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- 29 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: John Cortines (MBA 2015)
little brother. I went to Texas A&M, where I studied Engineering. I married my wife right out of college. I was working as a petroleum engineer and was making excellent money, which I think actually made the decision to get an MBA more difficult, because we already... View Details
- 05 Nov 2024
- Book
Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech
sales and cost trends that helped them weave an end-to-end picture of their business’s financial health? This future is appealing because it responds to the fundamental need of small business owners to be able to see and more clearly... View Details
- Career Coach
Cindy Horowitz
has held include strategic planning, M&A, financial planning & analysis, and investor relations, leading to CFO of a NYSE company. Cindy also enjoys helping students gain better understanding of... View Details
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
have been preoccupied with the question of financial institutions becoming too big to fail. But recent data points have me asking whether the relevant question should be whether financial (and other... View Details
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
like budgeting, should be part of the annual governance cycle. Whenever plans are changed at the enterprise or business unit level, executives likely need to realign the organization with the new direction. The alignment process, of... View Details
- March 1989 (Revised October 1994)
- Case
Philip Morris Companies and Kraft, Inc.
Gives students the opportunity to explore the effect of substantial free cash flow on corporate acquisition and operating strategies. Students are also given the opportunity to extract information from the common stock prices of the participating firms. A variety of... View Details
Ruback, Richard S. "Philip Morris Companies and Kraft, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 289-045, March 1989. (Revised October 1994.)
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
is one of those corners of finance that is very useful to understand, whether or not you work in finance,” he says. In 2008 and 2009, when the field of ratings seemed ripe for upheaval, Becker learned of several planned rating agency... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
president and COO. Thain labeled as “nonsense” the frequently heard claim in Washington that executive pay plans, particularly lavish bonuses, spurred the excessive risk-taking that ultimately led to the financial meltdown. He advocates... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy
company headed in the right direction. "It should be as much a part of an organization's agenda as annual employee evaluations and financial plans," says Beer. "That's the next step in our work." View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- Career Coach
Peter Platzer
Peter (HBS '02) is a former hedge fund manager who currently runs a space exploration company he founded in 2012. A coach for HBS since 2002, he enjoys helping individuals find their unique career vision, matching their passion, skills and work/life goals with the... View Details
- April 2000 (Revised June 2000)
- Case
E-Loan: The CarFinance.com Acquisition
E-Loan is an online mortgage lender that acquired an auto-lending arm in August of 1999. This case examines E-Loan's purchase of CarFinance.com and highlights E-Loan's strategy-setting process. In addition, the case explores business development as a strategic process... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Internet and the Web; Change Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry
Hansen, Morten T., and Jeffrey Berger. "E-Loan: The CarFinance.com Acquisition." Harvard Business School Case 400-072, April 2000. (Revised June 2000.)
- March 2011
- Teaching Note
Shenzhen Development Bank (TN)
By: Li Jin and Yuhai Xuan
Teaching Note for 210020. View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
technology company that they planned to start. “Having to submit the plan formally and knowing it would be scrutinized forced us to spend a lot more time making sure all the details — especially the View Details
- February 2002 (Revised February 2002)
- Case
Morgan Stanley Japan, 2002
By: Tarun Khanna and Louis P. DiLorenzo, Jr
Thierry Porte, president of Morgan Stanley Japan, had spent the brisk November day in Tokyo with Eric Best, Morgan Stanley's head of scenario planning, outlining the exercise that all of the managing directors in Japan would participate in shortly. Japan remained mired... View Details
Keywords: Planning; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Investment Banking; Multinational Firms and Management; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Japan; United States
Khanna, Tarun, and Louis P. DiLorenzo, Jr. "Morgan Stanley Japan, 2002." Harvard Business School Case 702-458, February 2002. (Revised February 2002.)
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
Since the 1990s, the Balanced Scorecard system has cut a path in business as a more rigorous way to measure performance by quantifying what had been considered intangible assets, such as human capital, information, and culture. The system draws strength from four... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Profile
Dave Vitello
“take the accounting and financial management base I built at Deloitte and pair it with the strategic thinking I gain at HBS.” The environment is perfectly suited to his ambition. “Each class, whether it is dedicated to strategy or not,... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- April 1995 (Revised January 2003)
- Case
Anasazi Exclusive Salon Products, Inc.
By: William A. Sahlman and Jason Green
Anasazi, a hair-care products start-up based in the Midwest, is having growing pains as it tries to develop a new distribution model for the professional hair salon industry. The company has completed several rounds of venture financing but, to continue, needs to raise... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Financial Condition; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Financing and Loans; Expansion; Planning; Fashion Industry; Iowa
Sahlman, William A., and Jason Green. "Anasazi Exclusive Salon Products, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 295-111, April 1995. (Revised January 2003.)
- March 2002
- Teaching Note
Akamai's Underwater Options (A) and (B) TN
By: Brian J. Hall and Jonathan Lim
Teaching Note for (9-902-069) and (9-902-195). View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
configured as "traditional centers," familiar-looking branches that provided conventional banking services, though often supported by new technologies and redesigned processes. The group unveiled its first redesigned branch—a View Details
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few... View Details