Finance
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- September 2023
- Case
Cost of Capital at DraftKings
By: Malcolm Baker, Sebastian Hillenbrand and James Barnett- September 2023
- Case
Cost of Capital at DraftKings
By: Malcolm Baker, Sebastian Hillenbrand and James Barnett -
- September 2023
- Case
Honest Jobs: A Path to Redemption
By: Paul A. Gompers and Jeffrey BarkasFounded by a formerly incarcerated job seeker, Honest Jobs' mission is to be the hub where people with criminal records come to build careers and employers come to find great talent. Honest Jobs faced early challenges as a two-sided platform for justice-involved job seekers and employers, but by 2022, the organization had partnered with 1,200+ employers and supported 40,000+ job seekers who were reintegrating with society. As 2023 approached, founder and CEO Harley Blakeman looked to raise a Series A round to supplement the $3M+ that had been raised in prior rounds. The decision Blakeman faced was whether to pursue impact-oriented VC firms or traditional firms and how much money to raise given hiring needs and expansion plans.
- September 2023
- Case
Honest Jobs: A Path to Redemption
By: Paul A. Gompers and Jeffrey BarkasFounded by a formerly incarcerated job seeker, Honest Jobs' mission is to be the hub where people with criminal records come to build careers and employers come to find great talent. Honest Jobs faced early challenges as a two-sided platform for justice-involved job seekers and employers, but by 2022, the organization had partnered with 1,200+...
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- September 2023
- Case
Diamond Standard
By: Lauren H. Cohen, Zhaoheng Gong and Grace HeadingerCormac Kinney, Founder and CEO of Diamond Standard, was on a mission to transform the U.S. diamond market through unlocking the precious gems as market-traded assets. As a serial FinTech entrepreneur, he hoped to add an additional service to his vault: Carats. The commodity currency would be backed by a fungible resource, being the first in its field to have a physical-digital combination. Following the recent crypto-market crash, Kinney wondered if this was the right opportunity to launch his product. Although Kinney saw Carats as the best of both gold and other decentralized currencies, his advisors were wary of the potential regulatory risks that could ensue, in addition to the current dreary landscape of the crypto-market. Should Diamond Standard pursue Kinney’s vision of Carats, or focus its limited resources on other diamond-backed financial products?
- September 2023
- Case
Diamond Standard
By: Lauren H. Cohen, Zhaoheng Gong and Grace HeadingerCormac Kinney, Founder and CEO of Diamond Standard, was on a mission to transform the U.S. diamond market through unlocking the precious gems as market-traded assets. As a serial FinTech entrepreneur, he hoped to add an additional service to his vault: Carats. The commodity currency would be backed by a fungible resource, being the first in its...
About the Unit
Our strategy is to assemble and nurture a faculty whose interests and skills complement each other, and who work well together:
a) to produce a broad range of finance-related research that is published in top-tier scientific and practitioner journals, and that addresses issues of present and future importance to managers (including regulators and policy makers);
b) to develop highly-relevant and intellectually rigorous MBA and executive education courses; and
c) to mentor future academics through the Business Economics doctoral program.
Our applied focus and access to business organizations are major advantages which are reinforced by our students and our case-based approach. We have a faculty with broad expertise, and we have resources, field contacts, and institutional support, all of which we can leverage to do richer work and be more productive than we could at other institutions.
Recent Publications
Cost of Capital at DraftKings
- September 2023 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Honest Jobs: A Path to Redemption
- September 2023 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Diamond Standard
- September 2023 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Raya Partners: Profitability and Purpose
- August 2023 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Viking Global Investors: Public Heritage, Private Opportunities
- August 2023 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Italy at a Crossroads
- August 2023 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Targeting, Personalization, and Engagement in an Agricultural Advisory Service
- 2023 |
- Working Paper |
- Faculty Research
Harvard Business Publishing
Seminars & Conferences
- 27 Sep 2023