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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
in the 21st century. The current “no child left behind” approach is inadequate because it puts the burden on the child and the teacher, but it doesn’t do anything to improve the school’s environment and its ability to deliver services. If you look at it from a View Details
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
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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
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
the car—but with collective action, these small changes could have a big impact, Tiller says. The organization also wants consumers to understand the connection between food and fuel: nearly 50 percent of the country’s corn crop is turned... View Details
- 01 Oct 2018
- News
Advancing Opportunities for Others
Carla Harris (MBA 1987) is vice chairman of Morgan Stanley and a 2018 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this interview she talks about using her stature as an African American business leader to support leadership... View Details
Keywords: Finance
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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
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
bank capital on loans is too small to have a big impact on growth.” — HBS professor DAVID SCHARFSTEIN and Harvard economics professor Jeremy Stein respond to banking industry complaints that new global capital requirements will reduce... 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
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
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
Serafeim, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration Michael Toffel, Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management Peter Tufano, Baker Foundation Professor Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab How will crypto shape the... View Details
Walter E. Sachs
In addition to continuing Goldman, Sachs’ success in the underwriting business, Walter Sachs expanded the company’s other business areas, his most notable venture being the creation of the investment trust arm, the Goldman, Sachs Trading... View Details
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
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
Howard L. Clark
Clark took American Express from a struggling travel service to one of the most recognized credit corporations in the world. When he took the CEO position, American Express was on the verge of selling its fledgling two-year old credit card business. Clark revived the... View Details
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