Financials - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2010
News

Laura Alfaro to Costa Rican Post

country’s new president, Laura Chinchilla. An expert on international economics, including foreign direct investment, financial markets, and sovereign debt, Alfaro, who holds a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA, was honored as a Young Global... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Dec 2010
News

HBS Contributors Report

budget and fund every area of activity at HBS, from faculty research and doctoral fellowships to technology, student financial aid, and case writing. The new report is also available on the Alumni Web site... View Details

Keywords: meta

24 Apr 2014
News

Using technology to create a platform for discussion

recipient at the School, she found that relief from a financial burden freed her to think more widely about her career plans. “Whenever you take out the financial constraints,” says Leung, “you let people... View Details

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Companies: history

On the Company Details tab of each company profile, there is a Business section which highlights key dates in a company's history. Mergent Industrial Manual
In print: Ref. HG 4961 .M49 in the Stamps Reading Room Useful for historical View Details

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GlobalData Disruptor | Baker Library

GlobalData Disruptor Market research database covering technology disruption across multiple industries. Read More GlobalData's Disruptor database covers technology focused innovations, trends, consumer insights and venture capital portfolio investments for technology,... View Details

22 Aug 2016
News

The Future of GE

General Electric, now 124 years old, is looking to the future, CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) recently told Vanity Fair. When Immelt took the helm of GE in 2001, it was a diverse conglomerate. Now, Immelt said, “we’ve exited almost all of View Details

01 Jun 2005
News

Change of Pace

policy and the expression of faith in public life. He will also lend his expertise to nuts-and-bolts issues, such as assessing the financial risks involved in the diocese’s possible support for a housing project in the West Bank city of... View Details

Keywords: GOP; Catholic; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

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HBS Online Entrepreneurship Essentials

Master a proven framework for building and financing new ventures and learn to speak the language of the start-up world. Program Dates: August 21, 2019 - September 18, 2019 View Details

9 AM – 10 AM EST, 23 Jan 2019
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HBS Online Entrepreneurship Essentials

Master a proven framework for building and financing new ventures and learn to speak the language of the start-up world. Program Dates: January 23, 2019 - February 20, 2019 View Details

Profile

Laura Arjona

impact of my contribution." Encouraged by friends working in the financial sector, Laura obtained a position at UBS Investment Banking after graduation, staying for two years in the energy group. "When I started, news was just... View Details

01 Oct 2021
News

Tulsa Massacre Case Fosters Timely Conversations

better educational foundation. . . . So, unless the literacy rates increase overnight, providing a financial scholarship. . . [won’t override] years of systematic oppression.” Desai, the Mizuho Financial... View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout

The US automotive industry collapse was one of the most important business stories to come out of the 2008 financial crisis—and like so many events of that time, it was big on headlines but short on nuance. To address that shortfall,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2007
News

How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change

financial services companies as it determines its stand on a matter of increasing public prominence. Oberholzer-Gee teaches the case in Strategies Beyond the Market, a second-year elective that focuses on the interplay between business... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance

25 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

constraints, but more importantly, catalyze other investors through demonstration effects, creating and shaping markets in places where there are none today. As a financially autonomous, legally separate entity within the World Bank... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

01 Sep 2014
News

Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

the most influential education is going to happen when Bitcoin finds a killer use case. So far, that case hasn’t emerged, but once those use cases start solving real problems for large groups of people, governments and financial... View Details

Keywords: alumni; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

01 Sep 2006
News

Street Singer

and how far their daughter would set her sights. “When I was accepted at Harvard College, my parents’ immediate reaction was, ‘Great. Now how are we going to pay for this?’” remembers Harris. “I told them, ‘I don’t know, but we’re going to find a way.’” Through View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Finance

28 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

School Case 515-090 Target Stores: The Hunt for 'Unvolunteered Truths' No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/515090-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 215-058 Generating Higher Value at IBM (A) This case analyzes IBM's... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 23

http://www.benedelman.org/publications/request/?doc=913061 Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/913061-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 813-164 Grupo RBS (A) No description available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/813164-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

14 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53507 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Bubbles for Fama By: Greenwood, Robin, Andrei Shleifer, and Yang You Abstract—We evaluate Eugene Fama's claim that stock... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel