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HBS - The year in Review

2021 Annual Report From The Dean Financials PDF Downloads Archive The Year in Review The 2020–21 fiscal year was one of innovation and adaptation. While the pandemic disrupted lives and activities around the world, Harvard Business School... View Details

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

a particular subject area or further develop their career." Corina Cristea Lavoie Corporate Services Manager at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Understand power and how to use it responsibly to make a positive impact on society. The program expertly leads you through... View Details

08 Nov 2013
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Laura Diaz Anadon, Harvard Kennedy School

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

expanding trade, ever more efficient logistics, and a relatively benign trading environment. Revolutions in transportation and communications empowered the reconfiguration of global supply chains and a dramatic shift in production to Asia. But the global View Details

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

Immediately after graduation, a significant majority of the graduates of the leading two-year, full-time MBA programs take jobs in financial services and consulting, driven in part by financial rewards that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

03 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross-industry projects and the ways they must be managed. The authors analyze contemporary cases that expose the complex demands of cross-boundary collaboration... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Sep 2016
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Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

10,000 senior marketing executives based in San Jose, California. “There is often a disconnect between practitioners and academics, who tend to be far removed from operational complexities and market dynamics.” Donovan Neale-May,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

04 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51635 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital By: Ewens, Michael, Ramana Nanda, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Mastering Strategy Execution

By: Robert Simons

Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

13 Jun 2017
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Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet

sectors that are booming. However, as markets in different countries have increasingly moved in tandem or correlated, from 50 or 60 percent in the 1990s to more than 90 percent after the financial crisis of 2008, that strategy has seemed... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

11 Jan 2000
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Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center

company can triumph. That's especially true in the financial services industry, where call centers have moved beyond their most obvious function—as low-cost channels for resolving a myriad of customer concerns—to become powerful means of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Financial Services

14 Mar 2011
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Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need

modern-day doomsayers, referred to the specter of another Great Depression. This was not total hyperbole. While different analysts weighted the "fundamental" causes of the crisis differently, most recognized that the increased View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services

03 Apr 2006
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The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

short, the modules have been sequenced to progress from markets to firms to institutions so that complexities are gradually layered on. The major decisions that managers confront in multinational financial... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

Carl C. Icahn

Throughout his career, Icahn specialized in and greatly benefited from orchestrating complex financial transactions including arbitrage. At the height of the “go-go eighties,” Icahn became a quintessential... View Details

Keywords: Finance

14 Mar 2007
Op-Ed

Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity

capital." Now modern-day trustbusters have again launched an investigation into collusion in financial services, this time focusing on private-equity firms. The Justice Department is concerned that private-equity firms are teaming up... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

15 Mar 2021
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Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?

decisions better. Now, finance—financial markets, asset prices—are just the aggregation of all these biases, mistakes and difficult and complex decisions. So, the more you understand those, the deeper you’re going to understand all View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

01 Jun 2012
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Good as Our Word

ratings to highly complex and opaque mortgage- and asset-backed securities. How had the rating agencies gotten it so wrong? In the recent case “Kroll Bond Rating Agency,” HBS assistant professor Bo Becker offers an overview of the bond... View Details

Keywords: Maggie Starvish; Bond rating; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

Kenneth Salas

Harvard Business School and a BA in Political Economy from UC Berkeley. As an Entrepreneur in Residence, Kenny is passionate about empowering fellow entrepreneurs. He offers valuable guidance on building early teams, achieving product-market fit and developing growth... View Details

March 2001 (Revised July 2002)
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WingspanBank.com (B): Should This Bird Still Fly?

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Stacy McManus

WingspanBank.com is launched to critical acclaim, but its fate is hardly certain. Bank One's new CEO, Jamie Dimon, must decide what to do with what is now a second Web site for the bank's current and prospective customers. View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Customers; Innovation and Management; Organizations; Complexity; Web Sites; Financial Services Industry

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06 Jun 2012
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Fellowship Funder

communicate complex and at times dry subject matter clearly, simply, and with homespun charm,” recalls Mencoff, who went on to become a founding partner and co-CEO of Madison Dearborn Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm with... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

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