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- Faculty Publications (106)
- March 2013
- Case
NovaStar Financial: A Short Seller's Battle
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Amy Kaser
The NovaStar case describes the challenges faced by short seller Marc Cohodes of hedge fund Rocker Partners as he tried to expose what he thought was widespread fraud in mortgage lender NovaStar Financial. The case is set in the time period from 2001 to 2007 and tracks...
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Keywords:
Short Selling;
Financial Accounting;
Financial Analysis;
Financial Analysts;
Valuation;
Business Analysis;
Financial Statement Analysis;
Financial Statements;
Securitization;
Securities Analysis;
Fraud;
Accounting Quality;
Accounting Red Flags;
Accounting Restatements;
Hedge Fund;
Hedge Funds;
Accounting Scandal;
Accounting Fraud;
Financial Crisis;
Financial Intermediaries;
Financial Firms;
Corporate Accountability;
Subprime Lending;
Mortgage Lending;
Accounting;
Accrual Accounting;
Fair Value Accounting;
Governance;
Governance Compliance;
Corporate Governance;
Governance Controls;
Financial Services Industry;
United States;
California
Srinivasan, Suraj, and Amy Kaser. "NovaStar Financial: A Short Seller's Battle." Harvard Business School Case 113-120, March 2013.
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Electricity - Business & Environment
Lecturer, Harvard Business School Gina HallHBS MBA 1986, Investment Director, The Carbon Trust “I’m slowing climate change by harnessing the power of financial institutions to make a positive impact through directing investment and View Details
- January 2010
- Case
Opportunities in Business and Life after Virgin Money: Asheesh Advani
Asheesh Advani is in an enviable position for a successful entrepreneur: he has sold his business and is trying to decide what to do with the next phase of his life. For the first two years after selling CircleLending—a pioneer in the person-to-person lending field—to...
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Chakravorti, Bhaskar, and Shirley Spence. "Opportunities in Business and Life after Virgin Money: Asheesh Advani." Harvard Business School Case 810-072, January 2010.
- 14 Dec 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
The State of Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation
- October 2014
- Case
CreditEase: Providing Credit and Financial Services for China's Underclass
By: Lena G. Goldberg, Paul Healy and Nancy Hua Dai
In 2013 Ning Tang, who in 2006 founded CreditEase as a broker of P2P loans to unbanked individuals and small businesses in China, confronts the challenges of rapid growth and expansion in a changing regulatory environment. CreditEase needs to develop technology to...
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Keywords:
P2P Lending;
HNW Products And Services;
Business Growth;
Business Start-ups;
Government Regulation;
Change Management;
Credit;
Microcredit;
Banking;
Innovation And Management;
Developing Countries And Economies;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Law;
Financing and Loans;
Change;
China
Goldberg, Lena G., Paul Healy, and Nancy Hua Dai. "CreditEase: Providing Credit and Financial Services for China's Underclass." Harvard Business School Case 315-027, October 2014.
- Web
Climate Impact - Business & Environment
and water, rather than fossil fuels, as feedstocks we can use clean electricity to produce all the organic compounds we need.” David Chan MBA 2018 | CCO, Head of Business Development, & Founding Team Member, FarmTogether “FarmTogether is...
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- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data will transform financial services and small-business lending long before they impact driverless cars, predicts Harvard Business School Senior Fellow...
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- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
scale, these alternative players have the potential to fundamentally change the way in which small businesses access capital, creating greater competition, price transparency, and a better customer experience. Emerging online players are...
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- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
businesses are also becoming more accessible. Financing through government-sponsored lending programs such as the 7(a) General Business Loan Guaranty program, the Certified...
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- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
didn't happen. Big companies with cash didn't spend it. Banks with cash didn't lend it. Small businesses didn't attract capital and thus didn't help reduce unemployment. Europeans were paralyzed by debt...
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by Staff
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
With COVID-19 cases growing worldwide, business leaders are scrambling to deal with a wide variety of problems, from slumping sales and stalling supply chains to keeping employees healthy and making sure they can continue working. We...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before launching Funding Societies, a crowdfunding platform for small businesses in Singapore and Indonesia, Kelvin Teo and Reynold Wijaya (both MBA 2016) visited major...
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Nancy Miller
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
INK: Big News for Small Business
spur a powerful transformation in access and opportunity. If we can foster an environment where innovation comes together with capital markets and lending and reduces the barriers and frictions in small View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
credit went unanswered. So when Mills left SBA to come to HBS, she did the research herself. The resulting 2014 working paper found that small business was experiencing a credit crunch, particularly in View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 07 Mar 2005
- What Do You Think?
Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?
business"? Do you agree with Harsh Sharan when he writes, "The debate over the issue itself will lend growing credence to an acceptance of management as the latest profession"? What do you think? Original Article Is View Details
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by James Heskett
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
Karen Gordon Mills served in President Barack Obama’s cabinet as head of the Small Business Administration (SBA) during the height of the Great Recession. “Back then, I thought small businesses were...
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Deborah Blagg
- Web
Impact Stories - Business & Environment
directing investment and lending to companies who are part of the solution.” George Hart MBA 2017 | Environmental Change and Ground-Level Impact "I’m passionate about the environment and interested in finding ways to contribute to...
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- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
capitalism"? The effect on the elite business school was, in Khurana's view, substantial. The forces described above have led to the hiring of faculty well-trained in economics and math, ready to do battle with issues and phenomena...
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by Jim Heskett
- February 2017
- Case
Eve Hall: The African American Investment Fund in Milwaukee
By: Steven Rogers and Alterrell Mills
The case highlights the role of minority chambers of commerce and the background of Eve Hall, a well-regarded multi-sector leader asked to revive Wisconsin's African-American chamber. This case study examines the lending options that a minority chamber of commerce...
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Keywords:
Business Organization;
Business Plan;
Change Management;
Demographics;
Diversity Characteristics;
Ethnicity Characteristics;
Race Characteristics;
Investment Fund;
Cost Of Capital;
Banks And Banking;
Micro Finance;
Interest Rates;
Business Or Company Management;
Management Styles;
Management Succession;
Mission And Purpose;
Organizational Culture;
Leadership Style;
Leadership Change;
Business And Community Relations;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Wealth And Poverty;
Organizations;
Diversity;
Ethnicity;
Race;
Small Business;
Entrepreneurship;
Financing and Loans;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Employment Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Service Industry;
United States;
Wisconsin
Rogers, Steven, and Alterrell Mills. "Eve Hall: The African American Investment Fund in Milwaukee." Harvard Business School Case 317-076, February 2017.
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Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies (Online Course)
By: Tarun Khanna
This business and management course takes an inter-disciplinary approach to understanding and solving complex social problems. You will learn about prior attempts to address these problems, identify points of opportunity for smart entrepreneurial efforts, and... View Details