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  • February 2008 (Revised October 2010)
  • Case

Mellon Financial and The Bank of New York

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Ryan Taliaferro
Bob Kelly, the new CEO of Mellon Financial, is considering the terms of a proposed "merger of equals" with The Bank of New York, just before the final Board meeting to approve the deal. The combination offers a great strategic fit, and the expected synergies are large.... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Equity; Banks and Banking; Business and Shareholder Relations; Valuation; Banking Industry; Pittsburgh
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HBS - The year in Review

2022, HBR highlighted its favorite articles and published a new book, HBR at 100: The Most Influential and Innovative Articles from Harvard Business Review’s First Century. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Making the MBA Program More... View Details
  • 21 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Buy Now, Pay Later: How Retail's Hot Feature Hurts Low-Income Shoppers

offer the short-term loans to consumers. And it’s no wonder: Consumers using the payment method often spend more than they would with a credit card, according to new research by Harvard Business School professors Marco Di Maggio and Emily... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Financial Services; Technology
  • 21 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 21

methods and to make decisions on quantitative analysis. This book offers a variety of practical tools and examples to improve a manager's understanding of business analytics, and to enhance their thinking and decision processes.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Chairperson, Private Equity at Apollo; Tracy Palandjian (MBA 1997), CEO and Co-Founder of Social Finance; Member of the Harvard Corporation; Fran Seegull (MBA 1998), President, US Impact Investing Alliance + More Info – Less Info Impact... View Details
  • 25 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

City–based startup, offering investors equity in individual CRE properties that its investment team had sourced and vetted. Traditional private equity (PE) funds required... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • October 2019 (Revised December 2019)
  • Case

BC Partners: Acuris

By: Victoria Ivashina and Terrence Shu
This case follows Nikos Stathopoulos, Managing Partner of BC Partners, as he and his team evaluate the potential sale of one of BC Partners’ portfolio companies, Acuris. Acuris was a global financial intelligence, news, and data company that had been acquired by BC... View Details
Keywords: Fund Management; Fund Raising; Leveraged Buyout; Buyout; Portfolio Management; Operations Improvement; Exit; Exit Strategy; Valuation Ratios; Finance; Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Operations; Performance Improvement; Acquisition; Valuation
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  • 24 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory

consuming their economic rents in this manner. Enlightened Stakeholder Theory Enlightened stakeholder theory is easy to explain. It can take advantage of most that stakeholder theorists offer in the way of processes and audits to measure... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
  • 30 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

Africa Rising: Understanding Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Complexities of a Continent with Professor Hakeem Belo-Osagie

Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) are courses that offer students a great opportunity to think about career choices, gain practical skills, and explore topics you might otherwise never get to study. These courses run for one week in January... View Details
  • 16 Feb 2023
  • HBS Case

ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services
  • 15 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS

we’re excited to continue to offer our members and prospective students a wide range of events and opportunities to connect and engage with each other. Fall Semester Highlights: Diversity Career Fair: Formal HBS recruiting events being on... View Details
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Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online

Certificate Earn the Credential of Readiness by taking all three courses in tandem, plus a final exam. Leadership & Management Develop the leadership and management skills to get things done and bring out the best in your team, whether you’re an aspiring, new, or View Details
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For MBA Students - Entrepreneurship

For MBA Students Courses Our courses provide the foundation for understanding the processes, finances and context of entrepreneurship. They bridge the gap from the theoretical to the practical and offer invaluable takeaways for the... View Details
  • 26 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 26

activity, but a gap remains for seed-stage financing. The founders are evaluating the best way to structure their private equity fund to reflect their own assets and abilities and the needs and resources of the entrepreneurial scene in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2021
  • Supplement

Making Impact Investing Markets: IFC (B)

By: Shawn A. Cole, John Masko and T. Robert Zochowski
In 2018, Thailand’s Bank of Ayudhya (known as Krungsri), was considering whether to participate in the first issue of a new financial instrument from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), known as a gender bond. Building on the success of the Green Bond program... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investment; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Equity; Bonds; Financing and Loans; Growth and Development; Emerging Markets; Non-Governmental Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Instruments; Gender; Financial Services Industry; Thailand
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HBS - The year in Review

Students 18 Applications 896 Acceptance Rate 4% More Key Enrollment Statistics Full-Tuition Scholarships Offered In an effort to make the Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree more affordable and accessible to a wider array of... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details
Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • Web

Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

Master it and you will be in a better position to make your company a massive success. But how do you finance a new venture? In this note, I will try to help answer this question by addressing the following topics: Types of funding. The two major types of startup... View Details
  • Web

Skydeck - Alumni

Achievement Award offer some words of wisdom and key takeaways from their HBS experience Challenge Accepted Recipients of the 2025 Alumni Achievement Award describe a time when life put them to the test—and what came out of it The Working... View Details
  • 27 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

situation, especially §230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), a 1996 law largely meant to protect online platforms from defamation lawsuits. The CDA has been stretched beyond recognition to prevent all manner of prudent regulation. We View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne