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Ernesta G. Procope
Fair Access to Insurance Requirements (FAIR) legislation which has been adopted by 26 states. Over the years, Procope dramatically expanded her business to include commercial lines of coverage and in the process secured View Details
Keywords: Finance
- Student-Profile
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
William Nickerson, Jr.
Nickerson founded and led the first African American life insurance business established in the state of California. Under his leadership, Golden State expanded to other states and grew to become one of the largest black-owned View Details
Keywords: Finance
- January 2017 (Revised August 2019)
- Supplement
X Fire Paintball & Airsoft: Is Amazon a Friend or Foe? (B)
By: Feng Zhu and Angela Acocella
Three years after launching his brick-and-mortar store, X Fire Paintball and Airsoft, Steve Herbert Sr. and his sons began selling products on Amazon.com’s third-party Marketplace and online sales expanded rapidly. Over time, X Fire noticed that products of which it... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Competition; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Small Business; Retail Industry; Canada
Zhu, Feng, and Angela Acocella. "X Fire Paintball & Airsoft: Is Amazon a Friend or Foe? (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 617-047, January 2017. (Revised August 2019.)
Richard H. Jenrette
Jenrette founded DLJ in 1959 with Harvard Business School classmates William Donaldson and Dan Lufkin. Under Jenrette’s direction, the firm concentrated on in-depth analysis for institutional investors. In the process, DLJ raised View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
coursework similar to what I had been doing at JPL.” As his doctoral work progressed, Light became “more and more interested in the Business School side of the joint program.” He found mentors in Raiffa and View Details
- 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
- March 2009 (Revised May 2011)
- Case
Addleshaw-Goddard LLP
By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson and James Weber
Addleshaw-Goddard (AG), the 15th largest law firm in the U.K., is seeking ways to serve larger clients on more important legal matters. Part of this strategy involves its "Client Development Centre (CDC)," an innovative idea and set of services launched by Dr. Jim... View Details
Keywords: Price; Innovation and Invention; Service Operations; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Advantage; Diversification; Legal Services Industry; United Kingdom
Eccles, Robert G., Amy C. Edmondson, and James Weber. "Addleshaw-Goddard LLP." Harvard Business School Case 409-056, March 2009. (Revised May 2011.)
- 01 Oct 2018
- News
Learning About Leadership
Abigail P. Johnson (MBA 1988) is chairman and CEO of Fidelity Management and Research in Boston and a recipient of the 2018 HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this interview, she reflects on her early lessons in business leadership and on... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 02 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: Can a 'Main Street' Crowdfunding Platform Take Off?
Arjun Goyal
Science, Diploma in French and his MBBS degree from the Universities of Melbourne and Oxford. He completed his postgraduate clinical training in Internal Medicine in Sydney. He received his M.Phil. in Bioscience Enterprise from University of Cambridge and his MBA from... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
to the failing performance and then encouraging everyone to focus on making hard decisions quickly," says Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith, whose office shares a small hallway with Hood’s. So what was the plan to... View Details
Albert H. Wiggin
When Wiggin joined Chase in 1904, it was a modest bank with assets of just $250 million. As president, however, Wiggin oversaw a huge expansion wave, including the 1917 founding of the Chase Securities subsidiary. Wiggin's numerous View Details
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- December 2015 (Revised September 2016)
- Supplement
ANA (B)
By: Doug J. Chung and Mayuka Yamazaki
All Nippon Airways (ANA) became the largest airline in Japan in 2013. Having been designated as a domestic carrier by the Japanese government till the mid-1980s and Japan being the sixth largest domestic airline market, two-thirds of ANA’s passenger revenue came from... View Details
Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Analysis; Economics; Price; Marketing Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Product; Policy; Air Transportation Industry; Japan
Chung, Doug J., and Mayuka Yamazaki. "ANA (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 516-054, December 2015. (Revised September 2016.)
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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
Andre Meyer
Meyer was a skilled financier, with a great talent at devising and orchestrating mergers and other complex business deals. He engineered Lazard’s purchase of Avis Rent–A-Car System for $7 million, and its resale to ITT a few years later... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Providing lessons in financial literacy
Sally Wood (MBA 1983) is COO of the Council for Economic Education (CEE), a nonprofit dedicated to teaching economics and personal finance to students from kindergarten through high school. Based in New York City, CEE trains more than... View Details
John Merrick
Merrick began his professional life as a barber, at one time owning five shops. However, by 1905, he devoted himself fully to his insurance company, and by 1919, the premium income was $1.2 million with insurance in force totaling $26 million, making it the largest... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 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