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Case Problems in Finance
The leading volume of finance cases used worldwide, Case Problems in Finance presents real business situations that pose debatable alternative courses of action. The cases contain problems that can be narrowed but not always settled by the usual techniques... View Details
The Wisdom of Finance
The finance industry is widely thought of as being morally suspect. Even those who work in finance tend to compartmentalize between their personal lives and how they get ahead professionally. Mihir Desai argues that not only is this preconception completely false...
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- January 2002 (Revised August 2006)
- Background Note
New Venture Financing
By: Howard H. Stevenson and Michael J. Roberts
Describes the various alternative financing alternatives available to new ventures. A rewritten version of an earlier note.
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Stevenson, Howard H., and Michael J. Roberts. "New Venture Financing." Harvard Business School Background Note 802-131, January 2002. (Revised August 2006.)
- September 2012 (Revised September 2014)
- Case
Doing Business in Malaysia
By: C. Fritz Foley, Michael Shih-Ta Chen and Keith Chi-Ho Wong
This case focuses on the current business environment in Malaysia as of 2012 by introducing the main economic, political and cultural aspects of the country for those interested in doing business there. The advantages and challenges of investing and doing business in...
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- September 2012 (Revised September 2015)
- Case
Doing Business in Argentina
By: Rawi Abdelal, Amy C. Edmondson, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Gustavo A. Herrero and Regina Garcia-Cuellar
An imaginary oil company is invited to participate in a potentially lucrative investment in a large oil field just as the Argentine government is taking actions that seem to jeopardize private property rights within its borders. This case highlights the risks and...
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- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Technology is revolutionising supply-chain finance
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Why Finance Needs More Humanity, and Why Humanity Needs Finance
- 22 Jun 2015
- News
Why You Should Consider Online Lenders to Finance Your Business
- March 2006
- Module Note
Financing Decisions within the Firm
By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs
Describes a core module in the International Finance course at Harvard Business School. The module focuses on the financial and managerial issues that confront managers who make financial decisions within multinational firms: how subsidiaries should be financed and...
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Keywords:
Decisions;
International Finance;
Taxation;
Business Subsidiaries;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Framework;
Performance Evaluation;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
Desai, Mihir A., and Kathleen Luchs. "Financing Decisions within the Firm." Harvard Business School Module Note 206-124, March 2006.
- 2018
- Other Teaching and Training Material
Finance Reading: Corporate Governance
By: John Coates and Suraj Srinivasan
Core Curriculum Readings in Finance cover the fundamental concepts, theories, and frameworks in finance. This reading presents an overview of corporate governance, focusing on for-profit businesses that are privately owned by dispersed investors—that is, not owned by a...
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Coates, John, and Suraj Srinivasan. "Finance Reading: Corporate Governance." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Boston: Harvard Business Publishing 5209, 2018.
- 2014
- Working Paper
Financing Risk and Innovation
By: Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
We provide a model of investment into new ventures that demonstrates why some places, times, and industries should be associated with a greater degree of experimentation by investors. Investors respond to financing risk―a forecast of limited future funding―by modifying...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Venture Capital;
Financial Markets;
Financing and Loans;
Investment;
Price Bubble;
Innovation and Invention;
Technological Innovation;
Risk and Uncertainty
Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Financing Risk and Innovation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-013, August 2010. (Revised March 2014.)
- September 2012 (Revised September 2015)
- Case
Doing Business in India
By: Andy Zelleke, Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Saloni Chaturvedi
The case is set in August 2012—a time when India was undergoing policy stasis as several key reforms were stalled and the government faced allegations of misallocation of coal production licenses. The first part of the case provides a brief background on India's...
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- 9 AM – 9 AM EST, 07 Nov 2018
HBX Leading with Finance
Gain a deep understanding of the principles of finance a toolkit for making smart financial decisions and the confidence to communicate those decisions to key stakeholders. Program Dates: November 7, 2018 - December 19, 2018
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New Interest in Incentive Financing
By: Samuel Hayes
The article presents the findings of a study on incentive financings as they apply to institutional investors, particularly life insurance company investors. The author made contact with investment officers in 29 insurance companies, and have collected a considerable...
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Hayes, Samuel. "New Interest in Incentive Financing." Harvard Business Review 44, no. 4 (July–August 1966): 99–112. (Reprinted: Brigham, Earl, Ricks, R. B., Readings in the Essentials of Managerial Finance. Holt, Rhinehart and Winston, 1968.)
- April 22, 2015
- Editorial
One Way To Help Greece Recover: Help Greek Companies Obtain Financing
By: George Serafeim
Keywords:
Europe;
European Union;
Eurozone;
Politics;
Government;
Government And Business;
Competitiveness;
Country Analysis;
Country Strategy;
Finance;
Competition;
Financing and Loans;
Financial Crisis;
Business and Government Relations;
European Union;
Greece
Serafeim, George. "One Way To Help Greece Recover: Help Greek Companies Obtain Financing." Forbes.com (April 22, 2015).
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
And consumer finance businesses are the touch points between the financial system and millions of consumers. Despite its size and importance, we had ignored this sector almost entirely in our curriculum. Q:...
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- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Climate Finance SIP
finance for proven technologies and new business models. Based on student feedback about interest in this topic area, Lynn Schenk, Associate Director of the Business &...
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- Research Summary
Islamic Financing Practices
By: Samuel L. Hayes
Samuel L. Hayes III is examining (with faculty of Harvard University's Law
School and Center for Middle Eastern Studies) Islamic banking and
investment practices. Because the Koran prohibits the payment of fixed
interest and guarantees on funds invested either with...
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