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HBS Veteran Spotlight: Rex Willis (MBA 2024) - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor
Barclays, Roosevelt has held key positions in domestic and international finance, financial and derivative products, and government-advisory initiatives. By the mid-2000s, as awareness of global warming broadened in the business world,...
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- June 29, 2022
- Other Article
Strategic Complexity? Using Experiments to Understand and Overcome Obfuscation
By: Michael Luca, Ginger Zhe Jin and Daniel Martin
Credit card companies must decide what product features to disclose to consumers, such as payment schedules, penalties, and fees--and also whether to present them clearly or bury them in the fine print. Firms face similar choices in settings ranging from privacy...
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Obfuscation;
Credit Cards;
Strategic Incentives;
Complexity;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Customers;
Consumer Behavior;
Financial Services Industry
Luca, Michael, Ginger Zhe Jin, and Daniel Martin. "Strategic Complexity? Using Experiments to Understand and Overcome Obfuscation." Management Science Review (June 29, 2022). (Summary of "Complex Disclosure," Management Science, May 2022.)
- March 2016 (Revised August 2016)
- Case
CreditEase: Taking Inclusive Finance Online
By: Michael Chu, John S. Ji and Nancy Hua Dai
The world’s largest peer-to-peer (P2P) lender annually disbursing over a million loans totaling $10 billion, China’s CreditEase, must decide whether to IPO in the NYSE its online lending platform, Yirendai, before the year-end window closes in 2015. Yirendai sought to...
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Business or Company Management;
Internet and the Web;
Financing and Loans;
Credit;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Financial Services Industry;
China
Chu, Michael, John S. Ji, and Nancy Hua Dai. "CreditEase: Taking Inclusive Finance Online." Harvard Business School Case 316-151, March 2016. (Revised August 2016.)
- February 1991
- Case
Burlington Northern: The ARES Decision (B)
By: Julie H. Hertenstein and Robert S. Kaplan
The ARES team formally proposes that Burlington Northern implement the ARES system. The project meets resistance. In light of financial restructuring and high level of debt, executives wonder whether the company can afford ARES. Weak links during the ARES development...
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Accounting Audits;
Restructuring;
Cost vs Benefits;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Borrowing and Debt;
Capital Budgeting;
Projects;
Technology Adoption;
Service Industry
Hertenstein, Julie H., and Robert S. Kaplan. "Burlington Northern: The ARES Decision (B)." Harvard Business School Case 191-123, February 1991.
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807158 Westin Hotels and Resorts: Operations of a Lifestyle Experience Harvard Business School Case 607-129 Westin Hotels and Resorts adopted a new "lifestyle" brand strategy which...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?
Private equity buyouts are a polarizing financial prospect. One need only look at the name of the recent bill that Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) introduced to regulate private equity in the United States—the “Stop Wall Street Looting...
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- 23 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now
With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate...
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by Rachel Layne
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
cites the moral violations that have occurred in the financial sector as an example. "Some of these deals are so complicated that only a handful of people in the world really understand them," he says. In order to avoid disaster,...
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Management
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Get to Know the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID...
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- 17 Apr 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds
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6. Important Contact Information - MBA
Student Handbook 6. Important Contact Information Welcome to HBS Being a Student at HBS 1. Academic Information & Policies 2. Integrity & Standards of Conduct 3. Financial Obligations 4. General Policies 5. Technology, Copyright, &...
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- 18 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent
employers’ past transgressions. Generational factors and burnout Leaders must realize that their workers are their greatest assets in their quest to achieve institutional goals. Instead of paying lip service to caring for employees or...
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by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- June 2020
- Supplement
RBC: Transforming Transformation (B)
By: Ethan Bernstein, Francesca Gino and Aldo Sesia
In 2017, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), a Canadian financial icon, mandated a swat team of “enablers of collaboration” (their job description) to support the personal and commercial bank in the enterprise-wide RBC Cultural Transformation initiative. Historically,...
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Service Delivery;
Information Technology;
Transformation;
Change Management;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Management;
Decision Making;
Human Resources;
Management Systems;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Groups and Teams;
Management Teams;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Canada
Bernstein, Ethan, Francesca Gino, and Aldo Sesia. "RBC: Transforming Transformation (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 920-045, June 2020.
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1.2 MBA Honor Code - MBA
Projects 1.18 FIELD Global Capstone 1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) 1.20 Joint Degree Programs 1.21 Use of Course Work & Materials 1.22 Disability Access 1.23 Pregnancy, Childbirth & Adoption during Business School 1.24 Commencement 2. Integrity & Standards of...
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- 03 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Showing Know-How Backfires for Women Managers
demonstrate their capabilities before an audience. But this can be dangerous: Feldberg found that when women put off private office tasks such as strategic planning or data analysis, their departments’ profits and customer service ratings...
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
Communications, Inc. where he led a successful effort to acquire the second cellular license in Italy. He has also served as Chief Financial Officer of a start-up chain of quick service Italian restaurants,...
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HBS - Key Metrics
2023 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads Key Metrics Financials (in millions) 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 Revenues $1,067 $966 $805 $861 $925 Expenses 1,003 908 779 831 821 Net...
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Faculty & Research - Leadership
Tom Quinn and Andrew Kosc In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based Vendasta entered the final stages of the initial public...
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- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
believe that they are more than money-making machines: they are a vehicle for advancing societal goals. They deliver more than just financial returns; they also build enduring institutions. At great companies researched for this article,...
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Sean Silverthorne