Community Banks - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 1996
News

Class Acts

Leadership, intellect, entrepreneurial savvy, interest in community service, good old-fashioned school spirit - these are some of the defining characteristics of the MBA Class of 1996. And while it's impossible to show the depth and... View Details

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Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement

support from their existing providers, and a sense of isolation — all reaching a crescendo at a time when the burdens of their professional and family lives felt heaviest. This topic, which might have seemed esoteric at first blush, is wildly relevant for the HBS View Details

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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

my definition of the word—constructive. I am building men and companies." Georges F. Doriot, in "General Doriot"s Dream Factory," Fortune , August 1967 50 Doriot also championed a global community of venture capitalists by promoting... View Details

05 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

communities like leeches. The time is ripe for a new corporate model, driven by a new type of business leader, where creating business value also means creating value for society. Surprisingly, Kanter finds models for these so-called... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

Case 709-017 Despite a tradition of high household savings, Japan has supported a dynamic and technically sophisticated consumer-lending sector. The high profitability of the sector has periodically attracted interest from domestic banks... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2011
News

The Spangler Effect

campus and for its south-facing orientation toward Western Avenue, a feature central to the School’s openness to the surrounding Allston community and the University’s envisioned presence on the Boston side of the Charles River. Of all... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

until many years later that I came to appreciate the dissenting view of the Vietnam War." Ed Mathias, now a managing director of the Carlyle Group, a merchant bank in Washington, D.C., came to HBS after serving as an officer in the Navy... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

you: more police equals less crime. But there has been no evidence to support that [in previous studies]. "In 1994 there was a terrible terrorist attack on the Jewish community in Buenos Aires. Afterwards, the government placed one... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1998
News

Africa's Way

Communications Group) has secured $37 million in financing to support wireless communication programs in underdeveloped regions, including sub-Saharan Africa. "We are currently setting up voicemail through... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

The Courage of our Convictions The Courage of our Convictions 04–05 APR 2019 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Kira Banks Dr. Kira Banks has been working to support individuals and groups to understand themselves,... View Details

17 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation projects. We analyze the design costs and architectures and communication costs associated with each model. We conclude that innovation by individual users and also open collaborative... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Aug 2016
Blog Post

CS50 for MBAs: Coding at HBS

I was an English major at Yale and worked at JPMorgan Chase in investment banking and corporate strategy in the years before HBS. So I knew enough about words and numbers to be dangerous, but certainly didn't know very much about bits... View Details

17 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 17

misleading guides for the welfare effects of alternative fiscal policies. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-113.pdf Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank Authors:Bradley R.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2022
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Ink: Bringing Purpose to Life

purpose into their core operations, generating powerful win-win decisions that benefit everyone, with little compromise—if any—required on any side. A manufacturing company might change wasteful processes, for instance, using less energy while also cutting back on... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

02 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Finding My Focus in Health care Amidst a Global Pandemic

at HBS spotlighting experts across public and private sectors have been exciting to watch. Not to mention, I have made some life-long friends along the way. My background in health care I began my career at J.P. Morgan (JPM), working in their health care investment... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America

States with food banks and distribution networks. For its part, H-E-B realized its corporate values of contributing to the communities in which it operates and generated goodwill and brand enhancement in... View Details

25 May 2021
Blog Post

Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics

investment banking at Goldman Sachs, and she wanted to continue building her career in business. She also had a yearning to uncover her passion, and so exposure to different industries and business challenges through the case study method... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

Traill’s story about leaving Macquarie Bank “to become the founding CEO of Social Ventures Australia, a nonprofit that provides evidence-based funding, investment, and advice to support its cross-sector partners.” The Crown Maple Guide to... View Details

31 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 31

data. First, we use field data on employees' productivity from a mid-size bank in Japan, which we then match with daily weather data to investigate the effect of bad weather conditions (in terms of precipitation, visibility, and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Apr 2022
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Clean Slate

comes to protecting our communities and our planet. NLK: So when a Goldman Sachs or a BlackRock says, “We will not invest in companies that don’t get it in terms of environment,” it makes many companies in which they are investors change... View Details

Keywords: Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

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