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Randolph B. Cohen

Randolph B. (Randy) Cohen is the MBA Class of 1975 Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurial Management in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. Cohen’s main research focus has been the identification of top investment managers and the prediction of manager... View Details

Keywords: investment banking industry; investment banking industry

07 Jul 2022
HBS Case

How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

They just can't keep up with it.” The couple turned to venture capitalists with little experience in food and beverage businesses, and with the addition of bank loans, backed... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

Stuart C. Gilson

Professor Stuart Gilson is the Steven R. Fenster Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and former chairman of the Finance Unit. His research, teaching, and consulting focuses on the financial, business, and legal strategies that companies... View Details

Keywords: investment banking industry; investment banking industry

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The Panama Canal

The Big Ditch is the first quantitative economic history of the Panama Canal and its effect on Panama, the United States, and the world economy. It makes three general arguments. First, that the Panama Canal was very important to... View Details

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Harvard Business School Case 125-112, July 2025. Silicon Valley Bank: Gone in 36 Hours By: Jung Koo Kang , Krishna G. Palepu and Charles C.Y. Wang July 2025 | Teaching Note | Faculty Research Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 124-001.... View Details

Rohit Deshpande

Rohit Deshpandé is a Baker Foundation Professor and Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, Emeritus at Harvard Business School, where he has been teaching in the Advanced Management Program,... View Details

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September 2020
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An Introduction to Money Laundering: 'The Hunter'

By: Eugene Soltes, Guilhem Ros and Grace Liu

Money laundering schemes disguise the criminal origins of an estimated 2% to 5% of the world’s gross domestic product. Money laundering not only enables criminals to escape detection, but may also be used to finance further criminal operations including terrorism. This... View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Accounting Audits; Financial Reporting; Financial Institutions; Banks and Banking; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governance Controls; International Relations; National Security; Ethics; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; United States; Europe

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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

Steel and Alcoa withstand antitrust accusations Personal and corporate tax rates cut Airmail service starts Influence: High 30 1930 19 The New Deal Commercial and investment... View Details

14 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career

A few years ago, DJ DiDonna seemed to have everything going for him. He had started a successful venture called the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab, which used psychometric factors to help banks issuing microloans in the developing world... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Apr 2024
Book

When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

Bridgestone/Firestone (2000), related party transactions and accounting fraud at Enron (2001), accounting fraud at WorldCom (2002), corrupt payments at Siemens (2007), mortgage lending abuses at Countrywide Financial (2006) View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

Sophus A. Reinert

Sophus Reinert is T.J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of Business Administration and of History in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School and in the History Department and Harvard University. He has won numerous awards... View Details

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Charlotte L. Robertson

Charlotte Robertson is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches BGIE in the MBA required curriculum.

Professor Robertson conducts research on the history of financial... View Details

Andre F. Perold

André Perold is a Founder, Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of HighVista Strategies, a Boston-based investment firm. HighVista focuses on investing in structurally inefficient public and private markets, including in life sciences, lower middle market private... View Details

Keywords: banking; banking; banking; banking; banking

21 Nov 2022
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Buy Now, Pay Later: How Retail's Hot Feature Hurts Low-Income Shoppers

from a US aggregator for 10 million individual transactions from January 2010 to May 2021 among merchants, providers, and consumer bank accounts. The authors then analyzed a sample of 400,000 consumers, half... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Financial Services; Technology

13 Jan 2020
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Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?

Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, who leads the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. “Our paper reveals some very attractive and socially beneficial aspects... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Banking

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Agribusiness Seminar

players that shape the food, agriculture, and energy sectors Agribusiness-specialized investment and banking firms Particularly appropriate for: Chairpersons, chief executive... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture; Agriculture

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Globalization and Emerging Markets (Elective Course) The world order has changed significantly in the last two decades. The influence of western-style varieties of capitalism has been challenged by new forms of capitalism that rely less on private enterprise and on the... View Details

Peter Tufano

Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at View Details

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03 Oct 2022
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Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All

coauthors are Natee Amornsiripanitch, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia; George Hu, a graduate student at Harvard University; Will Levinson, researcher associate at HBS; and Vladimir... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Sep 2023
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How Can Financial Advisors Thrive in Shifting Markets? Diversify, Diversify, Diversify

clients by offering information sessions, teaching them financial principles and such has a much bigger effect” in terms of growth rates, Di Maggio says. You Might Also Like: Buy Now, Pay Later: How Retail's Hot Feature Hurts Low-Income... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Financial Services

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