Financial Services - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 May 2015
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Getting Ready for Success

Matter’s largest financial supporter, meanwhile, is Pershing Square Foundation, started by Bill Ackman (MBA 1992). Pershing helped fund a 2014 ROI study by Columbia University professor Clive Belfield, who found that for every dollar... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Educational Services

August 2002
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eBay (C): PayPal Merger

By: Frances X. Frei and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Internet; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry

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01 Dec 2017
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A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup

sector, taking what we had learned about name selection and availability and making it accessible inexpensively to everyone, everywhere,” says Master. Say you have a name in mind for a financial planning View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2010
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Alumni Books

created so much financial devastation. The Curse of the Mogul: What’s Wrong with the World’s Leading Media Companies by Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, and Ava Seave (MBA ’82) (Portfolio) In an industry built on celebrity, media... View Details

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

01 Apr 1998
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Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue

African-American consumer market. Three HBS alumni were also honored with AASU awards: E. Stanley O'Neal (MBA '78), who received the Professional Achievement Award; Deborah C. Wright (MBA/JD '84), who received the Civic Commitment Award; and Nancy L. Lane (29th PMD),... View Details

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Patrick Connolly

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? In my life before business school, I was a concert pianist and music theorist-disciplines that require truly deep, vertical expertise. My decision to attend HBS was consciously designed to broaden my intellectual... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services

05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010

Demand: Model and Estimation Methodology Authors:Nathan Craig, Nicole DeHoratius, and Ananth Raman Abstract To set service levels, firms must understand how changes in service affect customer demand. Supply... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2001
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Helping Hands for HBS

eighteen-year exercise in volunteer service at the HBS Club of Greater New York, where Burton and Dick Wedemeyer (MBA '63) would meet twice a month to assist alumni with job and career issues. "Often," recalls Burton, "these men and women... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 2020
News

AI Enhances Diagnostic Care

exposure by distinguishing the thicker parts of a person’s body from the thinner areas that need less radiation. This limits exposure and thus, provides a safer and better service to patients,” Tantawy explains. “Also, in whole-body... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Aug 2001
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

to understand its customers' profile. Currently, HBS has no way to actively measure alumni interest in specific areas. A more robust profile of alumni would not only enhance the School's ability to provide valued services but would better... View Details

Keywords: John Hoffman

29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

responsibilities; and address matters of size, scale, and complexity while maintaining the qualities that make professional services firms unique. A valuable new resource, this book redefines the role of leadership in professional View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Jan 2013
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PublicationsForeign Direct Investment and Growth: On the Role of Complementarities, the Search for Mechanisms, and the Potential for Linkages Authors:Alfaro, Laura, and Matthew Johnson Publication:Encyclopedia of Financial Globalization... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Daniel Sheyner

Sheyner. He also reached out to personal contacts in the industry, spending nights and weekends getting free lessons in industry skills like diligence and financial modeling, carefully building his path to private equity. "I was very... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services

01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit

imbalance. Gates noted that about half of the foundation’s annual grants, or $1.6 billion, is devoted to global health, with around $800 million each devoted to grassroots financial services in the... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Social Enterprise Initiative 25th anniversary blog series, which hi... Building an Impact Investing Ecosystem in China Cissy Chen 10 Jan 2019 Before coming to HBS, I worked for a number of years in financial View Details

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Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences - Course Catalog

with the appropriate financial and human resources, and scaling. The course will explore which areas of the life sciences are ripe for innovation and entrepreneurship and will cover therapeutics, devices, diagnostics, and related View Details

08 Jul 2014
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way. Publisher's link: http://www.amacombooks.org/book.cfm?isbn=9780814434093 Forthcoming Journal of Public Economics No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Public Services Delivery. By: Ashraf, Nava, Oriana Bandiera,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Donaldson Room | About

Donaldson Room The Donaldson Room, located within the Emeriti Faculty Center of Cumnock Hall , was named to honor the service of Professor Gordon Donaldson. About the Name The Donaldson Room in Cumnock Hall was dedicated in 1993 upon the... View Details

10 Apr 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: SELCO - Decentralized Renewable Energy to Develop While Decarbonizing

challenges locally but also to scale and amplify successful models to other regions. As SELCO moves solutions from innovation to scale, they engage a diverse network of ecosystem stakeholders, including governments, financial... View Details

04 Aug 2009
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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