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  • April 2011
  • Case

Hermitage's Russian Quandary (A)

By: Eric Werker, Ray Fisman and Lauren Weber
In June 2007, the offices of Russian hedge fund Hermitage Capital were raided by Moscow police; in the months that followed, Hermitage founder Bill Browder found himself banned from Russia and fending off efforts to expropriate the fund's Russian assets. This case... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Private Equity; Investment; Law Enforcement; Laws and Statutes; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; Moscow
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  • April 2012
  • Article

Corporate Ownership Structure and Bank Loan Syndicate Structure

By: Chen Lin, Yue Ma, Paul Malatesta and Yuhai Xuan
Using a novel data set on corporate ownership and control, we show that the divergence between the control rights and cash-flow rights of a borrowing firm's largest ultimate owner has a significant impact on the concentration and composition of the firm's loan... View Details
Keywords: Ownership; Financing and Loans; Cash Flow; Borrowing and Debt; Accounting; Crisis Management; Relationships; Law; Contracts; Banking Industry
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  • November 2010 (Revised January 2011)
  • Case

The Tzu Chi Foundation's China Relief Mission

By: Herman B. Leonard and YiKwan Chu
Tzu Chi is one of the largest charities in Taiwan, and one of the swiftest and most effective relief organizations internationally. Rooted in the value of compassion, the organization has many unusual operating features -- including having no long term plan. This case... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Crisis Management; Service Delivery; Mission and Purpose; Religion; Natural Disasters; Nonprofit Organizations; Welfare; China; Taiwan
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  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue

panels on the affirmative action debate, the potential for technology to strengthen the African-American community, entrepreneurship and economic development, and careers in the venture-capital and private-equity arenas. Frank Savage, chairman of Alliance Capital View Details
  • August 2010
  • Teaching Note

Vereinigung Hamburger Schiffsmakler und Schiffsagenten e.V.: Valuing Ships (TN)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Albert W. Sheen
Teaching Note for 210058. View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Crisis; Price; Financing and Loans; Contracts; Asset Pricing; Cash Flow; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Shipping Industry; Germany
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  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter

Illustration by Vahram Muradyan Illustration by Vahram Muradyan With one quarter of all renters spending more than half their income on housing in the United States, as Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies found in 2017, about 11 million Americans are one... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 30 Nov 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy
  • 22 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 22

require a grand organizational makeover or buy-in from the CEO. All it takes is collaboration between you and your team-working together and making small, doable changes. What started as an experiment with a six-person team at The Boston Consulting Group-one of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2018
  • Supplement

Zenefits Board of Directors (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Business Model; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Leadership; Risk Management; Venture Capital; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States; California
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  • 25 Aug 2015
  • First Look

First Look Tuesday

Publications Forthcoming Management Science How Much Is a Win Worth? An Application to Intercollegiate Athletics By: Chung, Doug J. Abstract—Intercollegiate athletics in the United States have become a multibillion-dollar industry over... View Details
  • 11 May 2020
  • Op-Ed

Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

It is no secret that immigration has reshaped American innovation. Immigrants are the backbone of America’s most innovative industries, provide a quarter of our patent applications, and are numerous among our science and engineering superstars. Taken from World... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

types of investments? In relation to manager selection, how could the Notre Dame investment team continue to find the best managers to create alpha? To what extent would the performance of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Apr 2020
  • News

Spreading the Love

price and getting the gowns approved. “One of the hardest things about this health care crisis is recognizing how serious it is. At the same time, you’re seeing all of this energy and optimism and everyone working together in really... View Details
  • 11 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012)

I joined the Sorenson Impact Institute as the Managing Director and started teaching at the University of Utah, developing the school’s first social impact class and training the next generation of impact leaders. Along the way, my... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

Action Plan: Just Breathe

pain: major surgery requiring months of recuperation or meditation to manage the stress that was at the root of his health issues. But the practice didn’t fit with his image of a type A, high-powered executive. “I came to meditation... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 11 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012)

stayed with my consulting job, but it would have meant traveling a lot to my clients on the coasts. So instead, I joined the Sorenson Impact Institute as the Managing Director and started teaching at the University of Utah, developing the... View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans

fund would help restart the hard-hit New Orleans business community. Several faculty also made the trip to New Orleans, including Professor Herman (“Dutch”) Leonard, whose work on crisis management led him... View Details
Keywords: Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Alumni Books

Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty: The New Rules for Getting the Right Things Done in Difficult Times by Ram Charan (MBA ’65, DBA ’67) (McGraw-Hill) Economic turbulence has arrived with a vengeance, and only companies that face it head-on at the beginning... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Seth Klarman

Klarman Illustration by David Cowles While other money managers scrambled to survive the financial market meltdown, value investor extraordinaire Seth Klarman (MBA ’82), president of The Baupost Group in Boston, cautiously pursued buying... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance