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Greenhill House | About

established his credentials as a preeminent investment banker and helped shape some of the world’s most successful corporations. During most of that time, he worked at Morgan Stanley, where he founded the first M&A department in the industry, headed the investment... View Details

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

whole team setting and meeting a range of performance benchmarks over a period of time," write Hope and Fraser. "Performance is then evaluated by a peer review group (using relative measures) with the benefit of hindsight." At the Swedish View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

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Industry Information - Alumni

Careers Industry Information Careers Industry Information Want to know the latest in your respective industry? Are you researching before a big interview? We've compiled resources to help you stay current. + – Banking ABA View Details

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Loeb House | About

banking and brokerage firm Carl M. Loeb & Company, later called Loeb, Rhoades & Co., where John Loeb served as a senior partner from 1955 to 1977. He was widely regarded as a leader in the investment community and as a philanthropist who... View Details

06 Sep 2022
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Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

renewables worldwide, GIP is committed to supporting the energy transition for a more sustainable future. Juan's role prior to HBS was an Investment Banking Associate at Goldman Sachs. Andrew Greener (MBA 2023, Section D), Summer... View Details

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What is an HBS Section? - MBA

How do you think the section set up impacts the academic environment at HBS? Philipp: The group of 90 is extremely diverse, and you will have people from all different backgrounds: section mates with in-depth finance experience from investment View Details

01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?

booming. Banks and companies, eager for a piece of the action, invest heavily in production capability. Not surprisingly, a market can soon become saturated with too much product; consequently, demand drops, revenues slow to a trickle,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Scouts of the USA Grameen America Grassroots Business Fund Habitat for Humanity International Harbor Bank of Maryland Community Development Corp Harlem Children's Zone Health Leads Hebrew SeniorLife Hospital for Special Surgery Initiative... View Details

11 May 2022
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MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

Infrastructure/Transportation Post-HBS Industry: Investment Banking in Natural Resources What is the best part about being a mom at HBS? Having the flexibility to drop off and pick up my daughter at her daycare every day and getting to... View Details

04 Sep 2017
Blog Post

HBS Startup Bootcamp and Founders Unfiltered

stories of what it was really like to build their businesses. The stories were open, honest, and even entertaining. Running to the bank during graduation in a cap and gown to cash a check so employees got paid. Spending nearly a year... View Details

16 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

work less.” Empowerment through financial access Conducted in partnership with state and bank authorities, the study, which took place from 2013 to 2017, looked at 5,851 married couples in 197 villages in the northern India state of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

06 Nov 2008
Op-Ed

Selling Out The American Dream

leveraging of assets, on irresponsible banks and mortgage brokers who fabricated applications for no downpayment home loans knowing that the risks could be readily laid off on unsuspecting third parties. But underpinning the collapse of... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

25 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 25

PublicationsJoining a Nonprofit Board: What You Need to Know Authors:Marc J. Epstein and F. Warren McFarlan Publication:Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 2018 (Revised February 2019)
Teaching Note

Home Nursing of North Carolina

By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld

In 2011, immediately after graduating HBS, Ari Medoff began a self-funded search for a small firm to buy and run as its CEO. After just three month of searching, he identified Home Nursing of North Carolina (HNNC), a home care agency based in Greensboro, NC, as a... View Details

Keywords: Small Firms Management; Acquisition; Negotiation Process; Investment; Small Business; Management; Personal Development and Career

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10 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

companies make mistakes that derail and even destroy them. How can companies sustain commitment and performance in this environment? A: Clearly the 2008-2009 economic crisis has some macroeconomic causes. But it can just as easily be explained by the approach to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Oct 1997
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L.E. Simmons

of bank teller to become chairman of Zions Bancorporation in Salt Lake City, with teaching him that ethical standards are an intrinsic part of doing business. "He measures his performance in terms of doing the right thing and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

18 May 2016
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Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

write about a personal past experience that fit one of five categories: unethical, ethical, positive, negative, or neutral. The participants mostly wrote about commonplace actions (cheating on an exam or padding an expense report, for example) rather than felonious... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jan 2012
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Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

Chairman and CEO, Rakuten, Inc. Download Mikitani profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1965 Born, Kobe, Japan 1972 Family moves to United States for two years 1988 Earns commerce degree, Hitotsubashi University 1988 Joins Industrial... View Details

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McArthur Hall | About

McArthur remained at the School as the George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus and Dean Emeritus. He served in multiple advisory roles in business, government, education, and health care. McArthur was senior advisor to the president of the... View Details

23 May 2018
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Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987

Vargas 1976 Appointed Chief Economist, Banco de Investimentos Garantia S.A. 1980 Named Director, Central Bank of Brazil 1983 Appointed Partner, Banco de Investimentos Garantia S.A. 1987 Completes OPM Program at HBS 1993 Appointed CEO,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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