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The Anatomy of Fraud (TAF) - Course Catalog
develop expertise to understand financial reporting implications of business decisions and identify key control fault-lines in companies that can lead to fraud. The course is also relevant for students seeking to develop sophisticated... View Details
- 19 Aug 2016
- News
Lending a Hand to Small Businesses in Emerging Markets
the more sophisticated due diligence of a venture capital deal. “It’s asking a lot of the same questions that you would try to tease out in a conversation with someone. Are they reliable? Are they confident? Are they optimistic?” says... View Details
- 15 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk
Regulatory authorities face 2 challenges that need to be addressed forcefully if they are to contain a new source of systemic risk in international finance. First, the increasing migration of complex market activities to supervisory bodies that lack the necessary View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Former Buyer Turns Designer
“You go to the contemporary floors, and there’s great stuff to buy, but everything is skewed very young. You could go to the designer area, but you may not want to pay $2,000 for a dress.” So she has designed a line of clothes to fill a void for View Details
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
perfectly pinned down, which creates both opportunities and challenges. Sophisticated dealmakers are able to take advantage of the ambiguity to shape the game to their advantage. Q: How do sophisticated... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
has a PhD in volcanology, or the study of volcanoes, is capable of some pretty sophisticated mathematical analysis. However, she and her colleagues initially relied on what she calls "napkin math" to explore other ways to... View Details
M. Kenneth Oshman
As one of the principal founders of Rolm, Oshman is credited with the design and development of a sophisticated private branch exchange or PBx switch that has become a central component of telecommunication systems. Over the course of... View Details
Keywords: Communications
Joseph W. Crosby
Crosby built a small $3 million military supply (jet propulsion fuels) company into a $275 million advanced research and development operation. During his tenure, Thiokol designed sophisticated rocket launch equipment used for the Mercury... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
David D. Glass
early proponent of automated technology that Wal-Mart has utilized to develop one of the most sophisticated distribution networks in the industry. Under his leadership, Wal-Mart became the largest retailer in the world and the second... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 23 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19
The fiscal and monetary response to the coronavirus pandemic has been emergent, global, and deep. Some countries have more sophisticated fiscal and monetary tools—and the ability to use them swiftly—than others. The ability to compare... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 17 Nov 2016
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Global Family Offices: Trends & Opportunities
Over the last few years, substantial growth in family offices (FOs) has resulted in their emergence as a significant investor class. There are an estimated 2,500 FOs globally, controlling $7+ trillion in assets; approximately 300 of these FOs manage over $5 billion... View Details
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
What the paper points out is the level of sophistication of this knowledge embodiment has increased dramatically, making it easy to make things that have long been very difficult or even impossible to produce otherwise. All you need is... View Details
- 09 Apr 2024
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
she says. “We have a critical mass of Americans—around 60 million—who don’t even actively use a bank account. So, in addition to monitoring and regulating these sophisticated entities and markets, we try to educate people about the basic... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
Discovery Process
South and the British West Indies. I describe how all kinds of sophisticated quantitative management practices thrived under the circumstances of slavery. Before my year at HBS, I thought of my audience as primarily one of professional... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
companies to develop ever more sophisticated technologies, products, and systems — typically for the market's high end, where margins are greatest. However, the market's ability to utilize and pay for these advances grows more slowly,... View Details
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
that is freely available online—as an input for calculating price changes. In a given industry or category, the most technologically sophisticated company is able to continually undercut its rivals by updating prices more frequently than... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Upstart Startup
specializes in sophisticated financial analyses, and expects revenues of $100 million this year, according to Business Week (July 11, 2005). In the beginning, “No one thought it was a viable idea, but we decided to do it ourselves... View Details
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HBS Course: Private Equity Finance
target="_blank">LSEG Workspace PE data includes investments, portfolio company and firm profiles, exits and fundraising information. Generous data download limit. Capital IQ Data on PE transactions, public and private companies, investment firms, and people.... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
expectations can be formed, which correspond to two different types of users-sophisticated and unsophisticated. Only sophisticated users adjust their expectations in response to platforms' price changes. We study the effect of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
inquiry that is both theoretically sophisticated and grounded in the urgency of the contemporary moment. The 2018 symposium will be held on the Harvard Business School campus in Boston, MA on Thursday, March 8, & Friday, March 9, 2018.... View Details