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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Déjà Vu All Over Again
leading to the Panic of 1873; James Landis, an early champion of financial regulation; a run on New York’s 19th Ward Bank in the early 1900s; privately issued banknotes from the 1830s wreaked havoc with the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe
real-estate firm and in banking, where, among other achievements, he led a merger of the Bank of North Carolina with the North Carolina National Bank Corporation in the early 1980s. A graduate of the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
Plan C or D that gets implemented. That has been true more often than not in my experience.” Banking on Blood The “blood” portion of Fisher’s career began after receiving her MBA, when she joined Haemonetics, a global provider of blood... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
K.O. Chia: The Voice of Experience
Valley-based Walden International takes a hands-on approach when it backs new enterprises, insisting on monthly board meetings and close cooperation. Chia is well suited to this coaching technique. While most venture capitalists in Asia come from an investment View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
Virginia L. Davies (115th AMP) is a vice president at Goldman Sachs. She is a former vice president at the Bank of Montreal and previously worked for the Canadian Department of Justice. A native of Toronto, Davies attended Trinity College... View Details
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
Journal of Econometrics Scenario Generation for Long Run Interest Rate Risk Assessment By: Engle, Robert F., Guillaume Roussellet, and Emil N. Siriwardane Abstract—We propose a statistical model of the term structure of U.S. treasury... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
Brazil was defaulting on its overseas debt and hyperinflation was running rampant. Somehow, amid the country's financial fracasso, Jakurski sensed opportunity. "With inflation at times increasing 2 percent daily," he recalls, "we would... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages
About half of US states—mostly run by Republican governors—cut off extended unemployment benefits months before the federal government was planning to end them on Labor Day last year, convinced workers would flood back to employers who... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
That image you have from television, of a lifesaving organ packed in a cooler—just like the one you would use to carry beer—is pretty accurate, says Giwa. People running frantically through airports with coolers to catch last-minute... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
strengthened his belief that those who prosper in business are obligated to serve the greater good. His decadelong presidency of the World Bank provided the ultimate opportunity to pursue that mission on a global scale. Wolfensohn’s... View Details
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
Publications January 2015 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Bank Regulation, Capital Structure, and the Low Risk Anomaly By: Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
online well before any regulatory filing disclosed his holdings in the company. These tactics may have been designed for drama, but the investment strategy and its scale are nothing unusual today. Activist shareholders and the hedge funds they View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
entrepreneurial business leaders in the Owner/President Management Program (OPM) that he also headed for many years, is inspired enough by what he has experienced at the Meadows to consider starting a company dedicated to building and View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
they can relocate their headquarters to a hub, as GE recently did (but make them much smaller). A less expensive strategy is to create an innovation lab or corporate outpost in a talent cluster, as Walmart did with Walmart Labs. The most conservative strategy is to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
casualties and run up massive national debt; Auguste believed the best options for his son?s future lay in America. Auguste planned for Georges to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and he gave his son a letter of... View Details
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
casualties and run up massive national debt; Auguste believed the best options for his son?s future lay in America. Auguste planned for Georges to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and he gave his son a letter of... View Details
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
Publications 2006 Review of Financial Studies Unstable Equity: Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing By: Fang, Lily H., Victoria Ivashina, and Josh Lerner Abstract—Bank-affiliated private equity groups account for 30% of all... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Kevin S. Rollag
do they balance respect for the nation's laws while maintaining a commitment to human rights? How do you run a business in a location where you might be required to impose on those rights? Before, I thought of these issues as... View Details
- Profile
Marques Torbert
high school, a caring teacher introduced Marques to economics and encouraged him to prepare for and take the A.P. micro and macro exams. The Inroads program provided an internship with the Federal Reserve Bank in Cleveland. Through an... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Parsec Ventures CEO Richard Steel (OPM 45, 2014) has had a wide range of professional experiences, including everything from running... View Details