Global Finance

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Tesla is setting new standards in renewable financing with its latest solar asset-backed securitization (ABS) deal, earning an unprecedented AAA rating. According to Soares, this deal, backed by high-quality assets and Tesla’s unique direct-to-consumer approach, could redefine ABS financing standards in renewable energy.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The sale is part of an ongoing initiative to stabilize finances and protect Boeing’s investment-grade credit rating while minimizing shareholder dilution. The financing structure lets the company count bonds as equity, hopefully eschewing concerns about its debt load, a critical factor in maintaining its credit rating.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Program on Corporate Governance at Harvard Law School (HLS) is seeking applications for Corporate Governance Post Doctoral Fellowships from highly qualified candidates with graduate training in finance, economics, or accounting. Applications are considered on a rolling basis, and the start date is flexible.

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Global Finance

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Bank of China (BOC) continues to play a pivotal role in green finance. BOC actively participates in international green finance collaboration. As of June, 2024, the bank has established 389 sub-branches featured with green finance services.

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Global Finance

APRIL 7, 2025

Embedded finance is revolutionizing global trade, making financing as simple as a click, and empowering SMEs previously locked out of traditional systems. Imagine a world where accessing trade finance is as simple as clicking a button, woven seamlessly into the fabric of online commerce. billion by 2033, up from $63.2

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Global Finance

JUNE 9, 2025

Best Financial Innovation Labs 2025 Read Here The post Reimagining AI’s Role In Finance appeared first on Global Finance Magazine. .” Let’s take look at innovations arising at other fintech labs around the world.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JANUARY 4, 2025

Accurately measuring sustainability ROI can be challenging: corporate sustainability teams should start the process by aligning their language with that of the corporate finance function. Discussions on the value of sustainability will continue, making it essential for companies to measure sustainability ROI.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 5, 2025

Key Takeaways: Asset managers frequently commit to collect and report on the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated by their portfolio companies, often referred to as portfolio or financed emissions.

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Finance 213

Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 9, 2025

Spalt (University of Mannheim), on Monday, June 9, 2025 Editor's Note: Zwetelina Iliewa is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Department of Economics at the University of Bonn, Elisabeth Kempf is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Oliver G. This post is based on their recent paper.

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Finance 174

Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In 2003, a group of approximately two dozen lawyers specializing in venture capital (VC) finance embarked on a mission to standardize the financing documents utilized by VC firms for investments in US-based startups. For this reason, central to the NVCA financing documents is the NVCA model charter. more…)

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Harvard Corporate Governance

AUGUST 13, 2024

This post is based on their recent article published in the Journal of Financial Economics.

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Mckinsey and Company

APRIL 24, 2025

AI and new technologies present a unique opportunity for consumer finance entities. By embracing them, lenders can unleash new levels of efficiency, personalization, and customer engagement.

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Finance Technology Banking 112

Harvard Corporate Governance

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

In this report, we highlight the top five priorities—cybersecurity, enterprise risk management, finance and internal audit talent, compliance with laws and regulations, and finance transformation—that were identified by audit committee members who participated in the survey. more…)

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Global Finance

MAY 1, 2025

However, there was variation in individual IFIs performances; and many winners of Global Finances Best Islamic Financial Institutions 2025 achieved growth and profitability beyond their peers. Kuwait Finance House (KFH) won as the World’s Best Islamic Financial Institution for 2025.

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Banking Finance Marketability Equity 83

Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 13, 2023

Gözlügöl is an Advanced Researcher of the Cluster Law and Finance, Julian Greth is a Ph.D. Student and a Junior Researcher of the Cluster Law and Finance, and Tobias H. In particular, financial history shows various boom-and-bust periods in private market activity (see Kaplan & Strömberg, 2009 ). more…)

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Global Finance

JANUARY 2, 2025

Baruch Lev is Philip Bardes professor emeritus of Accounting and Finance, Kaufman Management Center, Leonard N. They discuss their findings, and the lessons they drew for would be acquirers, with Global Finance. Global Finance: Why did you write this book now? Stern School of Business at New York University.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JANUARY 20, 2025

Starks (The University of Texas at Austin), and Moritz Wagner (University of Canterbury), on Monday, January 20, 2025 Editor's Note: Jedrzej Bialkowski is a Professor of Finance at University of Canterbury, Laura T. This post is based on their recent paper.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JANUARY 17, 2024

Lewent (1972) and Mark Shapiro Career Development Assistant Professor of Finance and an Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. The academic literature on entrepreneurial finance has largely treated investors and entrepreneurs as distinct identities. This post is based on their recent paper.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This post is based on their working paper.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MARCH 27, 2024

Time to rethink retirement When my mom passed away in 2012, my dad started to decline quickly, and my brother and I had to go through my parents’ bills and finances. Because going over their finances showed me something about my own career in finance. Fink’s annual letter to investors. Why am I writing about my parents?

