Personalized Law - Publications - Faculty & Research

October 2008 (Revised September 2009)
Case

Consumer Lending in Japan: Citi CFJ (A)

Despite a tradition of high household savings, Japan has supported a dynamic and technically sophisticated consumer-lending sector. The high profitability of the sector has periodically attracted interest from domestic banks as well as international investors. Most... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Financing and Loans; Foreign Direct Investment; Personal Finance; Courts and Trials; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Japan

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15 Sep 2020
News

Lifting Fallen Families

get to see it firsthand. Kim thinks of Jervon Lemon, a scholarship administrator on his team. After her father, Sergeant Jerome Lemon, was killed in Iraq in 2004, Children of Fallen Patriots stepped in to help fund her college education. Today, she speaks to the kids... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

2020 Vision

When it comes to setting personal goals, Lara O’Connor Hodgson (MBA ’98) aims high: Her ambition is to become, like another notable HBS alum, President of the United States, most likely in 2020. (For those with a similar aspiration and... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2005
News

One-on-One with Thomas Riley

against extremism. Fifty percent of the population is under 25, and there are not nearly enough new jobs being created to provide opportunity. An uneducated, unemployed young person is someone without hope and a perfect potential target... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Government

01 Jun 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

a networking toolkit for career success by offering inspiration, motivation, and practical advice, including real stories from those beginning the networking process, sample résumés and outreach emails, dos and don’ts, and reflection exercises. Built for Growth: How... View Details

17 Oct 2016
HBS Case

Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

delicious, nutritious food that is just plowed under every year” Alvarez was a facilitator during a conference in June at Harvard Law School on the topic Reduce and Recover: Save Food for People. The conference included seminal figures in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

01 Dec 2008
News

Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals

of motives and identification with groups, norms, and culture. In economics we talked about the role leadership plays in coordination and how economic models can help us understand that. History points us to the role of the biographer and the context in which a View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2020
News

Navigating the Populism Phenomenon

recalls growing up in France—a country with less of a history of populism—and voting in his first presidential election in 2002, having to choose between a right-leaning candidate and a far-right populist. For both faculty members, these View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2024
News

Alumni Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details

26 Aug 2014
First Look

First Look: August 26

difficulty, advisor egocentrism, and advisor expertise. Individuals perceive those who seek advice as more competent when the task is difficult than when it is easy, when people seek advice from them personally than when they seek advice... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1998
News

Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership

Graham retraced the unusual path that brought her to the top position at the Washington Post in 1963. It is a story that she chronicled in Personal History, her best-selling memoir that, one week after her HBS visit, was awarded the... View Details

06 Nov 2015
Blog Post

Casey Gerald: Becoming a Leader at HBS

and resources that I-- and people like me in my neighborhood-- never had access to. The question really became permanent in my mind: What am I going to do with my opportunities to provide opportunities to others? I used to think this meant becoming a lawyer. In... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

The School that Donham Built

government, became his mentor and continued to support his studies through law school. Donham specialized in corporate restructuring as a vice president at Boston’s Old Colony Trust Company and won wide praise from both labor and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

11 May 2011
News

The PMD 70 Tree and Other Memorials at HBS

Department of Operations. The tree is part of a series of landscape improvements, starting nearly from scratch, that were originally carried out by the Olmsted Brothers firm, run by sons of the great landscape architect Frederick Law... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Personal Services; Personal Services; Personal Services; Personal Services

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

and growth. That triumph can be attributed to the Valley's distinctive geography, history, and culture. Why The Triumph Viewing the valley from the flight approach to San Francisco International, one is struck by how small the region is. As Venture View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

10 Jan 2012
News

The Tender Taxman

Keywords: Personal Services; Personal Services; Personal Services; Personal Services

07 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.

time-driven activity-based costing, a method Kaplan co-developed. “We tracked how much time each person spent dealing with that bill, we determined the cost per minute of each person, and we just multiplied the two numbers and added them... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

01 Sep 2018
News

Turning Point: Power Outlet

provides information and support to moms and sons and promotes positive images of black males. MOBB United for Social Change aims to influence policy at the local, state, and federal levels to impact how black boys and men are treated and perceived by View Details

18 May 2017
News

Pioneer Spirit

stay-at-home mom, and was the first person in his family to go to college. He went to Kansas State University on a football scholarship, but was injured during a spring practice in his sophomore year. That led him, in what seems to be his... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

30 Aug 2012
News

Fundraiser makes the most of time at convention