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  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

Beyond the Numbers

growing pains. " A native of White Plains, New York, Robinson says he came to finance by wending his way from liberal arts to economics as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin. He attended HBS immediately after college. "I... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

Four Professors to Retire

Government, and the International Economy, making good use of his long-standing interest in international business. In 1981, for example, Crum started working to create the Nomura School of Advanced Management in Tokyo. Many of the one hundred cases View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

Sustaining HBS’s Unique Economic Model

tuition, and Harvard Business Publishing—are facing constraints. A desire to limit tuition increases, for example, and growing competition for professional development mean that growth trajectories across these three areas are lower in... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

Floor It

leading from the street to the house itself. That insight, coupled with the radical nature of precision medicine, led to a realization: A “business as usual” approach wouldn’t do the trick; a different way of fighting cancer required an equally innovative approach to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
  • 30 Jul 2008
  • Op-Ed

Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI

difficult one for direct investors. Tilted Playing Field Why is it so difficult to make money as a direct investor in the United States? Indeed, much of the rhetoric on investing environments argues that the major destinations for U.S. outbound FDI—the View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
  • June 2019
  • Article

Debt Redemption and Reserve Accumulation

By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
In the past decade, foreign participation in local-currency bond markets in emerging countries increased dramatically. We revisit sovereign debt sustainability under the assumptions that countries can accumulate reserves and borrow internationally using their own... View Details
Keywords: Sovereign Debt; Local-currency Bonds; Foreign Reserves; Sovereign Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Bonds; Financial Markets; Developing Countries and Economies
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  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-029.pdf Crashes, Collateral, and the Financing of Securities Authors:Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford Abstract This paper develops a parsimonious static model for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Sep 2006
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom

of quantum dots for cancer treatment that had been proposed by an outside sponsor. Along with a bunch of other highly qualified students, one of this team's members was a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researcher. Within two weeks, the team... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education
  • Profile

Daniel Serna

Reservations demonstrated community-supported agriculture by managing a dairy herd and producing grass-fed beef. "I took an A.P. class in economics," Dan says, "to learn more about the business environment." When he returned to Appleton for college... View Details
  • 01 May 2013
  • News

Experience of a Lifetime

are HBS classmates." The Buchan family "is honored to give back to an institution that has given us so much," says Buchan. "With our contribution, the School has the flexibility to direct resources to priority, high-impact areas. We are... View Details
  • June 2020
  • Teaching Note

Generation Investment Management

By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Sarah Mehta
This teaching note provides guidance for teaching the case “Generation Investment Management” (820-033), which looks at the challenges facing a sustainable investment firm. View Details
Keywords: Sustainable Investing; Socially Responsible Investing; Long-term Investing; ESG; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Finance; Equity; Governance; Private Equity; Public Equity; Financial Markets; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Institutional Investing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom; England; London
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  • January 2008 (Revised April 2009)
  • Case

Kinyuseisaku: Monetary Policy in Japan (A)

By: Laura Alfaro and Akiko Kanno
Toshihiko Fukui, Governor of the Bank of Japan, faced a complex situation in the fall of 2007. An economic recovery had allowed the central bank to abandon its zero interest rate policy, which had been in place for years, and raise rates to 0.5%. The Bank of Japan was... View Details
Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Money; Central Banking; Interest Rates; Policy; Japan
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  • October 1999 (Revised November 1999)
  • Case

Wit Capital: Evolution of the Online Investment Bank

Wit Capital brings democracy to the IPO process via the World Wide Web. This case encourages debate about the role service will play in this technology-intermediated investment bank and the sources and sustainability of its competitive advantage. View Details
Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Service Delivery; Competitive Advantage; Investment Banking; Web; Banking Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Noted & Quoted

“We simply can’t call it capitalism if the biggest financial institutions enjoy a guarantee from the taxpayer that if they go bust, or risk going bust, they’ll be bailed out. That has to change.” — Professor Niall Ferguson, responding to... View Details
  • Web

Globalization and Emerging Markets - Course Catalog

the developing world. GEM provides frameworks to understand the processes of economic growth and development; to develop contextual intelligence regarding emerging markets; to manage within a weaker or less... View Details
  • 23 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

industries, including timber, oil, gold, silver, and titanium. [ ] Under the widely practiced international sales system, a corporation in a developed nation sells finished goods to a consumer in a less-developed nation; this is... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
  • January 2008
  • Teaching Note

Pilgrim Bank (A): Statistics Review with Data Desk

By: Frances X. Frei
Teaching Note for 602104. View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Policy; Banks and Banking; Management Teams; Motivation and Incentives; Customers; Mathematical Methods; Service Operations; Banking Industry
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

For African farmers looking to escape poverty, honey brings sweet success

Yusuf Keshavjee (OPM 17, 1991) helps African farmers and their families escape poverty through beekeeping. He cofounded Honey Care Africa (HCA), a private-sector enterprise in Kenya that partners with local NGOs and international View Details

    Arjun Chopra

    computing company, where he launched and led their cloud strategy, products and services. He was a member of the board and executive team that raised multiple rounds of financing and spun out smartShift Inc. He led 350+ people, on-boarded... View Details
    • Profile

    Nicola Leahy-MacManus

    Why was getting a business education important to you? Coming from a consulting background, I was keen to pursue an MBA in order to expand my skill set, particularly in the areas of finance and marketing. I felt it was the pinnacle of... View Details