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Contacts & Resources | Information Technology
contact HBS IT by emailing ithelp@hbs.edu or calling Technology Support Service at 617-495-6600. If you believe credit card information may have been accessed. Contact Eileen Sullivan in the HBS Financial Office immediately at...
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- Portrait Project
Andrew Meade
I plan to have you read this sentence. Score! Hmm, what else do I plan I plan to have you ignore my name. At least once you'll leave a movie, so casually pondering what was awesome, iffy, outright sucky, that you'll pay no attention to "Written by" as it...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
By contrast, he continued, not enough attention has been paid to improving risk management. Risk models widely used before the crisis relied too heavily on historical data that turned out to be flawed, he...
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- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Harvard Business School Note 706-044 Describes the emergence of several kinds of efforts to assure the safety of foreign investment in emerging markets: international arbitration, expanded official political risk insurance, View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2014
- Op-Ed
A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform
to credit for working families. For many Republicans, the legislation went too far in providing government guarantees. The good news was that the Commission had demonstrated that bipartisan support was possible. The Commission (and the...
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- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
closed question–based surveys. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50727 June 2016 Journal of Finance Local Currency Sovereign Risk By: Du, Wenxin, and Jesse Schreger Abstract—We introduce a new measure of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
capital would provide sufficient loss absorption when called upon, would there be sufficient demand for this new instrument, would it be cost effective capital, and what were the risks to Credit Suisse'...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
General is a real-life example of topics that we cover in our finance curriculum such as valuation, financing, and risk management, and it brings together financial strategy and business strategy, a confluence that has long been a focus...
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Real Estate Private Equity - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Real Estate Private Equity Course Number 1484 Senior Lecturer Nori Gerardo Lietz Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits27 SessionsPaperQualifies for Management Science Track Credit Career Focus This course is intended for any...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ink
there is only Box 3. But very quickly, you get into Box 1. Take Square. Its Box 3 opportunity was micromerchants who want to take credit cards but don’t generate enough sales to have an expensive, big credit...
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- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
focus exclusively on estimates of expected payoffs, such as credit ratings, without considering the state of the economy in which default is likely to occur. Such investors are likely to be attracted to securities whose payoffs resemble...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Publications September 2014 Cambridge University Press Consumer Lending in France and America: Credit and Welfare By: Trumbull, Gunnar Abstract—Why did America embrace consumer credit over the course of...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Real Property - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Real Property Course Number 1684 Associate Professor Boris Vallee Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits28 SessionsExamQualifies for Management Science Track Credit Career Focus This course is intended for any student serious about a...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
California, Rock became a believer in the group's vision and set out to sell their idea to potential investors. Thirty-five companies turned him down; investing in something at the idea stage was too foreign to them. Eventually, Rock found Sherman Fairchild, an...
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- 17 May 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why.
beliefs (confirmation bias), to give ourselves too much credit or not enough blame (self-serving bias), or to place more value on losing $100 than making $100 (loss aversion). In business, a bias-clouded decision can have disastrous...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
debt issuers deteriorates during credit booms, and that this deterioration forecasts low excess returns to corporate bondholders. The key insight is that changes in the pricing of credit View Details
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Carmen Nobel
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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Sustainable Investing Course Number 1495 Senior Lecturer Vikram Gandhi Fall; Q2; 1.5 creditsPaper/projectQualifies for Management Science Track Credit The course won the 2021 Teaching Recognition Award for Excellence in...
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Making Markets - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Making Markets Course Number 1764 Associate Professor Scott Duke Kominers Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 creditsPaperQualifies for Management Science Track Credit Markets are everywhere - and where they’re not, you can build them!...
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- November 2003 (Revised March 2006)
- Case
Dow Chemical's Bid for the Privatization of PBB in Argentina
By: Mihir A. Desai and Alexandra de Royere
What price should Dow Chemical bid for PBB, a petrochemical complex that is being privatized by the Argentine government? To answer this question, students are forced to consider the role of country risk, the underlying currency exposure of the business, and how to...
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Bids and Bidding;
Privatization;
Credit Derivatives and Swaps;
Cash Flow;
Emerging Markets;
Valuation;
Business and Government Relations;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Energy Industry;
Argentina
Desai, Mihir A., and Alexandra de Royere. "Dow Chemical's Bid for the Privatization of PBB in Argentina." Harvard Business School Case 204-021, November 2003. (Revised March 2006.)
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
is yes. The safety of the financial system depends on financial institutions' risk exposure, their ability to absorb losses, their reliance on short-term wholesale funding, transparency, and understanding the interconnectedness between...
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