Financing and Loans - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Sep 2016
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The Burning Man Project

Burning Man for the year, and also to remind ourselves that there's a place for honoring our past and honoring the things we've lost as well. Hanna: Now, Burning Man is a nonprofit. But can you talk a little... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Investing in new technologies to accelerate change

Girish Nadkami (MBA 1988), a venture capitalist in Switzerland, talks about the impact of investing in new technologies for communications, robotics, and environmental start-ups. (Published April 2014) View Details

01 Jan 2007
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A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968

development cycle used to be 24 months; it's now 12." Complementing this, he adds, is a knowledgeable sales force that fosters relationships with home-care providers, nursing homes, and medical equipment retailers; a wide assortment of... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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John McArthur

significant memories conveyed by the many influential individuals whom John touched during his life, but in 1967 there were five first-year MBA students who came directly from their undergraduate experiences who were privileged to be taught View Details

Keywords: Dean

07 Aug 2019
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“The Star of the North”

The leaders of Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, know the strength of the area in which they sit. They aren’t looking for portfolio businesses with a Manhattan financial... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Dec 2003
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Alumni Bookshelf

Straight Talk on Investing coauthored by John J. (“Jack”) Brennan (MBA ’80) (John Wiley & Sons) Brennan, chairman and CEO of The Vanguard Group, provides a hands-on, straight-forward guide to investing. Company Towns of the Pacific... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

25 Apr 2014
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Raising the bar for financial literacy

Nan Morrison (MBA 1987) is intent on making children financially and economically literate. As CEO of the Council for Economic Education (CEE), a New York–based national nonprofit, she trains more than 55,000 teachers nationwide annually,... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Dreaming big for Africa’s future

Tope Lawani (MBA 1995, JD 1996) is cofounder and managing partner of London-based Helios Investments, a private investment firm concentrating on socioeconomic development in Africa. Helios is virtually the only pan-African firm of its... View Details

01 Mar 2019
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Case Study: Off to a Fine Art

as its distinctive market offering is a meaningful advantage. —Jules Pieri (MBA 1986) In a startup business or new business unit, creative thinking in finance can be a huge advantage. Consider reaching out to large clients View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2011
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Uncle Sam’s Business Man

Barry Johnson (MBA ’89) has over 20 years of business experience as an entrepreneur and corporate executive with media giants such as the Walt Disney Company, Bertelsmann, and Sony Music Corporation. With... View Details

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

Watson. In 2014, the company announced a $1 billion investment in the Watson Unit, which would advance its cognitive computing technologies in not only medicine but law and finance View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

15 Nov 2020
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

of online events marking its 20th anniversary. In May, Senior Lecturer Michael Chu moderated an event that addressed financing small and medium-sized businesses during the pandemic, managing through crisis,... View Details

23 Oct 2015
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Staples Founder Thomas Stemberg Dies at 66

Keywords: General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

10 Aug 2017
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Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation

that our finance professor in first year was Andre Perald, who had been teaching at the school since the 1970s, so I'm sure many of you had him. And he was like a real figurehead View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

did it” winemaker stories each finish with original family recipes that pair well with their wines. More at www.WineriesOfTheSierraFoothills.com. Capital and the Common Good: How Innovative Finance is... View Details

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

guidance on cash flow issues, SBA loan applications, and adaptation strategies. The nonprofit is providing comprehensive support to enable these businesses to recover and... View Details

01 Sep 2015
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The Business of Love

Illustrations by Istvan Banyai By the standards of the algorithmic, instant-judgment online dating age, Jess Kushner (MBA 2008) and Ken Deckinger have a story fit for an old-fashioned romantic comedy. In 2003, Deckinger was running a... View Details

Keywords: April White

24 Apr 2014
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Transforming nonprofits with business-oriented insights that scale impact

Tom Tierney (MBA 1980) is working to empower social entrepreneurs, mission-driven organizations, and philanthropists to build a better world. The Bridgespan Group, the professional services firm he cofounded with Jeff Bradach (PhDOB 1992)... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

Jr., who later served as US Ambassador to Algeria and as dean of Hofstra University’s business school. DARDEN: Within the year he was joined by Stuart Taylor on the Marketing faculty and Charles Johnson on... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter

project,” says Oakes, who brings experience in finance and development to the table, plus a degree in architecture and the ability to flowchart anything. “It takes figuring out... View Details