Financing and Loans - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1996
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Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)

White House, however, public service soon called. In 1993, the President appointed Brody to be chairman and president of the government's trade financing agency, the Export-Import Bank of the United States.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Oct 1997
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High Fives

as a member of the corporate finance department after graduating from HBS. Elected a managing director in 1978, he was eventually given responsibility for engineering Lehman's mergers and acquisitions area.... View Details

19 Apr 2024
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Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception

Clubs News Clubs News Houston Alumni Host Annual Energy CEO Summit The HBS Club of Houston presented its fourth annual Energy CEO Summit on April 3, which featured four of the industry’s top CEOs discussing trends and challenges around the theme of “Energy Security and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

2020
Working Paper

Best Ideas

By: Miguel Antón, Randolph B. Cohen and Christopher Polk

We ﬁnd that the stocks in which active mutual fund or hedge fund managers display the most conviction towards ex-ante, their “Best ideas,” outperform the market, as well as the other stocks in those managers’ portfolios, by approximately 2.8 to 4.5 percent per year,... View Details

Keywords: Mutual Funds; Managerial Skill; Market Efficiency; Investment Funds; Management; Investment Portfolio; Decision Making

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VCPE Database Comparison

black">Good screening specific to VCPE; coverage includes top-level information on the venture financing space, providing a snapshot of investors, deals, View Details

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Ahmed Alimi

accountant" for the small business his mother ran in his home country, Nigeria. He continued to study accounting in high school, then pivoted to the actuarial sciences when he attended the University of Lagos. In the following six years, he assumed accounting... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Box Office Power of Stars

of that product. That can work in a variety of ways. For example, in the case of films, powerful actors and actresses can help guarantee financing and push a movie through the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video

2001
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The Money of Invention: How Venture Capital Creates New Wealth

By: Josh Lerner and Paul Gompers

Keywords: Money; Innovation and Invention; Venture Capital; Wealth

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

Airmail service starts Influence: High 30 1930 s 19 The New Deal Commercial and investment banking separated Reconstruction Finance Corp. created to combat bank and business... View Details

05 Feb 2019
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The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)

of the business. I help her with MAYU’s financials, commercials, fund raising, etc. A lot of what I do for MAYU stems from my learnings from classes like TEM, FMSF, and the more generic finance classes from... View Details

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Bryan Stromer

Coming to HBS is like... Those “choose your own adventure” books, but the HBS version is filled with fascinating professors, supportive peers, and a lot of cases. Before coming to HBS, I imagined that business school would box me into a... View Details

03 Apr 2019
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Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

firm with fewer than 500 employees, in my book I focus on three kinds: sole proprietorships, Main Street businesses, and suppliers. All three groups seek financing from loans... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

06 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit

bucket and in a little over three years all your current customers might be gone,” says Gupta, the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. For that reason, many companies have a program to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Financial Services

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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

into World War II gave the steel industry a financial boost from the depths of the Great Depression as well as an opportunity for image burnishing. Large corporations and government worked together on the joint goal of supplying steel for... View Details

02 Nov 2022
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Strong Finish

Heela Yang and Alicia Sontag Four years after its launch in 2015, the Brazilian-inspired beauty brand Sol de Janeiro was already profitable; its skin-tightening Bum Bum Cream had been Sephora’s top-selling skin care product for three... View Details

07 Mar 2016
HBS Seminar

Scott Stern, MIT Sloan School of Management

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Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020

investors in London and New York? Kaspi.kz’s business model is one that is unlikely to have developed elsewhere, says Victoria Ivashina, the Lovett-Learned Professor of Finance View Details

10 Apr 2023
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Leading the Way

alongside his mentor as a Be A Leader board member. He is also an active mentor, particularly for Hispanic students who aspire to have a career in finance or attend HBS. With his help, Be A Leader now has a vital partnership with HBS... View Details