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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
What is the responsibility of business regarding social issues? And how does that jibe with maximizing profits? In “UBS and Climate Change — Warming Up to Global Action?” Associate Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Professor Forest Reinhardt present the dilemma facing... View Details
- October 1991 (Revised September 2004)
- Case
Buying Time
By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Susan Harmeling
A self-contained explanation and simple practice examples to introduce students to the concepts of compound interest, present value loans, bonds, and leases. Necessary present value tables are included. The study questions provide simple exercises to enhance student... View Details
Bruns, William J., Jr., and Susan Harmeling. "Buying Time." Harvard Business School Case 192-045, October 1991. (Revised September 2004.)
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
inadequate and costly telecommunications, income and education disparities, and corruption. Add to that a history of political and economic volatility and one begins to understand that entrepreneurship is as much a required tool of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
companies their firms are issuing securities for—or hope to do business with. The research, "Playing Favorites: Financing Options Sway Analysts' Thinking," was published in the June 2004 edition of Investor Relations Quarterly.... View Details
- March 1976 (Revised May 1993)
- Teaching Note
Guaranteed Student Loan Program (A), Teaching Note
- 08 May 2015
- News
A new view of the cost of equity and capital requirements for banks
Capital requirements for banks, which govern the ratio of equity to debt, have come under greater scrutiny in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. A central question is how these requirements affect banks’ overall cost of capital, or the minimum return that investors... View Details
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Henry Motte-Muñoz Archives | Social Enterprise
Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services... View Details
- Career Coach
Martha Tassinari
Martha (HBS '94) has been an executive coach and career counselor at HBS since 2007. She has helped thousands of MBA students, Alumni and Executive Education participants (GMP, PLD, OPM, New Path) identify and reach their career and... View Details
- Web
Max Polaner Archives | Social Enterprise
Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services... View Details
- Web
Michael Chu Archives | Social Enterprise
Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services... View Details
- November 2011 (Revised December 2013)
- Supplement
The Long and Short of Apollo Group and the University of Phoenix (B)
By: Luis M. Viceira, Joel Heilprin, Andrew S. Holmes and Damian M. Zajac
Viceira, Luis M., Joel Heilprin, Andrew S. Holmes, and Damian M. Zajac. "The Long and Short of Apollo Group and the University of Phoenix (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 212-054, November 2011. (Revised December 2013.)
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
require. So the financing question is an issue, but in Silicon Valley, if you reach 100 or 200 million people, there are going to be ways to pay the bills that do not conflict with our mission of providing a free world-class View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
productivity, Professor Mihir Desai addressed a Senate finance committee in July 2014 and again in March 2015, offering lawmakers an action plan. “This combination of reforms has the potential of addressing significant changes in the... View Details
- January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
- Supplement
Juno (C): Leveraging Student Power
By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Kathleen L. McGinn and Amy Klopfenstein
In May 2020, Juno co-founders Chris Abkarians and Nikhil Agarwal decided to hold the annual auction for their student loan assistance startup. Five lenders submitted bids, and the co-founders ultimately opted to select Eager Bank as their partner for the 2020-2021... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Cost vs Benefits; Judgments; Education; Higher Education; Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Strategy; Adaptation; Alignment; Negotiation; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation Deal; Negotiation Offer; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Types; Education Industry; Education Industry; North and Central America; United States; Massachusetts; Boston
Schwartzstein, Joshua, Kathleen L. McGinn, and Amy Klopfenstein. "Juno (C): Leveraging Student Power." Harvard Business School Supplement 921-034, January 2021. (Revised March 2021.)
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
Photos by Benoit Cortet Nicholas Tiller (MBA 1998) grew up Springfield, Ohio, a farming community where 4-H was founded, and many of his classmates were in FFA, the Future Farmers of America. Yet Tiller’s education in agriculture and... View Details
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
executives. She was struck by how excited both groups were. "I could tell teaching the case the first time that the room was on fire." "Everyone was engaged with it, men and women. I remember a male MBA student who had a View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
a battle in a Delaware courtroom. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411005-PDF-ENG Financing Higher Education in Australia David A. Moss and Stephanie LoHarvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
class and I see all the faces,/Tired from reading all those crazy cases,/I think . . . it must be Friday./After many long nights and not much sleep,/ Struggling through Finance and FRC,/It's that . . . time a day, put your books away./Get... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources
Urbanization, Infrastructure, and Finance (taught in collaboration with the Harvard Graduate School of Design), the BEI has generated 25 to 30 new environmentally related case studies each year. The BEI also hosts the annual alumni HBS... View Details
Keywords: Dalai Lama