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- 18 Aug 2015
- News
New HBS Fund Chairs
George School, and Buckingham Friends School. At HBS, they have been regular reunion attendees, and Jones has served as a class fundraising leader during both reunion and non-reunion years, recently chairing their class’s 25th Reunion Campaign. Garrett earned an AB in... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Michael F. Cronin, MBA 1977
of skills, imagination, and interests. Harvard needs to educate the very best MBA candidates from the widest possible applicant pool. That means we have to remove cost as a barrier.” A native of Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, Cronin relied heavily on financial aid... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Turnaround Situation
Marty Cordova (MBA 1974), a Vietnam vet who has seen good days and bad, is dedicating himself to helping other vets get their lives back together. Cordova is finance director of Rehabilitation Services and Veterans Programs (RS&VP), a... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
for social investors. These are people who put their money where their mouth isand they pay a very significant price.— Sam Hayes Hayes related an experience as a member of a Swarthmore College investment committee, which was responsible... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Three Decades of Change and Counting
Now in its 31st year, the Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) offers rising college seniors who are typically underrepresented in the business school classroom the opportunity to live the MBA experience for one week each... View Details
- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
before a tragic car accident changed the course of his life forever. On a return trip from the cherry season in Oregon, my dad and I were in a deadly collision that took his life and the lives of four other farmworkers,” says Curiel, who was days away from starting... View Details
Keywords: farmworkers
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Outside-the-box innovation for off-the-grid energy
Jaegle, an MBA candidate who co-leads HBS’s rowing team, met with a Harvard College strategist who surfs, a brilliant inventor at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Harvard Medical School physician-in-training with United Nations... View Details
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
to Chu, himself a Wall Street refugee with grounding in consulting and buy-outs, microfinance has "a double bottom-line." It brings above-average returns for first-movers who tap into what finance specialists see as a new... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2013
- News
New Thinking for China
purchasing the site that would become Xing Wei College in 2005 (it opened in 2012). “Liberal education prepares you for the rest of your life,” he says. “We want to introduce different ways of thinking.” View Details
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Bankers, Financiers, and Statesmen - Coin and Conscience
Finances in Paris. 64 John Law (1671–1729) view image Engraving by Leonard Schenk (fl. 1715–46). Pieter Schenk (b. 1660), "exc." Amsterdam, [ca. 1719]. 27.5 x 18 cm F f30 x A Scottish financier who became Controller General of View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Rethinking Housing in the Motor City
hopes to help build—a city designed for this millennium, not the last. It’s been a long road back to Detroit for Rhea, who left for college in the early 1980s. “I would have loved to have been able to go back to Detroit [after school].... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Manuscript Collections
library’s collections. Briggs Motor Sales Company Records, 1925-1946 Collection Guide The Briggs Motor Sales collection offers a relatively rare glimpse into the way an early twentieth-century car dealership helped its customers find credit to View Details
- Profile
Chris Wilson-Byrne
the environment," says Chris. "It reminded me of the things I liked about being on the college swim team – the fast pace, the excitement, and the energy." In his senior year, Chris began to evaluate his options. On the HBS... View Details
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The Spread and Adoption of Option Pricing Models - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
solution to the pricing of options and other derivatives spread quickly among receptive audiences. The Black and Scholes working papers, along with Merton's own handwritten notes and derivations of the formula, were required reading for students in Merton's View Details
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The Formula - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
member of the finance faculty. It was in this small group that the complex theories of option pricing and corporate liability valuation were developed and expanded upon. Though Fischer Black was not a member of the MIT faculty, he was a... View Details
- 05 Jan 2016
- News
Alumni Top Two New Lists of Rising Stars
immersive showerhead. Marcela Sapone (MBA 2015), CEO of Hello Alfred, an online, on-demand butler service; cofounded with classmate Jessica Beck. Also on the Forbes list are 2013 Harvard College grads Laura E. D’Asaro, Meryl F. Natow, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Action Plan: The Power of Story
eventually arrested and served a brief jail stint followed by rehab. Without a high school diploma, his future seemed bleak, but he willed himself through a GED program and community college before getting his View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
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Introduction - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
Railroads Finance Management Business Analysts Mass Distribution Mergers & Syndicates Research Links Introduction More than 240,000 miles of railroad track laid down in the United States from the mid-to-late 1800s connected vast regions... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Visual Collections
commodities—such as furniture, pianos, farm equipment, and sewing machines—that were commonly sold on credit. Less often, credit financing is mentioned in the advertising copy. The trade card was one of the most popular types of... View Details
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Ildi Nielsen
job market. Students and alumni appreciate her direct approach that includes breaking down the job search into action steps. Ildi is a graduate of Dartmouth College and is an active alumni interviewer. She and her husband manage a... View Details