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- January 2008 (Revised September 2009)
- Case
Financing American Housing Construction in the Aftermath of War
By: David Moss and Cole Bolton
At the start of WWI, the United States faced a significant housing shortage. Public officials feared the spread of disease—and even communism—in the nation's cramped urban centers where vacancy rates held near zero and families often "doubled up" in single-housing...
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Central Banking;
Bonds;
Mortgages;
Government Legislation;
Business History;
Housing;
Banking Industry;
United States
Moss, David, and Cole Bolton. "Financing American Housing Construction in the Aftermath of War." Harvard Business School Case 708-032, January 2008. (Revised September 2009.)
- November 2000 (Revised January 2003)
- Case
Yahoo!'s Stock-Based Compensation
By: Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen
Amy Maislos, an investor in Internet and technology companies, was excited to read that Yahoo! had reported a positive net income for 1998 operations. During the late 1990s, stock prices of Internet companies had risen rapidly even though most companies were reporting...
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Stock Options;
Internet and the Web;
Financial Statements;
Corporate Disclosure;
Business Earnings;
Earnings Management;
Information Technology Industry
Healy, Paul M., and Jacob Cohen. "Yahoo!'s Stock-Based Compensation." Harvard Business School Case 101-059, November 2000. (Revised January 2003.)
- April 2020 (Revised April 2023)
- Supplement
TransDigm in 2017: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
TransDigm was a highly acquisitive company that manufactured a wide range of highly engineered aerospace parts for both military and commercial customers. Over the ten years ending in 2016, its stock price had increase ten times, and both EBITDA and revenues had grown...
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- Profile
Lauren Booker
management, and supervising people." Transitioning into investing and economic development While her work at Goldman was satisfying, Lauren "wanted to transition within financial services to investment banking and ultimately...
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Jonathan Assayag
of financial aid. He made tremendous progress and became a finalist for the LightSpeed Venture Summer Program. In his second-year field study, he led a team of three other HBS students that "improved a Silicon Valley startup's...
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- Web
Tools & Services | Information Technology
centralize and streamline event planning, management, publishing, and more. Student Information Systems Explore the platforms that support key student activities like admissions, financial aid, and registration. Library Systems Discover...
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
Brazil was defaulting on its overseas debt and hyperinflation was running rampant. Somehow, amid the country's financial fracasso, Jakurski sensed opportunity. "With inflation at times increasing 2 percent daily," he recalls, "we would...
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Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
twenty HBS faculty members along with first-rate speakers and panelists drawn from the top companies in Europe. Key themes include technology, corporate strategy, globalization, and entrepreneurship. Specific sessions will be held on "The Role of Global View Details
- 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 in their passwords, users can...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Faculty News
HBS faculty in 1965. Specializing in general management, he also has published widely in the areas of financial risk management, negotiation, operations research, and utility theory. He taught in the MBA and Doctoral Programs and for many...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Young Alums Honored for Social Enterprise
urban and rural communities. Fenton manages programs and financial operations for New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS), a national nonprofit aimed at improving education for all children by recruiting and supporting leaders for urban public...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
HBS Launches Unique Deferred-Admission Program
the new program — before arriving on campus. “No other business school offers anything similar,” says Dee Leopold (MBA ’80), managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid. “This is a bold program that is trying to do three things:...
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Field Course: Investing for Impact - Course Catalog
Investing for Impact seeks to help students understand why certain business founders lack access to capital and whether small investments of $25,000 to $50,000 (made from an intermediary Donor Advised Fund) might help these businesses grow to deliver View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Kanter contends that vanguard companies deliver what their customers want better than their competitors do, thereby providing the financial success shareholders demand and the social conscience demanded by the new generation of managers....
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- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Private Equity and Financial Fragility During the Crisis By: Bernstein, Shai, Josh Lerner, and Filippo Mezzanotti Abstract—Do private equity firms contribute to View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 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
- 15 Sep 2020
- Cold Call Podcast
Is Happiness at Work Really Attainable?
- 07 Jan 2020
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Capitalism Be Fixed by Making Companies More Just?
- 26 Apr 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Why JPMorgan Chase Is Investing Millions in Detroit
- 21 Jul 2016
- Cold Call Podcast