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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Books
International Finance A Casebook by Mihir A. Desai (John Wiley & Sons) These case studies, by Associate Professor Desai, consider how major financial and investment decisions must adapt to the opportunities and obstacles in a rapidly... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Jensen Donates Grant
HBS professor emeritus Michael Jensen, an influential expert in the areas of agency theory, organizational design, and incentives, was awarded the 2009 Morgan Stanley–American Finance Association Award for Excellence in Financial... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Hardymon Receives VC Award
Felda Hardymon, the MBA Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice, has received a Lifetime Achievement in Venture Capital Award from the National Venture Capital Association. A member of the HBS faculty for more than a decade, since 1981 Hardymon has also been a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
HBS to Release 2004 Annual Report
Education and Harvard Business School Publishing of $169 million, an increase of 5.6 percent. These two business operations provide a major source of income to support faculty research, in addition to their critical strategic role in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
anticrime policies have been lacking till now. Di Tella, the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, and his coauthors address these topics and others, including the impact of mandatory arrest laws, education in prisons,... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
financial literacy programs for teachers and students, as well as many other educational opportunities. “Education was the bridge to a better life for me,” observes Magwegwe, whose own dreams of going to college in the early 1990s were,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
everything I do is about giving back. In fact, one of the things we did at Baupost when we recently took on some additional clients was to accept only educational endowments and foundations. We figured we would further benefit the world... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Class All His Own
he founded in 1956. Last November, Brigham was among the first to be elected to the Hall of Fame of Financial Executives International, a professional organization for CFOs and senior finance executives where he has been a member for 45... View Details
- 06 Aug 2015
- News
Activist Investors Are Shaking Up Business Schools, Too
Keywords: Educational Services
- July 2014
- Case
Venture Capital at the Harvard Management Company in Historical Perspective
By: Felda Hardymon, Tom Nicholas and Vasiliki Fouka
The compromise between capital preservation and growth has always been central to the performance of the Harvard endowment. Setting an institutional structure for effectively governing this compromise became especially important when the Harvard Management Company... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Financial Management; Asset Management; Higher Education; Investment; Education Industry; Education Industry; Cambridge
Hardymon, Felda, Tom Nicholas, and Vasiliki Fouka. "Venture Capital at the Harvard Management Company in Historical Perspective." Harvard Business School Case 815-047, July 2014.
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
imbalance. Gates noted that about half of the foundation’s annual grants, or $1.6 billion, is devoted to global health, with around $800 million each devoted to grassroots financial services in the developing world and to education in the... View Details
- 23 Jun 2010
- News
Going Back to School
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
educate leaders who will make a difference in the world, the Doctoral Programs educate people like Akinola who will educate future generations of business leaders. “We have a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Books
from its character as a science-based business. This poses three challenges: how to finance risky investments with long time horizons for R&D; keep pace with advances in drug knowledge; and integrate capabil-ities across the spectrum of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Responds to Financial Crisis
and Global Financial Turmoil,” dealing with the U.S. system of financing homes; “Executive Pay and the Credit Crisis of 2008,” examining the impact of the financial crisis on executive pay; and “The Future of Financial Reporting,” a video... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. Behavioral Finance — Benefiting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
There’s a New Class in Town
follow, at 119 students. Educational backgrounds comprised three general categories: humanities (42 percent); engineering and natural sciences (32 percent); and business administration (23 percent), with the remaining 3 percent of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
He’s got a superhero’s name, and he’s shining a light on enduring wrongs here at home while confronting challenges in the Third World as well. Meet Richard America, who sees policy analysis and quality management as keys to development and economic justice. America... View Details