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posture. Protecting Yourself Against Phishing Clicking on a phishing email could cause you significant grief, and possibly even personal financial and reputational damage. Learn to better identify these threats and how to avoid them.... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)

still have a number of manual processes here, so we see a lot of scope for more and more businesses in Jamaica to become technology-enabled, particularly in health care, financial services, and agriculture. There’s been some growth in the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

04 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

the universal bank had long been disputed. After 2008, the financial crisis and subsequent Great Recession damaged many global and domestic financial services firms. While the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

Profile

Bruce Gago

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I came to HBS with a background exclusively in real estate finance, and I knew I needed to gain a broad set of managerial and entrepreneurial skills in order to become more successful later in my career. How has your... View Details

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

01 Dec 2000
News

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... View Details

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08 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 8, 2010

domestic and imported inputs. Value data for imports and exports of services are too aggregated and valuations are questionable, while price data for service exports and imports are almost non-existent.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

issues that profit brings to a social service organization. Founded thirty-five years ago, the small, multiservice nonprofit Haley House is a spiritually based community organization that serves "society's forgotten people"—the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2017
News

Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?

they need. “It’s all about who gives the other person access to what is essentially their ‘page,’ ” says O’Grady. These days, though, O’Grady rarely needs to shorthand blockchain. Its most famous application, bitcoin, has become an increasingly mainstream investment,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

August 2002 (Revised February 2003)
Case

Myteam.com

By: John T. Gourville, Joseph B. Lassiter III and Taslim Pirmohamed

Elliot Katzman is faced with the need to raise cash and cut spending to develop his online amateur sports software application, Myteam.com. Even with powerful allies such as Little League and Coca-Cola, "big deals with big players" had not kept the company from running... View Details

Keywords: Cash Flow; Financial Management; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Resource Allocation; Alliances; Sports; Web Sites; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry

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Find at Harvard

01 Jun 2011
News

Show Me The Money — Or Not

Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship Related Links The Best-Laid Plans A Growing Drumbeat With a total of $150,000 in cash awards and in-kind legal and accounting services up for grabs, the financial upside of... View Details

15 Jan 2020
News

The Business of Access

the nonprofits and social services organizations whose staffs had the skills to help, and plotted a different way to give back. “My thinking was, if I were to help people here in California,” she recalls, “that would pay it forward for... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Dec 2005
News

Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations

also key to the Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning, which helps new and experienced faculty improve their teaching skills through one-on-one coaching sessions, seminars, and workshops. A Diversity of Voices About 75 percent of MBA students receive some form... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Apr 2002
News

Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

indifference. Whether they are helping inner cities capitalize on their inherent competitive advantages, working to make assetbuilding financial services available to low-income families, analyzing the... View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

February 1999 (Revised June 2010)
Case

Car Wash Partners, Inc.

By: Paul A. Gompers

Examines the investment decision of Cabot Brown and Bill Burgin, two venture capitalists, to finance Car Wash Partners (CWP). CWP intends to purchase automatic car washes around the country. Investment strategy and deal structuring are discussed. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Service Industry; Service Industry

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01 Sep 2004
News

HBS Clubs and Associations

of the Juvenile Justice Fund in Atlanta, which provides resources and services for youth and their families who are involved with the juvenile justice system. “I was able to come back and, with my case studies and notes as a guide, retool... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Personal Services; Personal Services

02 Nov 2020
Blog Post

WE RISE

industry, but in every industry and in our society.”—Deborah Farrington (MBA 1976), co-founder and managing partner, StarVest Partners Other studies—as well as anecdotal evidence from VCs—show that women are more likely to underestimate themselves and the View Details

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

25 Aug 2022
News

A New Platform for Alumni Engagement

panel discussing AI in financial services. “My objective as a founder of an AI-driven company was to ground how we actually use it,” says Salas. “I wanted to give concrete examples of how AI is enabling us to provide View Details

Keywords: April White

Profile

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

23 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 23

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Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Oct 2002
News

Pearson Hunt Remembered

Hunt: an influential figure in the shaping of financial management practices. Courtesy HBS Communications Professor emeritus Pearson Hunt, an authority on corporate finance whose research helped shape modern View Details

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