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- 04 Apr 2013
- News
One Weird Trick to Save $345 Billion
- 14 Dec 2012
- News
Getting down to business
- February 1991 (Revised November 1993)
- Exercise
Valuation and Discounted Cash Flows
A set of five exercises in valuation of simple fixed income securities. No capital budgeting. Students use present value analysis to compute discounted cash flows. Situations/concepts covered include: future value; mortgage payment and repayment; calculating implicit...
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Finance
"Valuation and Discounted Cash Flows." Harvard Business School Exercise 291-028, February 1991. (Revised November 1993.)
- 04 Sep 2018
- News
HBS Announces 2018 Goldsmith Fellows
- July 2023 (Revised August 2023)
- Case
Revenue Recognition at Stride Funding: Making Sense of Revenues for a Fintech Startup
By: Paul M. Healy and Jung Koo Kang
The case explores the challenges of revenue recognition and financial reporting for Stride Funding (Stride), a fintech startup that has disrupted the student loan market. Stride leveraged proprietary machine learning and financial models to underwrite alternative...
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Keywords:
Revenue Recognition;
Financial Reporting;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Business Startups;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Governance Compliance;
Accrual Accounting;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Healy, Paul M., and Jung Koo Kang. "Revenue Recognition at Stride Funding: Making Sense of Revenues for a Fintech Startup." Harvard Business School Case 124-015, July 2023. (Revised August 2023.)
- 2014
- Working Paper
Islam, Inequality, and Pre-Industrial Comparative Development
By: Stelios Michalopoulos, Alireza Naghavi and Giovanni Prarolo
This study explores the interaction between trade and geography in shaping the Islamic economic doctrine and in turn the comparative development of the Muslim world. We build a model where an unequal distribution of land quality in presence of trade opportunities...
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Islam;
Inequality In Land Quality;
Wealth Accumulation;
Public Good Investment;
Conflict;
Wealth;
Geography;
Religion;
Trade
Michalopoulos, Stelios, Alireza Naghavi, and Giovanni Prarolo. "Islam, Inequality, and Pre-Industrial Comparative Development." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-076, March 2015.
- December 2004
- Supplement
Basic Statistics from the World Bank's World Development Indicators, 2004
By: David A. Moss, Sarah A. Brennan and Peter Epstein
Provides basic economic and social indicators for 145 countries, drawn from the World Bank's World Development Indicators (2004). The data include: population, land area, GNP per capita, real GDP growth, life expectancy, adult illiteracy, fertility rate, access to...
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Moss, David A., Sarah A. Brennan, and Peter Epstein. "Basic Statistics from the World Bank's World Development Indicators, 2004." Harvard Business School Supplement 705-022, December 2004.
- November 2002 (Revised March 2006)
- Case
ApproTEC Kenya: Technologies to Fight Poverty and Create Wealth
ApproTEC markets a range of technologies to improve the income of subsistence farmers and other small-scale entrepreneurs in East Africa. Having achieved considerable success in its first eight years, the two founders/entrepreneurs are seeking ways to scale the impact...
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Keywords:
Social Enterprise;
Development Economics;
Poverty;
Information Technology;
Entrepreneurship;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Kenya;
Africa
Rangan, V. Kasturi. "ApproTEC Kenya: Technologies to Fight Poverty and Create Wealth." Harvard Business School Case 503-007, November 2002. (Revised March 2006.)
- 04 Jul 2019
- News
Old Money: Should the wealthy pay more tax?
- 06 Dec 2017
- News
Largest Mass. Companies Are Mostly Silent On GOP Tax Plans
HBX: Sustainable Business Strategy
Climate change. Income inequality. Institutional collapse. Sustainable Business Strategy is a flexible, 3 week, highly-interactive online course designed to provide participants with the tools they need to build thriving businesses while... View Details
- March 2022 (Revised July 2022)
- Case
Climate Action in Miami
The Miami metropolitan area is a global epicenter of climate risk from heat and sea level rise, but leaders have only recently mobilized for action to respond to this systemic challenge. Resilient 305 began a collaboration across officials in the cities of Miami and...
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Keywords:
Climate Change;
Climate Impact;
Change;
Leadership;
Cross-sector Collaboration;
Coalition;
Ecosystem;
Greenhouse Gas Emissions;
Green Business;
Adaptation;
Environmental Sustainability;
Infrastructure;
Green Technology;
Environmental Management;
Miami
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Climate Action in Miami." Harvard Business School Case 322-101, March 2022. (Revised July 2022.)
- April 2013 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Justin Anson Distillery, Inc.
A distiller increases whiskey production and income declines because of accounting methods in use. Questions are raised regarding the treatment of expenditures which can be classified as production, inventory, or period costs. The necessary aging process raises added...
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Vancil, Richard F. "Justin Anson Distillery, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 113-122, April 2013. (Revised April 2013.)
- 08 Jul 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Truth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor
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by Christina Fong & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
- 11 Sep 2017
- News
If You Want to Feel Better, Spend Money on Saving Time
- Web
Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online
craft successful business strategy. 8 weeks, 6-8 hrs/weekApply by September 9$1,850Certificate Financial Accounting Professor V.G. Narayanan In this accounting fundamentals course, discover what's behind the numbers in financial statements, such as balance sheets and...
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- 1980
- Article
Consumer Impulse Purchase and Credit Card Usage: An Empirical Examination Using the Log Linear Model
By: Rohit Deshpandé and S. Krishnan
Most of the work in impulse purchase behavior has investigated the association of socioeconomic variables and unplanned purchases with equivocal results. This paper examines the interrelationship between impulse purchases, credit card usage, cost of items bought, and...
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- April 1994 (Revised October 2002)
- Case
Frito-Lay, Inc.: A Strategic Transition 1980-1986
Describes the environmental, organizational, and information technology context in the late 1970s that led to the development of the initial vision for change and the actions taken to implement that vision. The case ends with the abrupt departure of the CEO as profits...
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Keywords:
Transition;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Information Technology;
Management Succession;
Management Teams;
Business Strategy;
Food and Beverage Industry
Applegate, Lynda M. "Frito-Lay, Inc.: A Strategic Transition 1980-1986." Harvard Business School Case 194-107, April 1994. (Revised October 2002.)
- October 1995 (Revised January 1999)
- Case
Western Chemical Corporation: Divisional Performance Measurement (A)
By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Roger Atherton
The president and controller of Western Chemical Corp. are discussing the best way to measure and report performance of foreign subsidiaries. One subsidiary is a joint venture with its own borrowing capacity; another is wholly owned; and a third is wholly owned and...
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Bruns, William J., Jr., and Roger Atherton. "Western Chemical Corporation: Divisional Performance Measurement (A)." Harvard Business School Case 196-079, October 1995. (Revised January 1999.)
- 03 Sep 2019
- News