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Yueran Ma
decisions, both in the context of corporate investment in general, and banking and the financial crisis in particular. Looking into the future, I am excited to explore a list of other issues, most of which lie in the intersection of View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Jay Light Named New HBS Dean
initiatives. He also was chair of the Finance unit (1986–88) and senior associate dean, director of Faculty Planning (1988–94). He took a leave of absence in 1977–79 to serve as director of investment and financial policies for the Ford... View Details
- 2007
- Working Paper
Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive Advantage
By: Alan MacCormack, Theodore Forbath, Peter Brooks and Patrick Kalaher
Many recent studies highlight the need to rethink the way we manage innovation. Traditional approaches, based on the assumption that the creation and pursuit of new ideas is best accomplished by a centralized and collocated R&D team, are rapidly becoming outdated.... View Details
Keywords: Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Groups and Teams; Research and Development; Performance Improvement; Management Practices and Processes; Partners and Partnerships; Competency and Skills; Framework; Competitive Advantage; Global Strategy; Opportunities; Cost
MacCormack, Alan, Theodore Forbath, Peter Brooks, and Patrick Kalaher. "Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive Advantage." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-079, July 2007. (revised August 2007.)
- 01 Oct 2018
- News
Learning About Leadership
Abigail P. Johnson (MBA 1988) is chairman and CEO of Fidelity Management and Research in Boston and a recipient of the 2018 HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this interview, she reflects on her early lessons in business leadership and on... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 19 Feb 2010
- News
The MBA Oath Debate
words on a piece of paper will not stop unethical behavior, where steep fines and prison have failed to do so.” Writing in BusinessWeek.com’s online debate over the oath, INSEAD finance professor Theo Vermaelen warned that signing it was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
to win hearts and minds, we must reach the people at the bottom of the economic pyramid. What role can business play in helping Morocco’s development? We just concluded a free trade agreement with Morocco, our first with an African... View Details
Albert H. Wiggin
When Wiggin joined Chase in 1904, it was a modest bank with assets of just $250 million. As president, however, Wiggin oversaw a huge expansion wave, including the 1917 founding of the Chase Securities subsidiary. Wiggin's numerous View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Social Enterprise Conference Draws 800 Participants
1996 graduates of West Point. Proceeds from the annual event go to the New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans. The theme was “convergence,” and that’s precisely what some 800 students, business leaders, social entrepreneurs, and... View Details
Carl H. Lindner, Jr.
Lindner parlayed his small interest in a family dairy business into one of the largest and most successful financial conglomerates in the United States. Beginning with the purchase of one insurance company in the late 1950’s, Lindner went... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Earl B. Dickerson
In his first few years as CEO, Dickerson devoted his energies to changing the policy focus from industrial to ordinary life polices and to increasing the quality and number of the company’s agents. Dickerson also expanded the firm through 5 acquisitions, which spread... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Charles C. Spaulding
Joining his uncle’s firm in 1898, Spaulding rose to director of North Carolina Mutual. Under Spaulding, the company grew to be the largest black-owned business of the time and had amassed assets of over $37 million by the time of... View Details
Keywords: Finance
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Filippo Mezzanotti
affiliated with the university. I graduated with a Master’s thesis in Political Economics, for which I was later awarded the Stringher Scholarship by Bank of Italy. After earning my masters, I joined the Finance department at... View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
Scaling Core Earnings Measurement with Large Language Models
By: Matthew Shaffer and Charles CY Wang
We study the application of large language models (LLMs) to the estimation of core earnings, i.e., a firm's persistent profitability from its core business activities. This construct is central to investors' assessments of economic performance and valuations. However,... View Details
Keywords: Large Language Models; AI and Machine Learning; Accounting; Profit; Corporate Disclosure; Analytics and Data Science; Measurement and Metrics
Shaffer, Matthew, and Charles CY Wang. "Scaling Core Earnings Measurement with Large Language Models." Working Paper, November 2024.
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Jump-Start
Investing in HBS Giving Through HBS Giving Together From Fellowship Recipient to ‘The Most Influential Business Thinker On Earth’ FAQ Completing its second year, the School’s Minimum Viable Product Award (MVP) program attracted... View Details
Ivan J. Houston
Houston was instrumental in streamlining Golden State’s operations and enabling it to profitably expand. He moved the company into the group insurance field securing business from organizations such as Ford, General Motors, and AT&T.... View Details
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Henry C. Alexander
Alexander changed the way in which the Morgan bank did business. Before Alexander, the Morgan bank did not solicit business. Alexander used greater aggressiveness in the development of new business by training a new generation... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Jules S. Bache
Bache took over his uncle’s brokerage business and built it into one of the premier financial services firms in the early decades of the twentieth century. His operation helped to facilitate the reorganization of the American Spirits... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 28 May 2019
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Research Brief: Field Research
Illustration by Joe Waldron Illustration by Joe Waldron Back in 2010, HBS finance professor Shawn Cole embarked on a two-year randomized control trial with Nilesh Fernando, then a PhD candidate at Harvard, to evaluate whether a mobile... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
estimated $6 trillion will flow directly to social enterprise organizations. Concurrently, a new generation of business leaders and philanthropists is experimenting with hybrid forms of social enterprises while demanding more transparency... View Details