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- 01 Mar 2023
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The Exchange: Micro Management
studies that there are many small-business owners who could put capital to very good use, but microfinance has not yet unlocked those potential opportunities. “That paper was very influential and one of the first indications to academics that small changes to the View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Faculty Books
in investment banking. The Future of Boards: Meeting the Governance Challenges of the Twenty-First Century edited by Jay W. Lorsch (Harvard Business Review Press) Edited by Jay W. Lorsch, the Louis E. Kirstein Professor of Human... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
Beyond the Boom Senior Lecturer John Macomber The oil boom has lowered the unemployment rate in Williston, North Dakota, to less than 1 percent. “With respect to the city, if you want to diversify the economy and make it attractive to live here, then you have to make... View Details
- 21 Jan 2021
- News
New Menu
producing meat, seafood, and dairy alternatives through plant-based or cell-based technology. The fund received support from some surprising places: the country of Singapore’s investment company, Temasek,... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
sequestration, grasslands, and the food and agricultural sector. Audience members also contributed climate-smart investment advice, ranging from the role of bicycles in cities to alternatives to plastic and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
draw people in, using more social media, employing jargon-free language, and “making everything simple and straightforward, from our registration process to the questions we ask,” says Giusti. Better Data Crunching The investment required... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 27 Nov 2012
- News
The Beauty of the Network
Pao: A beauty business veteran leverages the HBS network to launch her own skincare line. Photo courtesy Patti Pao Patti Pao (MBA 1987) describes her two years at HBS as “spectacularly unsuccessful,” thanks in part to a culture clash with the section-enforced View Details
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
excessive consumer and corporate debt. “Regulatory structures failed to keep up” with innovations in the marketplace, he added. Thain took the top spot at Merrill Lynch in December 2007, resigning as CEO of the NYSE Euronext. Previously,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
(initiated in 2005) to double the plant’s size. Utlaut, however, is worried: Not all of the farmers are interested in doubling their corn commitments to the plant, and some have even invested in a competing interest. Another View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
What Went Wrong?
myself straining to understand not just what was happening but the strange vocabulary used to describe it. I’d never heard of a subprime mortgage. Likewise securitization in all its exotic flavors: collateralized debt obligations, View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Devtosh Khare
with the herd and went into banking." But after two years working 100-hour weeks as an investment analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation (DLJ) in Los Angeles, he decided that "moving money around is not what life... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
knowledge that the industry today bears little resemblance to the industry of the late 1980s. In fact, real estate now is widely viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment capital. It earned that... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
areas of capital markets, financial services, and corporate finance. "New financial product and market designs, improved computer and telecommunications technology, and advances in finance theory during the past quarter century have led to dramatic changes in the View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Releases
business, obtaining venture capital, managing growth, handling bankruptcy, and starting a nonprofit venture. The pieces focus on the skills and abilities one must master to fill the entrepreneurial role, from creativity and innovation to building the View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Bold Ascent
demanding mountaineering expeditions, Baka instead dresses in shorts and hiking shoes in order to slip off for a quick post-work trek in the Berkeley Hills or, if he’s at home in Hong Kong, one of the many peaks on Lantau Island where he lives. “It’s the lifestyle,”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
systems built by our forbearers and work toward a more just future. Marketing Alternative Investments: A Comprehensive Guide to Fundraising and Investor Relations for Private Equity and Hedge Funds By Hemali Dassani (MBA 1999) and Nandu... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Hybrid Learning the HBS Way
With physical distancing, each classroom could safely accommodate 25 people, so students alternated between attending in-person and remotely. About half of all MBA classes—more than 2,500 sessions—took place in the hybrid classrooms.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Hail to the Chief
Not along ago, consultant Alison Sander (MBA ’86/JD ’87) was invited to evaluate the potential for sustainable investment opportunities in Ecuador’s rain forests, where petroleum reserves were being parceled out to international energy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
Administration. “The Forbes measure doesn’t make sense to me. Calculating return on investment based on salary five years out means Forbes rewards schools that mainly feed investment banks, private equity,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
Bloomfield Hills, MI A Taxing Question Regarding his My Two Cents column, “My Beautiful Capital Gain,” in the March issue, I’d ask this of Dal LaMagna (MBA 1970): The money you invested was already taxed once at ordinary income tax rates,... View Details