In April 2001, First Union Corp. announced an agreement to merge with Wachovia Corp., a fellow North Carolina-based commercial bank. While the banks were preparing to consummate the merger, SunTrust Banks, Inc. of Atlanta, made a hostile offer for Wachovia, setting in... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Mergers and Acquisitions; Conflict and Resolution; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Atlanta; North Carolina
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  • May 2013 (Revised June 2014)
  • Case

Getit

By: Ramana Nanda and Rachna Tahilyani
Sidharth Gupta, CEO of Getit Infomediary Ltd, had just received a term sheet from Helion Venture Partners (Helion), one of India's independent venture capital firms, offering to invest Rs 200 million in return for an equity stake in the company. His dream of... View Details
Keywords: Publishing; Media And Publishing; Entrepreneurial Finance; Venture Capital; Media; Entrepreneurship; India
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The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game

Small businesses are core to America's economic competitiveness. Not only do they employ half of the nation’s private sector workforce—about 120 million people—but since 1995 they have created approximately two-thirds of the net new jobs in our country. Yet in... View Details

  • January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
  • Supplement

Juno (C): Leveraging Student Power

By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Kathleen L. McGinn and Amy Klopfenstein
In May 2020, Juno co-founders Chris Abkarians and Nikhil Agarwal decided to hold the annual auction for their student loan assistance startup. Five lenders submitted bids, and the co-founders ultimately opted to select Eager Bank as their partner for the 2020-2021... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Cost vs Benefits; Judgments; Education; Higher Education; Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Strategy; Adaptation; Alignment; Negotiation; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation Deal; Negotiation Offer; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Types; Financial Services Industry; Education Industry; North and Central America; United States; Massachusetts; Boston
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    The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access during the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game

    Small businesses are core to America’s economic competitiveness. Not only do they employ half of the nation’s private sector workforce – about 120 million people – but since 1995 they have created approximately two‐thirds of the net new jobs in our country. Yet in... View Details
    • March 1997 (Revised January 1999)
    • Case

    SureCut Shears, Inc.

    By: W. Carl Kester
    A bank loan officer must determine whether to waive convenants and extend terms on a line of credit granted to SureCut Shears. At issue is whether the inability of SureCut to pay down its line of credit is due to a temporary cyclical downturn or other long-term... View Details
    Keywords: Business Cycles; Finance; Performance; Problems and Challenges
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    • November 1978 (Revised June 1985)
    • Case

    Hanson Industries (B)

    By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Julie H. Hertenstein
    Provides a complete description of the processes used in preparing a budget (annual operating plan). Starting with basic product line decisions, management prepares a budget that integrates production and marketing within constraints of financial feasibility. The... View Details
    Keywords: Production; Negotiation; Marketing; Financing and Loans; Budgets and Budgeting; Planning
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    • 13 Jan 2014
    • News

    Wall Street says, 'No, really -- take Sunday off.'

    • 17 Aug 2010
    • News

    Wooing the best workers, and paying dearly for it

      Lauren H. Cohen

      Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

      Keywords: investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry
      • October 2003 (Revised January 2004)
      • Case

      The 2001 Crisis in Argentina: An IMF-Sponsored Default? (A)

      By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
      At the end of 2001, Argentina's economy and society both appeared on the verge of collapse. Furious about controls imposed on the convertibility of their bank deposits into cash (the "corralito") and huge proposed government spending cuts amidst high unemployment and... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Banks and Banking; Problems and Challenges; Decision Choices and Conditions; Currency Exchange Rate; Economy; Government Administration; Crime and Corruption; Argentina
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      • 09 Mar 2012
      • News

      Rome Looks to Italian Families to Fund Its Debt

      • 15 Sep 2015
      • Blog Post

      Advice from an Intern

      The last time I was an intern was nearly 10 years ago, when I was an undergrad working in New York for a magazine and banking about $10 an hour. Now as an MBA student, I’m getting the unusual chance to reincarnate as a summer intern... View Details
      Keywords: All Industries
      • 04 Feb 2020
      • News

      How we know that Tesla is a bubble that is going to pop

      • 18 Sep 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: September 18, 2007

      Andrew Banks and Royce Yudkoff were considering raising a 5th fund for their media-focused private equity firm, ABRY Partners. ABRY had a strong track record that the co-founders attributed to their group's deep knowledge of the media... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 14 May 2019
      • News

      Data privacy, AI, regulation: Small-business lending is changing fast

      • 04 Oct 2021
      • Blog Post

      Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS

      Recruiters reviewing hundreds of resumes for highly coveted roles in private equity and venture capital will often see candidates with backgrounds in banking and investing. This training and experience provides candidates with excellent... View Details
      Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital
      • 01 May 2019
      • News

      Harvard exhibit details the rise and demise of Lehman Brothers