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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online
sheets and income statements. 8 weeks, 6–8 hrs/weekApply by June 10$1,750Certificate Alternative Investments Professors Victoria Ivashina, Randolph Cohen, & Arthur Segel Take your finance knowledge to the...
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- February 2008 (Revised February 2009)
- Case
The International Finance Corporation's Grassroots Business Initiative
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Katharine Lee
Grassroots Business Initiative was set up to financially assist small enterprises engaged in creating social value. Three years later, Harold Rosen, its creator, wished to explore an alternative funding model to provide it with scale and sustainability.
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Keywords:
Social Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Microfinance;
Investment Funds;
Social Enterprise
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Katharine Lee. "The International Finance Corporation's Grassroots Business Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 508-063, February 2008. (Revised February 2009.)
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What is the Equity Size of Companies Receiving Private Equity in Latin America?: Evidence from Twenty-five Countries from 2002 to 2008
By: Roberto Charvel
This article reviews the equity size or value of the firms attracting private equity investments in Latin America over time. The information is on post money valuations.
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Keywords:
Alternative Assets;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Emerging Market;
Venture Capital;
Private Equity;
Latin America
Charvel, Roberto. "What is the Equity Size of Companies Receiving Private Equity in Latin America? Evidence from Twenty-five Countries from 2002 to 2008." Venture Equity Latin America 8, no. 20 (December 15, 2009).
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Finance - Faculty & Research
Finance Finance May 2014 Article Dynamics of Demand for Index Insurance: Evidence from a Long-Run Field Experiment By: Shawn A. Cole, Daniel Stein and Jeremy Tobacman This paper estimates how...
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- 1998
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Alternative Models of Uncertain Commodity Prices for Use with Modern Asset Pricing Methods
By: Malcolm Baker, E. S. Mayfield and John Parsons
This paper provides an introduction to alternative models of uncertain commodity prices. A model of commodity price movements is the engine around which any valuation methodology for commodity production projects is built, whether discounted cash flow (DCF) models or...
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Keywords:
Asset Pricing;
Goods and Commodities;
Price;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Valuation;
Production;
Projects;
Cash Flow
Baker, Malcolm, E. S. Mayfield, and John Parsons. "Alternative Models of Uncertain Commodity Prices for Use with Modern Asset Pricing Methods." Energy Journal 19, no. 1 (1998): 115–148.
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Alternatives to Bloomberg | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Add My Librarian Item Capital IQ and Refinitiv Workspace Excel plug-ins may be viable alternatives for Bloomberg API functionality. Datastream also offers fast downloads of market data. The table below can be used for finding View Details
- January 1982
- Article
The Returns and Risk of Alternative Put Option Portfolio Investment Strategies
By: Robert C. Merton, Myron S. Scholes and Matthew L. Gladstein
Merton, Robert C., Myron S. Scholes, and Matthew L. Gladstein. "The Returns and Risk of Alternative Put Option Portfolio Investment Strategies." Journal of Business 55 (January 1982): 183–242.
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
As waves of globalization wash across the business world, tremendous new opportunities for financing and investment present themselves to savvy enterprises. In a new casebook, HBS professor Mihir A. Desai discusses the numerous challenges...
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- 04 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Presenting…an Alternative to Company Presentations: Evercore Grabs Attention with Interactive Events
presentations for them to merely watch. The Takeda/Shire case Eventually, Walker and her team built their first interactive session around a crucial audience insight: “We recognized that most MBAs were career switchers – and that many of them had no experience with...
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- April 1998 (Revised July 1998)
- Teaching Note
RogersCasey Alternative Investments: Innovative Response to the Distribution Challenge TN
By: Josh Lerner
Teaching Note for (9-296-024).
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- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
& Poor's. European policymakers, in contrast, have sought to create new rules for the international system and empower international organizations, such as the EU, OECD, and IMF, to enforce them. French policymakers invented the doctrine of "managed...
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by Ann Cullen
- August 2015
- Article
Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices
By: Pol Antràs and C. Fritz Foley
This paper analyzes the financing terms that support international trade and sheds light on how these terms shape the impact of economic shocks on trade. Analysis of transaction-level data from a U.S.-based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily...
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Antràs, Pol, and C. Fritz Foley. "Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices." Journal of Political Economy 123, no. 4 (August 2015): 853–901. (Revised May 2014. Online Appendix.)
- January 1984
- Article
A Simulation Analysis of Alternative Pricing Strategies for Dynamic Environments
By: Robert J. Dolan
Researchers of the strategic implications of the well-known demand (e.g., adoption and diffusion) and supply (e.g., experience effects) dynamics have typically sought analytical solutions. Their success in this has been achieved partly by limiting the richness of the...
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Dolan, Robert J. "A Simulation Analysis of Alternative Pricing Strategies for Dynamic Environments." Journal of Business 57, no. 1 (January 1984).
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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online
factors, and measure and manage impact investments. 6 weeks, 5 hrs/weekApply by July 15$1,850Certificate Alternative Investments Professors Victoria Ivashina, Randolph Cohen, & Arthur Segel Take your finance...
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Research Research Invisible Primes: Fintech Lending with Alternative Data By: Marco Di Maggio, Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara & Don Carmichael MAR 2022 Will the use of alternative data to assess borrowers’...
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- April 1978
- Article
The Returns and Risk of Alternative Call Option Portfolio Investment Strategies
By: Robert C. Merton, Myron S. Scholes and Matthew L. Gladstein
Merton, Robert C., Myron S. Scholes, and Matthew L. Gladstein. "The Returns and Risk of Alternative Call Option Portfolio Investment Strategies." Journal of Business 51 (April 1978): 183–242.
- June 2022
- Case
PFA Pensions: The Climate Plus Product
By: Daniel Green, Victoria Ivashina and Alys Ferragamo
The case explores whether alternative investments play a unique role in achieving low carbon dioxide emissions at the portfolio level. This case is set in April of 2020 and follows Kasper Ahrndt Lorenzen, Chief Investment Officer, and Peter Tind Larsen, Head of...
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Keywords:
Carbon Emissions;
Carbon Footprint;
Alternative Assets;
Alternative Investment Vehicles;
Pension Fund Investing;
Private Equity;
Renewable Energy;
Investment Portfolio;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Environmental Sustainability;
Denmark
Green, Daniel, Victoria Ivashina, and Alys Ferragamo. "PFA Pensions: The Climate Plus Product." Harvard Business School Case 222-088, June 2022.
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (Q Group) for “Predicting Financial Crises.” Josh Lerner: Winner of the 2022 Doriot Award for the Best Private Equity Research Paper for “Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from View Details