investment banking industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

February 2011 (Revised January 2015)
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Matrix Capital Management (A) (CW)

By: Malcolm P. Baker and David Lane

Spreadsheet supplement to Matrix Capital Management (A) allowing students to value the company. View Details

Keywords: Investment Funds; Valuation; Financial Services Industry

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Figuring Out Her Mission | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Figuring Out Her Mission Ming Min Hui (MBA 2015) had a very specific intention in mind when she applied to HBS. After an early career in investment banking and corporate strategy, “I wanted to apply my... View Details

28 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor

for someone to get off the ground: enough to buy inventory, rent space, and begin to generate an income in order to feed, clothe, and shelter a family. A legal loan of that amount from a real bank is also the difference between paying... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2003
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Restoring Order

founded the investment firm that bears their names, has chaired the New York Stock Exchange; served as chairman and CEO of Aetna; and was the founding dean of the Yale School of Management. While noting the fundamental soundness and... View Details

Keywords: Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank

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Real Estate Private Equity - Course Catalog

final module consists of a focus on private investment firms, their compensation structures and how they impact behavior. For the final project students will be asked to develop an investment concept and... View Details

13 Oct 2010
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How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt

that financial institutions in the past ten years have relied excessively on short-term financing. The investment bank Lehman Brothers, for example, collapsed because it could not roll over its short-term... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Financial Services

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A Life’s Work | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

A Life’s Work Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) realized what he wanted to do with his life when he was just 21 years old. Having volunteered as a Big Brother while working at Chemical Bank in New York City, he saw firsthand the need for a... View Details

01 Jan 2006
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William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958

boy, Bill Donaldson went on to cofound the investment banking firm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. After fourteen years there, he began to take on a series of other leadership challenges in business,... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Starting Now — Bruce Wasserstein (MBA 1971)

Joseph Perella (MBA '72). The result was the Wasserstein Perella Group, Inc., which became one of Wall Street's hottest investment banking boutiques. "One of the most interesting things about this business... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, with Elizabeth McNair

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The Performance of Mutual Funds in the Period 1945-1964

By: Michael Jensen

Keywords: Investment Funds; Performance; Financial Services Industry

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Portrait Project

Shibani Joshi

meant fame and wealth, but today I see the meaning as much more profound. Now breaking free involves resisting the temptation to return to the investment bank I previously worked for and instead pursuing my... View Details

01 Mar 2003
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A Casual Approach to Success

to Hellman & Friedman, LLC, the well-respected private equity investment firm he cofounded (with Tully Friedman) in 1984. Hellman is one of the Bay Area’s most successful investment bankers, generous... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

Student-Profile

Erica Moszkowski

Williams College. Degree in hand, Erica accepted a position as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where she witnessed how economic modeling translates into policy decisions. She became passionate about pursuing... View Details

01 Apr 2001
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K.O. Chia: The Voice of Experience

Valley-based Walden International takes a hands-on approach when it backs new enterprises, insisting on monthly board meetings and close cooperation. Chia is well suited to this coaching technique. While most venture capitalists in Asia come from an View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Hewlitt-Packard; Apple; Finance; Telecommunications; Information

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Securitization process and credit rating agencies

investment bank analyst reports on securitization, click on the Research tab and select Advanced Research. Under Keyword Search click the drop down where it says ‘Document’ and select... View Details

08 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits

as several states in the West were planning a new joint program. “Those who make poor choices feel the consequences of price uncertainty most deeply.” So clearly it's important for business managers in many industries to understand how... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

09 May 2021
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Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year

Name: Alice Liu Child: Mia (almost 3 years) Student Status: EC Where are you from? China and Canada Professional pathway pre-HBS: Investment Banking Little one’s favorites: Mia loves "Wheels on the bus",... View Details

09 Dec 2021
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Higher Returns

about various ways that you can invest that align with your values and various themes that you can instruct them to use with your investment portfolio. Choose who you bank... View Details

12 Apr 2023
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Step Change

block of apartments overlooking the Nile River. She graduated from Cairo University in 2006 with a degree in economics, followed by a master's in environment and development at the London School of Economics. After stints as a researcher and analyst at View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

Alumni WDYDWYD

Athena Ko

When I was younger I was told I could do anything and have everything if I put my mind to it. So in the first thirty-odd years I went to Oxford, Harvard, had a good investment banking career, successfully... View Details

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