Financial Advisers - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Oct 2015
Blog Post

HBS and the Arts

opportunity to combine my interests in art and finance by working for an asset management firm where I helped to establish a group focused on financial services for the art community. We worked with museums, artist foundations, artists,... View Details

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

possible to set expectations on what makes a good hire at your company (even if the hiring managers are experienced) and serve as a role model to managers who will eventually do this themselves. If you are new to hiring, get help from View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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Faculty - Private Capital Project

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the European Central Bank. She serves on the editorial boards of the Review of Financial Studies, the Review of Corporate Finance Studies, and the Journal of Financial... View Details

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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective - Recruiting

experience because it enables students to quickly build credibility with founders and truly have empathy for what they are going through.” Ideal candidates for the growth stage teams will often have previous financial experience. The HBS... View Details

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

decarbonized future? How can we–and must we–reimagine our approaches to finance to accomplish our climate goals? This session will demonstrate how financiers along the capital stack are examining climate risk, return, and opportunity to... View Details

31 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 31

Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines the impact of leveraged buyout firms' bank relationships on the terms of their syndicated loans. Using a sample of 1,590 loans financing private equity sponsored leveraged... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Jun 2015
News

Yat-Pang (MBA 2000) and Helina Au

10th Reunion, and Howard Stevenson responded.” Stevenson, the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, introduced Au to principals of a major hedge fund who not only advised him but also invested in Veritas and helped... View Details

21 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good

to grips with the question, Shu and co-author Erin Scott, of the National University of Singapore, needed to find a setting in which they could pinpoint the relationship between initial evaluation and future outcomes—that is, one in which experts were evaluating ideas... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Financial Services

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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

Frank V. Cespedes, MBA Class of 1973 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Managing Hypergrowth Jeffrey F. Rayport, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration The Science of Scaling Mark N. Roberge, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration View Details

06 Aug 2021
Book

Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO

had wanted to achieve at Apple from its founding in 1976 to his firing in 1985. He still believed that the future was all about the computer. He agreed to act as an advisor to Amelio, promising to “help Gil in any way he asks me to,” illustrating that when Steve... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 10

with data about the relative importance of courses and (2) to provide faculty with information about how to improve the curriculum and best advise students. The most salient result is that students were strongly View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Management in Business Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance Felix Oberholzer-Gee Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration Robert Simons Credential of... View Details

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

and is well worth the effort. Slides Predicting Market Bubbles and Financial Crises Professor Robin Greenwood + More Info – Less Info Over the past decade, researchers at Harvard Business School, through the Behavioral Finance and View Details

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Awards | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

occupations with unmet needs or in areas with unmet needs, and For or under the direction of a governmental unit or a Section 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Additional information can be found in Section 5 of IRS Publication 970 (pdf) . If you have additional... View Details

29 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)

Ministries of Finance across Africa and the Middle East on topics such as tax revenue improvement, expenditure management, and economic planning. I also advised commercial and development banks on revenue growth strategies in new... View Details

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

right, don’t be afraid to speak up, Whillans suggests. “We forget that just as we can negotiate for a higher salary and other benefits, we can also negotiate for more time at work,” she says. 3. Throw money at the problem. Venture capitalists often View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

tough, but the complexity is magnified during multiparty negotiations, especially when some of the interested parties are not obvious. How do you advise flagging all key influencers? A: To get the set-up of a negotiation right, you need... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Sebastian Velasco

Harvard where he graduated cum laude in economics, a degree that not only reflected his interest in finance, but would help him "understand the root causes of corruption, inequality, and under-development." After graduation, Sebastian spent six years with... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

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Strategy for Health Care Delivery - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

overseeing care delivery, and financial executives who direct cost management Senior executives or strategists from large organizations that provide health care to employees or customers, collaborate with health care institutions, or... View Details

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

strategies. The strategy map for a support unit typically includes a financial objective to improve its efficiency in supplying services to the enterprise. This objective is usually measured by the cost of services provided and a... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

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