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Harvard Corporate Governance

AUGUST 14, 2024

Posted by Zacharias Sautner (University of Zurich), on Wednesday, August 14, 2024 Editor's Note: Zacharias Sautner is a Professor of Sustainable Finance at the University of Zurich. However, the link between biodiversity and finance has received little attention by academics.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan School of Management, and Yang Sun is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Brandeis International Business School. This post is based on their recent paper. Households in the U.S.

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Global Finance

APRIL 7, 2025

According to a report from PwCone of the biggest accounting firms that advises on these matterssports organizations are turning to institutional investors to provide capital to finance growth projects, such as stadium renovations, transitions to direct-to-consumer business models, and international expansion.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 11, 2024

I like to make a difference : I do not expect my students to agree with all or even much of what I have to say, but I would like to think that I sometimes change the way they think about finance, and perhaps even affect their choice of professions.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

AUGUST 8, 2024

In The Credit Markets Go Dark , we describe how private credit funds are reshaping corporate governance and corporate finance and offer new data capturing its meteoric rise. trillion in 2023.

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Marketability Corporate Finance Equity Finance 240

Harvard Corporate Governance

JANUARY 25, 2023

For example, debt capital markets account for 80 percent of financing for non-financial corporations in the United States. New financial technologies continue to change the face of finance for investors and businesses. Companies and investors access the U.S. The United States cannot take its remarkable capital markets for granted.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JANUARY 22, 2025

This post is based on their recent paper.

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Benzinga

JUNE 2, 2025

June 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Entertainment Partners (EP), a global leader in entertainment production payroll, finance and management solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire CASHt Entertainment, LLC (CASHt), a leading provider of digital payment solutions for the entertainment industry.

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Finance Banking 40

Harvard Corporate Governance

MARCH 13, 2023

Posted by Alex Edmans (London Business School), on Monday, March 13, 2023 Editor's Note: Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. One justification for shooting from the hip is that ESG is so new, and traditional finance research so focused on shareholder value, that there is no research to guide us.

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Finance 278

Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 8, 2024

This post is based on their recent paper.

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Finance 222

Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 16, 2024

This post is based on their recent article forthcoming in the American Economic Review. The dominance of large firms in the US economy has drawn growing attention in recent years. From Walmart to Apple, many salient examples point to the prominence of large companies in day to day life.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 8, 2023

Kölbel is Assistant Professor of Sustainable Finance at the University of St. Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes The Illusory Promise of Stakeholder Governance (discussed on the Forum here ) by Lucian A. Bebchuk and Roberto Tallarita ; How Much Do Investors Care about Social Responsibility?

Finance 251

Finance 251

Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 27, 2023

It is no exaggeration to say that over its roughly forty-year history, private equity has revolutionized both corporate finance and corporate governance. Understanding how private equity funds themselves are structured and incentivized is therefore crucial for understanding how the private equity industry behaves and affects global finance.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 12, 2025

Stulz (Ohio State University), and Zexi Wang (Lancaster University), on Thursday, June 12, 2025 Editor's Note: Benjamin Bennett is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University, René M. Stulz is the Everett D.

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Finance Banking Marketability 124

Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 30, 2024

Posted by Dennis West (University of Oxford), and Dimitrij Euler (Value Balancing Alliance), on Tuesday, July 30, 2024 Editor's Note: Dennis West is a PhD Candidate at the University of Oxford and Dimitrij Euler is Director of Sustainable Finance at Value Balancing Alliance. This post is based on their recent report.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 17, 2022

This post highlights five areas of focus—financial reporting and controls; enterprise risk management; environmental, social, and governance; cyber risk; and digital finance transformation—that likely will be recurring topics of discussion for audit committees in 2022. With these large-scale changes comes an increased risk for fraud.

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Finance Technology 324

Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Nigro (Goethe University, CAS on the Foundations of Law and Finance), on Wednesday, February 1, 2023 Editor's Note: Bo Bian is an Assistant Professor in Finance at the University of British Columbia; Yingxiang Li is a PhD Candidate in Finance at the University of British Columbia; and Casimiro A.

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