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  • 01 Jul 2013
  • News

The Nature of Business

investment opportunities. "Investing in nature can produce very attractive business returns," said Tercek. "Compared with manmade solutions, natural infrastructure often works better, costs less, and appreciates in View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 18 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery

Venture capital firms ask themselves tough questions these days. Among them: how can they dig out of the dot-com collapse? How should they invest going forward? How should the leader of a firm strike the right note for the future? And is... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications
  • 30 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell

the family business. The portrait of the business would also typically represent more than 90 percent of the owners' wealth. “If this transition is not managed well, the family has a higher risk of losing its wealth through bad investment... View Details
Keywords: by Jonathan Pellegrin; Food & Beverage; Retail
  • June 2023
  • Supplement

Graphic Packaging: Project Cowboy (D)

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Scott Mayfield and Philipp Chvanov
Analyzes the company's decision on Project Cowboy following the events described in the C Case View Details
Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Growth Management; Demand and Consumers; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Value Creation; Supply and Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; North America
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  • Fourth Quarter 2007
  • Article

Contingent Claims Approach to Measuring and Managing Sovereign Credit Risk

By: Dale . F. Gray, Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
This paper proposes a new approach to measure, analyze, and manage sovereign risk based on the theory and practice of modern contingent claims analysis (CCA). The paper provides a new framework for adapting the CCA model to the sovereign balance sheet in a way that can... View Details
Keywords: Credit; Investment; Sovereign Finance; Risk Management; Emerging Markets; Market Transactions; Mathematical Methods; Valuation
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Business and Geopolitics - Course Catalog

including how they impact bilateral relationships, contribute to power shifts, and act as vectors for the promotion of values and ideologies. The course will consist of three modules. The first will look at historical examples of firms... View Details
  • Web

Real Property - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Real Property Course Number 1684 Senior Lecturer John Macomber Lecturer Camille Douglas Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Exam Career Focus This course is designed for students interested in managing, developing, advising on, or View Details
  • 31 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

leaders were trained, sophisticated strategic-planning systems were supposed to help senior managers decide which businesses to grow and which to harvest. 1 Unfortunately, all the planning and investment were unable to stop the... View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
  • Web

Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems - Course Catalog

presentation is made to a component of the private equity firm investment committee. Project work is designed to be of mutual value to students and the PE partner. Students can list the projects and the PE... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2009
  • News

Robert F. Greenhill, MBA 1962

Founder and Chairman, Greenhill & Co., LLC Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education: B.A., Philosophy, Yale University, 1958 On Leadership: “Leadership flourishes when the organization values respect and... View Details
  • 12 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 12

extremely limited. Theoretically, delegation of authority is expected when locally adapted choices are most important to the overall value of the firm, when local information advantages are significant, or when the cost of processing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 27

generations to come. Publisher's Link: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9261.html The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment Recommendations Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim Publication:Best Paper Proceedings... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 10

menu. We illustrate this result empirically in the context of 401(k) plans, where we show a negative relation between the number of investment choices in a 401(k) plan and the quality of the optimal portfolio achievable given those View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

Scott P. Mason Remembered

Scott Mason, an expert in capital markets, valuation, and financial systems and an HBS faculty member for seventeen years, died of cancer in September. He was 50 years old. "Scott was a good friend, valued colleague, and mentor to many of... View Details
  • 14 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

investors and investment funds. Furthermore, it was creating a network of microfinance banks through a microfinance holding company. However, in a context of rapid change and explosive growth of the microfinance sector, Jacques Attali,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

students and investors how to evaluate mutual funds and other collective investment vehicles. It discusses how different types of funds are managed, marketed, and regulated. It also reviews how funds invest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 1997 (Revised October 2002)
  • Case

The Exxel Group: September 1995

By: Josh Lerner, Alex Hoye and Gonzalo Pacanins
The Exxel Group, a private equity group based in Buenos Aires, is considering a buyout of Argencard, Mastercard's exclusive licensee in Argentina. To complete the deal, however, it will need to raise additional financing from U.S. investors. Both the valuation and the... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Developing Countries and Economies; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Investment; Negotiation Deal; Problems and Challenges; Valuation; United States; Buenos Aires
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  • August 2001 (Revised March 2016)
  • Case

Doral Costa

By: William J. Poorvu, John H. Vogel Jr., Arthur I. Segel and Amy Silverstein
Doral Costa is a proposed 277,803 square foot Class A office park development in Miami, FL. Trammell Crow Co. would like to develop this office park in joint venture with a partner. Samantha Spar, the acquisitions partner at Titan Associates, a large real estate... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Joint Ventures; Acquisition; Investment; Partners and Partnerships; Decision Choices and Conditions; Fair Value Accounting; Construction; Property; Real Estate Industry; Consulting Industry; Miami
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  • 08 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 8

and managed as investment accounts with the goal of accumulating the largest possible pot of savings. Communication with savers is framed entirely in terms of assets and returns. Ask a saver what his 401(k) is worth and you'll hear a cash... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

the investment in IT as the investment in standards." The second characteristic, said Upton, is network effects. "Think about the value of owning the first telephone.... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss