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    Jeffrey F. Rayport

    Jeffrey F Rayport is a faculty member in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the School’s MBA and Executive Education Programs and on HBS Online. His primary focus in teaching and research is growth-stage technology... View Details

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    raft of financial and logistical challenges, Gavi quickly mobilized to add procuring COVID-19 vaccines for low- and middle-income countries to its regular vaccine and immunization efforts. Now in the aftermath of the pandemic, Nishtar is... View Details
    • December 2006 (Revised January 2007)
    • Case

    Restructuring Navigator Gas Transport Plc

    By: C. Fritz Foley
    How should creditors pursue their claims in a multi-jurisdiction bankruptcy? David Butters, Managing Director at Lehman Brothers, negotiates a restructuring of Navigator Gas Transport, a shipping company that is headquartered in Switzerland, incorporated in the Isle of... View Details
    Keywords: Management Teams; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Complexity; Capital Structure; Restructuring; International Finance; Law; Ship Transportation; Shipping Industry; Switzerland; Isle of Man
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    • November 2015 (Revised August 2016)
    • Case

    Unilever's New Global Strategy: Competing through Sustainability

    By: Christopher A. Bartlett
    In January 2009, when Paul Polman was appointed CEO of Unilever, he inherited a company in long-term decline at the beginning of a major global financial crisis. As the first outsider ever recruited to lead the company, Polman lost little time in challenging the... View Details
    Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Competitive Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Consumer Products Industry
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    • May 1998 (Revised April 2000)
    • Case

    City of New York, The

    By: Paul M. Healy
    This case examines the economics of a municipality, and then explores its financial position from the perspective of a bond rating firm. View Details
    Keywords: Bonds; Financial Management; Public Sector; City; Financial Statements; Government Administration
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    Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond

    Part of the fear and misunderstanding of state capitalism in the post-Berlin Wall era stems from the fact that most observers see state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as inefficient soviet companies. In Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and... View Details

    Keywords: State Capitalism; State-owned Enterprises; Development Banks; State Ownership; Development Economics; Management; Energy Industry; Banking Industry; Brazil; China; Europe; Latin America; Asia
    • 11 May 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

    a new CEO, IVK had woken up to a realization of its current size and the consequent need for a new style of management. The company would mature into a grownup financial services firm. What had been a freewheeling, improvisational... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 22 Mar 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: March 22

    to use credit to build assets and finance consumption. Moving Forward explores what caused the crisis and, more important, focuses on the path ahead. The challenge remains the same as ever: protect consumers, ensure fairness, and guarantee soundness of the View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 06 Jun 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors

    like computers in financial models. Behavioral finance replaces these idealized decision makers with real and imperfect people who have social, cognitive, and emotional biases. My work focuses on how the resulting inefficiencies in the... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    Machine Learning Models for Prediction of Scope 3 Carbon Emissions

    By: George Serafeim and Gladys Vélez Caicedo
    For most organizations, the vast amount of carbon emissions occur in their supply chain and in the post-sale processing, usage, and end of life treatment of a product, collectively labelled scope 3 emissions. In this paper, we train machine learning algorithms on 15... View Details
    Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Climate Change; Environment; Carbon Accounting; Machine Learning; Artificial Intelligence; Digital; Data Science; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Management; Environmental Accounting
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    • June 2003
    • Case

    In-N-Out Burger

    By: Youngme E. Moon, Lucy Cummings, Sonali Sampat, Sam Thakarar and Kerry Herman
    In-N-Out Burger is a fast-food chain with 171 company-owned locations in three states--California, Nevada, and Arizona. It has an extremely hardcore customer base and the company appears to be in good financial health. The primary issue in this case concerns expansion:... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Profit; Leadership Development; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Distribution; Expansion; Food and Beverage Industry; Arizona; California; Nevada
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    • 13 Mar 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

