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- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
financial side of business and was seeing a balance sheet for the first time. I had to get out of my comfort zone and get comfortable with public speaking. Also, it allowed me to learn how others think and... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
later, he had completed his active-duty service commitment and was out. "I left the Navy on a Friday and started at HBS the next week," says McGee. "I didn't know what a balance sheet was. I didn't know what... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Leslie Hale (MBA 2001)
a statistic. I was determined not to be a statistic. I fell in love with finance. I fell in love with the concept of being able to take a dollar and make it into two. You can have a great vision, but if you don’t have your balance View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
added up the sales versus the inventory, there's a difference between profit and-- you know, how much you spent for these things and how much you made. So he learned kind of the difference between an income statement and a balance View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
both the law boards and the business boards, and did way better on the business boards. That flat out surprised me. I barely knew the difference between a balance sheet and a profit-and-loss statement when I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
other, more appropriate things, like to finance equipment and tooling. That way, they can use revenue as a key source of capital to strengthen their balance sheet and get through the initial scale phase. As... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
had learned as a corporation how to do things that all corporations must do if they are to succeed. Two of these deserve special note. First, Intel had learned how to grow. Second, it had learned how to compete. In 1971, Intel carried $3.6 million on its View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
Nordisk controlled almost half of the global insulin market. Then came Ozempic, which turned Novo’s balance sheet on its head. The business that for a century had considered itself a diabetes company saw its... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
giving advice and not being in the position to actually execute it." Today, as president and CEO of CNBC, the financial news network viewed in almost 200 million households worldwide, the Detroit native's job is all about execution. Her... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
mitigation is the use of off-balance sheet project finance instead of traditional, on-balance sheet corporate finance. Consider, for instance, Iridium LLC, a $5.5 billion global satellite communications firm... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
items and are affected by them. For their 1996 study, "The Paradoxes of Technology," HBS assistant professor Susan M. Fournier and David Glen Mick, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, interviewed 29 households about their... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
discontent for many American families. Bundled up in chilly homes, they see their heating bills cutting deeply into the rest of their household budget. Lowering the thermostat, they wonder when keeping warm became a luxury in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
him. They still run the company, and they also manage a household that includes their three children. Execution Is Critical Entrepreneurship is difficult even when the idea is great, the teams are complementary, and conditions seem ideal.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
1971) launched into a treatise on income statements and balance sheets and generally accepted accounting principles, and that’s why there are auditors, and the sandwich shop is clearly losing money, losing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
institutional clients, and corporate services. In 1998, Merrill chairman and CEO David H. Komansky (107th AMP) asked him if he’d consider being CFO. “This was an opportunity to see the whole firm comprehensively,” observes O’Neal, who accepted the offer despite never... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
social and environmental concerns into daily operations. In the multimedia case “Burt’s Bees: Balancing Growth and Sustainability,” HBS associate professor Christopher Marquis uses text exhibits and video interviews to show how the small... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
mortgage brokers, hedge funds, private-equity funds, off-balance sheet structured-investment vehicles, and a booming market in opaque derivatives, especially credit-default swaps, he continues. By the summer of 2007, the Treasury... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
outsource. Initially they outsourced customary household tasks, but now they are outsourcing unconventional tasks, like event help for birthdays, IKEA furniture assembly, city-to-city deliveries, and others. “As clients embrace the... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
are parked at all the Walmarts in the world, so hedge funds can [then] long or short the stock without waiting for the quarterly reports. It’s another way to monetize those images.” Balance sheets can take... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
practice. What keeps you up at night? Right now, I’m thinking a lot about the preservation of our balance sheet and cash position. Whatever spending we have ongoing, it clearly has to be for the highest... View Details