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12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

corporations to local projects, the WDC would create profitable endeavors in order to reduce poverty permanently and irreversibly. As Harvard Business School Professor Ray Goldberg has pointed out, such ventures have already proven... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

12 Jun 2019
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Busy IPO Market Offers Lifeline to Troubled Retailers

23 Nov 2018
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Fintech has changed the game in small business lending

01 Apr 1999
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Africa Business Club Discusses Continent's Opportunities

hundred students, professionals, and alumni with business interests in Africa attended the event, which served as a forum for understanding the reasons behind Africa's continuing loss of intellectual capital. Kwesi Botchwey, Ghana's... View Details

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Blending Traditional Models of Philanthropy with Business | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Blending Traditional Models of Philanthropy with Business Background Making a difference in the world, as cliché as it sounds, is a fundamental value that drives my career. My father practiced traditional oriental medicine where there is... View Details

September 2010
Case

Merck: Investing in Science-Based Business (Abridged)

By: Ananth Raman and Inga Katharina Maurer

Ray Gilmartin faces a dilemma. His company's credibility has been damaged by the recent withdrawal of Vioxx, a multi-billion dollar drug. Moreover, the withdrawal of Vioxx would imply that Merck would fail to meet analysts' earnings expectations for 2005 unless... View Details

Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Cost Management; Production; Research and Development

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2024
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Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology Is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity

By: Karen G. Mills

The second edition of Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream, builds on the groundbreaking 2019 book with new insights on how technology and artificial intelligence are transforming small business lending. This ambitious view covers the significance of... View Details

Keywords: Fintech; AI; AI and Machine Learning; Small Business; Economy; Technology Adoption; Credit; Financing and Loans; Analytics and Data Science

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30 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)

close the finance gap, Krantz dove directly into the industry instead of learning it from the outside. She spent three years in fixed income sales and trading learning new things every day and getting a 360-degree view of the View Details

Keywords: Retail

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Academics | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Courses The first year Required Curriculum (RC) incorporates social enterprise cases and topics in several courses ranging from finance to entrepreneurship. In their second (EC) year, students choose from a range of Social Enterprise... View Details

20 Oct 2015
HBS Seminar

Elizabeth Pontikes, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

As Japan continues to come to grips with the devastating toll exacted by the earthquake within its borders, the aftershocks are just beginning to be felt within the global economy. Here, several Harvard Business School faculty members... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

21 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good

nightly fee. Of course, now we know the idea as Airbnb, a $10 billion business with 1.5 million listings around the world. But back then it must have seemed crazy. The liability issues alone seemed insurmountable—to say nothing of the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Accommodations; Financial Services

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By: Olivia S. Kim

My research examines how firms and households make financial decisions, with a focus on the role of the family. My work evaluates how financial regulations shape credit and consumption disparities within the household and the extent to which business owners' family... View Details

Keywords: Household Finance; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Finance; Financial Intermediation

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Students of Business Disciplines | MBA

Students of Business Disciplines External Funding Accountemps/American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Student Scholarship A competitive award for two outstanding AICPA student affiliate members pursuing careers in... View Details

25 Jan 2024
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Being a Team Player: Why College Athletes Succeed in Business

C-suite roles than their classmates, says Paul Gompers, the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who is one of the study’s co-authors. “It certainly makes sense that... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

16 Sep 2014
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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

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Business Source Complete | Baker Library

Business Source Complete Academic articles and company/industry reports. Includes Harvard Business Review full-text. Read More Covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting,... View Details

05 Aug 2015
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Activist Investors Are Shaking Up Business Schools, Too

01 Sep 2016
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The Big Business of Little Loans

Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before launching Funding Societies, a crowdfunding platform for small businesses in Singapore and Indonesia, Kelvin Teo and Reynold Wijaya (both MBA 2016) visited major... View Details

Keywords: Nancy Miller

25 Mar 2016
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