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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market
1895); quote Alfred Bishop Mason, “Things to Do,” Charities Review (March 1892): 212. 29 Rolf Nugent, The Provident Loan Society of New York: An Account of the Largest Remedial Loan Society (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1932), 51. 30 Calder, Financing the View Details
- 10 Jul 2024
- News
Next Level
visible in college and at the workplace. Her father was a university professor and her mother worked for a media company. “I’m in media now, too, so that is really special to me,” Joseph says. Her father recently retired as senior vice View Details
Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
conditions and often with extraordinary and unheralded courage -- to fulfill the mission they have been given by the President and the American people as the nation's first line of defense. When the safety... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 17 May 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why.
audience of the day with the president, believing the last idea he hears is the one most likely to be chosen. If true, the president is no better or worse than most of us in allowing cognitive biases to cloud our thinking. We are, for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Tony Perez
"Doctors are excellent at caring for patients"diagnosing and treating disease," says Tony. "But the overall American healthcare system has not been so good at creating a sustainable model for healthcare delivery. Our... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Luminaries Discuss Careers, Values with HBS Students
leadership during the Tylenol crises of the 1980s set the standard for corporate responsibility. Burke has been hailed as one of the ten greatest CEOs of all time by Fortune magazine. Lillian Lincoln Lambert (MBA ’69), founder, former View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
climate policy. Henry Paulson, former CEO of Goldman Sachs and Treasury Secretary under President George H.W. Bush, recently argued in favor of a national policy that would put a price on carbon and stressed that our failure to do so... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
Always impressive, the annual conferences organized by HBS student clubs bring together industry leaders, alumni, and students for meetings marked by informative discussions of key business issues. Earlier this year, gatherings sponsored by the African View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator I n 1960, ARD invested $3.6 million in 18 companies and, by 1961, the firm became the first venture capital firm with shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In the article "Scientific Risk-Taking Keeps Paying Off for View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
Lawrence University Professor “I think the American people are dying to be asked to help solve some of these problems.” —Meg Whitman (MBA ’79), former President & CEO, eBay Inc. “Fear caused by greed needed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao Advises New MBA Students on Business Values
Chao Photo Stuart Cahill As part of the orientation for the MBA Class of 2004, U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao (MBA '79) told 899 entering students that they had an obligation to help fix the American free-enterprise system. “This... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
opportunities, housing, and access to capital. It found, for example, that low-income whites were twice as likely to be approved for loans as Native or African Americans with higher incomes. The task force's work helped convince one bank... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change
to the student senate as an engineering representative, a post that proved fortifying and challenging, ignited his interest in working on behalf of others and improving the way things function. He then ran for president of the LSU student... View Details
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
advocates is to find a way to enact humanitarian sentiments in a world where shareholder wealth reigns.—Margolis & Walsh Closer to home, the picture may be more vivid and compelling. For twenty years, Americans have lived through a... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home from the Sea
sailing feat yet. It was time for me to place another call to update his amazing story (see article). Last March, skippering the 60-foot Great American III, Wilson completed this year’s Vendée Globe, an around-the-world, singlehanded,... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
success. In particular, it is debated whether American Honda operated according to a deliberate or emergent strategy, i.e., whether or not strategic decisions made in the States conformed to the intentions of upper management. This paper... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
been collaborating for three years to increase the number of African American biologists and chemists. In 1995, they launched the UNCF Merck Science Internships. The undergraduates, doctoral students, and postdoctoral scientists who... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
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Expansion of the Case Method | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
returning military service members, the School’s first executive education program. In explaining the history of the program, HBS noted, “What was developed during a period of national crisis has become, in the eyes of both the School and View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
Collaborative Democracy, which grew out of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program, is focused on convening negotiators to develop an economic plan that would better serve the long-term interests of Americans across the political and... View Details
- 16 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
visiting scholar at HBS, and David A. Thomas, president of Morehouse College and a former professor at HBS. “These African American executives never reported feeling, even during the Obama years, that race... View Details
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