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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
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
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
configured as "traditional centers," familiar-looking branches that provided conventional banking services, though often supported by new technologies and redesigned processes. The group unveiled its first redesigned branch—a View Details
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
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
Keywords: Finance
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
social returns when they succeed. The problem, says Esty, is that many of the largest products have hit financial turbulence. Esty, whose new book Modern Project Finance: A Casebook, was published recently, teaches the "Large-Scale... View Details
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Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring - Course Catalog
process of renegotiation and re-contracting - the “re-slicing of the corporate pie” - is the central focus of the course. An additional objective in dissecting the complex finances and operating challenges that confront companies in View Details
- 17 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Ethics in Globalization
various forms of potentially unethical behavior. These include greed, unreasonable amounts of leverage, subtle forms of corruption (such as ratings agencies that appear to have had a conflict of interest), complex View Details
Keywords: Re: Rafael M. Di Tella
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
intelligent choice so important to effectively functioning markets. Worse yet, the financial products were created by financial engineers motivated to make them complex and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
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 to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
developed the idea of organizations as social systems. “That’s been the underlying framework of everything I’ve done,” said Lorsch, the author most recently of Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World. One... View Details
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
“Professor Desai’s students and alumni who heard him for the first time pointed out his expert skill at communicating complex subjects in a simple and highly accessible way.” A question and answer session followed the November 11 talk,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Introduction - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
the trading floor. The model offers a methodology to predict the seemingly unpredictable by using the lessons of complex mathematics and probability theory to forecast stock valuations, making it possible to successfully manage risk in... View Details
- 17 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions
difficult question, How are we going to make good on those promises? Pensions are a costly legacy for many companies. Photo: iStockPhoto The question is particularly urgent now, says Viceira, who teaches in the area of investment management and capital markets. For... View Details
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Introduction - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
the trading floor. The model offers a methodology to predict the seemingly unpredictable by using the lessons of complex mathematics and probability theory to forecast stock valuations, making it possible to successfully manage risk in... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
want to sell you. Cryptocurrencies have not yet reached that state. Digital financial transactions are commonplace now, but cryptocurrency, per se, is not something very large numbers of individuals or businesses are willing to trade for... View Details
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Cissy Chen Archives | Social Enterprise
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Building an Impact Investing Ecosystem in China Cissy Chen 10 Jan 2019 Before coming to HBS, I worked for a number of... View Details
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Fran Seegull Archives | Social Enterprise
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results From Milton Friedman to Larry Fink—The Rise of Impact Investing Fran Seegull 31 May 2018 Twenty years ago, I graduated... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Allston
Applied Sciences (SEAS) by creating an endowment for financial aid for students in the Schools’ joint MS/MBA program in Engineering Sciences. “The expansion of SEAS to Allston is a catalyst for collaboration that will propel and transform... View Details
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
ethically by cheating less. We further found that priming time reduces cheating by making people reflect on who they are. Implications for the use of time versus money primes in discouraging or promoting dishonesty are discussed. Working Papers Capital Market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Chao Zeng
case, I become a different person with multiple responses to complex situations. Second, it’s the interaction with people – as section representative, as a class member, or as a member of a FIELD team. By working with people from diverse... View Details