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Transition Risk Incorporating Climate Risk into Financial Models: Sustainable Finance Innovative Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies Conference Presentations Presentation by Daniel P. Schrag, Harvard University Center for the Environment Remarks by Kevin J. Stiroh,... View Details

29 Feb 2024
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African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise

interned in investment banking at Goldman Sachs. What has been the highlight of your HBS experience thus far? The highlight of my HBS experience so far has been learning from and connecting with my section (shout-out to Section B!). Each... View Details

04 Nov 2010
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Why Do We Chase Stars?

data for 1988 through 1996. It includes ratings before and after an analyst's transfer from one investment bank to another as well as the results of extensive interviews over several years of study. Among other things, they found that... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

02 Jun 2016
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Applying to the JD/MBA Program

Joanna: I grew up in Maryland and went to Yale for undergrad, where I studied Economics and East Asian Studies. Before grad school, I spent one year in investment banking and two years in capital markets at View Details

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Payment and Financial Aid - HBS Online

Payment Methods Loans Grants Payment Methods HBS Online offers a variety of secure payment methods to provide flexibility, including: Credit and debit cards (Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and AMEX) PayPal Wire transfers Western Union Bank... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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Step Change

London School of Economics. After stints as a researcher and analyst at investment bank EFG Hermes and the International Finance Corporation, she was recommended for a role at Egypt’s Ministry of Finance in 2010, working in the Macro... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

30 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides

Australia’s fourth-largest company, agreed to let Buell and Choi test the benefits of trade-off transparency among its prospective credit card customers. Commonwealth Bank is the country’s biggest issuer of credit card loans, with almost... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

14 Mar 2024
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IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India

to perform work they previously wouldn’t have been able to do (e.g., roti machine with space for a wheelchair). SELCO has also built partnerships with Indian banks and microfinance organizations to enable entrepreneurs and families to... View Details

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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online

my mind. Also, I have learned how to quickly assess and network with other companies and panelists at the hundreds of meetup events I've attended. Vasilios Dimopoulos Associate at Deutsche Bank Professor Sahlman’s careful observation of... View Details

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education

Negro College Fund, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the NAACP. Benjamin Tanner Johnson HBS MBA 1921 Princeton, NJ Howard University, 1919 Benjamin Tanner Johnson was a tireless champion for African American-owned View Details

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Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020

that vision to investment banks and investors. Lomtadze provided a twist ending for the case. Kaspi.kz had decided to put the IPO on hold. The company felt that its business model had not been explained properly by its advisors and... View Details

04 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?

and mistakes made by employees in two different branches of the same bank that implemented different policies on Internet use over the course of three months. "It would be relatively easy to do, and have very clear implications for... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 Nov 2013
HBS Seminar

Laura Diaz Anadon, Harvard Kennedy School

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

fact that most customers who defected from a particular bank gave "interest rates" as the reason for switching banks seemed to suggest that their original bank's interest rates were not... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

15 Sep 2017
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Christopher Harland (MBA 1984)

Christopher Harland (MBA 1984) Christopher Harland (MBA 1984) A graduate of Harvard College, Christopher Harland (MBA 1984) spent three years at Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City before returning to Boston to enroll at HBS. “Harvard... View Details

01 Dec 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Financing Innovation

Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Ramana Nanda

10 Apr 2023
News

Leading the Way

Kennedy School, and receiving multiple honors for his leadership, Trejo quickly rose through the ranks at Bank of America. He then spent nearly a decade traveling around the world and working on billion-dollar transactions in the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

the building gets built and (hopefully) leased. I have another case I am working on with HBS professor Dan Bergstresser on a real estate mortgage bank in Argentina that restructured itself during the country's recent collapse—the greatest... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Real Estate

04 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted

unnamed commercial bank in Asia between 2015 and 2018, Cullen and Perez-Truglia found that male employees advanced further and faster when they reported to male managers. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/j7qgnGnkPPjsnT2zdhza][/div] Two... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

The Real Cost of Bribery

The World Bank estimates that the equivalent of $1 trillion is offered in bribes every year. In the age of globalization, it's easy to see how giving into bribery might be competitively advantageous. In fact, research by Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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