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- 01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
topics including financing new ventures, deal structuring, valuation, initial public offerings, leveraged buyouts, and financial distress. "Entrepreneurial Finance looks at the acquisition and deployment of resources at each stage of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
the second most popular employment option, after financial services, for newly minted HBS alumni. It's also what many older alumni from a variety of fields eventually turn to, applying their hard-won expertise to create a "next career"... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- News
Don’t Scare the Bankers
intended) of Foxwoods than Bretton Woods, it is the bankers who have scared the rest of us to death. A measure of that concern can be found in the work of Professor David Moss, an expert on systemic risk in financial markets and an... View Details
- 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
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
graduating MBAs to engage in and influence the key strategic priorities of leading social sector organizations. Although the article cited the generous financial support that HBS and its donor base provides to fellows, it’s also worth... View Details
- 25 Mar 2008
- News
Whistling Past the Graveyard
police itself. More “ham-handed” government regulation and oversight, not less, might be just what we need (http://financialservices.house.gov). As HBS professor emeritus Sam Hayes said recently of Wall Street and the subprime fiasco,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
foreseeable future? Conditions have really been almost as good as they can be over the last year or so. It’s reasonable to expect that will change because financial markets never remain stable by definition. So I would expect a less... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
outside counsel do so at their companies’ peril. To avoid the kinds of recent blunders that have brought scandal and financial disaster to some of the country’s best-known corporations, Bagley believes that general managers need to raise... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
1890. Most people would like to see business provide good jobs at good wages. Yet, many successful businesses ship their jobs overseas, and some companies that have tried paternalistically to guarantee good jobs have, in the past decade, been blasted in the products... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
DOWNTIME: Varma and Agarwala take a break. Photographs By Tom Pietrasik Imagine that you’ve quit your high-paying job with a big, prestigious firm to launch a financial advisory service tailored for India’s rapidly growing middle class,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
along with the plan. It worked with IBM to solidify blockchain’s functionality and security and found a willing, technologically progressive client in the Swiss private equity firm Unigestion. The final piece was bringing in similarly progressive View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
banks, so to impose a new tax seems like a counterproductive, political maneuver. Third, only a truly multilateral effort would succeed, and I don't see that happening. I'm all for fixing the financial sector's problems, but I'd go about... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
two oil fields, have contracts to manage as much CO2 as is produced by a small city, and we have the financial backing to finish the job," Dawe says. "That's about as tangible as it gets." Dawe is the president and cofounder of Berkeley,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
trajectory, The threat is to any company in the industry: If someone else is improving at a faster rate than me, even if I’m better than them today, I won’t be better than them tomorrow.” The company acquired gaming studio Activision Blizzard in late 2023, over the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
INK: Big News for Small Business
a whole set of new concerns. Who owns your data? If the algorithm has bad information about you, do you get to fix it? Does the regulator get to look at the algorithm? What if it leads to discrimination and creates disparate impact? If we... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 15 Apr 2011
- News
Students Hear Wall St. Critics
cited the FCIC’s January report that found failures in financial regulations and enforcement, corporate governance, risk management, and accountability and ethics at all levels. Overarching this, Angelides... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
fact is that in many parts of the world, firms are not privately owned, and markets are regulated in various ways in all countries. Still, we found that most people we talked to understood the differences between the system we find in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
company; evaluate the performance of senior managers; set executive compensation; approve key strategic and financial decisions; nominate candidates for shareholders to elect as directors; and ensure the company’s integrity,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
Glauber As the nation’s financial crisis unfolded in late September, Bob Glauber (DBA ’65) and his wife were exploring the old Silk Road in remote Central Asia. But that didn’t deter intrepid reporters from trying to track him down for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
company share prices. However, scholarly studies suggest these are not reliable indicators of companies' true economic value. In a similar vein, the late Paul Samuelson said financial markets are "micro-efficient and macro-inefficient."... View Details