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- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
2008, Macridis wondered if it wasn’t a sign of things to come and decided to borrow money that he didn’t need. Later, when sales dropped 40 percent and capital controls gridlocked the banks, the company was able to continue to View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
cybersecurity and breach and also, people are making a lot of money on use of information. So it became a very hot topic and that's why I wrote the case. Kenny: Do you use Facebook? George: I do. I have about 30,000 followers on Facebook.... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
of the most important things Bill taught is that the source of your funding is often more important than the terms and conditions of the agreement," says James A. Goldstein (MBA '94), founder and sales and marketing vice president of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Business School Publishing) This history doubles as a sophisticated account of the opportunities and challenges facing the modern investor. It follows the rise of funded retirement, the evolution of investment vehicles and techniques,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
Klarman Illustration by David Cowles While other money managers scrambled to survive the financial market meltdown, value investor extraordinaire Seth Klarman (MBA ’82), president of The Baupost Group in Boston, cautiously pursued buying... View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
like a win-win for both parties. [An HBS Bulletin article in 2007 gave a detailed accounting of GoLite’s founding and eventual trademark sale to Timberland.] Yet it was not to be. The following year, as the Great Recession began to take hold, Timberland’s stock dropped... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
establish new norms of collaboration and respect. Capital Allocators: How the world's elite money managers lead and invest By Ted Seides (MBA 1999) Harriman House The chief investment officers (CIOs) at endowments, foundations, family... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
money trying to save one of their kids on meth. I knew it was a bad epidemic, but I couldn’t believe it was going to be that bad in my little hometown, this agrarian utopia. Seeing it begin to dissolve in an ugly way was very troubling.”... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
How can nonprofit leaders address such conflicting demands? Harvard Business School Working Knowledge recently spoke with two leaders in the field of nonprofit performance management. Mario Morino is cofounder and chairman of Venture Philanthropy Partners, which... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
money is doled out,” making the work “less about charity and more about creating systemic change.” Having seeded their fund with $20 million in their first three weeks, they have a goal of raising at least... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/512039-PDF-ENG INNOVA-MEX's Bid for ENKONTROL Ramana Nanda, William R. Kerr, and Carin-Isabel KnoopHarvard Business School Case 812-008 In their second year, two Mexican HBS MBAs joined forces to start a search View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
market failure. We find that deposit insurance should be funded not by banks or depositors but out of general taxation. The optimal level of deposit insurance varies inversely with the quality of the banking system. Hence, when the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
get businesses to understand the kind of corrosive effects that this is having on our entire economy" While competition between the two parties looks fiercer than ever, in reality, the study suggests, both Democrats and Republicans benefit from having the other as... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
Association for Consumer Research The Functional Alibi By: Keinan, Anat, Ran Kivetz, and Oded Netzer Abstract—Spending money on hedonic luxuries often seems wasteful, irrational, and even immoral. We propose that adding a small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship The Sweet Life: Paul Conforti at Finale Desserterie & Bakery. “Everything is a balancing act... you’ve got to be able to adapt.” Related Links A Growing Drumbeat Show Me the Money - or Not Cloudflare... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
investment. Complex multinational business groups emerged controlling large investments in natural resources, processing, and services in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
United States had no plan for funding its huge debts. It had no stable currency, no sound credit system, no central bank, no reliable securities markets, and almost no corporations. By 1795, Hamilton's policies had corrected all of these... View Details
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
corporate standards in Brazil improved enormously, not only because the regulator became tougher and introduced more transparent disclosure standards, but also because there was a big movement to improve corporate governance led by pension View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
Case 806-069 Randall Fojtasek, a partner at Brazos Private Equity Partners, must decide whether to invest more money in Cheddar's restaurant chain, which the firm invested in 10 months earlier. The incremental investment would View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
namely, unions and public employee pension funds that, not surprisingly, favor the reform measures. “Big labor unions are trying to achieve at the board table what they cannot achieve at the negotiating table, under the guise of... View Details