Finance - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Jul 2022

International Perspective Series: Financing the MBA

Join a member of the HBS MBA Financial Aid team to learn about funding opportunities for international students at HBS as well as information on the visa process. View Details

10 Jun 2014
News

Finance Minister Addresses Canada-US Energy Concerns

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

2024
Working Paper

Priors, Experiments, Learning and Persuasion in (Bayesian) Entrepreneurial Finance

By: Ramana Nanda

At the heart of entrepreneurial finance lies a persuasion challenge: regardless of the strength of an entrepreneur’s belief in the potential of their idea, they typically need to convince investors to provide the financial capital required for its... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Business Startups; Communication Intention and Meaning; Prejudice and Bias

Citation

SSRN

Read Now

Web

Finance Doctoral Students - Faculty & Research

Finance Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students Maxim Alekseev Sage Belz Jorge Colmenares Songyuan Ding Jacob Furst Jeffrey Gortmaker Shlok Goyal Helene Hall Catherine Huang Baiyun Jing Nathan... View Details

2009
Working Paper

Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size

By: William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda

We examine the effect of US branch banking deregulations on the entry size of new firms using micro-data from the US Census Bureau. We find that the average entry size for startups did not change following the deregulations. However, among firms that survived at least... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Financing and Loans; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Market Entry and Exit; Banking Industry; United States

Citation

SSRN

Read Now

04 May 2020
Blog Post

Learning New Skills to Further Your Career In Any Industry: Finance

The demand for finance skills is growing in various industries, including marketing, sales, engineering, healthcare, and human resources. In this HBS Online blog post How Learning About Finance Can Jumpstart... View Details

2003
Chapter

Financing Entrepreneurship: Is Gender an Issue?

By: Nancy M. Carter, Candida G. Brush, Elizabeth Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene and Myra M. Hart

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Gender; Corporate Finance

Citation

12 Nov 2014
Op-Ed

A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform

conservatorship, experts from public, private, and academic worlds concurred: housing finance in the United States was mortally flawed. The private sector reaped the gains while the public sector absorbed the risk. In the aftermath of the... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas Retsinas & Rob Couch; Construction; Real Estate

08 Aug 2016
News

Harvard B-School’s New Online Finance Course

21 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

helping to finance that deficit. If those global imbalances are unraveled chaotically, the stirrings of a crisis of legitimacy for the free movement of capital would be strengthened. Hopefully these imbalances will not be resolved in a... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

Mar 25 2015
Interview

What Every Executive Should Know About Finance

27 Jan 2011
Working Paper Summaries

A Brief Postwar History of US Consumer Finance

Keywords: by Andrea Ryan, Gunnar Trumbull & Peter Tufano; Banking

1984
Book

The Modern Theory of Corporate Finance

By: Michael C. Jensen and Clifford H. Smith Jr.

Keywords: Corporate Finance

Citation

Find at Harvard

February 1977 (Revised May 1993)
Case

WJAC (B): Financing a Growing Organization

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Organizations; Finance; Media and Broadcasting Industry

Citation

Find at Harvard

10 Apr 2001
Conference Presentation

Financing Entrepreneurship: Is Gender an Issue?

By: Candida Brush, Nancy Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, Patricia Green and Myra M. Hart

Keywords: Gender; Finance; Entrepreneurship

Citation

11 Sep 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size

Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Ramana Nanda; Banking

Research Summary

Entrepreneurial Finance and International R&D Management

Walter Kuemmerle's research and teaching interests fall within the domain of knowledge and capital management in a global economy. His research focuses on international entrepreneurship and venture capital. He studies venture capital systems and entrepreneurship in... View Details