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in the menu bar. Select Banking & Finance. Titles include Vault Guide to Finance Interviews and Vault Guide to Advanced Finance and Quantitative Interviews Street of Walls - Their... View Details

January 1994
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Evolving Finance Function: Judy C. Lewent at Merck & Co., Inc.

By: Timothy A. Luehrman

This case examines the career path of Merck's CFO, Judy C. Lewent, as a way of tracing changes over time in Merck's finance function. It describes the adoption of innovative quantitative analytical models, changes in job definitions and in the organization of the... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Mathematical Methods; Personal Development and Career; Organizational Design; Innovation and Invention; Pharmaceutical Industry

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Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship

Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship explores the exciting world of active investing and lays out in a clear and readily accessible way their key features, ways of doing business and likely evolution. The book follows the... View Details

26 Mar 2024
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IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India

across the country. Our recent field trip to India provided valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities associated with decarbonization, particularly focusing on the financing aspects. Based on a discussion with India Climate... View Details

2010
Book

A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy

By: Amar Bhide

Our prosperity requires the enterprise of innumerable individuals and businesses who exercise their imagination and judgment—and bear responsibility for outcomes. And it is through dialogue and relationships that widespread enterprise is fostered, not merely prices in... View Details

Keywords: Recession; Banking; Banks; Finance; Economics; Macroeconomics; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry

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25 Sep 2018
Lecture

Trust as the Foundation of Finance

By: Tarun Khanna

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12 Jul 2021

International Perspective Series: Financing Your Degree

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

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Behavioral Finance (Econ 970, Spring 2015)

Second-year undergraduate course covering recent advances in the field of behavioral finance. The course begins by examining some of the most canonical pricing anomalies, such as claims to identical cashflows trading at different prices in different markets, and... View Details

04 Mar 2016
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Bridging the Gap Between Faith and Finance

John Cortines John Cortines John Cortines and Greg Baumer (both MBA 2015) are lifelong member of evangelical Christian churches. At HBS, they began to consider what their religion teaches about money and how to bridge the perceived divide between, as the Deseret News... View Details

17 Nov 2021

Financing the MBA @ HBS - AMA

Join us for an "Ask Me Anything" session focused on financing the MBA @ HBS! Learn more about our need-based aid, fellowship offerings and other options for funding your MBA! View Details

28 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

cross-border finance and in patterns we have seen before. In his new book Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance, Abdelal documents the waxing and waning of international capital controls in the twentieth and twenty-first... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal

January 2001 (Revised May 2010)
Case

BP Amoco (A): Policy Statement on the Use of Project Finance

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane

Following the BP/Amoco merger in December 1998, CFO David Watson asked Bill Young to recommend when and under what circumstances the firm should use external project finance instead of internal corporate funds to finance new capital investments. As part of this... View Details

Keywords: Project Finance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Policy; Capital Budgeting

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December 2000 (Revised April 2006)
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Promise (A): Building a Consumer Finance Company in Japan

Describes Promise, the third-largest consumer finance company in Japan. Promise was created in 1963 by an entrepreneur and has grown rapidly, especially in the 1990s when commercial banks struggled. Promise's core business consists of providing unsecured loans of up to... View Details

Keywords: Capital Structure; Entrepreneurship; Financial Institutions; Financial Services Industry; Japan

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About - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

in real time, perhaps policy makers can anticipate financial vulnerability and take measures to prevent crises. Harvard faculty have originated measures of investor sentiment in the equity, credit, and sovereign debt markets. The Behavioral View Details

1992
Manual

Teacher's Manual for Case Problems in Finance

By: W. E. Fruhan Jr., W. C. Kester, S. P. Mason, T. R. Piper and R. S. Ruback

Keywords: Finance; Cases

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