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- 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
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)
possibilities. For me, HBS was a turning point." After graduating, Brody went directly to Goldman and began an outstanding twenty-year career there. Over the years, he founded and headed Goldman's high-technology investment banking group,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 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
Tango, Jo, and Alys Ferragamo. "Bessemer Venture Partners: Century Fund." Harvard Business School Case 822-009, July 2021.
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
front, you had us building satellites. The entrance was a garage door that couldn't really close. The car that was standing there was like the single most beat-up Toyota Corolla, in white, that you can imagine, which was our phone booth.We also had a former View Details
- 30 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Finding Pride
nondiscrimination. Most banks had nothing, but Bank of America, Chase, and Citibank all did, so that’s where I applied. I decided on San Francisco-based Bank of America because... View Details
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
however, may not be enough. “You need to have more active or curated interviews, giving people a reason to talk to one another, and an agenda so they can reflect on their strengths and opportunities for growth,” Stanton says. “You don’t have to break the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
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
- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
information from Bankruptcydata.com, Bloomberg Law, Moody’s Investors Service, and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Antill studied 503 nonfinancial companies, each carrying more than $50 million in debt at the time of default... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 09 Aug 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Two Million Fake Accounts: Sales Misconduct at Wells Fargo
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details
- 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
- 18 Apr 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Impact of Pooling on Throughput Time in Discretionary Work Settings: An Empirical Investigation of Emergency Department Length of Stay
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
they can’t make an overall risk assessment. Gazette: This week, a panel of banking regulators and treasury officials from the G20 countries said it will put forward “robust” new regulations in October in response to the “intrinsic... View Details
- 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
- August 2023 (Revised December 2023)
- Case
Money Fellows: The Quest for Expansion
By: Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, Michael Chu and Ahmed Dahawy
This case explores the opportunities and challenges associated with expanding the operations of a complex entrepreneurial business model. It highlights how cultural aspects of different geographies impact a startup's operational and economic models. The case also... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Developing Countries and Economies; Geographic Scope; Business Strategy; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Business and Shareholder Relations; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Egypt
Rodríguez Arregui, Álvaro, Michael Chu, and Ahmed Dahawy. "Money Fellows: The Quest for Expansion." Harvard Business School Case 324-010, August 2023. (Revised December 2023.)
- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
the startup approaches its “fume date” —when its bank balance hits zero. In parallel, the founder will probably start to lay off employees, deciding how deeply to cut. And this is just the prelude to a shutdown. Things get worse when it... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 10 Nov 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India
- Research Summary
Principal Research Interests
My research is principally focused on nineteenth- and twentieth-century subjects, with an emphasis on economic and especially financial history. I am interested in the role of banks and capital markets in the process of economic development as well as in the political... View Details
- 2023
- Book
Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia
By: Meg Rithmire
Developing Asia has been the site of some of the last century's fastest growing economies as well as some of the world's most durable authoritarian regimes. Many accounts of rapid growth alongside monopolies on political power have focused on crony relationships... View Details
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Systems; Crime and Corruption; China; Indonesia; Malaysia
Rithmire, Meg. Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia. Oxford University Press, 2023.
- 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