Financial Derivatives - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Ryu Kawano

financials and determine where value is derived from." After a year, he accepted a position with TPG Capital in Tokyo. "Part of what attracted me was the opportunity to work in my home country — I... View Details

24 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Data-Driven and in Demand

immediate one of financial services. This highlighted the need for me to gain data fluency and competency—to invest in building out my data and analytics skillset for the sake of my career.” When Ho decided to explore different career... View Details

01 Feb 1998
News

Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)

secured and the league is fully capitalized, and with additional revenues derived from television contracts and ticket sales, the NSA, Rottenberg believes, will be on sound financial footing from the outset,... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities

01 Jun 2002
News

Books

until plummeting stock valuations in the spring of 2000 burst the Internet stock “bubble,” venture capitalists, investment bankers, mutual funds managers, accountants, and corporate leaders had sponsored a financial mania at the expense... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

08 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 8

Entrepreneurs in U.S. Financial History, 1775-1914 Author:T.K. McCraw Publication:Capitalism and Society 5, no. 1 (2010) Abstract Throughout its history, the U.S. has been the beneficiary of a worldwide in-migration of entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2010
News

Beacon of Liberty

replace “power-less and lost” with “hopeful and optimistic.” I want the New York skyline to once more inspire dreams of the possible, not echoes of the past. I want to come home again. — Sharjeel Kashmir (PLDA 4, 2007) works on banking strategy and View Details

Keywords: Sharjeel Kashmir; Islam; 9/11

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur

always the wrong thing to do, Gilbert noted, because your project may one day become the core business. GE, once a maker of appliances, now derives 60 percent of its revenue and 70 percent of its profit from View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact

revenue toward high impact opportunities, then an investment may allow the financier to reallocate funds to other purposes. Does the company have opportunities to expand its profitability at little cost to its social mission? If yes, an... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

07 Jul 2020
Blog Post

The JD/MBA Seminar: The Perfect Practice Ground

also found it to be one that stimulates deep reflection. On one end, the seminar is a rigorous academic capstone, pushing us to think deeply about and integrate what we have learned across our HBS and HLS educations. When people present, they use analytical frameworks... View Details

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Digital Marketing & AI Workshop - Course Catalog

to design, execute, and measure campaigns that drive financial impact. Students will learn to apply proven frameworks and emerging tools at different stages of a company’s lifecycle, focusing on acquisition, retention, and revenue growth.... View Details

30 Nov 2016
Blog Post

Why I Didn’t Think I’d Get in to HBS

that person has been more than willing to help me learn. On countless occasions in my RC year, I happily traded an hour of financial derivatives tutoring in exchange for an hour of accounting help, and along... View Details

03 Sep 2020
Op-Ed

Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC

Commission. Why health care needs an SEC equivalent For more than eight decades, the SEC has brought transparency to the financial system, policing the market to ensure robust disclosure that complies with Generally Accepted Accounting... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger; Health

01 Mar 2009
News

Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

Beijing is America’s largest foreign creditor. But how long will the Chinese continue to finance U.S. deficit spending? Illustration by Stuart Bradford In his new book, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, HBS professor... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

3:1). The recommendations of traditional asset allocation models derive mostly from the fact that these models usually adopt a short-term view of risk and return. This view is rather innocuous when annualized risk does not change across... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

12 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 12

derived predictions, does not confirm the private information hypothesis. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1134943 Working PapersFiduciary Duties and Equity‐Debtholder Conflicts Authors:Bo Becker and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 4

aggressively managing their own tax liabilities and those of their portfolio firms. We investigate the latter assertion based on a sample of private firms for which there is financial statement data available. We first document that firms... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Feb 1999
News

Short Takes

errors. These teams were also judged to be better performers by nonteam members assessing their work. In addition, they were better able to overcome roadblocks to success such as a lack of material or financial resources. "The team... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

21 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

2000 respectively, GE Capital and Citi Financial both acquired Japanese consumer-lending companies. In 2006, when the Japanese Supreme Court rules that one of the big Japanese consumer lenders must repay a borrower for "excess... View Details