Financial Services - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2020
News

Righting the Ship

Fourth, Shackleton made his men believe that they could do it, that they could all get back to safety alive. How did he do this, create such self-belief in his team and thus make them part of the solution? Partly by his showing up every day in View Details

01 Jan 2006
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Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978

includes Time Inc.'s high-circulation weeklies-Time, Sports Illustrated, People, and Entertainment Weekly-along with other well-known publications such as Fortune, Golf Magazine, and Southern Living. Moore began her career as a financial... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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One-on-One with Jim Breyer

business plan with a clear path to financial success? Absolutely. With Facebook, we saw an opportunity to build a deep and growing engagement with a targeted demographic. Very typically we look for a business plan that demonstrates... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

09 Dec 2021
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Higher Returns

with a “t.” $68 trillion of wealth transferring from baby boomers and older generations to millennials and younger generations over the next 25 years. Most studies suggest that 80 percent or more of the heirs of that wealth will look for a new View Details

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

its open society and “messy,” yet functioning, market-based democracy as a more conducive environment for long-term development. Its Western-style legal system and transparent financial systems encourage a chaotic, bottom-up approach to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup

MBA course, in which he would combine then-emerging thinking at HBS about entrepreneurship with some new kinds of financial strategies he had been roughing out. Entrepreneurial Finance seemed like a logical name for the course. Almost... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

01 Apr 2000
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Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences

were Robert Ryan (MBA '70) and Paula Banks (154th AMP) for professional achievement, the Reverend Jonathan Weaver (MBA '75) for civic commitment, and Lillian Lincoln (MBA '69) for service to the community. Presented jointly by the AASU... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

01 Jun 2009
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Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support

we estimate a $115 million loss in GDP a year in Rwanda alone.” SHE picked Rwanda as its first business site because it is one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa. The organization already has global reach. Scharpf recently hopped from New York to San Francisco... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Mar 2019
News

Building a Movement

being very enthusiastic about tech to what was called tech-lash. And then we had tech-for-good: I wrote a case on Propel, which helps low-income people with financial services and food stamps. And now we’re... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Books

of uncertainty and where assets are often difficult to value. Second, because the various stages of the venture capital process are related, the entire function is best viewed as a cycle. Finally, unlike most financial markets, the... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

20 Nov 2015
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Room to Grow

million students consume more than $1 billion worth of food annually. “There are 371 colleges and universities here, so 371 food service directors are making decisions about where and how the food for a million students is being purchased... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

inventory problems and dire financial crises—and whatever the symptom, the root cause was usually that the company had lost touch with its customers. “It’s one of the main reasons the country continues to fall behind,” she says. Her job... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2009
News

Professor, Historian, and Storyteller

Paul Kennedy examines in his 1987 book The Rise and Fall of Great Powers — issues of imperial overstretch, fiscally, economically, and geopolitically. There are other reasons too. The events of the last ten years — the recent financial... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

01 Jun 1996
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Four Professors to Retire

the Air Force's Exceptional Civilian Service Award. Christenson also participated in the development of the U.S. Army's first cost-based budgetary control system. His publications include Strategic Aspects of Competitive Bidding for... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community

out brochures himself. With the financial backing of the Levi Strauss Foundation (made up mostly of Haas family members) and with additional resources, management advice, and advocacy support coming from the company, each Project Change... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Apr 2000
News

A Place in the Sun

planet." "There are certain images that come up with five-star service that I just don't like: telephones, swimming pools, valet service," Evanson says from his 500-acre island. "It's a way of differentiating our product, which is... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons

01 Feb 2002
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Karen Tumulty Reports on America

and Washington bureaus for fourteen years on economics, business, and energy issues, in addition to congressional, political, and general assignment reporting. While at the Times, she garnered the 1982 Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

01 Sep 2013
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Faculty Books

democratize information and stock-trading; upheavals and stagnation in established financial markets; and new markets—and how they are likely to influence its future. View Details