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01 Sep 2020
News

Road Work

the Salas brothers are working to help finance entrepreneurs very much like their mother. Founded in 2014 and with offices in Los Angeles and Mexico City, Camino got its start... View Details

Keywords: banking; LatinX; small businesses; COVID-19; Finance

24 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti

in rural Haiti. Using a costing system developed at Harvard Business School, researchers found that the cost of care varied dramatically from clinic to clinic. The research and the concerns it raises are detailed in a recent case study,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

18 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?

founder’s verbiage, speak for itself. About the Author Nori Gerardo Lietz is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School. She... View Details

Keywords: by Nori Gerardo Lietz; Financial Services; Real Estate

19 Apr 2024
News

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

spectrum of the energy business, including EP, oil field service and electric power,” he says. In addition to the featured guests, all of the chats and panels included HBS alumni from the energy View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

04 Sep 2019
News

From Retail to Real Estate

(Drake Real Estate Partners LLC) (Drake Real Estate Partners LLC) When Nicolas Ibañez’s (MBA 2011) grandfather opened the doors of a grocery store in the 1950s, it was Chile’s first supermarket and an immediate success. Over time the... View Details

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Request more information | HBS Courses | HBS Online

correctly. Topics of Interest Business Essentials Leadership & Management Entrepreneurship & Innovation Strategy Finance & Accounting Business in Society I am interested in the for-credit version of CORe I am interested in the for-credit... View Details

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HBS Cases | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

years, HBS faculty have written many HBS cases about the finance industry, including cases specifically on Lehman Brothers. Most of the Lehman Brothers cases were written in the late 1980s to 2000s and... View Details

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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 2018
Blog Post

When Ideas Become Reality: Entrepreneurship at HBS

to run events and are hoping to automate key pieces of our product by the end of the school year. Our hope is to raise some financing that will allow us to pursue Venuefly full time after graduation. Maybe... View Details

02 Nov 2022
News

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

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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

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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

01 Oct 1996
News

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

03 Apr 2019
Book

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

16 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, first published in 1776, helped create the discipline of economics with its conjuring of the invisible hand, self-interest, and other explanations of market forces that have influenced academics,... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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
Book

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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May–June 1991
Article

Profit Priorities from Activity-Based Costing

By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Profit