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- 20 Oct 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Financing Risk and Bubbles of Innovation
- April 2002 (Revised February 2003)
- Module Note
Teaching Project Finance: An Overview of the Large-Scale Investment Course
By: Benjamin C. Esty
Large-Scale Investment is a case-based course about project finance for second-year MBA students. Project finance involves the creation of a legally independent project company financed with nonrecourse debt for the purpose of investing in a single-purpose industrial...
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Esty, Benjamin C. "Teaching Project Finance: An Overview of the Large-Scale Investment Course." Harvard Business School Module Note 202-086, April 2002. (Revised February 2003.)
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
There is nothing small about the research practiced by Harvard Business School professor Benjamin Esty. He studies the financing of some of the largest projects in the world: the Eurotunnel, Hong Kong...
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- February 1986
- Case
General Foods Corp.: Project Duck Soup
General Foods must decide whether to acquire Entenmann's Bakery. Price and financing must also be decided. The teaching objectives include analysis of strategic fit, selection of purchase price, and financing method. Another issue is the debt to equity ratio that is...
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Fenster, Steven R., and Robert R. Glauber. "General Foods Corp.: Project Duck Soup." Harvard Business School Case 286-071, February 1986.
- December 2003 (Revised October 2014)
- Case
Alusaf Hillside Project
By: Kenneth S. Corts and John R. Wells
The aluminum industry has suffered from long periods of depressed prices and profits interspersed with relatively short-lived price and profit peaks. The case investigates why this has occured, focusing on the decision Alusaf must make on whether to invest in a major...
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Keywords:
Decision Making;
Business Cycles;
Financial Crisis;
Metals and Minerals;
Financial Strategy;
Investment;
Price;
Profit;
Demand and Consumers;
Industry Structures
Corts, Kenneth S., and John R. Wells. "Alusaf Hillside Project." Harvard Business School Case 704-458, December 2003. (Revised October 2014.)
- October 2021 (Revised May 2023)
- Case
Project Maji: Pricing Water in Sub-Saharan Africa
By: Elie Ofek, Marco Bertini, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha and Esel Çekin
In July 2021, Sunil Lalvani, founder and CEO of Project Maji, a non-profit social enterprise headquartered in Dubai that had already provided sustainable, clean water solutions to 80,000 people living in rural communities across Ghana and Kenya, was facing an important...
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Keywords:
Water;
Pricing;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Projects;
Price;
Decision Making;
Social Enterprise;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Equity;
Green Technology;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Africa;
Dubai
Ofek, Elie, Marco Bertini, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha, and Esel Çekin. "Project Maji: Pricing Water in Sub-Saharan Africa." Harvard Business School Case 522-043, October 2021. (Revised May 2023.)
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Climate Finance SIP
outlines how to make this change: “A successful transition plan leverages technological innovation and regulation. Many technologies are ready for deployment but require project financing to scale. Other...
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- July 2018 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
Project Helios: Harvesting the Sun
By: Mark Egan and E. Scott Mayfield
Aware of the impact that modern society was having on the environment, Ashley Telkes had always tried to be cognizant of her own impact on the environment and to take reasonable steps to mitigate her own effects. Having already implemented a number of passive measures...
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Egan, Mark, and E. Scott Mayfield. "Project Helios: Harvesting the Sun." Harvard Business School Case 219-009, July 2018. (Revised August 2018.)
- June 2008 (Revised October 2008)
- Case
International Carbon Finance and EcoSecurities
By: Andre F. Perold, Forest L. Reinhardt and Mikell Hyman
In late 2007, EcoSecurities had to decide whether to undertake a new Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project in China. EcoSecurities was an aggregator of carbon credits and also invested directly in projects that produced carbon credits. Governments and firms...
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Keywords:
Non-Renewable Energy;
Cost Management;
Investment Return;
Business and Government Relations;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Investment;
Cash Flow;
Valuation;
Pollutants;
Environmental Sustainability;
Financial Services Industry;
China
Perold, Andre F., Forest L. Reinhardt, and Mikell Hyman. "International Carbon Finance and EcoSecurities." Harvard Business School Case 208-151, June 2008. (Revised October 2008.)
- March 1990 (Revised October 1999)
- Case
Turner Construction Company: Project Management Control Systems
By: Robert L. Simons and Hilary Weston
After providing a brief overview of Turner Construction Co.'s structure and project work, the case gives a detailed description of its project management control system, the IOR system. In addition to explaining the mechanics of the IOR system, the case identifies the...
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Keywords:
Mission and Purpose;
Cost Management;
Performance Evaluation;
Risk Management;
Strategic Planning;
Planning;
Management Systems;
Management Teams;
Construction Industry
Simons, Robert L., and Hilary Weston. "Turner Construction Company: Project Management Control Systems." Harvard Business School Case 190-128, March 1990. (Revised October 1999.)
