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Investment management: industry resources

What are top resources for analyzing the investment management industry? Need to find... Start with... Industry Overviews Use industry profiles to discover how an industry operates, trends, how to analyze a company, financial... View Details

15 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point

fragility of the financial markets. They thought the financial world had become detached from the real economy. And they were upset by the potential for populist reaction to these problems that could lead to... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard & Lynn S. Paine

Career Coach

Mark Hardie

Mark (MIT Sloan ’93) is a serial entrepreneur and start-up veteran with a knack for finding innovation roles in any size company. He is a career-long mentor who loves working with start-up teams, founders and would-be entrepreneurs. Mark is currently the Director of... View Details

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01 Jun 2011
News

Four-Letter Word

lot of sound and fury that, it turns out, really doesn’t signify much at all. That’s because David Miller (MBA ’03), the Treasury Department’s former chief investment officer for TARP, helped preside over “a steady and, so far, profitable unwinding of taxpayers’... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

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Entrepreneurial Finance (Q3) - Course Catalog

the relative costs and benefits of each source of funding and the connections between a venture's financing strategy and its product-market strategy. Inevitably, there will be some overlap with courses such as Launching Global Ventures, View Details

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John Whitehead | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

International Robert Higgins Highland Capital Richard Jenrette Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Dean LeBaron Batterymarch Erling Lorentzen Aracruz Dan Lufkin Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Thomas Murphy Capital... View Details

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Professors Introduce Valuation Software

key performance variables (sales growth, profit margins, working capital turnover and long-term asset turnover) as well as financial leverage and cost of capital. Users can judge whether their forecasts are... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

With many of today's entrepreneurs starting ventures simultaneously in several countries, it is critical for the global businessperson to understand the financial and business environments in different countries and to accurately assess... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Dec 2006
News

Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance After decades of liberalization, controls on cross-border capital movements are again being examined by financial institutions, governments, and policymakers... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

09 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact

Both impact investing and traditional philanthropy are on the rise after the decade-long economic boom following the Great Recession. But when does an impact investment make a bigger difference than a grant? The question is far more complicated than simply evaluating... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

15 Jun 2021
News

In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks

to be in property, and I’m going to do well enough to give you guys a job.’ My parents had no clue about what I was doing, and I really didn’t, either. I just knew that the work involved financial services, which felt aspirational. All... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; diversity; leadership; real estate; Real Estate

Maggie L. Walker

Walker first organized an insurance company within the Order of St. Luke to help curb the problems suffered by many families when their major income-earners passed away. Capitalizing on the success of the insurance company, she went on to... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Student-Profile

Yueran Ma

growing up also had a major influence on my interests in finance. I travelled with my family in China, and everywhere I saw firms and entrepreneurs struggling to raise funding as the financial system was riddled with frictions and... View Details

13 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

Cash and the Woman-Owned Business

not invest sufficient capital in their own businesses. Either: a) They can't. b) They won't. 2. Women lack fundamental business skills and experience: a) They do not have strong math skills. b) They have little or no relevant View Details

Keywords: by Candida Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene & Myra M. Hart

01 Mar 2007
News

Faculty Books

Capital Rules by Rawi Abdelal (Harvard University Press) How and why did the world shift from an orthodoxy of free capital movements in 1914 to capital controls in 1944 and... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Jun 2001
News

Donella Rapier to Head External Relations

where she taught the first-year MBA accounting course, Financial Reporting and Control. Since making the transition to CFO, Rapier has overseen and managed all aspects of the School’s finances, including long-range View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

December 1993
Article

Risk Management: Coordinating Corporate Investment and Financing Policies

By: K. A. Froot, David S. Scharfstein and J. Stein

Keywords: Catastrophe Risk; Corporate Finance; Banking And Insurance; Hedging; Banking; Decision Choice And Uncertainty; Financial Markets; Insurance; Policy; Risk Management; Natural Disasters; Cost of Capital; Asset Pricing; Insurance Industry

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production systems on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for 10 of the top 20 Global financial institutions), managed over 200M hours of uptime in the public cloud and was recognized as one of AWS' top 22 partners world-wide. Arjun joined CTE when... View Details

Keywords: Aviation & Aerospace;#13;#Biotech & Life Sciences;#20;#Ecommerce;#24;#Electronics & Hardware;#28;#Energy, Oil, Renewables, & Environment;#31;#Finance;#37;#Gaming;#45;#Insurance;#58;#Real Estate & Housing;#64;#Software/App;#75;#Venture Capital

Career Coach

Cheryl Rousseau

been involved in both student and alumni programming, and provides one-on-one coaching aimed exclusively at alumni. Cheryl’s overall approach is to learn the motivations, interests and goals of those she serves in order to help them View Details

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28 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining

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