Financial Decisions - Publications - Faculty & Research

June 2001 (Revised October 2003)
Case

Sampa Video, Inc.

A video rental store is considering offering home delivery service. Management must value the project under different financing strategies and methods, specifically adjusted present value (APV) and weighted average cost of capital (WACC). View Details

Keywords: Expansion; Cost of Capital; Entertainment; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Strategy; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

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01 Jun 2003
News

Fellowships Celebrated

evening, Kennedy discussed his decision to establish a fellowship in honor of Wertimer, one of his professors at Hamiltion College. Tom Doyle, the student speaker, with Richard Young of the Trinitas Foundation. The group sponsors the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

February 2022 (Revised May 2022)
Case

Jaypee Infratech and the Indian Bankruptcy Code

By: Kristin Mugford, William Vrattos and Radhika Kak

In 2016, India passed a new bankruptcy law (IBC) to counter a brewing bank crisis and increased corporate distress. Homebuilder Jaypee Infratech, one of India largest distressed companies (the “dirty dozen”) began restructuring under the IBC in 2017. Two years later,... View Details

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11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

Editor's note: The credit crisis and subsequent recession has thrown many financial and business institutions into, if not chaos, then at least a sense that the landscape underneath has shifted significantly. One institution undergoing... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch

26 May 2015
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5 Ways the Case Method Changes How You Learn

The case method is a staple of the HBS MBA experience. Pioneered by our faculty, we think it’s the best way to prepare our students for the challenges of leadership. So how does it work? And how does it change how students think? We decided to have a few of our... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Lesson from the Fall

a flight to abstractions, resulting in few business-specific decision criteria for Enron executives. Along the way Enron lost track of its ideals. This loss of ideals reveals the most important lessons of the Enron story — that View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

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Managing International Trade and Investment - Course Catalog

advantage. We will consider how various organizations of labor markets, financial markets, and regulatory regimes, for example, create opportunities and barriers for multinational firms. Second, we will focus on the more informal domestic... View Details

July 2010
Supplement

Post-Crisis Compensation at Credit Suisse (C)

By: Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia

The (C) case describes the results of Credit Suisse's PIP I program, the value of PAF, shareholders' vote on the new compensation plan supported by management, and the impact of the company's approach to the U.K. banker's tax. View Details

Keywords: Voting; Taxation; Compensation and Benefits; Business and Shareholder Relations; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Switzerland; United Kingdom

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01 Sep 2024
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Far-Reaching Impact

Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would receive View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

Carissa Bryce Christensen

with evidence-based decision making, Carissa has built a career in complex, cutting-edge tech environments. She co-founded QxBranch, a quantum computing software firm acquired by Rigetti Computing in 2019, and The Tauri Group LLC, a... View Details

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence;#10;#Aviation & Aerospace;#17;#Defense, Military, & Space

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Recruiting Students - Annual Report 2014

exceptionally broad range of backgrounds and experiences of the students who come to campus each year. HBS is able to enroll a diverse group of high-potential future leaders because of fellowships. Funded by generous alumni and friends, fellowships allow the School to... View Details

October 1992 (Revised November 1997)
Case

ImmuLogic Pharmaceutical Corporation (A): March 1991

By: Josh Lerner

ImmuLogic Pharmaceutical Corp., a development-stage biotechnology company, is considering making an initial offering of common stock. The diverse perspectives of the entrepreneur, venture capitalist, investment banker, and institutional investor are explored. Problems... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Banks and Banking; Initial Public Offering; Going Public; Perspective; Valuation; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry

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14 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

decisions taken and financial results through the end of fiscal year 2010. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411027-PDF-ENG Cypress Sharpridge: Raising Capital in a Time of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

was concerned, however, that the firm's success, and the changing landscape of the financial services industry, were challenging the core aspects of the strategy that had brought the firm so far. He knew that the impending strategic View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Feb 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach

Starting this past fall and continuing through the coming year, Dean Srikant Datar is traveling to meet with alumni around the world. On Thursday, February 23, more than 60 alumni and guests gathered in Florida to celebrate and connect with each other at "HBS in Palm... View Details

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Michael O. Braimah

A natural affinity for commerce, coupled with friendships with Howard peers pursuing careers in finance, inspired Michael Braimah to seek an internship with Credit Suisse on Wall Street in the summer of 2006. Just as the first cracks began to appear in the View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Innovation as P&G’s Key

the company had lost its fabled touch with consumers, whom he calls “the boss.” He rallied the company around the goal of delighting consumers at two “moments of truth”: first, when they purchase the product, and second, when they use it. “Consumers are now at the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

15 Dec 2020
Blog Post

MBA Voices Blog: A Year in Review

decision maker. Read More 4 Things to Know About the MS/MBA Biotech “I was initially attracted to Harvard’s MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences program because of the emphasis on ethical decision making, and... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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Faculty Research Online

to blame for the recent financial crisis? The fault lies partly with scholars of economics, says David Moss, the John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration. In this working paper, he argues that an academic focus on government... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

March 2022 (Revised April 2022)
Case

MTN: Unlocking Value While Driving Socioeconomic Progress

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Dilyana Karadzhova Botha

On March 10, 2021, Ralph Mupita the new CEO of MTN Group, Africa's largest telecommunications company, presented the group’s 2020 annual results and unveiled a new strategy to “drive growth and unlock value.” Despite MTN’s leadership in most of its markets, the... View Details