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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
Charles E. Mitchell
Under Mitchell’s presidency, National City Bank was converted into a modern retail banking organization and a world-wide banking empire with offices from London to Singapore. He popularized checking accounts for individuals and pioneered 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
Leroy A. Lincoln
Under Lincoln’s leadership, Metropolitan became an ardent supporter and provider of public health education while his company achieved record levels of profitability. For many years, the company promoted health and safety through advertisements in press, radio shows... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Daniel P. Tully
Believing that two of Merrill’s biggest problems were complacency and arrogance, Tully’s first task as CEO of the large investment bank was to achieve a value system that promoted integrity and hard work. Personally congratulating anyone... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 05 Sep 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Global Currency Hedging
- 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
- 15 Apr 2020
- News
Money Matters
For millennials, who were born between 1981 and 1996, this is likely their first encounter with the kind of market turmoil we're experiencing right now. In "How to Cope if You Haven't Experienced Market Chaos Before," Paul Brown of the New York Times asked the authors... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
Illustration by Jon Krause What percentage of managers do you think steal from their companies? Your answer to that question can tell a financial institution a lot about your creditworthiness, says DJ DiDonna (MBA 2010), cofounder and chief strategy officer of the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
Financial Services Support Mexico’s Most Underserved Communities
Alvaro Rodriguez-Arregui (MBA 1995), cofounder and managing partner of Ignia, explains how his organization’s impact investing has brought personal finance services to residents of the largest slum in Mexico... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
households, or masters of the universe on Wall Street, rely on their own personal experience when forming judgments about the financial future. That means the average chief executive of an investment bank was working on data going back no... View Details
- 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.)
- 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.
Harold Stanley
personally known for his stern defense of the “old-guard” investment banking industry during the 1930s and 1940s when the government tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to prove that the industry was anti-competitive. View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 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
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
that for CEOs of companies over $10 billion in revenues. My guess is that, given the increasing level of work required and personal risks run, a doubling of director compensation is an absolute minimum. Third, public companies need a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
directly involved in the recent financial meltdown, as well as many firms outside of finance whose governance-related troubles came home to roost in the recession. On behalf of shareholders, boards’ specific duties are to choose and, when... View Details