Money Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2000
News

The Entrepreneurial Venture

companies challenged the status quo, and the old, "safe" jobs turned out to be not very safe at all, as large companies entered extended periods of malaise and restructuring. Ed O'Lear: It's important to note why money View Details

30 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along

Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Minor says it was illuminating to use “regular” subjects as opposed to undergrads, who aren’t necessarily representative of a broad swath of the United States. Equally important was using real View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Banking; Financial Services

26 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

increased the likelihood that participants would buy both indulgent and organic items. Moreover, it increased the amount of money they'd be willing to pay for those items. But the researchers had another question: Does it matter whether a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

23 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits

To transform lofty aspirations into quantifiable impact, nonprofits need to become more familiar with traditional business tools such as business plans, precise mission statements, and goal setting to improve their performance. That was the message from Jeff Bradach,... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

28 May 2019
News

INK: Maker’s Manual

worth the resources they might require and the money we might spend and the time we devote to using them. You write that being an entrepreneur is more about tenacity than intellect. Was that something you always knew you had? I knew I had... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

25 May 2021
Blog Post

Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics

Wall Street, this time working in corporate advisory and M&A where she rose into executive level positions and managed massive strategic clients across West Africa. With a hugely successful career and a growing family at home, it... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

Michael Depatie

buy key words and use search engine optimization. There’s social media, too. Kimpton has a Facebook page, and a lot of our chefs use Twitter. We haven’t spent money on national ads to date, since we’ve been pretty effective through word... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Accommodation; Hospitality

12 Dec 2018
News

Lesson Plan

(Reporters later discovered that the signature page had been cribbed from an earlier contract extension.) In September, Pennsylvania’s Attorney General announced multiple felony charges against the district’s former fleet manager and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

16 Dec 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Marrying Distance and Classroom Education

Traditionally, businesses thought about doing distance learning because it saved money or provided logistics benefits. But your suggestion is that it can be a better way of doing things if you really think it through and set it up right.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Future of Boards

have too many people on the board of financial institutions who don't know anything about financial institutions, then you have a problem. Q: But you also make the point that it's not possible for a board member to know everything. It's important that they know enough... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

10 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 10

FarriHarvard Business School Case 310-090 In late January 2009, Thomas Fekete, managing director at Barclays Wealth in London, redeemed the most illiquid positions in the so-called Wealth Absolute Return Fund (WAR), one of Barclays... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

"safe" jobs turned out to be not very safe at all, as large companies entered extended periods of malaise and restructuring. Ed O'Lear: It's important to note why money managers decided to allocate... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

21 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

their perspectives on the bill and its key provisions. Their opinions range from calling it a major step forward to concern that it will actually raise the risk to the system. Robert Steven Kaplan, Professor Of Management Practice:... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

15 Jun 2021
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

whole approach to decision making. It made me want to get the smartest people I could find who disagreed with me so I could stress test my opinions. I used to think there was making money and there was philanthropy. Then I realized... View Details

05 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

tighter coupling is more likely in suppliers with certain types of managerial structures (certified management system and unions). We also find important interactions between these organizational structures: managerial structures offset... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

Web

CFO Letter - Annual Report 2017

to internally funded faculty research. Free from the constraints that can come with grants and other outside funding, HBS research budgets allow the School’s faculty to stay close to practice—to travel wherever their work takes them and to interact in the field with... View Details

13 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative

public health insurance market might work, imagine an automobile dealership run by the feds that sells cars made by Toyota and others, along with cars made by the government itself, manufactured with money borrowed from our children. As... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

Profile

Sheila Lirio Marcelo

area’s first Asian grocery/restaurants, the seven-year old Marcelo, in flawless English, was put to work answering the phone and taking messages. “I’ve always enjoyed the way business gets conducted and the scrappiness with which my parents View Details

Profile

Dana Hoffmann

your bills, it’s a great career choice.“ A chance call from a friend of a friend in Silicon Valley turned Hoffmann’s attention from tennis to Portico. The caller explained that he was in property management and tenant relocation and... View Details

02 Sep 2018
News

Havana Rising

When hotel manager Alessandro Benedetti worked for Kempinski chain locations in Spain and Switzerland, morning meetings were a time to go over the numbers and discuss strategy for the days ahead. But ever since Benedetti moved to Havana... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

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