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- 08 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs
but that gap triples during periods of high public anxiety over immigration in the United States. “When there is the greatest anxiety, we see this funding shortfall.” Banks have historically rejected loan applications from Black, Asian,... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
solve. It’s very hard for a consumer to be managing their own position in the central crypto market with current tools. As a result, if you’re a retail consumer, you often end up on one of these intermediated platforms where the lack of... View Details
- 30 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Finding Pride
nondiscrimination. Most banks had nothing, but Bank of America, Chase, and Citibank all did, so that’s where I applied. I decided on San Francisco-based Bank of America because... View Details
- 26 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness
“Fitness is your hobby. Finance is your career.” - Words so false that they changed my life. Finance After graduating from Yale University, I joined the fast-paced world of Foreign Exchange (FX) at a large US-based investment bank in New... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
empirical analysis to be more than sketched in this paper. It is also a field that has not yet taken management as a central subject of empirical study. We shall therefore deal only with some of the central... View Details
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
GTB's founders felt it was imperative to try. They set out to build a bank that would be known for its workplace innovations, outstanding customer service, superior financial results, and exemplary corporate citizenship. In general,... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- Web
Electricity - Business & Environment
Esema MBA 2014 Vice President, Renewable Energy Finance, Bank of America Merrill Lynch “Investing in clean energy solutions is necessary to address climate change. Deploying renewable energy globally will allow the world to increase... View Details
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
directly as they walk out of the store, with no checkout required. Many cultural industries—museums and galleries, cinemas, concert halls, independent musicians and artists—found means to create, perform, and connect with their audience... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- Web
Events - Private Capital Project
Research Institute. The discussants were Jeff Bussgang (General Partner, Flybridge), Anne Glover (CEO and Co-Founder, Amadeus Capital Partners), Sabrina Howell (Assistant Professor of Finance, Stern School of Business, New York University), Eugenes Kandel (CEO,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
beloved,” she says. But beloved didn’t pay the bills, and by 2015, after decades of pressure from big chains and the internet, the small, independent store was on the verge of closing. That’s when Brody, a New Yorker who spends her... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Machine Learning and Behavioral Economics
technology is launched externally for small businesses. After a corporate-wide restructuring, Bracaglia moved to Alphabet’s life science firm, Verily, where he worked on Liftware, a counterweighted spoon that maintains stability – a critical aid to people with View Details
- March 2010 (Revised August 2010)
- Case
Systems Infrastructure at Google (A)
By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Stecker
This case describes how a senior vice president of engineering at Google, Bill Coughran, leads a high-performing engineering organization. The case focuses specifically on Coughran's encouraging two teams of engineers to develop competing solutions for application... View Details
Keywords: Independent Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Leadership Development; Product Design; Groups and Teams; Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Competitive Strategy; Technology Industry; United States
Hill, Linda A., and Emily Stecker. "Systems Infrastructure at Google (A)." Harvard Business School Case 410-110, March 2010. (Revised August 2010.)
- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
call after the dealer initially turned him down. Then he had to wait hours while his new car was prepped, bank check accepted, documents signed, registration obtained and the other thousand details that make buying a car feel like a... View Details
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Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020
Kazakhstan is the largest economy in Central Asia, and a quickly changing one; the GDP in the former Soviet republic has grown six-fold since 2002 and the country serves as a transportation link between China and Western Europe. The case... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
second year, when I was looking for a job as a commercial and investment banker, I would look at their policies for nondiscrimination. Most banks had nothing, but Bank of America, Chase, and Citibank all... View Details
- 09 Aug 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Two Million Fake Accounts: Sales Misconduct at Wells Fargo
- 31 Jul 2017
- HBS Case
It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family
to change them.” Blame it on the alcohol Schlesinger’s student coauthors worked with Tam Le as part of the HBS Neighborhood Business Partnership, a field-based second-year course led by Schlesinger and Senior Lecturer Kristin Mugford. (The case was the end product of... View Details
- 31 Oct 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Do Measures of Financial Constraints Measure Financial Constraints?
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
learning, which happens after the fact. Both, he says, can be either independent or coactive. Watching surgery through the observation glass, for example, may be on-line learning, but it doesn’t give a doctor enough of an appreciation for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
London School of Economics. After stints as a researcher and analyst at investment bank EFG Hermes and the International Finance Corporation, she was recommended for a role at Egypt’s Ministry of Finance in 2010, working in the Macro... View Details