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01 Jun 2024
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Renaissance Man

Turning the page: A collection decades in the making tells the story of a lifelong passion. Image Copyright Sotheby’s (Photo Credit: Nathan Keay, Tiny Mechanism) Thomas Brooker (MBA 1968) acquired his first rare book in 1959, during a junior year abroad in Paris. At a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; antique books; collecting; retirement; hobbies

04 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 4

Publications November 2014 Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias Los Buenos Tiempos Son Éstos: Los efectos de la incursión de la banca extranjera en México después de un siglo de crisis bancarias [These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Unpacking Hidden Risk in the Trusted Treasury Market | Working Knowledge

well-functioning of the Treasury market. And this paper points out that one incentive underlying this growth and leverage is the bundling of unsecured loans with secured repo. How does repo lending differ from other forms of commercial banking? Wallen : These dealer... View Details

01 Dec 2012
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Rival Visions

United States had no plan for funding its huge debts. It had no stable currency, no sound credit system, no central bank, no reliable securities markets, and almost no corporations. By 1795, Hamilton's policies had corrected all of these... View Details

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Introduction - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

The Competition McKim, Mead & White The Campus Emerges Concrete Symbols The Dedication Building the Campus Research Links Bibliography Archival Collections Digital Resources Site Credits Introduction “It seems to be an Aladdin-like... View Details

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Filippo Mezzanotti

affiliated with the university. I graduated with a Master’s thesis in Political Economics, for which I was later awarded the Stringher Scholarship by Bank of Italy. After earning my masters, I joined the Finance department at... View Details

01 Oct 2000
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Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace

admit that her leadership and organizational skills have helped the nonprofit's various constituencies work toward the common goal of increasing economic self-sufficiency and ending poverty. The exchange tells a lot about Marshall. A giving person who is quick to View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

16 Mar 2018
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Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams

she worked in real estate investment banking at Goldman Sachs and then pivoted to the Walt Disney Company and AwesomenessTV, a digital studio that produces original programming for the emerging Generation Z. Ng knew she wanted to pursue... View Details

Mar 2012
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How to Make Finance Work

and generated new ones. The rest of the economy, however, has not been well served by the financial sector's boom. First, the shift from deposit-based banking to a market-based "shadow banking" system, without adequate... View Details

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Margarita de la Piedra Carrillo

During her last year of university, Margarita interned at Citibank del Peru's Quality and Innovation area to streamline asset-based finance projects and "reduce workloads." After graduation, Margarita transferred to Credit Risk... View Details

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Read excerpts from DENIAL

By: Richard S. Tedlow

The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears

Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)

From Denial: Why Business... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Herman I. Safin

Lee. After two years working as an analyst in the Financial Institutions Group at Credit Suisse First Boston in New York, Safin was given the option to become an assistant to the CFO or an associate in investment View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7

equity groups. Instead, they appear to expand their private equity engagement to take advantage of the credit market booms while capturing private benefits from cross-selling of other banking services.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Brandon Gayle

Eastman Kodak in their Credit and Service Marketing Departments. All the while, the value she placed on education was clear." At Harvard College, the value of education and business intertwined. "I worked for Harvard Student... View Details

03 Apr 2018
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New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54301 On the Direct and Indirect Real Effects of Credit Supply Shocks By: Alfaro, Laura, Manuel García-Santana, and Enrique Moral-Benito Abstract—We consider the real effects of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2002
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Andrew H. Tisch

after he graduated from HBS, when Loews bought Bulova in 1979. “Although Bulova had a strong brand name,” he explains, “we soon realized it was losing out to its Japanese competitors in technology, styling, quality, marketing, and service.” With debt totaling $50... View Details

01 Mar 2010
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Rx for Too Big to Fail

institutions existed even before the repeal of Glass-Steagall in 1999. The truth is, large financial institutions are probably an unavoidable feature of modern life. Even many of the most ardent opponents of big banks favor the creation... View Details

Keywords: David Moss; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

10 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Become a Value Creator

can focus on that, it is the way to win." One way to be a good value creator: give coworkers credit where credit is due. The need to appear smart can lead managers to cast blame on others for missteps... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Choosing the Right Student Loan | MBA

private loan options, you may want to start with your current bank or credit union, or (for international students) loans in your home country. Many domestic students borrow both federal and private loans,... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Finance - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Entrepreneurial Finance Course Number 1624 Professor Sabrina Howell Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Career Focus Entrepreneurial Finance is primarily designed for students who plan to get involved with a new venture... View Details

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