investment banking - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2006
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William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958

boy, Bill Donaldson went on to cofound the investment banking firm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. After fourteen years there, he began to take on a series of other leadership challenges in business,... View Details

01 Oct 2002
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Sam Hayes

1998, was appointed to the HBS faculty in 1972. He taught in the MBA, AMP, and OPM programs, and continues to teach in executive programs at HBS and overseas. His current research focuses on Islamic banking and View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Oct 1996
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An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)

At the Cedars-Sinai Hospital complex in Los Angeles, patients, visitors, doctors, nurses, and delivery people stream up and down the hallways on a busy summer afternoon. The bank of phones in the lobby is fully occupied. On one of them,... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

01 Jun 2016
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Rethinking Housing in the Motor City

thinking ‘where is the best opportunity going to be for me professionally?—I couldn’t move back to Detroit,” Rhea says. Instead, he went into finance in New York. After the financial collapse he left banking for a position as chairman and... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2013
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Leveraging Female Talent

the numbers. Inclusiveness is about making the numbers count and effecting a cultural change. Your earlier research resulted in a surprising finding about the difference between male and female star performers. In a nine-year study of 1,000 star performers in the View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

07 Sep 2021
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Funding His Purpose

money,” Letelier says, and the grants that typically power nonprofits don’t typically offer organizations the flexibility of the financial products available to for-profit companies, which can mean everything from bootstrapping and commercial View Details

13 Nov 2020
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Insatiably Curious

experience was exactly what she needed. “I was drinking from the fire hose,” she says. “At MIT, I learned how to problem solve. At HBS, I got a framework that allowed me to see the bigger picture.” The School also facilitated her career transition—from technology to... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Four Promoted to Full Professor

environment. He has written on a broad range of restructuring topics, including corporate bankruptcy and debt workouts, tracking stock, equity spin-offs, corporate downsizing, bank mergers, and employee buyouts. Currently, he is studying... View Details

01 Sep 2005
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Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock

Houston-based investment bank that specializes in the energy industry. The future oil shortage, he says, is a problem we should address right now. Based on your research, how soon will we feel the effects of... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2000
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Vivek Ranadivé

software bus and plug applications into that." As simple as it sounds, this insight had a dramatic impact on the financial services institutions that were among Ranadivé's first customers. (TIBCO is an acronym for The Information Bus Company.)In 1985, View Details

01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

changes that took root after the last crash. “Everything we do today grew out of the dark days of the early ’90s,” says Slaughter, managing director and head of North American real estate investment banking... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

11 Jul 2012
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A Man, and a Plan, in Africa

Importantly, determining a country’s standing on these criteria is judged not by the MCC but by outside parties such as the WHO and the Heritage Foundation. Once selected, partner countries must submit proposals indicating specifics about how they intend to View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe

But his longtime fascination with both the stock market and inventors came to the fore when he entered the New York investment world. After setting up a science and technology investment View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Finance

01 Oct 2002
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Pearson Hunt Remembered

also contributed to the theory of capital budgeting and to the development of a more realistic application of the cost of capital to investment decisions. In the midst of this work, Hunt coined the term EBIT (earnings before interest and... View Details

01 Dec 2001
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BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring

downsizing at the Scott Paper Company under "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap and the merger of Chase Manhattan Bank with Chemical Bank. Based on interviews with CEOs, managers, investors, bankers, management consultants, and attorneys, the cases look... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2022
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Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us

for us to start this,” Sambvani says. Now, a year after the launch of their product, Sambvani and Duncan are running a seed-stage company with 10 staffers and more than 100 customers, all of whom were found without investing in marketing.... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 1997
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Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship

Bank of Chicago, who was launching his own venture-capital firm with a couple of other colleagues from the bank. After graduating from HBS, Rauner headed back to his hometown of Chicago and became one of the first associates in what was... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

glaring trade imbalances, and soaring political risk, particularly in the economically crucial, oil-exporting regions of the world. The key to this seeming paradox lay in China. Chongqing, on the undulating banks of the mighty earth-brown... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

02 Jan 2020
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Empowering Rural Communities

photo by Brandon Thibodeaux Chris Riley (MBA 2008) didn’t have any experience with renewable power when he cofounded Guzman Energy in 2013. Riley, who had spent most his career as an officer in the US Navy and then as director of View Details

Keywords: April White; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Apr 2000
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Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti

the effect we have on the people who pay the tax, as well as the tax they pay. Both are important. What are the dimensions of this turnaround challenge? Every system, top to bottom, has to be reengineered. Our most fundamental problem is that we don't have accurate... View Details