Financial Advisers - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Jan 2025
Blog Post

Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands

be smaller for them, they will also need to be even more conservative with cash. Underrepresented founders often will be held to a higher standard in terms of financial progress and are likely to be faced with more board oversight (more... View Details

01 Mar 2006
News

The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could

chain, which expanded to five locations before succumbing to financial difficulties after several years of struggle. The experience “wiped me out financially,” says Rogers. Down to his last $4,000 and in need of a job, he dropped in one... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

and financial distress—a mentally toxic combination for many. In fact, almost half of adults in the United States, 45 percent, say that worry and stress related to the coronavirus and the resulting economic downturn are hurting their... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2025 Commencement Remarks | About

organizations and teams. Steve Jobs famously described curiosity as, “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” Jobs’ curiosity led him to imagine how advances in chip technology might enable personal computing, Michael Bloomberg’s curiosity about data and information revolutionized... View Details

14 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

Bussgang, Jeffrey Abstract—Relative to established organizations, start-ups can be hard to figure out. What are the jobs to be done? The best entry points? How can you tell whether a company has potential for success and is the right fit for you? The author View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 May 2015
News

Celebrating and Supporting Leadership

opportunities to connect with our alumni," notes Hess. "Personally, it's been a wonderful opportunity for me to get to know so many of you. It's natural for the School to look toward alumni for financial support. But it wants—and needs—us... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

09 Dec 2021
News

Higher Returns

boards to advising the White House Business Council. Which means that he has spent a lot of time speaking with leaders in both business and government about the factors that are driving their organizations’ strategy. Over the last several... View Details

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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

looked for [Lowell] and found that he was President of a university called Harvard... In my family we had never heard of Harvard," Doriot remembered. 2 When the young Frenchman told Lowell of his ambitions to run a factory, Lowell advised... View Details

07 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

win in the marketplace. This means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and control, and getting everyone to pull in the same direction. How do you accomplish all this? Continually ask the right questions, View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1997
News

Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

variety of distinguished panelists and participants tested myths, inspected realities, and questioned opportunities. Rafael Hui, Hong Kong's secretary for Financial Services, delivered an upbeat presentation on Hong Kong's future after... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

2016 Self-published Introduction to Financial Accounting: Review Quizzes and Practice Exams By: Narayanan, V.G. Abstract—This book provides practice multiple choice questions on introductory accounting topics. It can be used to prepare... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs

When large public companies perform poorly, do the CEOs running them share the financial pain? That question, according to HBS associate professor Brian Hall, is not answered by looking at their salary and bonus but rather by a careful... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

11 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Crafting a Nontraditional Path to Venture Capital and Private Equity with Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021)

presented Sheil with an opportunity to reflect and then narrow her focus on what she wanted to be doing in the climate sustainability space. With her goals defined, it was time for HBS and a pivot into systems change from a financial... View Details

15 Dec 2015
First Look

December 15, 2015

(Frank) Li, and Dylan B. Minor Abstract—We link the corporate governance literature in financial economics to the agency cost perspective of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to derive theoretical predictions about the relationship... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Apr 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

British Foreign Secretary Lord Edward Grey contemplated whether to advise King and Parliament to declare war on Germany in the wake of the country’s invasion of Belgium or to stay out of what quickly was becoming a world war triggered by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2001
News

Helping Hands for HBS

involvement with the School, an effort that is a microcosm of the broad participation of HBS alumni throughout society in general. In the late 1970s, Mary Lindley Burton, a consultant in career strategy, was asked if she would help advise... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20

and the impact that entrepreneurs have on growth in developing nations Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System Author:Robert C. Pozen Publication:John Wiley, 2009 Publisher's Abstract Too Big To Save? provides a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2025
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details

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Program Policies - HBS Online

consists of three courses - Business Analytics, Economics for Managers, and Financial Accounting. Participants must complete and pass all three courses to earn the Credential of Readiness (CORe). CORe grades are provided for the entirety... View Details

12 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

financial management advice. But startups often run into issues outside those categories, everything from what to ask potential hires in a job interview to analyzing sales funnels. Experienced investors have likely run into those issues... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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