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Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Railroads Finance Management Business Analysts Mass Distribution Mergers & Syndicates Research Links Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates Productivity rose almost six-fold in the United States during the era of railroad expansion.... View Details

01 Mar 2005
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Turkish Delight

Harvard’s Brew House. When the pair sold the business in 2000 it had grown to twelve restaurants; after that, Byford plunged into his new career as a writer and independent analyst on international relations. He took a seminar at Boston... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

26 May 2016
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Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993

Download Mary Callahan Erdoes profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1967 Born, Menlo Park, California 1989 Earns BS, Mathematics, Georgetown University 1989 Joins Bankers Trust, Analyst 1993 Earns MBA 1993 Joins... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

have a solid business basis." Jennifer Moret Financial Analyst Develop distinctive approaches and frameworks that help you navigate complex industries, such as oil and gas, power, pharmaceuticals, and financial services. Today, I am... View Details

07 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism

most penetrating analyst of capitalism who ever lived. He saw things other people didn't see.” McCraw, a past winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, has written a new biography, Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

15 Jul 2019
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Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

the capital allocation problem is the central way to evaluate management. Gerdeman: You say that valuation is both an art and a science, and even the best equity analysts and investors confuse the two and get things wrong. Why is that?... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

09 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

School who has created a new MBA course, Public Entrepreneurship. "The course allows students to consider the alternative that government can work—or they can help make it work." “We have many talented people in government, but by and large they have tended... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

Viroopa Volla is currently a third year in the JD/MBA program at Harvard. Before starting the program, Viroopa worked at McKinsey as a Senior Business Analyst and at Walmart as a Senior Manager. She graduated from Harvard College with a... View Details

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Kiran Gandhi

What’s the one thing you’re most excited about learning at HBS? The reason I’m here is to be in the classroom! In my previous job, I was the first digital analyst for Interscope Records. My boss had an MBA, and I realized that many people... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment/Media

24 Feb 2022
Op-Ed

Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

Poor’s, Morningstar, and Fitch Ratings already comb EDGAR’s data to assess nonprofit hospitals’ debt and for-profit hospitals’ financial instruments. These analysts can communicate with investors and patients, including those who can’t... View Details

Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer; Health

06 Feb 2023
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African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs

Before HBS, I worked in tech as a Product Marketing Manager on the YouTube Ads Marketing and Google for Startup teams. I also interned as a summer Investment Analyst at Obvious Ventures, an early-stage venture firm, where I focused on... View Details

01 Mar 2004
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Derek Ferguson

a microphone, and an extensive record collection with money earned working for their father. Ferguson moonlighted as a DJ in college on the weekends to earn extra money but never considered a career in the music business. Instead, he worked as an auditor and M&A View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

20 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Survival’s Secret Sauce

The secret sauce of long-term business success can't be captured in numbers. As the operations manager of a leading and fast-growing Brazilian business recently explained to a reporter, "There's a secret sauce in this business [but] it's almost impossible for a... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance

American economy though they did not fully understand its implications. “What does it mean that the number of mortgages on homes is increasing?” wondered census analysts in 1923. “Does it mean growing wealth or growing poverty?” 21 The... View Details

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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

Sara L. Fleiss Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Sara Fleiss was the co-founder and co-portfolio manager of Emeth Partners, an emerging markets arbitrage hedge fund. Prior to founding Emeth, Sara was the lead analyst on the... View Details

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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

of mission-related investments Prioritize course takeaways and how to implement them Interested in using this course for CFA Institute credit? The CFA Institute—including the Chartered Financial Analyst and Certificate in Investment... View Details

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MBA Elective Curriculum-- Competing Through Business Models

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

The words “business model” are inescapable in our daily fare of business news. These two ubiquitous words seemed to effortlessly rise up to prominence during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. When businesspeople, journalists, academics, and other... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

“Cloaked Trading” with Dong Lou and Christopher Malloy. Josh Lerner : Winner of the 2014 Award for Academic Excellence and Alternative Investment Research from the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association. Josh Lerner :... View Details

16 Dec 2021
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African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM

(MS/MBA 2022) Where is your hometown? Cerritos, California. What was your pre-MBA industry and role? I was a Software Developer at Citibank, then a Data Analyst at an education nonprofit. Post-MBA industry and role? Entrepreneurship. I’m... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

The damage can go well beyond the walls of individual companies. Think about what happens, for example, during a boom. As financial analysts and investors raise expectations for growth beyond the capability of companies, many managers... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

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