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01 Dec 2018
News

Evergreen Business

countryside, of yelling ‘Timberrrr!’ as daddy cuts down a tree.” It’s the same impulse that led Kok to buy the farm in 1980. A former EPA chief economist who now heads the investment banking firm Johan... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Mar 2004
News

He Loves New York

wretch at heart? It turns out that Wasserstein, CEO of Lazard, had at one time pondered a career in journalism, been an editor at his college paper, and worked one summer at Forbes magazine while attending HBS, according to the Times. Even when he moved on and... View Details

05 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

would significantly improve the return on their marketing actions if it targeted just-acquired customers based on their first impressions. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55634 Harvard Business School Case 619-018 Commonwealth... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Dec 2021
News

The Sparkles in Our Skies

lifetime of use,” says Hagemann. “It’s not really about selling jewelry,” says Hagemann. “It’s really about focusing on an industry that has for so long been allowed to use the planet as a bank that it will... View Details

Keywords: April White; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising

the space before he arrives, Mareva sits down to reminisce about HBS. She came to appreciate it all anew in 2011 when, after a dozen years in investment banking at Deutsche View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

06 Jun 2017
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Is the Real Estate Market Going to Collapse?

tanking the market? Sultenic: The industry is capitalized and managed more transparently and thoughtfully than it has been historically, with less easy money floating around. Banks got smarter, equity... View Details

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Elsa Sze

Chicago, Elsa spent a brief time in investment banking. “I was impressionable,” Elsa says. “As an undergraduate, investment banking meant prestige.” But her work in View Details

25 Jul 2018
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HBS Alumni Leader, Benefactor Dies at 86

Industries, a real estate investment firm he started in 1968. C.D. Spangler Construction company was founded by Spangler's father, C.D. Spangler, Sr. – a self-made man who had not been able to afford college and who, at the age of 50, was... View Details

01 Dec 2012
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Kaplan Named Senior Associate Dean

2005, Kaplan was vice chairman of the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. with oversight responsibility for the investment banking and investment management divisions. He received an MBA... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Taiwan

Where can I find country, industry and market information and news about Taipei to help me with FIELD Global Immersion? Industry and market research Passport Useful for: consumer-related View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources

available as a networked resource. The Morris Plan of Industrial Loans and Investments (New York: Industrial Finance Corporation, 1914). Full text available as a networked... View Details

05 Aug 2014
News

A Diversified Portfolio

extensive strategic and financial experience included consulting at McKinsey, investment banking at Salomon Brothers, and leading business development at several Internet and media companies. The pair... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

06 Dec 2021
News

Monaco's Digital Transformation

Genta manages 5 percent of the state budget and a staff of 270. His ministry oversees the telecom industry and digital improvements in smart city initiatives, education, and health care, as well as programs and partnerships benefitting... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Sep 2010
News

Becoming a VC Insider

industry that is well known but not well understood. Bussgang should know the material: He is general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners in Boston and currently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at HBS. The book explains the different ways... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

Joseph N. Pew

Having begun investing in oil while working in real estate, Pew eventually entered the industry full time, organizing several smaller entities into what became the Sun Oil Company. An innovator himself, Pew... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

October 1990
Article

Consequences of Leveraged Buyouts

By: Krishna G. Palepu

Keywords: Finance; Investment; Financial Services Industry

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26 Jul 2016
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July 26, 2016

assets and improve its profitability. However, Bhattacharya knows that these gains will be fleeting without the development of a trained workforce who can address 21st century industry problems with speed and creativity. This requires... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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George F. Baker - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

of his youth on his aunt’s farm in Massachusetts. At the age of twenty-three, he invested $3,000 to become an original shareholder in the First National Bank (now Citibank), which under his guidance remained... View Details

November 2006 (Revised July 2021)
Case

Kerr-McGee

By: Robin Greenwood and André Perold

Activist investors Carl Icahn and Barry Rosenstein acquire a stake in Oklahoma-based company Kerr-McGee. They demand two board seats and ask the company to make several operational and financial changes, including the repurchase of equity and divestiture of their... View Details