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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
The Equity Network began with a single LinkedIn post. Kristina Hu (MBA 2022) Photo courtesy Kristina Hu In the summer of 2020, Kristina Hu (MBA 2022), then an incoming HBS student, was sitting in her San Francisco View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 Mar 2014
- News
The Power of Education
Attendance at Harvard reunions requires a little extra time from Robert Howard and his wife, Dr. Brenda Pagán-Durán. “This year, our 20th Reunion at Harvard College happened a week before my 15th at HBS,” says Howard, head of Equity... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
for loved ones, improving the job prospects of disadvantaged young people, or enabling us to communicate in new ways, the successful enterprises built and led by the 2014 awardees have had a deep impact on business and society. Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992 Founder and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Club Flourishes in London
representing business, sports, academia, civil and military services, politics, and religious organizations, inspire thoughtful conversations. Recent forums on private equity and the Internet, along with debates on single currency and... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
are deciding whether to refinance their home less than two years after taking out an initial mortgage and a subsequent home equity line of credit. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Akshay Ghulati
Akshay Ghulati's career has been a hybrid of continuity and the conquest of new territory. After graduating from Wharton, he initially returned home to New Delhi to work in his family's real estate business. "I started a new division... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
for claw-backs when investments go sour, and give executives significant equity stakes in their companies. “Two firms with compensation plans like I just described, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, both failed. So having the right... View Details
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
Using transcripts from the English-language conference calls of non-U.S. firms, we find that linguistic complexity is positively associated with the language barriers in the firms' home country. We then show that conference calls that are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
planned to disclose DEI metrics to the public. And yet, a 2021 Deloitte report, The equity imperative: The need for business to take bold action now, states: “Despite agreeing that change is needed, many leaders have come to realize how... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
investors. People who owned their homes took advantage of this equity buildup, some becoming what he termed "serial refinancers." "What used to be a goal of people like my parents to someday... View Details
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Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month | Baker Library
Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month Discover Baker Library resources with a connection to Hispanic and Latinx culture and identity. Want to stay up-to-date on DEI topics? Consider subscribing to our monthly Diversity Equity and Inclusion... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought
The team studied trends in outstanding credit, stock market values, and home prices from 1950 to 2016 for 42 countries. They found the potential for a financial crisis was highest in years when both stock prices and non-financial business... View Details
- 16 May 2016
- Blog Post
Career Resources for International Students
The student body at HBS is incredibly diverse. 34% of the Class of 2017 is international (by citizenship), and over 64 countries are represented. While some international students plan to return to their home countries, many choose to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
RETSINAS: Too many people began to regard their homes as a guaranteed high-return investment. We just got carried away,” observes Nicolas Retsinas, a lecturer in real estate at HBS, whose distinguished career in housing, community... View Details
- 17 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures
(MBA 2023) - There are 15 million homes in the US with a one in four chance of total asset loss due to flooding, RESILIFT will end that threat to American Housing. PARTICIPANTS - BUSINESS TRACK AgX - Maxwell Leef (MBA 2025), Callum... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
new roles for user innovators; user interactions with firms; and user innovation in practice, describing experiments, toolkits, and crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=42312 forthcoming Journal of Portfolio... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
The United States housing market is tight and expensive and shows no signs of easing. Existing home sales hit a 15-year high in 2021, with 6.12 million sold, a jump of 8.5 percent, according to the National Association of Realtors. Median... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
Natural disasters are a different story: though they occur much less frequently, when they do happen it's akin to thousands or even tens of thousands of pipes bursting and homes burning all at once. Hurricane Irene, for instance,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
to its current home in Durham, North Carolina, in 1993 and focused exclusively on personal care; by 1998, its product line included more than 100 items and annual sales exceeded $8 million. In 2003, Quimby (who had bought out Shavitz ten... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Agenda: Stacy Sonnenberg (MBA 2003)
SUPERFAN When Sonnenberg attends a game, she often doesn’t watch the court or field. “I’m always intrigued by stuff that the public doesn’t necessarily think about—like the width of concourses and the mix of seating types,” she says. (Photo: Benjamin Norman) “In... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg