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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
Illustration by Jon Krause What percentage of managers do you think steal from their companies? Your answer to that question can tell a financial institution a lot about your creditworthiness, says DJ DiDonna (MBA 2010), cofounder and... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Figuring Out Her Mission | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Leadership Fellows Program job posting at Boston Ballet gave her a chance to explore it as a reality. Executive Director, Max Hodges (MBA 2010), was seeking a Chief of Staff with a business background and MBA skills in strategy and... View Details
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
stations,” the Journal reported. “Doing a layoff for the right reason is not just smart strategically, it’s smart organizationally.” Two months earlier, in July, Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi published a note in the financial software firm’s... View Details
- January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
- Case
Juno (A): Leveraging Student Power
By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Kathleen L. McGinn and Amy Klopfenstein
In March 2020, Chris Abkarians and Nikhil Agarwal were in the midst of preparing the annual auction for their student loan assistance startup, Juno. Both current MBA students at Harvard Business School, the duo founded Juno in 2018 to leverage student bargaining power... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Cost vs Benefits; Education; Higher Education; Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Strategy; Adaptation; Alignment; Negotiation; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Deal; Negotiation Offer; Negotiation Types; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States; Massachusetts; Boston
Schwartzstein, Joshua, Kathleen L. McGinn, and Amy Klopfenstein. "Juno (A): Leveraging Student Power." Harvard Business School Case 921-032, January 2021. (Revised March 2021.)
- 19 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Leadership Fellow Ming Min Hui: Figuring Out Her Mission
Program job posting at Boston Ballet gave her a chance to explore it as a reality. Executive Director, Max Hodges (MBA 2010), was seeking a Chief of Staff with a business background and MBA skills in strategy and quantitative analytics.... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
spreads have lower means, lower cross-country correlations, and lower sensitivity to global risk factors. We discuss several major sources of credit-spread differentials, including positively correlated credit and currency risk, selective default, capital controls, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Understanding the global economy from a new perspective
Henry Paulson (MBA 1970) has held public and private leadership positions, including roles as chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, and US Secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush. As chairman of The Paulson Institute at the University of Chicago, he is... View Details
- Profile
Ed Rogers
conception to execution, I was surprised by the extent to which we could apply concepts we touched on in various RC classes. For instance, in our Marketing and Strategy courses, we talked a lot about how you need to position your... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
important questions in terms of its future strategy and mission. Should the Bank continue to focus on micro-level development initiatives, such as the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), or return to traditional macro-level View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Euro Vision
be in our backyard," he says. "We deliberately didn't want to go to London, even though it was a bigger city with a big financial center, because we thought there was a risk of just sitting back and waiting for companies to file through.... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer
- August 2011
- Teaching Note
Friend Bank: The Time for Hope (TN)
By: Clayton Rose and Sally Canter Ganzfried
Teaching Note for 310-070. View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Successful Internship Matchmaking: “With Citadel, I could be myself.”
Sarah refine her search. “I looked at industries hyper-dependent on people, and concentrated on technology and financial services.” Like her HBS colleagues, Sarah launched a campaign to “reach out and connect to people,” perusing the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
Case Study features alumni and faculty offering advice on strategy to alumni who are leading businesses at a crossroads. Charles Philp (MBA 2006) started Colorado-based Sneakz Organic with his business partner in 2012 after a lightbulb... View Details
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“It’s like a pie-eating contest” | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
top levels of the hospital’s executive team. Josh started as a Special Assistant to Alastair, who oversaw a hospital-wide strategy team responsible for a wide range of initiatives. “On my first assignment, I used skills I already had to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
for the first time in nine years, we asked former chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Board of Directors Kirk Sykes (OPM 26, 1998)—current president and managing director of the Urban Strategy America Fund—to field your... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors show how modern finance combined with easy money threatened to cripple the world View Details
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Independent Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
internal strategy group to determine the appropriate efficient scale for country offices. Explored interactive media approaches for an organization focused on expanding access to financial services for... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Finance (Q2) - Course Catalog
costs and benefits of each source of funding and the connections between a venture's financing strategy and its product-market strategy. Inevitably, there will be some overlap with courses such as Launching Global Ventures, View Details
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
professional and political characteristics of FASB members and SEC commissioners predict the accounting "reliability" and "relevance" of proposed standards. Notably, we find FASB members with backgrounds in financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
failures are likely to spur problem solving. We hypothesize that problem solving activities are especially likely to follow reported operational failures that provoke financial and legal liability risks. We also hypothesize that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace