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- May 2009 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
Going to the Oracle: Goldman Sachs, September 2008
By: Clayton S. Rose and David Lane
On September 23, 2008, in the midst of an historic crisis in the U.S. financial markets, Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs. Goldman CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, said: "We are pleased that given our longstanding relationship, Warren...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Financial Crisis;
Capital Structure;
Financial Liquidity;
Financial Markets;
Investment;
Performance Capacity;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Rose, Clayton S., and David Lane. "Going to the Oracle: Goldman Sachs, September 2008." Harvard Business School Case 309-069, May 2009. (Revised June 2011.)
- May 1968 (Revised January 1992)
- Case
Graybar Syndications
A potential investor evaluates a proposed offering—a major office building in downtown Manhattan.
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Keywords:
Buildings and Facilities;
Investment;
Construction;
City;
Valuation;
Real Estate Industry;
Construction Industry;
New York (city, NY)
Poorvu, William J. "Graybar Syndications." Harvard Business School Case 313-324, May 1968. (Revised January 1992.)
- October 2009 (Revised January 2010)
- Case
The University of Notre Dame Endowment
By: Andre F. Perold and Paul Michael Buser
The Endowment Model of Investing, which was based on creating high risk-adjusted performance through diversification, a long time horizon, top-notch outside managers, and illiquid investments, had served Notre Dame and other large universities well over the past...
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Keywords:
Financial Crisis;
Higher Education;
Asset Management;
Private Equity;
Financial Liquidity;
Investment;
Risk Management;
Performance Evaluation;
Education Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Perold, Andre F., and Paul Michael Buser. "The University of Notre Dame Endowment." Harvard Business School Case 210-007, October 2009. (Revised January 2010.)
- Article
R&D: A Small Contribution to Productivity Growth
By: Diego Comin
In this paper I evaluate the contribution of R&D investments to productivity growth. The basis for the analysis are the free entry condition and the fact that most R&D innovations are embodied. Free entry yields a relationship between the resources devoted to R&D and...
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Keywords:
Research and Development;
Investment;
Interest Rates;
Performance Productivity;
Technological Innovation;
Perspective;
United States
Comin, Diego. "R&D: A Small Contribution to Productivity Growth." Journal of Economic Growth 9, no. 4 (December 2004). (This paper was featured in BusinessWeek and Il Corriere Della Sera.)
- December 2008 (Revised March 2009)
- Case
Rosetree Mortgage Opportunity Fund
By: Victoria Ivashina and Andre F. Perold
In December 2008, in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Rosetree Capital Management was evaluating the purchase of a pool of U.S. residential mortgages. The firm had formed an investment vehicle to acquire troubled residential mortgages...
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Keywords:
Financial Crisis;
Borrowing and Debt;
Mortgages;
Investment;
Housing;
Valuation;
United States
Ivashina, Victoria, and Andre F. Perold. "Rosetree Mortgage Opportunity Fund." Harvard Business School Case 209-088, December 2008. (Revised March 2009.)
- January 2007
- Exercise
Multifactor Models
By: Malcolm P. Baker
Students evaluate the performance of four mutual funds and compute the cost of capital for two companies using fixed benchmarks, the CAPM, and a multifactor model of returns.
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Keywords:
Cost of Capital;
Performance Evaluation;
Business Model;
Investment Funds;
Investment Return;
Motivation and Incentives;
Markets
Baker, Malcolm P. "Multifactor Models." Harvard Business School Exercise 207-056, January 2007.
- 2008
- Casebook
The Rules of Globalization: Case Book
By: Rawi Abdelal
This is a book about the politics of the global economy — about how firms prosper by understanding those politics, or fail by misunderstanding them. Understanding the politics of globalization may once have been a luxury; it is now, for most high-level managers, simply...
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Keywords:
Trade;
International Finance;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
Business and Government Relations
Abdelal, Rawi, ed. The Rules of Globalization: Case Book. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2008.
- August 2018
- Case
Enfoca: Private Equity in Peru
By: Victoria Ivashina and Jeffrey Boyar
This case follows Enfoca, Peru’s largest local private equity firm and its portfolio company Maestro, a leading player in Peru’s hardware retail market. Peru’s GDP growth between 2008 and 2014 was the highest of any Latin American country. Growth of the Peruvian middle...
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Ivashina, Victoria, and Jeffrey Boyar. "Enfoca: Private Equity in Peru." Harvard Business School Case 219-030, August 2018.
- 2008
- Working Paper
Resolving Information Asymmetries in Markets: The Role of Certified Management Programs
Firms and regulators are increasingly relying on voluntary mechanisms to signal and infer quality of difficult-to-observe management practices. Prior evaluations of voluntary management programs have focused on those that lack verification mechanisms and have found...
