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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
However, like most social sciences, it’s historically based and typically involves one faculty member and their research assistant working on the case project. But there is a real opportunity here to adopt a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
individuals, can borrow and adapt." That belief, they maintain, will require that some companies, in their own best interests, relinquish control over brands and "be... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
"How about 'No new taxes after these new taxes'?" © James Stevenson/The New Yorker Collection/www.cartoonbank.com As Congress starts the next round of debt ceiling negotiations, the US Chamber of Commerce View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
What Went Wrong?
myself straining to understand not just what was happening but the strange vocabulary used to describe it. I’d never heard of a subprime mortgage. Likewise securitization in all its exotic flavors: collateralized debt obligations,... View Details
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Field Course: Entrepreneurship through Acquisition (Application Only) - Course Catalog
course is not a case-based course. It will meet weekly and students will be required to complete assignments on topics relevant to buying a small company such as how to screen potential acquisition targets, the likely types, terms View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
After its war of liberation from England, America was bankrupt, disjointed, and devoid of experience in governance. "The new country could have broken apart because of its financial problems," HBS professor emeritus Thomas McCraw writes... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
“hoping” that consumer and small-business debt will accelerate GDP growth (like Brazil did at the beginning of the century). Will this new measure take the Chinese consumer beyond tolerable levels of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Record-Breaking Gift for Fellowships
father had to take on loans, and it was his dream to have his own children attend college without the burden of debt or having to work during school,” said Jeannie, noting that her father became an... View Details
- 29 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Global Change in the Built Environment
class because of its large component of current income and cash flow. The three big trends in the industry are securitization, globalization, and environmentalism. The securitization markets on both the... View Details
- Profile
John Smith-Ricco
complain about not having work because we knew why — the problem was race. Now we have democracy and a Black government — but we’re still poor.’ I saw a major disconnect among everyday people between the expectations they once had View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Feedback
how to help with student loan debt postgraduation and helped initiate the idea of proactive scholarships in advance of taking on student debt. He was comfortable with people of all walks of life View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
live and take root, the home in recent times has been elevated to Investment Opportunity, a place where you stayed for awhile, made a lot of money, then moved on to the next home-investment. Is the definition of home about to change once... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
Issue Focus: The Global Manager Mittal Issue Focus: The Global Manager Around the World They Call Him Mr. China Bringing Global Back Home In 1976, in India’s Punjab region, 18-year-old Sunil Bharti Mittal (OPM 27, 1999) borrowed a modest... View Details
- 21 Jan 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts
sold in. "Who has the money?" Buyouts are often expensive and either other owners or the company must have the money to buy the shares of the sellers. Sometimes you can bring in external investment or View Details
Keywords: Retail
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5-Year Data Summary - Annual Report 2016
546 Expenses $ 704 m. 660 645 571 504 Cash from Operations 57 47 31 41 42 Capital Investments 113 81 92 80 51 Building Debt Outstanding 71 78 85 91 99 Unrestricted Reserves 103 125 99 83 119 Endowment 3,181 3,323 3,224 2,880 2,665 Total... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
through the business world is a great advantage. The IPO went well? Yes, we raised nearly $190 million, which enabled us to retire debt and go in some new directions. My main challenge now is managing growth... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
through the business world is a great advantage. The IPO went well? Yes, we raised nearly $190 million, which enabled us to retire debt and go in some new directions. My main challenge now is managing growth... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The HBS Show Must Go On: "STARt-up WARS" Continues Tradition of Smash Hits
sixteen skits and popular songs with humorously altered lyrics in a satirical look at HBS life. The organizers borrowed money to produce the show, which ran for two nights in Baker 100. A sell-out hit, the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World
burdens of debt prompted York, global head of Private Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs, to endow a fellowship in recognition of his 25th Reunion and add to it for his 30th. The son of a veteran, York... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
earnings grew 23 percent and debt was reduced. The life of any CEO of a multibillion-dollar company involves long hours, and given that Anglo American has a presence in 43... View Details