Financial Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

April–May 2017
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Career Concerns of Banking Analysts

By: Joanne Horton, George Serafeim and Shan Wu

We study how career concerns influence banking analysts' forecasts and how their forecasting behavior benefits both them and bank managers. We show that banking analysts issue early in the year relatively more optimistic and later in the year more pessimistic forecasts... View Details

Keywords: Sell-side Analysts; Analyst Forecasts; Analysts; Investment Recommendations; Career Advancement; Career Management; Labor Mobility; Labor Market; Prejudice and Bias; Personal Development and Career; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Banking

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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

investment of $5 million from Canadian financial institutions, Doriot helped establish the Canadian Enterprise Development Corporation (CED), one of Canada's first venture capital firms. The European... View Details

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IFC: Saudi Arabia; Economic Diversification - Course Catalog

Departure on Wednesday, January 15, 2025. Course Fee: $3,500 Immersive Field Courses : IFCs require a firm commitment and carry a financial obligation. Financial aid is available in the form of a student... View Details

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IFC: Europe; Decarbonization and Sustainable Production - Course Catalog

November 14, November 21, and December 5; 3:10 PM - 5:10 PM plus two office hour check-in meetings Travel Dates : Arrive: Sunday, January 5, 2025 and Depart Wednesday, January 15 Course Fee: $3,500 Immersive Field Courses : IFCs require a firm commitment and carry a... View Details

17 Sep 2024
Blog Post

The International Experience at HBS: Zoe Sun (MBA 2024)

Australia, after multiple layovers, to visit the campus and attend the Q&A session in person. In the Q&A session, I often made sure to mention that HBS has one of the most generous financial aid programs for international... View Details

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Allen Yang

Johannesburg—where they helped their host—a South African home-products company, develop new soap product ideas that would appeal to its core base: middle- and lower-income South Africans. "That's what was so interesting about our... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services

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Charles Ellis | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Transcript (PDF) Charles “Charley” Ellis, HBS 1963, founded Greenwich Associates, a strategy consulting firm focusing on financial institutions, in 1972. The firm’s clients include commercial banks, investment banks, securities dealers,... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses

When MBA students returned to Soldiers Field in the fall, they had nine new second-year courses to choose from, four with an emphasis on fieldwork. For faculty, developing a course affords the opportunity to draw on research and address... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 May 2013
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Lynn Thoman, MBA 1979

says, involves her role on the Board of Fellows at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Her suggestion to HMS about how to structure the relationship between the hospitals and HMS differently resulted in $36 million in payments to HMS. “In addition to the View Details

01 Aug 2002
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Marilynn Davis (MBA '82)

career has also included impressive stints in public service, as CFO of the New York City Housing Authority in the 1990s and as assistant secretary for administration at the Department of Housing and Urban Development during the first... View Details

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Cissy Chen Archives | Social Enterprise

Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details

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Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions - Course Catalog

associated with globalization. The course focuses on the opportunities and threats created by the flow of goods, services, and international capital across countries. International trade and capital flows can significantly affect the countries’ View Details

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren. "The world of business has been governed by an implicit leadership model," Beer explains. "With the exception of a minority of CEOs, however—those we interviewed and others like them—the purpose of the firm is defined by a single-minded... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Exploring Racial Justice with the Scaling Minority Businesses Course

a general management skillset that transcended sectors – private, non-profit, and public. Our most urgent social issues require a multi-faceted approach that spans these sectors because those with the financial and other resources to... View Details

08 Mar 2016
Blog Post

6 Discoveries I Made About HBS

pull together financial and political support to open a new kind of charter high school in California, and HBS was very generous. From grants to covering plane tickets, to Independent Project (IP) credit for designing the school, they... View Details

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Arjun Goyal

Coming from a family of doctors, Arjun Goyal anticipated a life in clinical medicine in his home country of Australia. But when his education directed him to a year of research at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, where he participated in malaria vaccine... View Details

January 2004
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Macroeconomic Policy and the State of the U.S. Economy, 2003

By: David A. Moss

Based on excerpts from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on July 16, 2003, as well as economic data that were available to Chairman Greenspan at the time. Taken together, the text... View Details

Keywords: Macroeconomics; Banks and Banking; Policy; Housing; Analytics and Data Science; Problems and Challenges; Urban Development; United States

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17 Nov 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

a generation. Once reviled as villains operating on the fringes of the market, they are now powerful forces at work in the mainstream of business. Activist investing gained legitimacy and influence thanks in part to the development of a... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Financial Services

01 Dec 2013
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Your Own Medicine

be hyper-focused on developing the next Lipitor or Levitra, creating a constant drain on financial and human resources. And companies are running out of big ideas and facing gaps in their revenue thanks to... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; biomedicine; biopharmaceutical company; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

18 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 18

approximately welfare neutral. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-011.pdf Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity: Evidence from Software Development (revised) Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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