Financial Services Referrals - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2011
News

Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969

Founder and Chairman, FiBA Group Download Özyeğin profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1945 Born, Izmir, Turkey 1966 Elected student body president at Oregon State 1972 Returns to Turkey for military View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

An Authentic Leader

that focuses on the short term? I think to some extent business schools focus too much on developing people for the financial community and consulting, both of which are very numbers-oriented. There’s nothing wrong with being analytical.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Jan 2003
News

Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969

and great-grandmothers in the African-American community have always taught young people to help others in need. That's the sort of wisdom that anyone would do well to follow." Lillian Lincoln Lambert, the first African-American woman to graduate from HBS, grew her... View Details

09 Mar 2021
Blog Post

New BEI Director: Lynn Schenk

Initiative in which she leveraged her structured finance background and expertise from her tenure at Citigroup to focus on issues ranging from the financial structuring of renewable energy and infrastructure assets to climate-related... View Details

22 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

Financial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality? Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract In 1980, India nationalized its large private banks. This induced different bank ownership patterns across different towns,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Ivan J. Houston

Houston was instrumental in streamlining Golden State’s operations and enabling it to profitably expand. He moved the company into the group insurance field securing business from organizations such as Ford, General Motors, and AT&T. Under his tenure, Golden State... View Details

Keywords: Finance

18 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

Marketing After the Recession

closely to your customers and revise your market segmentation assumptions. Assess your target customers' trust in your brand. Clearly, trust in financial services brands has taken a beating. Many well-known... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail

05 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 5

prepay for participating merchants' goods and services. Within a model of repeat experience good purchase, we examine two mechanisms by which a discount voucher service can benefit affiliated merchants: price discrimination and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Profile

Rachel Silverstein

Even though obtaining an MBA had "always been on my mind," Rachel Silverstein was concerned that she did not quite fit the MBA profile. First, she comes from Texas, a state less represented in many top programs. Then there was the issue of experience – Rachel... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services

19 Feb 2010
News

The MBA Oath Debate

recent opinion piece in the Financial Times, HBS student Andrew Sridhar (MBA 2010) cited what he calls “troubling” aspects of the oath. For example, he doesn’t buy the professionalization analogy with oaths in law, medicine, or the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 2001
News

Speaking for the Airlines

role in assembling the rescue package and the financial and operating data required to persuade Congress and the Bush administration to help the carriers." "Airline service is the backbone of our economy,"... View Details

Keywords: Air Transportation; Transportation; National Security and International Affairs; Government

Career Coach

Nicole Ledoux

returned stateside to help build a new sell-side fixed income rates business for State Street Global Markets, trading swaptions and FX options. Nicole enjoys advising students exploring various functions in entrepreneurship and finance, especially those seeking to... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All)

01 Sep 2011
News

Student Trio Advance Health Payment Reform

focused on how to calculate a fixed price for all services related to a specific condition — knee replacement. (The hospital is nationally recognized for expertise in orthopedic surgery.) The “bundled” price would cover everything from... View Details

Keywords: bundling; Health, Social Assistance

11 Mar 2019
News

Enabling Big Thinking

later launched Dealogic, a financial services software firm. Their success in business enabled Peter to set up the Ogden Trust in 1998, a nonprofit that initially provided funding for talented students to... View Details

Fast Answer

HBS Course: Starting a Private Investment Firm

What resources are recommended for this course? Suggested Resources Private Equity - Funds, Firms, Transactions, etc. Pitchbook
Information on companies, deals, funds, investors and... View Details

Web

Student Association | MBA

social events, and, offering products and services to students (e.g., yearbook and the HBS Survival Guide). All members of the MBA student body are members of the SA. HBS is about the people — the relationships, peer learning, memorable... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Executive Action

after a woman on the Harvard campus and the first building named after an American with a Chinese surname. As part of the gift, the Chao family has also endowed the Ruth Mulan Chu and James S. C. Chao Family Fellowship Fund to support outstanding students in need of... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

Career Coach

Phil Wong

Phil (Caltech ‘05, HBS ‘10) is currently the CFO and co-founder of Sevi Health, a healthcare startup on a mission to simplify primary care in the US. His role at Sevi focuses on acquiring clinics, integrating housing and healthcare for seniors living in senior... View Details

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10 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

was concerned, however, that the firm's success, and the changing landscape of the financial services industry, were challenging the core aspects of the strategy that had brought the firm so far. He knew... View Details