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- 31 Oct 2023
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
Sijh Diagne (photo by Michael Bucher) In March 2020, Sijh Diagne (MBA 2017) was asked to serve as an advisor to Senegal’s minister of economy, planning, and cooperation. He was charged with leading the country’s private-sector development; but just as became the case... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Research Brief: Staying in the Game
Illustration by Peter Hoey In Monopoly, declaring bankruptcy has a very permanent consequence. Game over; you lose. In the paper “Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy,” HBS professor Shai Bernstein... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Expanding the reach of business from Silicon Valley to the global arena
which developing countries faced major liquidity problems. Draper later served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations—the second-highest ranking person in the UN—and CEO of the UN’s Development Program, overseeing nearly 10,000... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading in business and in public education
a movie theater company, Loews now has interests in several industries, including commercial property and casualty insurance, hotels, energy exploration, and natural gas and liquids storage and transportation. Tisch was charged with... View Details
- 15 Apr 2020
- News
How Sarah Kauss Built S’well
her health and really having those deep conversations, those thoughts about life—you know, you get one and what do you want to do with it?” Kauss tells host Guy Raz. In the midst of a hot day in Tuscon, AZ, Kauss reflected not only on the inability of her water bottle... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- News
The Case for Regulatory Reform
overview by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Lawrence Summers, director of the National Economic Council, in the June 15 Washington Post. Among other things, the proposed reforms will raise capital and liquidity requirements for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings
future general managers in science- and technology-intensive businesses who seek firsthand exposure to companies constructing global R&D strategies. Financial Management of Smaller Firms focuses on the financial management of firms that do not have ready access to... View Details
Keywords: curriculum
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
company. Most people think that will change the firm, but it won’t. It gives Goldman access to the Fed window which is very useful for liquidity management and, on the other hand, it reduces the amount of leverage they can use in trading... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sweet Deal
Hostess Brands, the maker of some 30 iconic American bakery products such as Wonder Bread, Ho Hos, Ding Dongs, and Twinkies, declared itself in liquidation and its assets for sale last November. As an adviser to the Teamsters union, Harry... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Paulson Advocates Regulatory Reform
will look not at the trees, but at the whole forest.” He also called for new government power to impose an orderly liquidation of any failing financial institution. Lacking that authority, Paulson said he had to use “duct tape and baling... View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
light-water nuclear plants, the young scientists' reactor runs on radioactive fuel dissolved into liquid molten salt. In theory at least, that means it can use nuclear waste from conventional plants as fuel and that it needs no active,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End
lenders and liquidating otherwise viable companies. As the theory goes, the deep-pocketed secured lenders at the front of the line have a bias toward shutting down viable operations, selling off the assets, and collecting the cash they’re... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
formulated, concentrated products that consumers reconstitute with water in Blueland’s reusable acrylic spray bottles—tinted pink for bathroom cleaning, yellow for multisurface, and blue for glass or mirrors. The company also recently introduced a foaming handwashing... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 08 Jun 2021
- News
New Funding for Female Founders
including such investors as Foundation Capital, XFund, PJC, Precursor Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, SV Angel, Underscore VC, Alpha Bridge Ventures, and April Underwood. Kudos operates a D2C subscription model, offering a monthly supply... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
the breakthrough development of Liquid Tide in 1984, is proud that most of P&G's growth in recent years has come from core products that are household names around the globe. "I really believe you should play to your strengths," he says.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
proposed new regulations: higher capital requirements; leverage limits; FDIC-like insurance charges; and, when all else fails, a receivership process to restructure, sell, or liquidate a failing company. Bottom line, no firm should be too... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Running on empty
Week (June 29, 1999), using $10,000 in savings and working in a partner's garage, Hubbard discovered a way to remove the volatile elements from gasoline. Rendered inert and nonflammable, the resulting liquid product - dubbed "SpareTank" -... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Responds to Financial Crisis
Lecturer Clayton Rose and Assistant Professor Daniel Bergstresser’s new case on JPMorgan Chase’s acquisition of Bear Stearns will be taught to all first-year students in two different courses and from two different perspectives. “In Finance, we’ll focus on Bear’s... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
“If I look back at my career, I’ve focused on liquid assets: blood, water, and beer.” That is the wry encapsulation Cynthia Fisher (MBA 1990) uses to describe her professional activities. Like Fisher herself, it is smart, efficient, and... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
sale and liquidity options, and prepares businesses to lead a mission-driven life post-IPO. Benefit corporation laws have already achieved passage in 32 US states and Italy—receiving unanimous, bipartisan support in most—and approval is... View Details