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  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

Show Me The Money — Or Not

Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship Related Links The Best-Laid Plans A Growing Drumbeat With a total of $150,000 in cash awards and in-kind legal and accounting services up for grabs, the financial upside of... View Details
  • February 2001 (Revised August 2001)
  • Case

WholesalerDirect

By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman
Describes the development of WholesalerDirect, a B2B electronic commerce venture in the plumbing, heating, cooling, and piping industry. Adam Berger, the CEO, is trying to raise funding to roll out the company's e-commerce platform to the industry's more than 3,000... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Valuation; Business Plan; Financing and Loans; Financial Strategy
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  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

Jay Light Named New HBS Dean

initiatives. He also was chair of the Finance unit (1986–88) and senior associate dean, director of Faculty Planning (1988–94). He took a leave of absence in 1977–79 to serve as director of investment and View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

The Big Ambition Behind Educational Innovation

concepts, and insights. Alumni play an integral role in advancing educational innovation at the School. “I’m amazed at how passionate our alumni are about ensuring that HBS is the best it can be,” says Oberholzer-Gee. “Yes, they provide View Details
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

What Went Wrong?

Hail Mary play, the administration dramatically proposed a $700 billion financial rescue plan to restore confidence in the markets. Against that backdrop of heightened national anxiety, HBS and Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 11 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts

demands of being a public firm: for instance, financial reporting, investor relations, and strategic planning." Private equity groups, meanwhile, demand that their portfolio companies have good systems in place. "Effective... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Financial Services
  • Web

Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Impact Fellowship Fund grantee Financial need is not required for eligibility, but preference will be given to applicants who have had a demonstrated financial need while a student (as determined by HBS MBA... View Details
  • 26 Jan 2017
  • News

Finding a Path out of Poverty

insurance house Momentum in Johannesburg, Magwegwe can often be heard on CNBC Africa and other local and national media, offering advice on financial matters, from simply saving more money to planning and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • September 2008 (Revised June 2013)
  • Case

Odyssey Healthcare

By: Robert F. Higgins, Virginia Fuller and Umer Raffat
In January 2001, Dick Burnham, CEO of Odyssey Healthcare, and Odyssey's Board of Directors were considering selling the hospice care company to a larger provider or making an initial public offering (IPO). With 38 hospice locations in 21 states, Odyssey had been... View Details
Keywords: Liquidity; Venture Creation/development; Hospice; Venture Capital; Financial Liquidity; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Entrepreneurship; Health Industry; United States
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  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Noted & Quoted

also be a statutory cap on leverage, a maximum speed limit, if you will, that regulators can’t loosen.” — HBS professor David Moss commenting on the need for financial reform legislation to place limits on the amount banks can borrow for... View Details
Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
  • Profile

Triston Francis

to inspire people in underserved communities to live their best lives.” Pursuing the plan “I came to HBS with three goals,” says Triston. He fulfilled the first by becoming the Education Representative for his section. Eventually, Triston... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services; Financial Services
  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

Chalsty Fellowship Will Help Black South Africans Attend HBS

financial services organization to one of the country's most successful investment banking firms. Chalsty plans to be in attendance at the March Global Alumni Conference in Cape Town. He will serve on a... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development

even harder to help those in need. Lu, who began doing volunteer work at an early age, has a deep-seated interest in public-sector work. Rather than pursuing the traditional private-sector path the summer after her first year at HBS, Lu chose to serve as a View Details
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • News

Accelerating Allston

Applied Sciences (SEAS) by creating an endowment for financial aid for students in the Schools’ joint MS/MBA program in Engineering Sciences. “The expansion of SEAS to Allston is a catalyst for collaboration that will propel and transform... View Details
  • October 1999
  • Case

CIBC Corporate and Investment Banking (B): 1992-1997

By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Raynor
From 1992 to 1997, CIBC CEO Al Flood and head of investment banking John Hunkin integrate the struggling investment bank, Wood Gundy, with CIBC's corporate bank. The impact and interaction of organization design, compensation schemes, and communication initiatives are... View Details
Keywords: Investment Banking; Banks and Banking; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Design; Business Plan; Communication; Banking Industry
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  • October 1998 (Revised April 2001)
  • Case

Preview Travel (B)

By: William A. Sahlman and Nicole Tempest
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Business Model; Initial Public Offering; Internet and the Web; Business Plan; Capital; Financial Strategy; Travel Industry; United States
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  • 21 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job

Earlier this summer, I joined Plaid as a Product Manager, culminating my transition from HBS back to the “real world.” My path to joining Plaid full-time didn’t follow the traditional recruiting route. My plan was to join an early to... View Details
  • 17 Nov 2022
  • News

Blockchain for Good

Sachs, and held C-suite roles with several large private equity firms, for help with an idea that would eventually become Millicent, their blockchain-based digital financial venture. Dyer says Millicent’s payments network will be a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
  • Profile

Marc Wilson

a propulsion engineer who designed systems for space satellites. "The ones I was excited about," Marc says, "were those destined to other planets and to the sun." Here on Earth, Marc has been most inspired by his parents, who left a View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education
  • 24 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

On August 15th, Aetna announced that it would reduce by 80 percent its participation in the Obama administration’s public exchanges for health insurance policies in 2017, citing significant financial losses. The move came just a few weeks... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health