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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Opening Minds Through Expanded Learning Opportunities
engaged undergraduates with business topics in the past, but the idea of a pure history course taught by a business professor in a class comprising students from Harvard College and HBS was an experiment." By all indications, the...
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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal
As the campaign enters the homestretch, HBS is focused on its goal of raising $100 million for MBA fellowships. Student need for financial aid is continually rising, and HBS is committed to ensuring that qualified applicants from View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
a Boston-based technology financial services company whose mission is to reinvent hedge fund investing through disruptive technology, transparency and liquidity. PhytoTEK supplies a unique biologic solution...
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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
consumer. In all these sectors of the industry, Tufano and the others agree, an increasingly important force is entering into the mix: the Internet. The Electronic Brokerage Still riding a "second burst" during the extended 1980s -1990s...
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Garry Emmons
- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
as Lyft, Postmates, Upwork, TaskRabbit, and scores of others like them—connect large numbers of independent contractors providing services with customers seeking those services. The companies profit by taking a cut of the revenue for...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
they need. “It’s all about who gives the other person access to what is essentially their ‘page,’ ” says O’Grady. These days, though, O’Grady rarely needs to shorthand blockchain. Its most famous application, bitcoin, has become an...
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Dan Morrell
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Michele Biamonte
Michele (HGSE, Adult Development '05) combines her professional experience in finance, talent management and higher ed admin to help students and alumni optimize their self-assessment, career exploration and personal branding process. She coaches students and alumni...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
and the environment. Interestingly (given that we interviewed them in late 2007 and early 2008), they were very concerned about the volatility and fragility of the financial markets. They thought the View Details
- March 1984 (Revised August 1996)
- Case
B.F. Goodrich-Rabobank Interest Rate Swap
By: Jay O. Light
A U.S. manufacturing organization and a Eurobank swap fixed and floating rate obligations to reduce their financing costs.
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Financing and Loans;
Cost Management;
Production;
Interest Rates;
Credit Derivatives and Swaps;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Light, Jay O. "B.F. Goodrich-Rabobank Interest Rate Swap." Harvard Business School Case 284-080, March 1984. (Revised August 1996.)
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
could have on families who didn't have a lot of resources at their disposal," says Elana Silver, now a talent development consultant at State Street, a Boston-based financial services company. "For...
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- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
“which is a fancy way of referring to all of the things you don’t have as a new company—products, knowledge, connections, resources.” The most common and effective way to make up for that lack is to find someone who can help you overcome...
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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
From the Classroom to Casablanca
funding and resources. “That’s why Bank of Africa had two objectives—having a pedagogical banking center to offer insight for our students in order to understand the services the bank offers and also establishing an incubator that...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 04 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs
difficult to create good in-house relationships and there were frequent changes of management, respond much as women do—by investing in external networks. Not all but some of their strategies at poorly managed firms resemble the...
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- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
company will have trouble coming up with an equally compelling message to drive sales of a service that allows you to pay at the retail counter with a swipe of an iPhone. "What does it do for me as a consumer?" asks Associate...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
partnership with financial institutions such as MBNA, Capital One, Wells Fargo, and Providian. These firms offer the Brodia online shopping service as part of the credit card and banking services. By typing...
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Judith A. Ross
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
get it. By contrast, in the minority of dental plans that provide comprehensive care for a yearly fixed fee, nearly all children are treated with the sealant. Now why might this be? Because in the fixed-fee system, filling cavities is a...
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- 31 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom
how they're marketing themselves? Youngme Moon: Many mature service industries are in a service "arms race" in which they keep adding more and more services...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
courage, about communities of underestimated women who rise to the moment in service to something greater. What was different with Daughters was the global implications of the story. You have a group of women fighting terrorists, as the...
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- August 2008 (Revised May 2009)
- Case
Kmart and ESL Investments (A)
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah Abbott
A major bankrupt retailer is poised to emerge from Chapter 11. Two activist hedge funds ("vulture investors") will own over 50% of reorganized Kmart's common stock, based on prior investments in Kmart's debt claims, and an infusion of new equity financing. The Chapter...
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Restructuring;
Capital Structure;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Investment;
Investment Activism;
Valuation;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Gilson, Stuart C., and Sarah Abbott. "Kmart and ESL Investments (A)." Harvard Business School Case 209-044, August 2008. (Revised May 2009.)
- January 1998
- Case
From Wall Street to Main Street: Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter, Discover & Co.
By: James K. Sebenius and David T. Kotchen
Designed as a follow-up to Morgan Stanley and S.G. Warburg: Investment Bank of the Future (A).
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Negotiation;
Valuation;
Investment Banking;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Sebenius, James K., and David T. Kotchen. "From Wall Street to Main Street: Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter, Discover & Co." Harvard Business School Case 898-143, January 1998.