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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
worrying about cost overruns, loans called in early by nervous banks, and credit-card debt. The company's woes strained the partnership, which ended in 1990, when Shafir took loans from his two Wall Street banker brothers to buy out... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
addition to the discouraging share price, one other thing from that day sticks in Petitti’s mind: A classmate noted she had explored a similar business model before concluding it wouldn’t work. “What makes you different?” he recalls her asking. “We didn’t have an... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
$18.9 billion in 2003, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. From Boston to Silicon Valley, top firms are competing for deals again. And the initial public offering market — the favored exit for venture-capital investors — rallied last... View Details
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
to Chu, himself a Wall Street refugee with grounding in consulting and buy-outs, microfinance has "a double bottom-line." It brings above-average returns for first-movers who tap into what finance specialists see as a new... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
don't be afraid to scrap your 2019 strategies in 2020. Rembrand M. Koning (@orgRem) is an assistant professor of business administration. Karen Mills: Lift small businesses, support the economy For many Main Street small businesses, the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)
When Nancy Havens-Hasty stepped onto Wall Street after graduating from HBS, her first account as a corporate finance associate was not one of Kidder Peabody's several computer company clients, despite her background as a physics major at... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Books
must serve "the new invisible hand," powerful, pervasive markets that affect almost every decision leaders make. As a result, struggle has become a central, nagging issue. Badaracco recommends addressing this "good" struggle head-on by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
market. As an individual, you don’t want to stand out on a street corner and tap people on the shoulder and ask them if they’d like to donate their eggs or their sperm to you. You want an arm’s-length transaction. That creates a nice... View Details
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
class, places like Payatas, or the teeming streets of Calcutta, or the favelas of Rio de Janeiro—places where only the entrepreneurial survive—are never far from his mind. According to the World Bank, nearly half the world's... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
market is still the most efficient in the world,” he says. “Over the longer term, one can buy and hold investments and be confident that price disparities will smooth out with time and be reflective of real value.” The author and coauthor... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Brazil Banks on Experience
Ranked among the world’s largest economies, Brazil and the left-leaning government of newly elected President Lu íz In ácio Lula da Silva soothed wary financial markets by selecting Henrique Meirelles (93rd AMP), former head of global... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation
markets have tightened, it's the companies with highly differentiated products that will be able to not only weather this storm, but come out the other side" in a strong position, says Harvard Business School Professor of Management... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
things: I am not Steve Jobs. I am not a genius.” — Tomoko Namba (MBA ’90), on stepping down as head of the Japanese mobile-games company DeNA to care for her husband. (Wall Street Journal, July 6, 2011) View Details
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent
a variety of dynamic, in-demand work engagements). But many times, the greatest ideas arise out of opportunity. And often, the best businesses are created to address a market gap. In this case, it was both. Cheney had spent six years post... View Details
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
the collective expectations of market participants. We are already in a very different moment in history compared to the middle of the 1990s. What most fascinated me was how much the content of financial orthodoxy had shifted during the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 08 Dec 2009
- News
Don’t Scare the Bankers
and that some wag had suggested there should be a parade down Wall Street to mark the occasion, Mr. Ji smiled and raised a cautionary finger: “A good idea,” he said, “but don’t scare the bankers!” Afterward, the idea that someone from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Star analysts who change firms suffer an immediate, lasting decline in perfor-mance. He also explores how some Wall Street research departments are successfully growing, retaining, and deploying their own stars. International Differences... View Details
- Fast Answer
FIELD Global Immersion Resources: India
Where can I find country, industry and market information and news about India? Industry and market research View Details
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Club Government & Public Policy Club Greater China Club H HBS Show Health & Wellness Club Health Care Club Heard on the Street Hospitality & Travel Club I Impact Investing Club Infrastructure Club Investment Club Islamic Society Israel... View Details
- 29 Jan 2010
- News
Back to Glass-Steagall?
President Obama shocked Wall Street recently with his proposal to cut down to size too-big-to-fail banks by imposing new rules to separate commercial and investment activities. Specifically, Obama would prohibit banks that take customers... View Details