- Web
Courses - Private Capital Project
and real estate. The curriculum includes modules on alternative investments, various types of alternative investments and their characteristics, and methods for evaluating investment opportunities to enhance portfolio value. MBA Courses Entrepreneurial View Details
- Web
Curriculum - Case Method Project
century of federal law regulating corporate spending on elections, and key arguments on both sides of the case. Coverage: 1867-2010 (with focus on 2007-2010); history of campaign finance laws; First Amendment; Political Action Committees;...
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- November 1994 (Revised March 1995)
- Background Note
Capital Projects as Real Options: An Introduction
By: Timothy A. Luehrman
Introduces a framework for evaluating corporate investment projects as call options. Presumes readers are familiar with basic option pricing and basic capital budgeting rules. Explains the motivation for viewing projects as options; presents a mapping between a capital...
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Luehrman, Timothy A. "Capital Projects as Real Options: An Introduction." Harvard Business School Background Note 295-074, November 1994. (Revised March 1995.)
- June 2008 (Revised July 2008)
- Case
The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
By: Robert Steven Kaplan, Christopher Marquis and Brent Kazan
Marc Buoniconti is the co-founder of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, a nonprofit medical research organization. The project was founded in 1985 by Marc and his father Nick, a former Hall of Fame football player, when Marc suffered a spinal cord injury. In 2007,...
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Keywords:
Investment;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Health Testing and Trials;
Leadership;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Mission and Purpose;
Research and Development;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Health Industry;
Miami
Kaplan, Robert Steven, Christopher Marquis, and Brent Kazan. "The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis." Harvard Business School Case 408-003, June 2008. (Revised July 2008.)
- January 2001 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
BP Amoco (B): Financing Development of the Caspian Oil Fields
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane
British Petroleum and Amoco were the two largest members of the Azerbaijan International Oil Consortium (AIOC), an 11-firm consortium that was spending $10 billion to develop oil fields in the Caspian Sea. As of March 1999, AIOC had completed a $1.9 billion development...
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Keywords:
Investment;
Policy;
Capital Budgeting;
Project Finance;
Emerging Markets;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Financing and Loans;
Financial Strategy;
Mining Industry;
Energy Industry;
United Kingdom;
Europe
Esty, Benjamin C., and Michael Kane. "BP Amoco (B): Financing Development of the Caspian Oil Fields." Harvard Business School Case 201-067, January 2001. (Revised May 2010.)
- Web
Research - Private Capital Project
Victoria Ivashina and Alys Ferragamo 2023 Book Chapter Private Equity Financing By: Victoria Ivashina The goal of this chapter is to understand the common practices of PE funds’ structure and funding. The chapter covers three topics....
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- Web
Faculty - Private Capital Project
Faculty Faculty Co-Directors Victoria Ivashina Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration Victoria Ivashina is the Lovett-Learned Chaired Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School. She is a Research Associate at the...
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- October 2019
- Article
Returns to Talent and the Finance Wage Premium
By: Boris Vallée and Claire Célérier
To study the role of talent in finance workers' pay, we exploit a special feature of the French higher education system. Wage returns to talent have been significantly higher and have risen faster in finance since the 1980s than in other sectors. Both wage returns to...
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Vallée, Boris, and Claire Célérier. "Returns to Talent and the Finance Wage Premium." Review of Financial Studies 32, no. 10 (October 2019): 4005–4040.
- November 2002 (Revised October 2003)
- Case
Circles: Series D Financing
By: Paul W. Marshall and Kristin Lieb
Circles, a corporate concierge company on the verge of profitability, must make a decision whether to take a D-round venture capital despite ever-changing and ever-worsening terms. A four-year-old company with several major clients, it has met its business plan...
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Keywords:
Cost vs Benefits;
Financing and Loans;
Management Teams;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Negotiation Process;
Venture Capital;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Entrepreneurship;
Service Industry;
Consulting Industry;
Massachusetts
Marshall, Paul W., and Kristin Lieb. "Circles: Series D Financing." Harvard Business School Case 803-062, November 2002. (Revised October 2003.)
- October 2013 (Revised August 2015)
- Case
Outotec (A): Project Capture
By: Robert J. Dolan and Doug J. Chung
Outotec was a market leader in providing mining solutions to large mining companies. The company’s specialization and proprietary technology created value for its customers and helped the firm differentiate from its competitors. Yet, Outotec was not pricing or...
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Keywords:
Value-based Pricing;
Bargaining Power Of Buyers;
Marketing;
Segmentation;
Price;
Policy;
Sales;
Management;
Value Creation;
Mining Industry
Dolan, Robert J., and Doug J. Chung. "Outotec (A): Project Capture." Harvard Business School Case 514-064, October 2013. (Revised August 2015.)