Financial Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2012
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A Decade of Change

LEADING CHANGE: With support from the HBS Leadership Fellows program, nine Class of 2012 MBAs will spend the coming year working in management positions with nonprofit and public-sector organizations. This year’s Leadership Fellows are... View Details

13 Nov 2020
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Insatiably Curious

college, Ma worked as a project manager at Hewlett-Packard (HP), where she first realized she had an interest in business. “I had this insatiable curiosity about HP’s customers and the company’s competition,” she recalls. “I also found... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)

need to deal with the fact that a management perspective driven primarily by financial concerns may jeopardize patient care. This may become an area of professional interest for me." The brief pause for... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

01 Jun 2022
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Making It Count

by 2025, which would amount to a third of all assets under management around the world. But sandwiched somewhere between the high hopes and higher stakes of sustainable investing looms the big question: Will it ever be enough to solve the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

05 Aug 2014
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A Diversified Portfolio

extensive strategic and financial experience included consulting at McKinsey, investment banking at Salomon Brothers, and leading business development at several Internet and media companies. The pair started investigating and found a lot... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Mar 2014
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Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

selected professional managers to run them, and given them more financial autonomy, which has reduced many agency problems commonly faced by SOEs, but not the temptation for governments to intervene in the... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Career Services Shifts into High Gear

Many members of the Class of 2008 were just settling into new jobs as reverberations from the financial crisis were felt around the world. While employment figures for the class remain strong, MBA Career Services has continued its support... View Details

01 Feb 1999
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All in the Family

explores family companies from managerial, psychological, and financial angles. Topics range from "entrepreneurial management styles," to "birth order dynamics," to "women's issues in the family firm."... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Jun 2012
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From Fellowship Recipient to ‘The Most Influential Business Thinker On Earth’

his acceptance letter, Christensen recalls his moment of disbelief—immediately followed by financial anxiety. “I was newly married, we had no money, and a baby on the way. And when I found out that HBS was going to help me, I was so... View Details

Keywords: awards

01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground

LPO in August 2005. A week later, while guest conducting in Korea, he saw reports on CNN that New Orleans, though battered by Hurricane Katrina, had managed to avoid major damage. But constant email updates from an LPO member, which had... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Health, Social Assistance

11 Jun 2014
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The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)

Your Twitter bio reads like that of a superhero ("Management consultant by day, fitness instructor & wellness blogger by night"). Can you tell us about your day and evening jobs? "By day I'm a manager at Deloitte Consulting. I work with... View Details

Keywords: fitness; wellness; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

06 Oct 2020
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Clearing the Path to Citizenship

five months’ rent on an immigration attorney to navigate the bureaucracy. “This is a story told by millions of immigrant families every year,” observes Wang. As a child, he had accepted the significant financial and procedural obstacles... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Apr 1998
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Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International

short-term business loans to the self-employed poor. Chu, a native of China, grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay. After graduating from Dartmouth and HBS, he held senior management positions with several firms, including The Boston Consulting... View Details

06 Apr 2016
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Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship

yourself an entrepreneur? Yes. It’s really at the heart of our success. Our very harsh reality is that we are in a business that is dominated by enormous global brewing conglomerates, with some of the best managers in the world, people... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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Helping Hands for HBS

that their HBS degree could not save them from the vicissitudes of the marketplace." (In Transition: From the HBS Club of New York's Career Management Seminar, a 1991 book written by Burton and Wedemeyer, is still a favorite among job... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Apr 1999
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Short Takes

IT Management from 1960 to 2000 "Today¹s managers are grappling with the turbulent dynamics of the Information Age," says Richard L. Nolan, the School's William Barclay Harding Professor of View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

28 May 2019
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2019

financial guts of the business world when I was a teenager.” Big fail: Missing the cut for the high school volleyball team. “I asked the coach what I needed to do to make the team the next year. She told me, and I ended up being captain... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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HBS Fellowship Furthers Entrepreneurial Dreams

at least two years before matriculating. Okeke served as a special operations manager at Home Chef, a meal-kit delivery startup, and as an associate consultant at Bain & Co. “I’ve always felt a desire to build something. When I was in... View Details

01 Mar 2007
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HBS Issues Upbeat 2006 Annual Report

goes beyond financials to describe a number of new programs and initiatives designed to keep HBS at the forefront of management research and participant-centered learning. The Healthcare Initiative, for... View Details