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- April 2000 (Revised June 2000)
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E-Loan: The CarFinance.com Acquisition
E-Loan is an online mortgage lender that acquired an auto-lending arm in August of 1999. This case examines E-Loan's purchase of CarFinance.com and highlights E-Loan's strategy-setting process. In addition, the case explores business development as a strategic process... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Internet and the Web; Change Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry
Hansen, Morten T., and Jeffrey Berger. "E-Loan: The CarFinance.com Acquisition." Harvard Business School Case 400-072, April 2000. (Revised June 2000.)
- Web
Curriculum | MBA
Joint Degree Program Seminar taught by HBS faculty Summer International development-related summer internship (required) Year 2 Harvard Business School Fall Term Financial Reporting and Control Finance I Marketing Technology and... View Details
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
they should be,” says Minor, who hopes to delve further into how to effectively shift beliefs in future research. TRUST IN THE WORKPLACE The unduly pessimistic predictions in the political survey sparked Minor’s curiosity about whether the same disconnect exists in... View Details
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
to by assigning overly optimistic ratings to highly complex and opaque mortgage- and asset-backed securities. The high ratings signaled to investors that the financial instruments had little chance of default, but the burst of the... View Details
- 2009
- Article
India Transformed: Insights from the Firm Level 1988–2007
By: Laura Alfaro and Anusha Chari
Using firm-level data, this paper analyzes the transformation of India's economic structure following the implementation of economic reforms. The focus of the study is on publicly listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services... View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Transformation; Economics; Ownership; Assets; Sales; Profit; Stock Shares; Private Sector; Investment Return; Manufacturing Industry; Service Industry; India
Alfaro, Laura, and Anusha Chari. "India Transformed: Insights from the Firm Level 1988–2007." India Policy Forum 6 (2009). (Also NBER Working Paper w15448. Featured in The Economist. Economics focus. "Dancing elephants. Is Indian capitalism becoming oligarchic?" Jan 27th 2011.)
- May 1986 (Revised October 1986)
- Case
Data Administration in Citibank Brazil (B): Strategy and Technology
By: Shoshana Zuboff
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Data Administration in Citibank Brazil (B): Strategy and Technology." Harvard Business School Case 486-110, May 1986. (Revised October 1986.)
- 03 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts
research examined firms from January 2009 through June 2018—a period in which the number of companies that were included in the sample and covered by both data providers rose to almost 1,900 from about 340. In 2018 alone, $80 trillion in assets under View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that we’re smart in the things we’re attacking, and to try to solve real-world problems that make an impact.” Watson General Manager David Kenny (MBA 1986) adds: “The tech sector tends to reward short-term thinking.” But Watson is... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
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Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni
Careers Careers Loan Assistance Programs HBS offers a variety of career support programs for eligible students and new alumni that provide financial assistance for those who choose careers in which starting salaries are lower than those... View Details
- 15 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers
The research, based in France, was prompted by an ongoing regulatory debate within the European Union. "In Europe, there has been intense discussion about taxing high incomes in general, and bankers in specific," Vallée explains. In the aftermath of the 2008 View Details
- 10 Aug 2020
Get to Know HBS Series: Reflecting on the HBS Experience
Join Chad Losee, Managing Director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid, as he moderates a panel of sectionmates to see where they are years after HBS! You will get to hear this group of alumni talk about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Hardymon Receives VC Award
Felda Hardymon, the MBA Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice, has received a Lifetime Achievement in Venture Capital Award from the National Venture Capital Association. A member of the HBS faculty for more than a decade, since... View Details
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work By: Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, Renata Lemos, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We present evidence on the labor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
they must do to reshape their businesses for the 21st century. The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business, by Thomas H. Davenport and John C. Beck, presents a revolutionary model for managing and measuring... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?
several of Amazon’s competitors out-thought Bezos & Co. to take advantage of an economic shock.” Nevertheless, there was no shortage of advice for a Company that may not need much. The advice fell into suggestions regarding supply chain View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
software, consumer electronics, and pharmaceuticals. Such companies hold many important patents and boast R&D labs that rival facilities at the best universities in the world. They are headquartered in countries with myriad institutions that support innovation:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
It’s a problem that is “capitalism’s Achilles heel,” declares Raymond Baker (MBA ’60), executive director of the Washington, D.C.–based organization Global Financial Integrity (GFI). This month at the G20 conference in Canada, Baker will... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Leadership Fellows
LEADERSHIP FELLOWS: This past winter, 19 Class of 2013 MBAs were chosen for the School's Leadership Fellows program, which supports graduates as they serve in yearlong management positions at nonprofit and public-sector organizations.... View Details