Financial Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1998
News

Novartis AG Establishes Global Research Fund

the two disparate companies into one global leader. As part of this effort, Vasella began sending almost all top managers, himself included, to a customized Executive Education program at HBS that focused on leadership and change. Professor Srikant Datar View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

leaders were trained, sophisticated strategic-planning systems were supposed to help senior managers decide which businesses to grow and which to harvest. 1 Unfortunately, all the planning and investment were unable to stop the competition from imitating or... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

01 Dec 2018
News

Lighting the Way

high-ranking executive positions. One of those 67, Beverly Anderson (MBA 1997), is working to grow that number. An executive vice president at Wells Fargo with nearly three decades in the financial industry, Anderson hopes that her legacy... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Martin V. Marshall Remembered

MARSHALL: A key force behind OPM. HBS professor emeritus Martin V. (“Marty”) Marshall (MBA 2/’47, DCS ’53), a driving force in the development of the School’s Owner/President Management Program (OPM) for entrepreneurs, died on February 16... View Details

Keywords: obiturary; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2011
News

Faculty Books

entrepreneurship, creativity, problem solving, business growth, and even personal development almost always depends on the ability to challenge accepted notions, reshape the environment, and play by a different set of rules: our own. To... View Details

Keywords: Utilities

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

pre-COVID financial markets were unstable and trade wars were intensifying. Public health in developing countries was improving thanks primarily to the work of NGOs. But in the US, men between 30 and 50 were... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Feb 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?

leaders of our largest financial institutions worldwide struggling to justify decisions that have placed their organizations in jeopardy. I was reminded, too, of the CEO of a well-known retail organization who, I believe, would be... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

25 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 25

source of internal capital. Lawmakers and lobbyists justified its passage by arguing that it would alleviate financial constraints. This paper's results indicate that repatriations did not lead to an increase in domestic investment,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2015
News

Complements to the Case Method

Coleman Professor of Financial Management. “We are surprised by how teams come in and say we talked to the CEO,” laughs Cohen. One of the key lessons in Cohen and Malloy’s field course, Stock Pitching, is that the market is almost always... View Details

21 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 21, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49375 Enabling Versus Controlling-Online Appendix By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright Abstract—No abstract available. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49378 Mobile Money... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Tasneem Dohadwala

Tasneem previously worked in financial services on the sell-side at Lehman Brothers and at Matrix Partners. As Founding Partner of Excelestar Ventures, notable investments of hers are Augmenix (acq. by Boston Scientific), nVision (acq. by... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital

28 Sep 2017
News

Alumni-Founded Aerospace Pioneer Orbital Acquired for $7.8 Billion

opportunities that require the enhanced technical and financial resources of a larger organization. Our employees will also benefit from greater development and career opportunities as members of a larger,... View Details

20 Nov 2014
News

Expanding Audiences Through HBX CORe

of three offerings developed for HBX, a unique digital education initiative that enables HBS to extend its signature, case-based learning method to new audiences. The full suite of HBX programs includes specialized courses and HBX Live, a... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

Chao Family Donates $40 Million to HBS

noted: "My mother was a positive, optimistic person who believed in the transformational power of education, regardless of gender, in developing leaders for the world." (Of the family's six daughters, May, Grace, and Angela Chao also... View Details

05 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 5

Eisenmann and Lauren BarleyHarvard Business School Case 811-055 In October 2010, Triangulate's founder/CEO must determine what product features to develop and what marketing programs to pursue in order to boost the odds of successfully... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1997
News

"Economists are puzzle solvers..."

options. The methodology we developed to solve that original problem, however, gave us an insight into solving a wide range of other problems. I think of the process of discerning other applications as a little bit like peeling an onion:... View Details

Profile

Brighton Mudzingwa

Business and Investment Club (HABIC), "an organization focused exclusively on exploring how business and investment capital can be used to propel economic development in Africa." Unlearning old habits to acquire new leadership... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

01 Sep 2009
News

Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut

the idea to develop such a course? The inspiration came to me ten years ago, about the time I got tenure. As I reflected on my post-tenure plans, I wrote about my interest in how the financial sector works... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance

01 Oct 1999
News

Four Promoted to Full Professor

Clayton M. Christensen has a joint appointment in the Technology and Operations Management and General Management units. His research focuses on the management of technological innovation, developing organizational capabilities, and... View Details

25 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

Harvard Kennedy School’s Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA-ID) is designed to prepare the next generation of leaders in international development. It is an economics-centered, multidisciplinary program... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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