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- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
financing now, this is the second fund. You closed the first one in 2013, launched the second in 2017, and you started with seed funding. And that seems to reflect this kind of movement up the ladder that you've seen generally in the...
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Nelson Yuan
“While finance is important, I needed an efficient way to acquire a larger understanding of business, including marketing, strategy and entrepreneurship. HBS’ general-management focus fits my ambitions....
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- 11 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Kel Jackson, MBA 2019: "[My Job] Matters. I Didn't Want a Role that Would Box Me In."
people that’s what gets me out of bed—is feeling like I matter. People’s lives rely on what we do at Aurora.” In his new role, Jackson is most excited about implementing the strategy and finance knowledge...
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Manufacturing
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Faculty Research Online
Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution In his new book, Seven Strategy Questions, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration Robert Simons explains how managers can...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
(MBA ’69), a founding partner of Apax Partners and a social-venture entrepreneur, and HBS senior lecturer Thierry Breton, former finance minister of France. With University Professor Michael Porter moderating, the conversation about the...
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- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
'non-strategic traders,' " Cohen says. Historically, Wall Street has failed to consider the local ethnic population trading strategy when assessing the value of a firm. In fact, the researchers found that analysts are significantly less...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Books
dynamics and strategies used by firms that recognize the transformative power of these “invisible engines.” Shorter discussions of Internet-based software platforms offer glimpses into a future in which the way we buy, pay, watch, listen,...
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- 17 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)
diseases in low-and middle-income countries. I am part of CHAI’s Global Malaria Strategy and Financing team, a team that provides direct technical and operational support to countries to strengthen their...
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- Career Coach
Annette Rodriguez-Ferrer
Founder and Managing Partner of MKH Capital Partners, Annette has built the firm and spearheads MKH’s investment strategy and firm management. Prior to MKH, Annette was a Partner at Warburg Pincus, a leading global private equity firm,...
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Consumer Products;
Entrepreneurship;
Impact Investing;
Financial Services (All);
Investment Banking;
Financial Services (All);
Investment Management;
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Private Equity;
Financial Services (All);
Health Care;
Retail;
Startup - Founder;
Entrepreneurship;
Startup - Joiner;
Entrepreneurship
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
assets reaching roughly $10 trillion, equivalent to total assets in the entire U.S. banking system. Says Moss: “While new systemic threats had emerged along the way, there was little effort to regulate them, undercutting the original New Deal View Details
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
As economic turmoil continues, many companies are reconsidering their strategies with an eye toward going lean and slashing prices. And that might work for a few companies—but very few. Instead, companies should compete "on the basis...
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Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring - Course Catalog
process of renegotiation and re-contracting - the “re-slicing of the corporate pie” - is the central focus of the course. An additional objective in dissecting the complex finances and operating challenges that confront companies in...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
“It is not at all clear that when firms expand abroad they contract at home. If anything, you see the opposite.” — HBS professor MIHIR DESAI noting that foreign profits made by American firms put them in a better position to grow at home. (Washington Post, September...
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
Capital Markets Luis Viceira Emil Siriwardane Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Investment Strategies William Vrattos Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 Managing and Innovating in Financial Services David Scharfstein Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Market Perspectives (previously...
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- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
place an undue burden on workers who don't have the interest, time, or expertise to manage their finances. A pioneer in translating finance and mathematics into practical, Wall Street-ready models, Merton was awarded the 1997 Nobel...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
common issues most Latin American countries are dealing with. It's a factor that constrains business strategy across the region." Latin America's equity markets are thin and capital is scarce, Ghemawat says, with the result that companies...
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Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna;
Latin America;
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infrastructure;
Finance;
Finance;
Finance;
Finance;
Finance
Brittany Davis
Technologies, while completing an MBA at Harvard Business School. She gained experience supporting entrepreneurs as an Associate at Techstars and as a Mentor at Startup Jamaica, built a solid foundation in finance working at Bank of...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
taxpayers on the hook when things went bad. The upshot is that the nation’s largest financial institutions now live in a “heads I win, tails you lose” world of moral hazard. No wonder calls to end too big to fail have hit a fever pitch. At present, there are two...
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- 29 Apr 2008
- Research Event
Venture Capital
world—economies forever. The conference addressed some major issues and questions: What strategies are most effective in creating a top-decile firm? Will those strategies also work in the face of new...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A commitment to conservation supports the bottom line
sustainability. “We strongly believe in the appeal of a strategy that achieves the goals of both purely financial investors and mission-driven investors, as it allows us to access more capital and have a greater impact,” explains Hoffer....
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