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2.16 Field Global Capstone (CAP) | MBA
Participants This program is designed for HBS students only. Friends, family (including partners and children), and/or colleagues who may be visiting or residing in the FIELD Global Capstone city may not participate in course activities... View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?
While net worth is on the rise for most Americans, the picture is only getting dimmer for the country's poorest families: For the 11.3 percent of Americans living below the poverty line in 2000, wealth (in terms of financial investment,... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Executive Action
after a woman on the Harvard campus and the first building named after an American with a Chinese surname. As part of the gift, the Chao family has also endowed the Ruth Mulan Chu and James S. C. Chao View Details
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
increases in firm birth rates but survival rates are also higher. The increase in firm ownership comes mostly from families whose children were already insured, suggesting public health insurance increases... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-005.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAmerican Cancer Society: Access to Care Harvard Business School Case 109-015 CEO John Seffrin decides to radically change the strategy of the American Cancer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent
occupations, such as computer support specialists, insurance underwriters, and customer service representatives. Fuller also contends that American companies should consider learning from their European... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
use tools they already had, or they neglected to request new tools to meet the challenges of an evolving financial system." -David Moss Among the proposed new regulations: higher capital requirements; leverage limits; FDIC-like insurance... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
Mrs. April Estes is the widow of Richard Estes. He started his business to serve and counsel African American families who had been turned away from white funeral parlors and needed help burying their dead.... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
photo by Stu Rosner Food allergies affect 30 million Americans and one in 12 children, sometimes triggering life-threatening reactions. Yet there are no approved FDA treatments or cures. These sobering facts became alarmingly real to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 22 Mar 2016
- News
Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George
says George, a recognized expert on leadership who has written four bestselling books on the topic. The Georges’ philanthropy has focused on promoting leaders who give back to society. Not surprisingly, the School’s mission resonates with them, their family, and their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Mookerjee Picked as First Director of New HBS India Research Center
Mookerjee recently served as managing director of Capital One’s Asia business ventures, based in Bangalore, India. When that assignment ended in June 2004, he decided to remain with his family in India and subsequently launched an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
Image by Jezper by Regina E. Herzlinger Health care now represents some 18 percent of the American economy. With its costs continuing to rise, and with tens of millions uninsured, we in the United States are understandably preoccupied... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
College Daze
American parents wholeheartedly believe in the importance of a college education, but relatively few are saving enough for that not-so-distant day when Junior's whopping tuition bills will start rolling in. Enter UPromise, Inc., a... View Details
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Liuna Fekravar
Liuna began her career in investment banking, working at Credit Suisse’s Houston and London offices. Post-banking, she spent three years with an Egyptian family office focusing on PE-style investment across Sub-Saharan Africa and the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ink: Q&A with Kathy Wang (MBA 2011)
story of a Chinese American family whose unpredictable father, Stanley, learns he has pancreatic cancer. As his health declines, the family contends with the messy questions of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Male Consumers as Man-of-Action Heroes
products and activities that help them escape the daily pressures of families and careers, in order to become rebels for a day. But in a working paper titled “Man–of–Action Heroes: How the American Ideology... View Details
- 24 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
Advice for Prospective Latino Students
American life, while maintaining my Mexican traditions through large family gatherings, tamales & pasteles, and a drive to chase the American dream. As the oldest of four... View Details
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Bankruptcy | Baker Library
Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO). Both the MBSs and the CDOs received ratings issued by Standard and Poor’s, Moody’s, or Fitch. (2) MBSs and CDOs are sold to investors all over the world, including pension funds, insurance companies,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Zuriel Chavez
would lead them to the doorstep of a 6’5” blue-eyed 80-year-old white American World War II veteran. James P. Lapp lived alone in a small California town. Meeting “Grandpa,” as I would come to call him, would alter the course of my life.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
value for patients, as measured by health outcomes per dollar expended. Porter recently talked about the book. The American model of health-care delivery is largely private and competitive. Yet costs are soaring, access is restricted, and... View Details