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Keywords:
Management Practices and Processes;
Information;
Standards;
Performance Improvement;
Programs;
Environmental Sustainability;
Manufacturing Industry;
United States
Toffel, Michael W. "Resolving Information Asymmetries in Markets: The Role of Certified Management Programs." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-023, December 2008. (October 2006.)
- January 2008
- Article
Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things
By: Clayton M. Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman and Willy C. Shih
Most companies aren't half as innovative as their senior executives want them to be (or as their marketing claims suggest they are). What's stifling innovation? There are plenty of usual suspects, but the authors finger three financial tools as key accomplices....
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Keywords:
Investment;
Innovation and Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Prejudice and Bias;
Value Creation
Christensen, Clayton M., Stephen P. Kaufman, and Willy C. Shih. "Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things." Special Issue on HBS Centennial. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 1 (January 2008).
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
change is creating, including: Embracing new climate risk terms Investment firms are evaluating climate risk primarily along two distinct dimensions. They’re considering “physical risks,” such as the...
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- March 2015 (Revised May 2018)
- Case
JPMorgan Chase: Tapping an Overlooked Talent Pool
By: Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly
By the spring of 2014, the pilot had come to an end for JPMorgan Chase's ReEntry Program, a program designed for women coming back to the workforce after a period of time away. Mary Callahan Erdoes, CEO of Asset Management, and her team had to evaluate whether or not...
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Keywords:
Women;
Training;
Leadership;
Motherhood;
Talent and Talent Management;
Experience and Expertise;
Diversity;
Gender;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Human Capital;
Management Practices and Processes;
Organizational Culture;
Programs;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Groysberg, Boris, and Katherine Connolly. "JPMorgan Chase: Tapping an Overlooked Talent Pool." Harvard Business School Case 415-066, March 2015. (Revised May 2018.)
- June 2018
- Teaching Note
ALAC International
By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
ALAC International (ALAC) was awarded the U.S. distributorship of di-isononyl phthalate (DINP) which provided ALAC an opportunity to increase its sales and profits. But the opportunity required a significant additional investment in working capital. The DINP, shipped...
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- 04 Apr 2016
- HBS Seminar
Shelley Correll, Stanford University
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
as the team evaluate the metrics from YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Ford's website, and assess whether or not they are doing everything necessary to make the Fiesta a success with a new target market. Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- January 2001 (Revised June 2004)
- Case
PetroChina
By: Alexander Dyck, Yasheng Huang and David Lane
In March 2000, plans for the initial public offering of shares in PetroChina were proceeding on schedule, and institutional investors were evaluating the deal. PetroChina was China's largest oil and gas company and an attractive play on China's continued economic...
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Dyck, Alexander, Yasheng Huang, and David Lane. "PetroChina." Harvard Business School Case 701-040, January 2001. (Revised June 2004.)
- March 2009 (Revised November 2009)
- Supplement
Washington Mutual's Covered Bonds Courseware
By: Daniel Baird Bergstresser, Robin Greenwood and James Quinn
Washington Mutual issues 6 billion Euro of covered bonds in 2006. The objective of the case is to ask whether these bonds are mispriced in late 2008. The case is set in September 20008, and Washington Mutual is facing considerable distress due to mounting losses on its...
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- March 2009 (Revised November 2016)
- Case
Washington Mutual's Covered Bonds
By: Daniel Baird Bergstresser, Robin Greenwood and James Quinn
Washington Mutual issued 6 billion euro of covered bonds in 2006. The objective of the case is to ask whether these bonds are mispriced in late 2008. The case is set in September 2008, and Washington Mutual is facing considerable distress due to mounting losses in its...
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Keywords:
Capital Markets;
Financial Liquidity;
Bonds;
Mortgages;
Price;
Banking Industry;
United States
Bergstresser, Daniel Baird, Robin Greenwood, and James Quinn. "Washington Mutual's Covered Bonds." Harvard Business School Case 209-093, March 2009. (Revised November 2016.)
- October 2013
- Case
Oaktree and the Restructuring of CIT Group (A)
By: Victoria Ivashina and David Scharfstein
CIT's prepackaged bankruptcy marked the first time a major financial institution was able to successfully restructure and emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, challenging conventional views that a financial firm could not survive bankruptcy proceedings as a going...
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Ivashina, Victoria, and David Scharfstein. "Oaktree and the Restructuring of CIT Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 214-035, October 2013.
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
U.S., and an experimental exercise) that are consistent with the model. Working PapersWhen Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint versus Separate Evaluation Authors:Iris Bohnet, Alexandra van Geen, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We examine...
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Carmen Nobel