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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
a short, traditional text with a living website and cover such fundamental topics as accounting and tax, mortgages, capital markets, REITs and more. It also addresses the 2008 financial crisis and its impact on the real-estate profession....
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- Portrait Project
Sylvie Tran
communities and that's why the Portrait Project has been so important. Otherwise, I have picked up tons of recipes from my Mom. Hybrid car? Still getting back on my feet financially after school, therefore, a beat-up VW is all I've got...
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Research - Managing the Future of Work
Fuller Financial expertise and operational experience will only take executives so far. More than ever, companies want senior leaders with strong social skills and emotional intelligence, says research by Raffaella Sadun and Joseph...
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- 18 Jul 2018
- News
Ensuring HBS Remains a Dynamic Community
came to understand the economic model of schools, and how annual giving enables them to invest in financial aid and innovation,” explains Lien. She began giving annually to the HBS Fund and recently extended her support by including the...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent
enormous financial cost, too, with over 50 percent of the companies surveyed paying college graduates more than non-college graduates for the same job. The takeaway message: stop raising degree requirements for jobs that don’t absolutely...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Class Day, Commencement Mark New Beginning for Newest Alumni
students for teaching excellence were Professor Joseph Lassiter (The Entrepreneurial Manager); Professor Jan Rivkin (Strategy); Professor David Moss (Creating the Modern Financial System); and Associate Professor Noam Wasserman (Founders’...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Books
International Finance A Casebook by Mihir A. Desai (John Wiley & Sons) These case studies, by Associate Professor Desai, consider how major financial and investment decisions must adapt to the opportunities and obstacles in a rapidly...
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- October 1994
- Background Note
Note on Crude Oil and Crude Oil Derivatives Markets
By: Andre F. Perold, Wai Lee and Kuljot Singh
Briefly describes the crude oil markets and common derivatives contracts written on oil. The contracts are oil forward and futures contracts, and over-the-counter oil price swaps.
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Keywords:
Non-Renewable Energy;
Futures and Commodity Futures;
Credit Derivatives and Swaps;
Contracts;
Energy Industry
Perold, Andre F., Wai Lee, and Kuljot Singh. "Note on Crude Oil and Crude Oil Derivatives Markets." Harvard Business School Background Note 295-053, October 1994.
- January 1994
- Exercise
Walt Disney Company's Sleeping Beauty Bonds
Walt Disney Co. issues a 100-year bond. This case describes the terms of the bond and immediate capital market reaction.
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Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Walt Disney Company's Sleeping Beauty Bonds." Harvard Business School Exercise 294-034, January 1994.
- August 2008
- Supplement
Iceland (B): Redefining Aaa-Rated Sovereigns
By: Aldo Musacchio
In May of 2008, a team of sovereign debt analysts at Moody's had to decide whether to downgrade the country's sovereign long-term debt from Aaa to Aa1 or lower. Investor sentiment toward Iceland had changed radically in March, and the Moody's team was fearful that the...
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Keywords:
Sovereign Finance;
Financial Crisis;
Borrowing and Debt;
Currency;
Financial Condition;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Iceland;
European Union
Musacchio, Aldo. "Iceland (B): Redefining Aaa-Rated Sovereigns." Harvard Business School Supplement 709-012, August 2008.
- August 2008 (Revised October 2010)
- Case
Iceland (A)
By: Aldo Musacchio
In May of 2008, a team of sovereign debt analysts at Moody's had to decide whether to downgrade the country's sovereign long-term debt from Aaa to Aa1 or lower. Investor sentiment toward Iceland had changed radically in March, and the Moody's team was fearful that the...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Financial Crisis;
Borrowing and Debt;
Currency;
Financial Condition;
Sovereign Finance;
European Union;
Iceland
Musacchio, Aldo. "Iceland (A)." Harvard Business School Case 709-011, August 2008. (Revised October 2010.)
- December 2005 (Revised July 2006)
- Case
What Should the Federal Reserve Do? Thoughts of Greenspan and Bernanke
By: Lakshmi Iyer and Noel Maurer
Presents remarks by Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke on monetary policy, explicit inflation targets, and the relative merits of asset price targeting.
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Keywords:
Inflation and Deflation;
Asset Pricing;
Central Banking;
Financial Strategy;
Policy;
Banking Industry
Iyer, Lakshmi, and Noel Maurer. "What Should the Federal Reserve Do? Thoughts of Greenspan and Bernanke." Harvard Business School Case 706-017, December 2005. (Revised July 2006.)
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-049.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAbsolute Return for Kids Harvard Business School Case 309-036 Absolute Return for Kids [ARK] is a charity with strong financial support—what are the...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
HBS - From The Dean
2023 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads From The Dean When I am asked about the highlights of the past fiscal year, I note it was the first time since the pandemic that we filled Klarman Hall for the MBA RC...
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- 20 Mar 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Bubbles for Fama
- January 1993 (Revised August 2003)
- Case
Sally Jameson: Valuing Stock Options in a Compensation Package
By: Peter Tufano
Details a thinly disguised situation faced by a recent Harvard MBA graduate who was forced by a prospective employer to place a dollar value on a grant of stock options. There are two objectives: 1) Serves as an introduction to option valuation, in which students have...
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Tufano, Peter, and Michael Lewittes. "Sally Jameson: Valuing Stock Options in a Compensation Package." Harvard Business School Case 293-053, January 1993. (Revised August 2003.)
- May 2021
- Article
Fifty Shades of QE: Comparing Findings of Central Bankers and Academics
By: Brian Fabo, Marina Jančoková, Elisabeth Kempf and Ľuboš Pástor
We compare the findings of central bank researchers and academic economists regarding the macroeconomic effects of quantitative easing (QE). We find that central bank papers find QE to be more effective than academic papers do. Central bank papers report larger effects...
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Keywords:
Quantitative Easing;
Career Concerns;
Economic Research;
Central Banking;
Macroeconomics;
Economic Growth
Fabo, Brian, Marina Jančoková, Elisabeth Kempf, and Ľuboš Pástor. "Fifty Shades of QE: Comparing Findings of Central Bankers and Academics." Journal of Monetary Economics 120 (May 2021): 1–20.
- July 2019
- Article
Optimal Capital Structure and Bankruptcy Choice: Dynamic Bargaining vs Liquidation
By: Samuel Antill and Steven R. Grenadier
We model a firm’s optimal capital structure decision in a framework in which it may later choose to enter either Chapter 11 reorganization or Chapter 7 liquidation. Creditors anticipate equityholders’ ex-post reorganization incentives and price them into the ex-ante...
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Keywords:
Default;
Dynamic Bargaining;
Capital Structure;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Mathematical Methods
Antill, Samuel, and Steven R. Grenadier. "Optimal Capital Structure and Bankruptcy Choice: Dynamic Bargaining vs Liquidation." Journal of Financial Economics 133, no. 1 (July 2019): 198–224.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Costly External Financing and Monetary Policy Transmission: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
By: Emily Williams
I provide new evidence that large and small banks have different external financing costs, which generates cross sectional variation in a deposits market pricing power channel of monetary policy transmission. I do so by exploiting a natural experiment using anti-trust...
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Keywords:
External Financing;
Monetary Policy Transmission;
Experiment;
Banks and Banking;
Financing and Loans;
Interest Rates
Williams, Emily. "Costly External Financing and Monetary Policy Transmission: Evidence from a Natural Experiment." Working Paper, April 2020.