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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Giving Tree
Managing Director, GTCR Chicago “My father was a fireman and came from a large family; I was a financial aid kid in college. There is a sense of gratitude and obligation when you’ve benefited from an institution like HBS. I’m very focused... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53507 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Bubbles for Fama By: Greenwood, Robin, Andrei Shleifer, and Yang You Abstract—We evaluate Eugene Fama's claim that stock... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
Discussing examples of how service-oriented organizations deliver breakthrough service, Sasser urged his audience to take a "quantum leap" in their customer satisfaction efforts and to develop strategies to prevent customers from... 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
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
advertising over his first four years with the club. Matsui's presence reportedly brought $500 million in five years to New York City, measured by everything from hotel bookings to restaurant sales. Of course, no amount of marketing in the world can save teams from the... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
to be depleted in “bad” times. Instead, issuing domestic debt while accumulating reserves acts as a hedge against external shocks. A quantitative exercise of the Brazilian economy suggests this strategy to be effective for smoothing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
during financial crises because they are more dependent on bank capital to fund their growth and operations. They feel the swings up and down more acutely due to their reliance on the free flow of bank credit, according to a 1994 study by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created... View Details
- Profile
Micah Macfarlane
perspectives," says Micah. "I also feel like HBS has the greatest academic rigor. With the case method everyone shows up, ready to dive in. I was blown away the first time I visited a class." Not least of his considerations was cost. "The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeffrey Dunn (MBA 1981)
financially and managerially as a for-profit organization. That’s what I told the Sesame Workshop board. I said, “If you aren’t looking for that kind of discipline, don’t hire me.” I have three bosses: the board, my employees, and the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
shareholder value. The GE board had deferred to Welch in a highly public selection process, which had favored the sales-focused Immelt over someone who could transform GE to prepare the company for the future, just as Welch had done in the early 1980s. Immelt never... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
leaders focus on the few things that produce results and experiences for the right customers; (3) the best service operating strategies don't require tradeoffs, so leaders foster "both/and" thinking in designing winning... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
alleviate congestion, and can actually increase it. Research by Jillian Berry Jaeker, Anita L. Tucker, and Michael H. Lee. Applying Random Coefficient Models to Strategy Research: Testing For Firm Heterogeneity, Predicting Firm-Specific... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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Patrick Chun
Boston. "It combines my desire to work with entrepreneurs and innovative ideas with a role that deciphers strategies and looks at companies from a financial and investment point of view. I hope to have... View Details
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
uses an IT-driven strategy to introduce an "all-in-one" card, which integrates a suite of financial products to drive its personal banking business enabling CMB to be ranked 6th among China's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t927286744 Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality Authors:Mark J. Roe and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- August 2019 (Revised April 2020)
- Case
BlueVine Capital: Growth Factors
By: Marco Di Maggio and Nathaniel Schwalb
The start-up, BlueVine Capital Inc. (BlueVine), used data and technology to help finance small businesses via factoring and lines of credit. The case explains the small business financing market in mid-2010s, how CEO Eyal Lifshitz identified the opportunity for... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Business Startups; Small Business; Financing and Loans; Innovation Leadership; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry
Di Maggio, Marco, and Nathaniel Schwalb. "BlueVine Capital: Growth Factors." Harvard Business School Case 220-006, August 2019. (Revised April 2020.)
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
Publications March 2015 Journal of Financial Economics Banks as Patient Fixed-Income Investors By: Hanson, Samuel G., Andrei Shleifer, Jeremy C. Stein, and Robert W. Vishny Abstract—We examine the business model of traditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
revolutionized the ways in which managers have yoked IT to their organizations' needs. Successful navigation in today's Network Era relies, writes Nolan, on the development of new management practices. Winning strategies take advantage of... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details