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- 12 Jan 2015
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Good Investments
that were bringing financial services and capital to the poor using a business framework rather than a philanthropic one. “That really struck a chord with me,” says Chorengel. “There are going to be multiple...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
course developer. As Dean, he led HBS through some of the most momentous and challenging times in its history. In 2008, as the global economic crisis unfolded, Light acted swiftly to strengthen the School’s financial structure and...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
This consciousness-raising book asks business students, who are usually risk-averse, to look at risk in a new way. It argues that choices they think are “safe” (lucrative jobs taken only for financial gain, View Details
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Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
- 26 Nov 2019
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Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream
customer bases and a low cost of capital. In 2016, the landscape shifted even further when major platform players such as Amazon, PayPal, and Square entered the space. In spite of these disruptions, Mills says that one can’t discount the banks and traditional lenders....
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Contacts & Resources | Information Technology
contact HBS IT by emailing ithelp@hbs.edu or calling Technology Support Service at 617-495-6600. If you believe credit card information may have been accessed. Contact Eileen Sullivan in the HBS Financial...
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- 27 Apr 2017
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Going with the Flow
“Where’s your cash register? I don’t hear the cash register ringing.” Cynthia Fisher (MBA 1990) still recalls the first words her father, a small-town accountant, uttered when he visited ViaCord’s startup offices in 1993. “That was his way of saying we had to make...
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- 07 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers
Mark Zuckerberg delayed action and side-stepped responsibility. Two Million Fake Accounts: Sales Misconduct at Wells Fargo Coming out of the financial crisis, Wells Fargo was one of the world’s most successful banks. But then its sales...
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- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
The COVID-19 pandemic has battered industries around the world, but one sector's prospects aren’t so bleak: venture capital. Startup backers—and private-equity managers in general—say that half of their portfolio companies haven’t been harmed by the coronavirus that...
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- 28 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms
iPhoto Marketplace lending platforms such as LendingClub and Prosper have made significant competitive inroads against traditional banks in recent years by bringing together people who want to borrow with investors ready to bankroll them. But lending platforms, also...
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- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
You don’t know what you don’t know—and almost by definition new entrepreneurial ventures need a helping hand from established partners if they hope to succeed. “Startups suffer from what researchers call ‘liability of newness,’” says Harvard Business School Assistant...
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- 21 Mar 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Risk Management―The Revealing Hand
- 13 Apr 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Implied Materiality and Material Disclosures of Credit Ratings
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
As Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), Karen Mills spent four years as part of President Barack Obama's senior economic team and a member of his Cabinet, specifically focused on the health and growth of America's small businesses and...
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- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
Many high-tech companies in the United States look overseas to fill talent gaps in their employment ranks by hiring skilled immigrants, often sponsoring the visas these workers need to live in this country. Critics say this can create an unpleasant fallout effect,the...
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- March 1998
- Teaching Note
Acme Investment Trust TN
By: Josh Lerner
Teaching Note for (9-296-042).
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Financial Services Industry
- July 1997
- Teaching Note
Keller Fund's Option Investment Strategies, The (TN)
By: W. Carl Kester
Teaching Note for (9-295-096).
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Financial Services Industry
- August 1994
- Case
Gartmore plc
By: Jay O. Light and Jon Headley
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Financial Services Industry
Light, Jay O., and Jon Headley. "Gartmore plc." Harvard Business School Case 295-022, August 1994.
- May 1994 (Revised December 1994)
- Case
Fidelity Investments: Spartan Florida Municipal Fund
By: Andre F. Perold and Sanjay Bhatnagar
Perold, Andre F., and Sanjay Bhatnagar. "Fidelity Investments: Spartan Florida Municipal Fund." Harvard Business School Case 294-116, May 1994. (Revised December 1994.)
- January 1994 (Revised August 1995)
- Case
Boston Company, The: Securities Lending
By: Andre F. Perold and Kuljot Singh
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Financial Services Industry
Perold, Andre F., and Kuljot Singh. "Boston Company, The: Securities Lending." Harvard Business School Case 294-024, January 1994. (Revised August 1995.)
- November 1992
- Background Note
The Mutual Fund Industry 1992
By: Jay O. Light
Light, Jay O. "The Mutual Fund Industry 1992." Harvard Business School Background Note 293-075, November 1992.