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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
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
- August 2019
- Case
The Allstate Corporation, 2019
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In July 2019, Allstate, the United States’ number-three property and casualty (P/C) insurer, released its second-quarter earnings, which reported first-half revenues of $22.1 billion, up 11.4% year-over-year. Shareholders cheered the top-line growth, but P/C premiums... View Details
Keywords: Insurance Companies; Strategic Analysis; Strategic Change; Insurance; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Insurance Industry; North America
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "The Allstate Corporation, 2019." Harvard Business School Case 720-366, August 2019.
- 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
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent
grindstone building out Prokanga’s finance practice. “The power of the HBS network when you’re building a business cannot be underestimated,” says Cheney. “It is unbelievable.” The Gig Economy Meets Wall... View Details
- Web
Financial Management of Smaller Firms - Course Catalog
own or manage a small business, provide consulting or financial services to these businesses, or invest in smaller businesses. These smaller businesses are privately owned, are typically led by a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
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
- 17 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Interns: Discover Their Career Passions
corporate strategy, giving him a holistic view of how organizations think about future growth. Pallavi Thatai, who joined Tesla in San Francisco and transitioned from a finance background, is hoping to gain insight into what it is like to... View Details
- 20 Mar 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
In the Shadows? Informal Enterprise in Non-Democracies
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Elevating Ethiopian Entrepreneurs
people in Ethiopia. What we want to do is give people a vision of what business is supposed to be. Business as we know it in Ethiopia is very transactional, very short-termist. We wanted to show people that... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
led him to start his own business selling produce. The next break came after a chance encounter with a clerk at a local library who gave him advice on how to apply for college and get funding. In 1997, Magwegwe completed his undergraduate... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
Business School finance professor Kenneth A. Froot in the April working paper What Do Measures of Real-Time Corporate Sales Tell Us about Earnings Surprises and Post-Announcement Returns? “It’s startling to... View Details
- Profile
Nelson Yuan
investment banking at Morgan Stanley and two at the Carlyle Group, where he worked in private equity and debt investment. Efficient way to learn business As Nelson’s career matured, he “didn’t find finance... View Details
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
Keywords: Finance
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
how to enter the industry. A small group of managers have to decide on a business model, how to meet hiring and funding needs, and what types of ratings to start with: municipal, corporate, or structured.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Social Enterprise Conference Draws 800 Participants
1996 graduates of West Point. Proceeds from the annual event go to the New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans. The theme was “convergence,” and that’s precisely what some 800 students, business leaders, social entrepreneurs, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation’s (HSBC) investment banking and securities business in India. She was selected as one of 2002’s fifteen emerging “Global Influentials” by Time magazine; in 2000, Fortune magazine named her the... View Details
- 07 Apr 2016
- News
Bain Capital Promotes Four, Renames Hedge Fund, Credit Units
- 19 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech
which was historically plagued by frictions, is becoming potentially more accurate, efficient, and cost effective. For small-business lending, technology is changing the game, providing access to capital for more small View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
General is a real-life example of topics that we cover in our finance curriculum such as valuation, financing, and risk management, and it brings together financial strategy and business strategy, a... View Details