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- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
It’s Wall Street doctrine that small firms struggle to raise capital at reasonable rates and are often rejected for credit lines and loans because banks think their risk profile is too high. “If you really... View Details
- 18 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry
create a viable business out of any toughtech idea. In a way, that was a catalyst for me to think about what was going on outside the walls of the corporate environment I occupied. Coming from the oil and gas space, it's easy to get... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
thought I might like to be the editor of the Wall Street Journal one day). When our first child, Matt, was born four days after I began at HBS, my own economic development became an issue. My wife wanted to... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
Section 404, which will become common knowledge from Wall Street to Main Street, as well as rules promulgated by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in recent years. This is not an issue of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
articles from the Wall Street Journal and The Economist they learn about "decision rights" and alienability and how these institutional devices solve the control problems in a capitalist society. The second... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
Wall Street Journal, the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, and the Chicago Tribune. Some forecasters packaged snippets of their forecasts to be sold through news syndicates and to appear in daily... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
and Palepu's research, however, showed that conglomerate-owned firms in these markets often outperformed comparable stand-alones. “These business groups appear to Wall Street as anachronisms, but in the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
worrying about cost overruns, loans called in early by nervous banks, and credit-card debt. The company's woes strained the partnership, which ended in 1990, when Shafir took loans from his two Wall Street... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 16 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard
Wall Street to 5th Avenue Girard’s journey to launching The Sixes, a fashion brand designed specifically for tall women, may have started way back in elementary school, but the road to launching the business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
anything they can eat or sell. Payatas and the orderly, verdant Harvard Business School campus — nearly equals, as it happens, in terms of the acreage they occupy — are separated by a gulf far greater than any measure of miles or... View Details
- Profile
Deborah A. Farrington
wish you had a boy?” he would laugh and reply “I wouldn’t know what to do with boys! I love my girls!” In fact, his optimism and encouragement coupled with his connection to Wall Street... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
healing modalities including becoming a Reiki Master Teacher. Investing for the Smarter Sex: Wealth Building Tips and Secrets Sophisticated Women Know (But Wall Street Won’t Tell You) By Tiffany Kent (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Profile
Alex Roth
thinking I'd learn models and techniques — like a cash-flow analysis. I didn't realize I'd get a structure for thinking about the moral dilemmas in business and leadership. I just finished the Leadership and Corporate Accountability course; in a time when View Details
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Factiva is a great source for news from national and local newspapers, magazines, trade publications and transcripts. To scan the headlines and read articles from today's issues of The New York... View Details
Factiva is a great source for news from national and local newspapers, magazines, trade publications and transcripts. To scan the headlines and read articles from today's issues of The New York... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham on September 11
the leaders of Wall Street firms to find out what their plans were for opening the markets again and getting workers into the area safely.” The Sunday night before the markets reopened, CNBC broadcast live... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
How did we get into this mess, and how do we fix it? Those were the key questions that three separate expert panels — two convened by HBS and one by Harvard University — addressed for standing-room-only audiences in late September as the nation’s financial crisis... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
her Wall Street funds wisely, Reade is much better off than most farmers in the area. Presently, she’s working on a book with a fellow organic farmer who also has a business background. Tentatively titled... View Details
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
33 percent in the fourth quarter of last year compared with that of the previous year. Only six venture-backed companies were able to go public last year in the United States. According to a report in the Wall View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
constant reminder of the enormity of the leak that it hastened actions that would otherwise have taken longer and been much less effective in stopping the leak and dealing with the cleanup. Now comes a little-publicized provision of the Dodd-Frank legislation designed... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 22 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
HBS Takes Business Education Online
from students time and time again that they truly feel as if they understand the “language of business” after completing CORe. They are able to better understand the articles in the Wall Street Journal, or... View Details