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McArthur Hall | About

McArthur remained at the School as the George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus and Dean Emeritus. He served in multiple advisory roles in business, government, education, and health care. McArthur was senior advisor to the president of the... View Details

06 Nov 2008
Op-Ed

Selling Out The American Dream

leveraging of assets, on irresponsible banks and mortgage brokers who fabricated applications for no downpayment home loans knowing that the risks could be readily laid off on unsuspecting third parties. But underpinning the collapse of... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

02 Oct 2017
What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

the confines of the original question, involving us in a debate about central banking systems. Supporters of the notion of digital currencies included Hamad Sheikh, who pointed out that “Digital currency is here to stay, simply because it... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services

July 2021
Case

Bessemer Venture Partners: Century Fund

By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo

In July of 2021, Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) contemplated the future of its growth investing practice, known as “Century.” While still relatively new as a focused initiative, BVP’s growth investing already had significant momentum. The fund’s investment pace had... View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Financial Institutions; Growth and Development Strategy; Investment Banking; Competitive Strategy; Public Sector; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Acquisition

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23 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Why White-Collar Crime Spiked in America After 9/11

and financial institution fraud cases fell by 16 percent. White-collar crime spikes At the same time, however, fraud was running rampant. For example, the areas Nguyen studied saw a 40 percent increase in the rate of wire fraud. Meanwhile, View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

16 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

dollars (or perceived that payments would be interrupted). Firms operating in the commodity markets also saw their revenues shrinking, and struggled to meet obligations in (dollar) debt. As a result, most of them turn to banks to obtain... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

27 May 2015
Blog Post

What is an HBS Section?

backgrounds: section mates with in-depth finance experience from investment banking and private equity, with marketing expertise from CPG, who have successfully started and sold companies, who have served in the Navy and who are from the... View Details

11 May 2022
Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

Infrastructure/Transportation Post-HBS Industry: Investment Banking in Natural Resources What is the best part about being a mom at HBS? Having the flexibility to drop off and pick up my daughter at her daycare every day and getting to... View Details

09 Aug 2018
Cold Call Podcast

Two Million Fake Accounts: Sales Misconduct at Wells Fargo

Keywords: Re: Suraj Srinivasan; Banking; Banking

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

Highlights Conducting a Root Cause Analysis Learning from 360-degree Feedback Stepping in as CEO Show Hide Details Concepts Introduction to Project Week Bank Leumi Case Study Organizational Challenge Conclusion Featured Exercises Perform... View Details

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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

including The American Railroad Journal (established in 1832); the New York Times (1851); The Stockholder: Monitor of Finance and Industry (1862); The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (1865); and the Wall Street Journal (1889). Investment View Details

10 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

companies make mistakes that derail and even destroy them. How can companies sustain commitment and performance in this environment? A: Clearly the 2008-2009 economic crisis has some macroeconomic causes. But it can just as easily be explained by the approach to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 May 2018
News

Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987

Vargas 1976 Appointed Chief Economist, Banco de Investimentos Garantia S.A. 1980 Named Director, Central Bank of Brazil 1983 Appointed Partner, Banco de Investimentos Garantia S.A. 1987 Completes OPM Program at HBS 1993 Appointed CEO,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

18 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

write about a personal past experience that fit one of five categories: unethical, ethical, positive, negative, or neutral. The participants mostly wrote about commonplace actions (cheating on an exam or padding an expense report, for example) rather than felonious... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

14 Sep 2023
Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

options, and (2) they harbored reservations about entrusting an unfamiliar FinTech without an established banking relationship. Consequently, I began to envision a neobank dedicated to migrants, initially offering essential services like... View Details

08 May 2023
Research & Ideas

How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs

but that gap triples during periods of high public anxiety over immigration in the United States. “When there is the greatest anxiety, we see this funding shortfall.” Banks have historically rejected loan applications from Black, Asian,... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

15 Mar 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology

07 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

to are probability forecasts, outlining the likelihood of the storm going in one direction versus another. In economics, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia coordinates probability and point forecasts for predicted growth in gross... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

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Dean’s House | About

Baker’s insistence. A prominent financier, philanthropist, and president of the First National Bank of New York, Baker was an extraordinary business leader. At the age of 23, he invested $3,000 to become an original shareholder in the... View Details

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Inside the Learning: Wellness on Campus

is located right on the banks of the Charles River, which provides great trails for walking or running while taking in the local scenery. For round-trip distances along the shoreline, download the Charles River Running Map. You can also... View Details

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