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Jules S. Bache
Bache took over his uncle’s brokerage business and built it into one of the premier financial services firms in the early decades of the twentieth century. His operation helped to facilitate the reorganization of the American Spirits... View Details
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- 19 Feb 2010
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The MBA Oath Debate
words on a piece of paper will not stop unethical behavior, where steep fines and prison have failed to do so.” Writing in BusinessWeek.com’s online debate over the oath, INSEAD finance professor Theo Vermaelen warned that signing it was... View Details
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Michael Danzi | Baker Library
HBS to study. After graduation Mike went to work in financial services, but soon realized he wanted to launch and run businesses rather than only finance them. He joined a View Details
- 06 Jun 2012
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Fellowship Funder
about Hank,” Mencoff continues, “is not finance and tax theory but his consistent emphasis on the importance of maintaining one’s ethical compass in business and in life.” Thus inspired, Mencoff, on the... View Details
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Yueran Ma
decisions, both in the context of corporate investment in general, and banking and the financial crisis in particular. Looking into the future, I am excited to explore a list of other issues, most of which lie in the intersection of View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
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Turning "Black Gold" to Green
two oil fields, have contracts to manage as much CO2 as is produced by a small city, and we have the financial backing to finish the job," Dawe says. "That's about as tangible as it gets." Dawe is the president and cofounder of Berkeley,... View Details
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
Employers, insurers, taxpayers, and individual consumers pay widely varying prices for treatments, medical technology, and for digital information of fluctuating quality. One patient may receive a small charge for a treatment, while... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
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Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
month, the results are nearly disastrous, but the concerns are human and strategic, not just technological: “How do we get people to change? Do we adapt our business process to the technology or the technology to our process?” I find... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
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Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
acquisition of small- and medium-sized companies, Baker first observed the corrosive effect of corruption. "I didn't come out of HBS equipped to deal with it," he recalls. "It was so harmful to the business process, I started trying to... View Details
Bernard M. Culver
Taking the helm of Continental at the height of the Depression, Culver had hoped to maintain the business on an even keel. He did much more than that, building a top financial performer. During his tenure, he doubled the asset base of... View Details
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- 01 Apr 2001
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K.O. Chia: The Voice of Experience
A seasoned mentor who can stand behind a novice entrepreneur is a valuable asset for anyone attempting a start-up, but especially for those who are now launching ventures in Asia’s complicated business environment. K.O. Chia believes that... View Details
David Rockefeller
bank’s international business which contributed $6 billion of income in 1979 and positioned it as an important lender to large, multinational American industrial conglomerates, especially oil companies. View Details
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
profits corporations report to investors and the low profits they report to tax authorities. A minimal tax on the noncorporate business sector, thereby ending the relative disadvantage facing our largest public companies. Here's an HBR... View Details
Dee Ward Hock
In 1970, Hock created a reverse holding company tying together thousands of independent banks to create the Visa Network. His aggressive marketing and sharp negotiation skills enabled Visa to quickly capture 20% of the charge card View Details
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Arthur G. Gaston
Citizen’s Federal Savings Bank, as well the Booker T. Washington Business College. Throughout Gaston’s half-century leadership, BTW and its subsidiaries enjoyed tremendous success, with assets of $34 million and insurance in force of $726... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2009
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The Case for Studying Financial History
prepare for what was coming. My view is that you need at least 100 years of data to have a sense of the potential risks that globalization runs. Do business schools teach enough financial history? My impression of the major View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
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Complements to the Case Method
Learning by Doing: Stock Pitching When it comes to getting an edge in a stock trade, HBS finance professors Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy urge students to go straight to the source. “We encourage them to get out in the field and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
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Case Study: Citizen Buffett
need to design a financial strategy that supports your business strategy. Media General is a real-life example of topics that we cover in our finance curriculum such as valuation, financing, and risk... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market
the aftermath of the Panic of 1893. 28 By 1909, there were fifteen such societies—backed by the likes of Cornelius Vanderbilt and Percy A. Rockefeller—offering small chattel loans on a philanthropic or semi-philanthropic basis. To its... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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Is AI OK?
creditworthiness on purely financial and operational grounds, omitting the prejudice endemic among loan officers. The team used machine-learning techniques to sift through loan records from the Small View Details