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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Oscar Winners
service." The three men—who have experience with tech companies such as Instagram, MakerBot, Microsoft, and Vostu, which Kushner cofounded—are backed by $40 million in venture capital. Said Nazemi, who first flashed his entrepreneurial...
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- January 1990
- Case
Citibank in Zaire (Abridged)
By: James E. Austin
Keywords:
Banks and Banking;
International Finance;
Banking Industry;
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Austin, James E. "Citibank in Zaire (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 390-098, January 1990.
- Career Coach
Phil Wong
cross-sector and cross-asset class team focused on data-driven decision making, and launching an internal portfolio analytics platform. Phil’s journey to becoming a HBS career coach included work with Professor Perlow’s Crafting Your Life...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Breyer Elected to Harvard Board
China, and India. "Jim Breyer is one of his generation's most creative and admired venture capitalists," says Harvard President Drew Faust. "He combines wide experience in new technology and media with an expansive international outlook...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alfaro Named Young Global Leader
HBS associate professor Laura Alfaro, an expert on international capital flows, foreign direct investment, and sovereign debt, has been named a Young Global Leader 2008 by the World Economic Forum. The honor recognizes the top 200 to 300...
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- 1990
- Chapter
The Free Lunch in Currency Hedging: Implications for Investment Policy and Performance Standards
By: André Perold and Evan C. Schulman
- December 1978 (Revised December 1985)
- Case
Citibank in Zaire
By: James E. Austin
Keywords:
Banks and Banking;
International Finance;
Banking Industry;
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Austin, James E. "Citibank in Zaire." Harvard Business School Case 379-077, December 1978. (Revised December 1985.)
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
microprocessors. Equally important, the idea of stock options for employees and the use of venture capital financing became a standard part of the nascent high-technology industry. As one of the founding fathers of venture capital - and...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
world's poorest countries. The International Finance Corporation invests some $2.5 billion in private-sector enterprise in developing nations. The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency encourages outside...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Sign of the Times: General Management Course Evolves
companies to be formed, and the capital markets have been more than willing to finance the competitive onslaught," Kester observed. "These changes in the economy are being led by our graduates and are also reflected in our students'...
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- 1999
- Chapter
The Global Financial System Project
By: Robert C. Merton and Peter Tufano
Keywords:
International Finance;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Projects;
Banking Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Merton, Robert C., and Peter Tufano. "The Global Financial System Project." In The Intellectual Venture Capitalist: John H. McArthur and the Work of the Harvard Business School, 1980-1995, edited by T. K. McCraw and J. L. Cruikshank. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1999.
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Silver Lining
Despite the grim headlines, Sanjay Bhatnagar (MBA ’93) knows there’s a silver lining in Enron’s dark corporate cloud. In 1997, while supervising the company’s energy operations in South Asia, Bhatnagar worked with Andrea Miller, a member of Enron’s View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Books
International Finance A Casebook by Mihir A. Desai (John Wiley & Sons) These case studies, by Associate Professor Desai, consider how major financial and investment decisions must adapt to the opportunities...
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- November 2012 (Revised November 2013)
- Case
Persephone's Pomegranate: Crédit Agricole and Emporiki
By: Dante Roscini, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Jerome Lenhardt
In 2006 the French bank Crédit Agricole bought the Greek Emporiki bank, for €2.8 billion, at the peak of a bull market for bank takeovers. Six years, a major financial crisis, and €5.2 billion of losses later, in a context of great uncertainty in the European banking...
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Keywords:
Business and Government Relations;
Currency;
Development Economics;
International Finance;
International Relations;
Banking Industry;
Greece
Roscini, Dante, Daniela Beyersdorfer, and Jerome Lenhardt. "Persephone's Pomegranate: Crédit Agricole and Emporiki." Harvard Business School Case 713-055, November 2012. (Revised November 2013.)
- 16 Oct 2017
- News
Take Time to Serve Others
Rena Clark (MBA 1990) found success by following her heart. A managing partner at Laurel Oak Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in the lower-middle industrial market, Clark forged a nonlinear career path that included management consulting,...
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- 06 Jan 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?
to lead the way, forcing other countries to act with or without an agreement? And should countries that will benefit most from the entrepreneurial opportunity, as Bharath Krishnan and Ajay Kumar Gupta implied, help View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
whether I’m still up to it. I’m ready to go.” Eight months later, in January 2004, Riley took his post at the U.S. embassy in Rabat, where he oversees a staff of 400 people. A Stanford University graduate, he is a veteran of three decades in View Details
- August 2015
- Article
Dollar Funding and the Lending Behavior of Global Banks
By: Victoria Ivashina, David S. Scharfstein and Jeremy C. Stein
A large share of dollar-denominated lending is done by non-U.S. banks, particularly European banks. We present a model in which such banks cut dollar lending more than euro lending in response to a shock to their credit quality. Because these banks rely on wholesale...
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Banks;
Global Banks;
Credit Supply;
Dollar Funding;
International Finance;
Banks and Banking;
Banking Industry
Ivashina, Victoria, David S. Scharfstein, and Jeremy C. Stein. "Dollar Funding and the Lending Behavior of Global Banks." Quarterly Journal of Economics 130, no. 3 (August 2015): 1241–1281.
- 28 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
Nairobi Love: Heading Home
available from my own classmates running review sessions, tutoring through Student Services, office hours with professors, et cetera, has been wonderful. I thrived in classes like The Entrepreneurial Manager, and Business and Government...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
boards, including those of UAL (the parent company to United Airlines), Liz Claiborne, and St. John's College. Part of that transition includes his position as executive- in-residence at Columbia Business School, where he teaches View Details
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Susan Young