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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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14 Feb 2023
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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

Rosabeth M. Kanter

Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct... View Details

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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

07 Jul 2008
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Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

or fail to analyze the utter breakdown in board governance and Enron's internal controls, and the failure of credit rating agencies to blow the whistle," he says. "They also overlook the collusion... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

W. Carl Kester

Carl Kester is a Baker Foundation Professor and the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Finance Unit. He served as Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs (2006-2010), Chairman of the... View Details

Keywords: banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking

21 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

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

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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

10 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Are Prices So High Right Now—and Will They Ever Return to Normal?

it, a phenomenon the researchers call “permanent stockouts.” These are persisting in some sectors and are contributing to keeping prices stubbornly high, suggest Cavallo and the View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Spangler Center | About

daughters, Anna Spangler Nelson (MBA 1988) and Abigail Riggs Spangler. Dick Spangler was a successful entrepreneur in several industries, including construction, hospitality, and banking. In the early 1980s,... View Details

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Global Crises Data by Country - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Data Global Crises Data by Country Download Data Set in Excel On this page we present data collected over many years by Carmen Reinhart (with her coauthors Ken Rogoff, Christoph Trebesch, and Vincent Reinhart). These include View Details

13 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

The Subconscious Mind of the Consumer (And How To Reach It)

about consumer behavior and in using that knowledge to benefit consumers. These firms include McNeil Consumer Health Care, McCann-Erickson, Procter & Gamble, Hallmark, Bank of America, Kraft, Samsung... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

Sandra J. Sucher

Sandra Sucher, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, is an internationally recognized trust researcher. The Power of Trust, her third book, is based on two decades of global research on how companies build stakeholder trust and how,... View Details

Keywords: banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking

January 2021
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Leading Culture Change at SEB

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Elena Corsi

The Risk organization at SEB, a leading Nordic financial services group founded in 1856, undertook a culture change program focused on psychological safety, empathic listening, and strategic framing. The program enabled risk organization teams to make progress on... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Risk Management; Leading Change; Organizational Culture; Decision Making; Banking Industry; Sweden

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12 Jan 2023
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‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data

institutions, he says, and small-business lending is one of the least automated parts of the U.S. banking system. That means it relies mostly on commercial bankers making personal judgments about borrowers.... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

06 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Leaders Lose Their Way

In recent months several high-level leaders have mysteriously lost their way. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former head of the International Monetary Fund and a leading French politician, was arraigned on charges of sexual assault. Before that... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

24 May 2017
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Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979

path through the upper ranks of investment banking as well as his success building one of the world’s leading investment funds focused on infrastructure. Today he runs Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), managing a portfolio that... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Investment analyst reports (equity research reports)

Date Range, select Industry, Country/Region, Contributor (investment bank or publisher), etc. and use the Keyword Search fields to enter your search terms Video on Using LSEG Workspace: View Details

12 Oct 2021
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Apollo Hires Legendary Banker Bill Lewis (MBA 1982) to Boost Top Ranks

Photo source: Apollo Global Management Inc. Investment banker Bill Lewis (MBA 1982) has joined Apollo Global Management Inc. as a senior partner and a member of Apollo’s Management Committee. Lewis had previously been Chairman of... View Details

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monthly or annual basis—via credit card. This will ensure that you are counted as a donor every year and help HBS to plan more effectively. Wire Transfer You can wire funds directly to HBS from your bank... View Details

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