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- Career Coach
Asher Kinyon
Asher looks forward to helping students understand and prepare for careers in the Technology and Investment Banking industries. Having spent time as an Investment View Details
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Arun Munthala
As the CFO of Finance Club, Arun can help point students to resources and opportunities available at HBS for preparing for interviews with investment banks and new job opportunities. Arun can also provide...
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- January 1994 (Revised November 2001)
- Background Note
Note on the Venture Leasing Industry, A
By: Josh Lerner
Provides an overview of venture leasing, an innovative financing mechanism that resembles both venture equity investments and bank lending.
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Keywords:
Finance
Lerner, Josh. "Note on the Venture Leasing Industry, A." Harvard Business School Background Note 294-069, January 1994. (Revised November 2001.)
- April 2011 (Revised March 2013)
- Supplement
BANEX and the No Pago Movement (B)
By: Shawn Cole and Baily Blair Kempner
This case examines Grassroots Capital's decision of whether or not to continue investing in a Bolivian microfinance bank that is suffering financial distress.
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Keywords:
Decisions;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Microfinance;
Investment;
Government and Politics;
Crisis Management;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Financial Services Industry;
Bolivia
Cole, Shawn, and Baily Blair Kempner. "BANEX and the No Pago Movement (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 211-102, April 2011. (Revised March 2013.)
- April 2011 (Revised March 2021)
- Case
BANEX and the No Pago Movement (A)
By: Shawn Cole and Baily Blair Kempner
This case examines Grassroots Capital's decision of whether or not to continue investing in a Bolivian microfinance bank that is suffering financial distress.
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Keywords:
Base Of The Pyramid;
Political Risk;
Microfinance;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Government and Politics;
Investment;
Risk Management;
Financial Services Industry;
Bolivia
Cole, Shawn, and Baily Blair Kempner. "BANEX and the No Pago Movement (A)." Harvard Business School Case 211-092, April 2011. (Revised March 2021.)
- January 2017 (Revised January 2019)
- Case
The Rise and Fall of Lehman Brothers
By: Stuart C. Gilson, Kristin Mugford and Sarah L. Abbott
With nearly $700 billion in assets, Lehman was the largest U.S. bankruptcy in history. In 2007, Lehman achieved record earnings of over $4 billion on revenues of $60 billion. By September 2008 the fourth largest investment bank in the world was bankrupt. How had a...
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Keywords:
Bankruptcy;
Financial Distress;
Accounting Policies;
Business Ethics;
Financial Reporting;
Volatility;
Judgments;
Financial Crisis;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Financial Liquidity;
Investment Banking;
Financial Management;
Financial Strategy;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Disclosure;
Corporate Governance;
Crisis Management;
Risk Management;
Failure;
Business and Government Relations;
Ethics;
Banking Industry;
New York (city, NY)
Gilson, Stuart C., Kristin Mugford, and Sarah L. Abbott. "The Rise and Fall of Lehman Brothers." Harvard Business School Case 217-041, January 2017. (Revised January 2019.)
- 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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- 21 Jan 2021
- Video
Hemendra Kothari
Hemendra Kothari, chairman of DSP Investment Managers in India, discusses how his bank has combined family ownership with professional values.
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Vikram Gandhi
Vikram S. Gandhi is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit. He has developed and teaches a new course, Sustainable Investing, in the Elective Curriculum of the MBA Program. He also teaches Leadership & Corporate Accountability and FIELD Global... View Details
Keywords:
financial services
- October 2012 (Revised February 2013)
- Case
Jim Johnson's Re-election to the Goldman Sachs Board
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Kelly Baker
The case presents the opposition by a leading institutional investor in Goldman Sachs to the re-election of Jim Johnson to the board of directors of the company. The investor, Sequoia Fund, opposes the re-election citing Jim Johnson's prior track record as the CEO of...
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Keywords:
Board Of Directors;
Corporate Governance;
Director Elections;
Goldman Sachs;
Reputation;
Institutional Investing;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Corporate Accountability;
Banking Industry;
New York (city, NY)
Srinivasan, Suraj, and Kelly Baker. "Jim Johnson's Re-election to the Goldman Sachs Board." Harvard Business School Case 113-050, October 2012. (Revised February 2013.)
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Could algorithms help create a better venture capitalist?
- Career Coach
Alejandro Maldonado
Alejandro (HBS '08) has spent most of his career in the areas of direct investing and strategy, with a recent focus on human capital leadership and development. He has had experience in investment View Details
Eva J. Sudol
Eva Sudol is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance Unit at HBS, teaching Finance 1 in the required curriculum of the MBA program. She is also a Retired Partner at the Capital Group, a global investment management company, where she worked from 1994 – 2023 as an... View Details
- Career Coach
Mandy Xu
serving the client – and is happy to share her takeaways. She welcomes conversations with students looking for the right career fit post-MBA and enjoys dialogue around personal values and fulfillment. To book an appointment, please send Mandy an email. Work Experience:...
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- July 2002 (Revised November 2002)
- Case
Crucial Conversations
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Vineeta Vijayraghavan
Todd McKenna, a third-year associate at an investment banking firm, confronts his boss. His boss had told him he would be the top paid associate at the firm, and McKenna finds out that this isn't true. He approaches his boss to find out why he was lied to.
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Keywords:
Interpersonal Communication;
Investment Banking;
Executive Compensation;
Employee Relationship Management;
Rank and Position;
Banking Industry
DeLong, Thomas J., and Vineeta Vijayraghavan. "Crucial Conversations." Harvard Business School Case 403-027, July 2002. (Revised November 2002.)
- 16 Aug 2010
- News
Goldman Undercuts Rivals in GM IPO as It Loses Top Role
- January 2000 (Revised September 2000)
- Case
Casablanca Finance Group
Examines the founding and development of an investment bank in Morocco. Two Moroccan expatriates return from Paris and enter the brokerage business. Over the next six years they build the leading financial services firm in the country. Concludes with a series of...
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Kennedy, Robert E., and Ismail A Douiri. "Casablanca Finance Group." Harvard Business School Case 700-063, January 2000. (Revised September 2000.)
- Career Coach
Lobna Dawoud
During her RC summer, Lobna interned at an investment bank and specialized in Financial Institutions Group. She is passionate about helping students with career visioning, setting a recruitment strategy,...
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- February 1992 (Revised September 1995)
- Case
Goldman, Sachs & Co.: Nikkei Put Warrants--1989
By: Peter Tufano
Japanese financial institutions' willingness to sell put options on the Nikkei Stock Average provides investment banks with the raw material from which to create a security that would allow U.S. investors to bet on falls in the Japanese Stock Market. The investment...
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Keywords:
Debt Securities;
Investment Banking;
Product Design;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Japan;
United States
Tufano, Peter. "Goldman, Sachs & Co.: Nikkei Put Warrants--1989." Harvard Business School Case 292-113, February 1992. (Revised September 1995.)