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- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
requires upfront capital investments. The more developed the local financial markets, the easier it is for credit constrained entrepreneurs to start their own firms. The increase in the number of varieties...
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- 04 Nov 2016
- News
No Grand Plan, but a Clear Mission
been that person who has had it all planned out from the beginning,” Levine recently told The Australian Financial Review. Last year, Levine moved over to Instagram to serve as COO of the photo- and video-sharing social media site that...
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2016
ensure that the School continued to live within its means as the scope of activity at HBS expanded, our top financial priority was to ensure that revenue growth—including developing new sources of...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Paulson Speaks on China at HBS
intellectual property protection, and domestic consumption. In addition, Paulson said, the Chinese will not “be able to develop the financial markets and banks they want unless they have a currency that...
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Allen Yang
Johannesburg—where they helped their host—a South African home-products company, develop new soap product ideas that would appeal to its core base: middle- and lower-income South Africans. "That's what was so interesting about our...
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Rakhshan Zahid
your business. As a result, I’m planning to develop one of my ideas in an independent project next year to see if my idea has legs. How do your HBS ambitions fit into the big picture of the world beyond? We’re encouraged to solve problems...
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- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
(MBA 2005), Nayana Mawilmada (MBA 2005) and Jayamin Pelpola (MBA 2010). The firm hopes to capitalize on the current development drive and rapid economic growth taking place in Sri Lanka. Based in Colombo, York Street Partners was launched...
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Craig Husa
As the founder or CEO, Craig (HBS ’90, USNA ’83) has grown and sold four technology-enabled companies to leading public companies. He attributes most of his success (the rest is luck) to building and leading high performing teams who can grow companies and revenue by...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
has invested over $1 billion in laying 2,000 miles of water lines and building 33 wastewater treatment plants while returning strong profits for shareholders. Equally important, the company has emerged as a model for integrating financial...
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- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
development organizations, involved in both research and program design and delivery. This case explores CCL's approach to leadership and management education for executives and presents some of the challenges the CCL faces as many...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Keys to the Kingdom
RHEA, WITH FRIENDS: Bringing financial skills from the private sector to public housing. Who’s the Big Apple’s biggest landlord? That would be John Rhea (MBA ’92), who oversees 178,000 apartments in 2,600 buildings at 340 complexes,...
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Real Estate
- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
advertising." Skateboards And Electric Cars In developing an investment portfolio, Higgins says the investment group is drawing from classic business school lessons based on a two-by-two matrix. In modern sports investing, the media...
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- 25 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Not Waiting for Progress: Diversity and Inclusion in the Film Industry
This is a repost from the Alumni Stories blog. Brickson Diamond (MBA 1999) has never been one to, as he puts it, “just sit back and wait for progress to happen.” His role as cofounder and chair of the Blackhouse Foundation is a case in point. The organization took...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
pharmaceutical companies focused their R&D on treatments for common illnesses — such as diabetes and high cholesterol — an approach that resulted in the development of blockbuster drugs. We now recognize that diseases are far more complex...
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- July 2003 (Revised January 2004)
- Case
Carol Brewer's Investments
By: Richard S. Ruback and Julia Stevens
Following her husband's death in 1994, Carol Brewer took over the management of her family's investments. This case describes the decisions Brewer made during this process, including her choice to seek active account management, her selection of an investment firm, and...
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Investment Funds;
Investment Portfolio;
Retirement;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Financial Management;
Personal Finance;
Investment Banking;
Investment Return
Ruback, Richard S., and Julia Stevens. "Carol Brewer's Investments." Harvard Business School Case 204-017, July 2003. (Revised January 2004.)
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Spring Training for Startups
The Winners Most Innovative, Greatest Impact (via online voting) York Street Partners Transforming financial markets to support Sri Lanka's development Best Investment (via HBS Alumni Angels) Busbud Busbud...
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- April–May 2017
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Career Concerns of Banking Analysts
By: Joanne Horton, George Serafeim and Shan Wu
We study how career concerns influence banking analysts' forecasts and how their forecasting behavior benefits both them and bank managers. We show that banking analysts issue early in the year relatively more optimistic and later in the year more pessimistic forecasts...
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Sell-side Analysts;
Analyst Forecasts;
Analysts;
Investment Recommendations;
Career Advancement;
Career Management;
Labor Mobility;
Labor Market;
Prejudice and Bias;
Personal Development and Career;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Investment Banking
Horton, Joanne, George Serafeim, and Shan Wu. "Career Concerns of Banking Analysts." Journal of Accounting & Economics 63, nos. 2-3 (April–May 2017): 231–252.
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Are Crises Good for Long-term Growth? The Role of Political Institutions
By: Alberto Cavallo and Eduardo Cavallo
This paper provides empirical evidence for the importance of institutions in determining the outcome of crises on long-term growth. We show that once unobserved country-specific effects and other sources of endogeneity are accounted for, political institutions affect...
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Growth;
Democracy;
Macroeconomics;
Growth and Development;
Financial Crisis;
Economic Growth;
Government and Politics
Cavallo, Alberto, and Eduardo Cavallo. "Are Crises Good for Long-term Growth? The Role of Political Institutions." Journal of Macroeconomics 32, no. 3 (September 2010): 838–857.
- 27 Mar 2020
- News
CPD Taps Alumni Network to Help Students Navigate Crisis
Kristen Fitzpatrick (MBA 2003) Kristen Fitzpatrick (MBA 2003) HBS Career and Professional Development (CPD) has pivoted quickly in recent weeks to help first- and second-year students who are still in need of internships and...
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Contemporary Corporate Archives | Baker Library
hedge funds, etc., responsible for the development of modern global finance infrastructure; papers of significant leaders and thinkers in the financial field; and biotechnology industry records, especially...
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