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Public Markets Investing Seminar Finance Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 C. Fritz Foley Corporate Finance: Corporate Financial Operations (CFO) Finance Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Jeremy Friedman Business and Geopolitics... View Details

15 Oct 2001
Op-Ed

Lessons from the Rubble

unfold and at the continued horrors that any response will undoubtedly let loose. We know that the death toll is at least in the thousands, and that the financial toll will soar to tens of billions of dollars. There are other things,... View Details

Keywords: by Debora L. Spar

07 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

most affected by proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership, lost value on that day. The value drop was 55 basis points for a 10 percentage point change in activist institution ownership. These results suggest that financial... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

of it. Among many other things, it must produce consistent financial results against a difficult economic and sector outlook so that its market capitalization can grow to ensure that taxpayers will... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

01 Sep 2007
News

Paulson Speaks on China at HBS

intellectual property protection, and domestic consumption. In addition, Paulson said, the Chinese will not “be able to develop the financial markets and banks they want unless they have a currency that... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

17 Jun 2025
Blog Post

Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco - Addressing Extreme Weather, Climate Risk, and Resilience

already embedded in pricing data. Together, the panel painted a challenging picture of the climate risk landscape—from growing disaster frequency and financial volatility to insurance market withdrawal and... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Averting Crisis

courtesy of James Allworth “The financial markets put pressure on you to generate the type of returns they’re looking for: quarterly results. It makes no sense to let such finance-oriented, short-term... View Details

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Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco - Addressing Extreme Weather, Climate Risk, and Resilience - Blog - Business & Environment

communities to respond to the early warnings already embedded in pricing data. Together, the panel painted a challenging picture of the climate risk landscape—from growing disaster frequency and financial volatility to insurance View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Letters to the Editor

HBS Flunks Finance 101 As regards your December Editor’s Note wherein you refer to Dean Jay Light’s remarks to the hastily organized financial crisis panels during the week of September 22: Light attributes the View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Rakhshan Zahid

term, I’d like to turn my attention to the developing world. How are you pushing yourself? In two ways. First, the coursework. Initially I was skeptical of the Required Curriculum. Do I really need to learn about accounting, marketing or... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 19 Oct 2017
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Innovative Finance for the Common Good

Whether it's a vaccine or green bond, drought insurance, pay-as-you-go financing for solar electricity in Kenya, or discounted metro cards in New York, innovative finance is as much about incentives and sound decision making as it is about money; when it works,... View Details

Fast Answer

Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry

financial fundamentals for valuation; equity research and investment firm data; For a multimedia learning module on LSEG Workspace check out our Learn with Baker Library LSEG Workspace Introduction. Industry and... View Details

January 1987 (Revised November 1991)
Case

R.J. Reynolds International Financing

By: W. Carl Kester and William B. Allen

Reynolds must source a substantial portion of the financing of its Nabisco acquisition in offshore bond markets. Morgan Guaranty has proposed a yen/dollar dual currency Eurobond that could be hedged into dollars. This structure is compared to Eurodollar Bonds, Euroyen... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Capital Markets; Currency Exchange Rate; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Bonds; Financing and Loans

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Educators

Purchase

11 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

U.S. Tops Business Competitiveness Index 2006

higher levels in the future," according to the report. Among the dozens of variables analyzed are production process sophistication, per capita Internet and cell phone use, intensity of local competition, financial View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Shantanu Rege

responsibility for my financial advice." Among other deals, Shantanu helped place $350 million in an independent power producer. And he gained time to reflect on his career. Gaining clarity on the global picture "To be a good... View Details

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Operations Technology & Operations Management Ryan Buell , Robert Markey Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Managing and Innovating in Financial Services Finance David Scharfstein Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Market Perspectives... View Details

16 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 16, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=705475 Market Making Exercise Harvard Business School Exercise 207-033 Purchase this exercise: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207033 Pitney... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Edward A. Fox

Fox was the first employee and president of the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae). Under his guidance, the organization grew to become a $25 billion financial enterprise and the largest... View Details

Keywords: Finance

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Curriculum | MBA

Politics and Ethics in Unstable Times One HKS Elective Course Joint Degree Program Seminar taught by HBS faculty Summer Policy-related or international development-related summer internship (recommended) Year 2 Harvard Business School Fall Term View Details

2016
Report

How Do People Pay Rent?

By: David Hao Zhang

Households still pay rent primarily with paper methods, even though electronic methods are featured more prominently among high-income, high-education, and high-rent households. These patterns may be explained either by the lack of landlord acceptance of electronic... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Payments; Rent Payments; Money Order; Credit Card; Checks; Credit Cards; Online Technology; Consumer Behavior; Cash; Leasing