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- 01 Oct 2018
- News
Advancing Opportunities for Others
person of color, when I am invited to a broad industry conference, you can count the number of people of color in the room. So we put together this conference and it has been oversubscribed every year that we've done it. And it's the most... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Providing lessons in financial literacy
Sally Wood (MBA 1983) is COO of the Council for Economic Education (CEE), a nonprofit dedicated to teaching economics and personal finance to students from kindergarten through high school. Based in New York... View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Does Shareholder Proxy Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Professors Introduce Valuation Software
In an age when mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs are increasingly common in business, you need a new skill in your kit bag: the ability to analyze and value potential partners, deals, investments—even your own company. The Business Analysis and Valuation Model (BAV)... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 2024
- Chapter
The 10 Rules of Investing: Best Practices for Building Wealth and taking Care of Your Future Self
By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Katie Reilly
Keywords: Personal Finance
"The 10 Rules of Investing: Best Practices for Building Wealth and taking Care of Your Future Self." In Investing Playbook. Investopedia, forthcoming. (Contribution by Vikram S. Gandhi.)
- 01 Dec 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?
Summing Up What Will it Take to Save the Managed Mutual Fund? In this month's column, I purposely took what I assumed was an extreme position in asking if this was the twilight era for the managed mutual fund. The responses the column generated from individual... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
Many tools for rating the performance of mutual funds and their managers rely heavily on past performance. But what about the future? Now comes a system devised by Randolph B. Cohen and Joshua D. Coval of Harvard Business School, and Lubos Pastor of the University of... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
private sources, and bank loans.9 Women have made extraordinary progress, but they still have much to learn. In spite of narrowing the debt-financing gap over the past decade, women continue to rely too heavily on personal credit cards,... View Details
- November 1993
- Case
George Halas: Estate Planning and the Chicago Bears
By: Henry B. Reiling
Reiling, Henry B. "George Halas: Estate Planning and the Chicago Bears." Harvard Business School Case 294-053, November 1993.
- 01 Oct 2018
- News
Get Involved
Alice Vilma (MBA 2007) is executive director of Investment Banking and Securities Dealing at Morgan Stanley. In this interview she share her perspectives on how each person can make a difference. “How I am trying to make a difference in... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
What personal attributes were crucial among the leaders you have studied? A: There is no substitute for leaders personally meeting employees. Leif Johansson, CEO of the Volvo Group in Sweden, did a lot of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios
Keywords: by Jakub W. Jurek & Luis M. Viceira
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Analyst Disagreement, Forecast Bias and Stock Returns
- Article
Present Bias Causes and Then Dissipates Auto-enrollment Savings Effects
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Peter Maxted
Present bias causes procrastination, which leads households to stick with auto-enrollment defaults. However, present bias also engenders overconsumption. Separation from each employer generates a rollover of 401(k) balances to an individual retirement account (IRA)... View Details
Keywords: Present Bias; Procrastination; Personal Finance; Decision Making; Social Psychology; Retirement
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Peter Maxted. "Present Bias Causes and Then Dissipates Auto-enrollment Savings Effects." AEA Papers and Proceedings 112 (May 2022): 136–141.
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Reinventing Savings Bonds
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
customer and product markets, and geopolitical environments. Professor William Fruhan leads the corporate finance piece of the curriculum, providing perspective on the globalization of financial markets. "Increasingly, there is more... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
notes. “Everything I learned at HBS — from marketing to strategy to finance to BGIE — is relevant in running a social business.” For MBAs who may be considering a mid-career leap to the social enterprise sector, Ayala has words of... View Details
- 19 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech
President Obama’s Cabinet as Administrator of the US Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013. [Image: TommL] Related Reading Using Fintech to Disrupt Eastern Bank from Within Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing... View Details
- 05 Sep 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Global Currency Hedging
- 14 Sep 2018
- News
Lessons Learned 10 Years After the Financial Crisis
Hank Paulson (MBA 1970) (Yahoo Finance Video) Hank Paulson (MBA 1970) (Yahoo Finance Video) Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson (MBA 1970) sat down recently with former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben... View Details