financial management - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Jan 2017
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Harvard Management Company Undertakes Sweeping Change

Keywords: Endowment; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

21 Nov 2015
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Ruling from the Shadows

Keywords: financial accounting standards; financial oversight; financial regulation; government policy; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Jun 2017
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Research Brief: Profit with Purpose—and Middle Management

researchers found that companies with a strong purpose came in two main forms: those with high camaraderie among its employees, and those with high clarity from management about worker expectations and future plans. This latter group saw... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

01 Feb 1997
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Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar

increasingly must make sophisticated financial decisions. Last November, Robert C. Merton, the George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration at HBS, discussed this problem and elaborated on the importance of risk View Details

Keywords: Elizabeth McNair

03 Jul 2012
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Is It Heresy to Make Salespeople Pay Their Expenses? An HBR Management Puzzle

11 Jul 2012
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A Hedge-Fund Manager With a Low Profile

Keywords: Hedge funds; value investing; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

01 Jan 2014
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To Spot Financial Trouble Early, Use Three Circles: A conversation with Blythe McGarvie of Harvard Business School

19 Feb 2014
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Kenneth Griffin Makes Largest Gift in Harvard College History

Keywords: Financial aid; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

21 Jan 2015
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Alan J. Hirschfield, Who Led Film Studio Through Financial Scandal, Dies at 79

Keywords: Columbia Pictures; Arts, Entertainment

25 Jan 2016
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Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home

You wouldn’t know it from most American media, but many sub-Saharan African nations have booming economies. And although the press may have missed the boat on this African success story, many business schools and business leaders know that one result of the boom is a... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

skills, as HBS faculty and recent alumni explain in the following course profiles. Entrepreneurial Management Associate Professor Amar Bhide keeps a slide rule tacked above his office desk. "Although I don't use it anymore," he explains,... View Details

17 Mar 2021
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Managing Diversity, The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations

Keywords: Racial justice

28 May 2019
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How bad are Pioneer’s job cuts? At over 27% of workers, they’re deeper than after 9/11 and the financial crisis

01 Dec 2010
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Faculty Books

use — among them, death by delay, confusion, fearmongering, and character assassination — and then engage them with tactics tailored to each strategy. By “inviting in the lions” to critique an idea and being prepared for them, managers... View Details

Keywords: business proposals; financial regulation

13 Oct 2016
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Jeff Bussgang Is Managing A New Fund Called The Graduate Syndicate

Keywords: Flybridge; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

20 Jun 2021
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Interview with Frank Cespedes of Harvard Business School, on his new book, Sales Management That Works: How to Sell in a World that Never Stops Changing

01 Mar 2023
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Elevator Pitch: Spread the Wealth

Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Sabine Tejerina (MBA 2009) Cofounder and COO, Upstreet Concept: Launched in 2020, Upstreet makes it easier and more economical for companies to reward employees and customers with shares to improve engagement and... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneurship; stock ownership; customer rewards; employee retention; financial literacy; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Mar 2024
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In Harmony

Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

01 Dec 2012
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Taking Time to Make Time

POZEN: Getting people to think about how they are managing their careers in the evolving context of their own personal and professional lives. HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen is living proof of the adage "If you want to get something... View Details

Keywords: Time management

17 Sep 2016
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Keeping an Ear Out for Disruption

Keywords: disruptive innovation; currency exchange; management; leadership; technology; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

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