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30 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Not Slowing VC Investment

looking to do new deals. They’re just sitting on a ton of money.” During that period, global daily deaths had topped 9,000 for a second time as infection rates were soaring across the Americas. Almost all of the world’s 10 largest... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Banking; Banking

01 Mar 2009
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The Case for Studying Financial History

HISTORY LESSONS: Ferguson shares his views on the global financial crisis with an attentive crowd at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. Professor Niall Ferguson, born in Glasgow and educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities, argues... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

July 2010 (Revised December 2010)
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Post-Crisis Compensation at Credit Suisse (A)

By: Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia

On October 20, 2009, Brady Dougan, the CEO of Credit Suisse Group, announced a new compensation plan for the bank. The announcement had followed quickly on the heels of the G-20 meeting the prior month where, in the wake of the financial crisis, the major governments... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Globalized Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Taxation; Compensation and Benefits; Organizational Culture; Business and Shareholder Relations; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Switzerland; United Kingdom

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Community | HBS Online

The Harvard Business School Online Community is a global network of like-minded business professionals. You can connect with and learn from peers before, during, and after your course through our Community platform . By joining the... View Details

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Jonathan Bailey

through an English/U.S. exchange program and had earned it by being a champion debater at Oxford and by helping found a nonprofit that paired college mentors with high-school students. For a person deeply interested in "the roles of government and business in... View Details

01 Feb 1999
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Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

volunteered time, advice, office equipment, and ideas. They have also suggested research topics and provided contacts in the region. How did your previous career prepare you for your current position? Investment banking exposed me to the... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

technology is revolutionizing the global banking and payment industry. It offers new opportunities for banks to provide added convenience to their existing customers in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail

and loan crisis, followed by a rash of bank failures in the early 1990s that forced the government to recapitalize the FDIC’s Bank Insurance Fund. Long Term Capital Management, a largely unregulated hedge... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

20 Sep 2021
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Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

Associate at Nomura Greentech Nomura Greentech Capital Advisors is a global investment banking firm focused on sustainable infrastructure companies and projects. The firm executes mergers, divestitures,... View Details

16 Aug 2013
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Women's Business Leader

Carla Harris Photo courtesy of Carla Harris On August 12, President Obama announced his intention to appoint Carla Harris (MBA 1987) to be the Chair of the National Women's Business Council (NWBC). Harris is a prominent global investment... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions

financial officer of Grupo Elektra, Latin America's leading specialty retailer and consumer finance company. Global banks are decreasing their positions in Latin America. Last year alone, he said, major... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

Business Review 88, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the Article: http://hbr.org/2010/07/vision-statement-mapping-the-social-internet/ar/1 Working PapersForeign Entry and the Mexican Banking... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

September 2000 (Revised March 2001)
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Old Mutual

By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Kirsty O'Neil-Massaro

Designed to explore the demutualization and listing overseas of one of Africa's largest financial institutions, Old Mutual, and the effects that these actions have on South Africa's domestic capital markets. Explores the particular difficulties that arise as a result... View Details

Keywords: Financial Institutions; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Structure; Global Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Capital Markets; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Education; Financial Strategy; Business or Company Management; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; South Africa

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18 Dec 2023
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Climate Symposium 2023: Adopting Climate Solutions at Scale

The overarching theme of the 2023 Annual Climate Symposium was “Adopting Climate Solutions at Scale”, exploring not only the existing climate solutions but also the crucial aspects of capital and policy deployment required to accelerate their implementation on a View Details

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A Life’s Work | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

A Life’s Work Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) realized what he wanted to do with his life when he was just 21 years old. Having volunteered as a Big Brother while working at Chemical Bank in New York City, he saw firsthand the need for a... View Details

27 Apr 2023
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Life Preserver

When Sebastian Giwa (MBA 2009) joined Singularity University's Global Solutions Program in the summer of 2012, he was accepted based on his ideas of how distance learning and remote work—both rarities at that point—could reshape... View Details

Keywords: April White

16 Apr 2013
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A Walkabout to the Ocean

environmental career that started on the banks of the Rhine River. Merkl grew up in Cologne, Germany in the 1960s—a time when the Rhine was so polluted that anyone even daring to wade into it risked arrest. "It stank, literally," recalls... View Details

Keywords: Ocean; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

01 Jun 1996
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Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course

rooted in the popular MBA elective, The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: The United States, an offering designed in the 1980s by HBS professors Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., and Richard S. Tedlow. To expand this course into the global arena... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jun 2002
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Africa Business Conference Creates Ongoing Forum for Change

Guaranty Trust Bank. “In addition to an information revolution, we need an ideological revolution that will change people's ideas about what is possible,” added Amadou Mahtar Ba, president of AllAfrica Global Media. Part of that change... View Details

08 Mar 2016
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Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

twentieth century, neither country would see such glory again. “Before 1914, [Argentina] was one of the most dynamic nations in the first global economy, attracting a record amount of foreign investment and massive inflows of immigrants,”... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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