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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Roosevelt; Averell Harriman, a banker whose interests included the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads; J. P. Morgan, a banker and financier; and the investment banks Kuhn, Loeb & Company and Schroder, Rockefeller & Company,... View Details

29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

switching to green utilities or switching to a bank account that doesn't invest in fossil fuels. That could also be an opportunity for Commons to make money. It's not something we do yet, but also once we can prove that we're successful... View Details

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

services and consulting firms are increasingly substituting non-MBAs for MBAs. The numbers are small but growing. Before the crisis, a managing director at one large investment bank noted that his firm still hired 300 to 400 MBAs per year... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

01 Mar 2018
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Every Trick in the Book

without a bookstore,” she says. “It’s every bit a part of a community as a bank or a grocery store or a hardware store.” As she surveyed her new business in early 2016, however, Brody knew the East Hampton icon couldn’t remain trapped in... View Details

Keywords: April White

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

economic research has examined the influence of policy movements on bank lending behavior, capital flows, and market responses in the public sector, the private equity industry—despite its substantial size and pervasive presence—has not... View Details

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Having grown up in a developing country, Professor Sikochi’s research focus is driven by a desire to understand how capital flows to firms and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal to help build capital markets in the developing economies. To this end, he conducts... View Details

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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

03 Apr 2019
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Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data will transform financial services and small-business lending long before they impact driverless cars, predicts Harvard Business School Senior Fellow Karen G. Mills. “As we speak, large View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Banking

01 Dec 2001
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Navigating Success in Volatile Times

Citigroup's Global Investment Management and Private Banking Group, prefaced his opening address on Friday evening with a moving account of his return to Lower Manhattan following the destruction of Citigroup's offices at 7 World... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Finance

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MBA Elective Curriculum-- Competing Through Business Models

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

The words “business model” are inescapable in our daily fare of business news. These two ubiquitous words seemed to effortlessly rise up to prominence during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. When businesspeople, journalists, academics, and other... View Details

22 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'

credit market dynamics—and investor behavior. HBS Working Knowledge spoke with Robin Greenwood, the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking at Harvard Business School, about the role markets may play in shaping economic conditions.... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Banking

24 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit

It’s Wall Street doctrine that small firms struggle to raise capital at reasonable rates and are often rejected for credit lines and loans because banks think their risk profile is too high. “If you really want to drive investment,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Banking; Banking

08 Dec 2009
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Don’t Scare the Bankers

Twenty five years ago, Ji Heng (MBA ’39), a Chinese national, made a special visit to Soldiers Field. A senior official at the Bank of China (BOC), Mr. Ji had returned to the School to renew old ties, as China was opening up and reaching... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Offices of Bank Holding Companies; Offices of Bank Holding Companies; Offices of Bank Holding Companies

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Career Histories and the Biotechnology Industry

Professor Higgins' other major project focuses on the consequences of individuals' career experiences for firms and industries. This second research stream centers on the careers of executives in the biotechnology industry.

Professor Higgins has written... View Details

08 Mar 2017
Blog Post

Education Sector Opportunities at HBS

and FirstLine Schools. Alyssa graduated from UVA in 2011 where she majored in Political Philosophy, Policy and Law (PPL) and Spanish. Chelsea Banks began her career as a middle school math and science teacher through Teach for America in... View Details