Financial Product Launch - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2001
News

New Ventures New Gains

technology company that they planned to start. “Having to submit the plan formally and knowing it would be scrutinized forced us to spend a lot more time making sure all the details — especially the financials — were perfect,” says Bang... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 2001
News

September 11: A Community Reflects

ambition and great expectations." Alumni Message Boards While the campus community came together to cope in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, members of the extended HBS community did the same. Given that two of the attacks centered on the nation's — and some... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

19 Feb 2021
News

A Playbook for Progress

an unstoppable force.” Dan: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Jacqui Adams (MBA 1978) is CEO of a communication strategy firm that she launched after more than two decades as an Emmy award-winning CBS news correspondent. Bonita... View Details

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

empower teams who are closer to the customer and unlock the full potential of organizations. While born in the software world, the approach is viewed as transformative in both software and hardware across sectors, including financial... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

Profile

Marla Malcolm Beck

one knew what facials were. When I was in Boston, I used to drive 45 minutes to get MAC lipstick.” The proverbial light bulb went on and Beck decided she could bring beauty products online. Bluemercury was born. As every nascent... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

A Community Investment

business and its leaders can no longer afford to be one-dimensional and narrow in focus. Business executives need to broaden the definition of their fiduciary duties in their business practices and ask themselves how their products and... View Details

09 May 2021
Blog Post

Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year

Lacassie Child: Elisa (almost 3 years), Amalia (due May 8th) Student Status: EC Where are you from? Chile Professional pathway pre-HBS: Financial Services in Chile Post HBS Plan: BCG, Boston Office Little one’s favorites: Dancing, Llama... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

Deep Dive

Bill Gates, funded the Petrel, the most advanced vessel for finding and exploring deepwater shipwrecks; it rediscovered the USS Indianapolis in 2017. Last year, Cameron and Ray Dalio (MBA 1973) launched OceanX to fund oceanic research... View Details

Keywords: April White; photo by Jeff Wilson; Scientific Research and Development Services

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

which require full and fair disclosure of the financial performance of companies and of the risks associated with their business. This attitude is reminiscent of the Roaring Twenties when, according to Representative (and later Speaker of... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

01 Jun 2020
News

Meal Plan

example, so people didn’t have to take public transit. We also invented some new product and business models. One brand in the Boston area is Life Alive Organic Café. It’s a plant-based, fast-casual concept that’s very health-oriented.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; restaurants; COVID-19; pandemic; recovery; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

Web

Commencement 2015 Address | About

true. Yet when I talk with even our most celebrated and successful alumni, I’m continually struck by how their paths were never a straight line to success. Many of them were fired, or launched a business that failed. Some of them faced... View Details

19 Nov 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

25-year business career that included 10 years in fashion retailing; 12 years in mutual fund and brokerage financial services; serving as a director on nonprofit and corporate boards; and chairing the Better Business Bureau here in... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

01 Sep 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

Alumni Books Get Backed: Craft Your Story, Build the Perfect Pitch Deck, and Launch the Venture of Your Dreams by Evan Baehr (MBA 2011) and Evan Loomis (Harvard Business Review Press) Now that you have your big idea, how will you find and... View Details

14 Jun 2016
First Look

June 14, 2016

data to recover parameters including the depreciation rate and adjustment costs of managerial capital (both found to be larger than for tangible non-managerial capital). Our model also predicts (i) a positive effect of management on firm performance; (ii) a positive... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2007
News

The Wise Men

long careers, these legendary faculty members not only helped shape the School and personify it to generations of students and alumni, they were also eyewitnesses to its evolution. When they began their careers, after World War II and at about the midpoint of the 20th... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

16 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 16

economic theory of GAAP under the assumption that GAAP's objective is to facilitate efficient capital allocation within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP, as shaped by the economic forces of demand for and supply of financial... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2008
News

Mara Aspinall

Personalized Medicine,” a Harvard Business Review article that outlines an agenda that could hasten the transition from “trial-and-error” therapies for life-threatening illnesses to a more targeted line of attack. Aspinall began her career at Bain & Company, working... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

24 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

For the school that so boldly launched the MBA 100 years ago and went on to become the bluest of blue-chip brands in business education, it seemed only fitting that Harvard Business School should mark its centennial year by examining the... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

08 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

is invested and aid has a small but insignificant effect on growth. Aid has no effect on the financial account, but does raise holdings of foreign reserves. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-074.pdf Cases &... View Details