    Are brand management issues faced by a powerful for-profit company such as Toyota the same as those navigated by an international non-government organization (NGO) such as the Red Cross? Yes and no. In their new book, The New Global... View Details
    Keywords: by Manda Salls
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Saving and Consumption Responses to Student Loan Forbearance

    By: Justin Katz
    How do households adjust savings and consumption in response to liquidity from debt relief? I study this question using policy variation induced by federal student loan forbearance in the 2020 CARES Act and an individual-level panel of daily financial transactions for... View Details
    Keywords: Saving; Consumer Behavior; Borrowing and Debt; Interest Rates; Financial Liquidity; Personal Finance; Government Legislation
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    Market Reaction to and Valuation of IFRS Reconciliation Adjustments: First Evidence from the UK

    By: Joanne Horton and George Serafeim
    We investigate the market reaction to, and the value-relevance of, information contained in the mandatory transitional documents required by International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) 1 (2005). We find significant negative abnormal returns for firms reporting... View Details
    Keywords: Valuation; Markets; Information; International Finance; Earnings Management; Stock Shares; Taxation; Goodwill Accounting; Price; Financial Reporting; Standards; Corporate Disclosure; United Kingdom
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Determinants of Early-Stage Startup Performance: Survey Results

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
    To explore determinants of new venture performance, the CEOs of 470 early-stage startups were surveyed regarding a broad range of factors related to their venture’s customer value proposition, product management, marketing, technology and operations, financial... View Details
    Keywords: Startups; Survey Research; Performance Analysis; Entrepreneurship; Performance; Analysis; Business Startups; Failure; Surveys
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    • November 2019 (Revised December 2019)
    • Case

    Marcus by Goldman Sachs

    By: Rory McDonald, Samir Junnarkar and David Lane
    Five years on from the 2008 financial crisis, Goldman Sachs remained wounded. Revenues at the global investment bank had stagnated below pre-crisis levels, and the firm had yet to rebound from a substantial decline in securities-trading revenues. Marcus by Goldman... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Banks and Banking; Innovation Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Organizational Culture; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom
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    • December 2008 (Revised March 2009)
    • Case

    Rosetree Mortgage Opportunity Fund

    By: Victoria Ivashina and Andre F. Perold
    In December 2008, in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Rosetree Capital Management was evaluating the purchase of a pool of U.S. residential mortgages. The firm had formed an investment vehicle to acquire troubled residential mortgages... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Mortgages; Investment; Housing; Valuation; United States
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    • 07 Apr 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: April 7, 2009

    Effects of Using Unverifiable Estimates in Financial Reporting Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ross L. Watts Abstract SFAS 142 requires managers to estimate reporting unit values to determine goodwill... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • July 1996 (Revised January 1997)
    • Case

    Northwest Airlines: Strategic Alliance and Strategic Position--May 1996

    By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Davis Dyer
    Describes the strategic position of Northwest Airlines in 1996 and discusses its financial rebound and changes and improvements since the 1993 restructuring agreement. Describes the company's new strategy and its management of principal strategic assets, focusing at... View Details
    Keywords: Air Transportation; Restructuring; Alliances; Competitive Strategy; Government Administration; Cooperation; Business Strategy; Air Transportation Industry; United States; Netherlands
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    • April 2015 (Revised April 2022)
    • Case

    Bankruptcy in the City of Detroit

    By: Stuart Gilson, Kristin Mugford and Annelena Lobb
    The June 2013 bankruptcy of the city of Detroit, Michigan was, at the time, the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history. Detroit had struggled for years with a weakening tax base, high unemployment, a heavy debt load and increasing retiree costs. These... View Details
    Keywords: Chapter 9; Chapter 11; Bankruptcy; Municipal Finance; Restructuring; Financial Liquidity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; City; Government Administration; Public Sector; Financial Crisis; Financial Management; Failure; Labor Unions; Urban Development; Budgets and Budgeting; Decision Making; Demographics; Economics; Finance; Public Administration Industry; Michigan; Detroit
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