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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Channel by Connie Sage (University of Virginia Press) Among his many accomplishments, the late Frank Batten Sr. (MBA 1952) created the Weather Channel in 1982, which became the largest private weather company in the world and an American cultural icon. This biography...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Entrepreneurs’ Fund
month. Said Rumennik, “The Minimum Viable Product Fund, or MVP Fund, alleviates the daunting financial barrier preventing students from building initial prototypes or test products, and encourages them to connect with like-minded peers.”...
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- 19 Jan 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis
Perspectives from the Boardroom—2009 To understand what transpired in the boardrooms of complex companies during the financial crisis, and to offer a prescription to improve board effectiveness, eight senior faculty members talked with 45...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
Globe is in 2012. Will you do it and the program again? For now, I’m giving talks, and there’s a book in the works. As for 2012, we know how to do successful school programs. If we could get distribution channel commitment to our other...
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Farah Ahmed
a financial analyst,” says Farah, "so why did I do it? I wanted to gain an understanding of the industry I couldn't get in corporate headquarters." Farah acquired deeper knowledge of the oil industry—and of herself, as well....
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- 2010
- Working Paper
Crashes and Collateralized Lending
By: Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford
This paper develops a parsimonious static model for characterizing financing terms in collateralized lending markets. We characterize the systematic risk exposures for a variety of securities and develop a simple indifference-pricing framework to value the systematic...
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Financial Crisis;
Borrowing and Debt;
Cost of Capital;
Credit;
Financing and Loans;
Interest Rates;
Investment;
Framework;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Financial Services Industry
Jurek, Jakub W., and Erik Stafford. "Crashes and Collateralized Lending." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-025, September 2010.
Harrington Drake
Drake presided over a decade of top financial performance – growing revenues from $480 million to over $2 billion. He achieved ten consecutive years of top market value performance and expanded D&B’s core services, most notably with...
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Services
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Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog
board’s role in overseeing areas such as financial reporting, compliance and culture, sustainability and ESG. The class sessions will involve case discussions, role-playing exercises, and other activities....
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
subscribers in financial services and the media who pay more than $1,000 a month to lease them. Just sixteen years after leaving a partnership position at Salomon Brothers, Bloomberg is outpacing more...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Decision Points
have done things better,” as he spoke about many aspects and issues of his presidency (USA Today, November 9, 2010). Regarding the financial crisis, Bush said that Congress ignored his administration’s urgings to regulate Fannie Mae and...
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Ivan J. Houston
Houston was instrumental in streamlining Golden State’s operations and enabling it to profitably expand. He moved the company into the group insurance field securing business from organizations such as Ford, General Motors, and AT&T. Under his tenure, Golden State...
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Finance
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
Harvard Business School Case 217-016 Financial Services at Falabella (A) In 2010, the board and senior management team of Falabella, a leading retailer with operations throughout Latin America, faced choices...
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Carmen Nobel
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
School and strengthened its role in the University. Furthermore, by building the pipeline of faculty, launching new global research offices and centers, increasing financial aid to attract students from diverse backgrounds, fostering One...
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- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
way to combine the best of both? Yes, if marketers are willing to dig below superficial benefits and attributes to connect products and services to emotions and schemes of thoughts that are almost universally shared among human beings....
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
the scourge of too big to fail. One is to break up the largest financial institutions, possibly with a new and improved Glass-Steagall law. The other is to perfect a bankruptcy process for super-sized View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
large, interconnected financial institution is likely to lead to the failure of many other large institutions. Most of the 600 institutions recapitalized by the federal government over the last year do not...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
THAIN: Regulations failed to keep up with innovations in financial markets. A year after the federal government rushed to rescue Wall Street from its own nearly fatal excesses, former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain (MBA ’79) worries “that...
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- February 2006
- Case
Fraikin SA
By: W. Carl Kester, Vincent Marie Dessain and Monika Stachowiak
Provides an example of a so-called "whole business" securitization. In early 2004, Fraikin, France's leading industrial vehicle rental company, compares several alternatives for refinancing a large bridge loan within a year. Presents three primary options: a classic...
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Debt Securities;
Transportation;
Renting or Rental;
Service Industry;
Service Industry;
France
Kester, W. Carl, Vincent Marie Dessain, and Monika Stachowiak. "Fraikin SA." Harvard Business School Case 206-090, February 2006.
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Contacts & Resources | Information Technology
faculty, staff, and Doctoral students can login to the HBS IT Services and Support Portal to search IT services and documentation, check service status, or submit a help...
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- 15 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Be Unapologetically Yourself: Interview with Singer-Songwriter and Banking Strategist Andrea Mendoza
consulting) but Mendoza has embraced the surprise factor and learned to be unapologetically herself. What that looks like is a financial services professional, a strategic leader, and a performer all wrapped...
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