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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Making Big Data Fashionable
get designs to consumers in as little as four weeks—and at an affordable price. In 2012, Moon—who has a background in fashion design, investment banking, corporate strategy, and social commerce startups—launched Trendalytics, a visual... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
Professor of Business Administration. "There are many challenges for firms in figuring out how to position themselves," notes Crane, who has taught finance and banking at HBS for many years. As consumers get more accustomed to using their... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
year. Writ large, Barared’s effects could be considerable: There are an estimated 800,000 locally owned stores like this in Mexico, meaning potential revenue increases for what is, collectively, one of the largest employers in the country. And by allowing wider access... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
Samuel L. Hayes, III (MBA '61, DBA '66), the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, Emeritus, is a widely recognized authority on capital markets, Wall Street, and the corporate interface with the securities markets. He takes a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
Harvard Business School with the hope of returning to his banking career. “Harvard showed me a whole different aspect to banking,” he says. “Professor Charlie Williams, who taught Commercial Banking, was my mentor. He made banking... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
1977) is chairman and CEO of Buenos Aires-based Velox Group, a privately held organization with a line of supermarkets, banks, and finance companies spanning five South American countries. He notes, "You need to be prescient, nimble, and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Research Brief: What Makes a Mobile Money Service Thrive in an Emerging Market?
convenience and security offered by mobile banking, Kenya’s M-Pesa, for example, grew to serve 15 million customers in its first five years. But for every M-Pesa, there is a company like India’s Eko Financial Services, which has struggled... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
industries - aerospace, banking, communications, entertainment, manufacturing, railroads, retailing, and health care - opting to join forces with their former competitors? Is this a repeat of the Eighties or something altogether... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
launched Tokyo-based Rakuten, a 10,000-person company that began as an online shopping mall and now includes banking, travel, e-book, and credit card divisions. With a market capitalization of approximately $14 billion in fiscal year... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
read in this special Bulletin issue, our alumni have founded or helped to transform many important companies over the years. They have shaped the evolution of industries as diverse as cable television, microcomputer software, publishing, specialty retailing, investment... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Faculty News
of Business Administration André F. Perold George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking Roy D. Shapiro Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration Richard S. Tedlow MBA Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
Transformed by a large, canopied stage and row after row of folding chairs, Baker Beach took on the guise of its more stately alter ego, Baker Lawn, and served as an ideal venue for the Class of 2001's Class Day and graduation ceremonies on June 6 and 7. Although this... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Communications Group) has secured $37 million in financing to support wireless communication programs in underdeveloped regions, including sub-Saharan Africa. "We are currently setting up voicemail through wireless public pay phones at... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
capital, and because many smallholders don't have clear title to their land—and therefore no collateral—banks are loath to lend them the funds they need. To unlock financing for his initiative, Masha turned to his friend Ladi Balogun (MBA... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
(MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration) – Professor Roscini’s research focuses on sovereign debt, monetary policy, central banking, and international investment. He has had two decades of leadership... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
was the deregulation of industries in which competition had traditionally been held in check by government rules, as in airlines, banking, and telecommunications. The second consisted of the ever-widening effect of new technologies,... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
of fresh orange juice. For the last 18 years, Arhodidis worked for Eurobank, one of the country’s four systemic banks. When he left last July, he was a member of the executive board and a general manager in charge of global markets, private View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
the bakery's finances." For her part, Nundy, an intern in the HBS Nonprofit and Public Management Summer Fellowship Program, was equally energized by her experiences during her twelve weeks of service in India. She spent the first six weeks performing a financial... View Details