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Curriculum | MBA
internship in the second summer. A typical candidate will follow the sample schedule outlined below. MBA/MPP Year 1 Harvard Kennedy School Fall Term Resources, Incentives and Choices I: Markets and Market Failures Quantitative Analysis and Empirical Methods View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
individual's portfolio to his or her age (young investors should take more risk with stocks) and attitudes toward risk (conservative investors should hold more cash). Research done by Harvard Business School finance professor Luis M.... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 24 Jul 2014
- Op-Ed
Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home
along partisan lines, from overhauling the US corporate tax to punishing companies who choose to move elsewhere. On July 22, 2014, Mihir A. Desai, Miuzho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School, testified before... View Details
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
When banks failed across the globe in 2008, the resulting financial crisis sent businesses into a tailspin. As lenders cut back dramatically, companies trying to recover had to scramble for financing required to generate new business and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
directly involved in the recent financial meltdown, as well as many firms outside of finance whose governance-related troubles came home to roost in the recession. On behalf of shareholders, boards’ specific duties are to choose and, when... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
experiment, the offer of bonds did not crowd out private-sector savings. Our success in offering bonds at tax time has led a coalition of grassroots organizations, companies, and policy analysts to urge the Treasury Depart-ment to make it... View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?
Chair of the Finance unit, has spent the past four years investigating ways to help low-income families break out of this cycle and thus gain some of the benefits of being connected to the world of financial services. Programs providing... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
He’s got a superhero’s name, and he’s shining a light on enduring wrongs here at home while confronting challenges in the Third World as well. Meet Richard America, who sees policy analysis and quality management as keys to development... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
will always be better if you hear from colleagues, who, as in a wide-ranging case discussion, will contribute different perspectives. And, of course, HBS training and an understanding of the economic and business world are crucial to helping implement View Details
- November 1985 (Revised July 1989)
- Supplement
Signode Industries, Inc. (D)
Signode's packaging division president makes a final decision on the price-flex policy. View Details
Moriarty, Rowland T., Jr., and Gordon Swartz. "Signode Industries, Inc. (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 586-062, November 1985. (Revised July 1989.)
- 11 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
2+2 Admit Experiments with Career Options
computer architecture department, and I had enjoyed technical internships at Sandia National Laboratories and Apple. But something didn’t feel right. I had always been fascinated by the nexus of business, technology, and policy – but to... View Details
- 25 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
methods with an emphasis on policy and practice. When combined with Harvard Business School’s Masters in Business Administration (MBA), students will demonstrate exceptional aptitude in the areas of policy... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
Rose M. Knox
Knox built the largest gelatin distribution company in the U.S. After her husband’s death, Knox directed advertising to women, published recipes and financed constant research on gelatin usage. Through diversification efforts, Knox... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
paper called, "Asset Allocation and Asset Location: Household Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances," published by the Journal of Public Economics in August, 2004. Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF),... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
and, as he puts it, "get reality on the table." Since 1996, as a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and, currently, as a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington, D.C., Baker has conducted research on and... View Details
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Cities, Structures, and Climate Shocks - Course Catalog
the context of increasing pressures of global urbanization, resource scarcity, and perils relating to climate change. The course takes a finance and real assets point of view focusing on houses, buildings, infrastructure, and cities as... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
described as giving her team “room to run,” and offering the following anecdote: Bridgette Link runs Modern Finance and has broad discretion to determine what kinds of tools will make the most positive impact on her staff. Link says her... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Ideas with Economic and Social Impact
Corporation (IFC) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Her report, Financing High-Growth Firms, the Role of Angel Investors, written for and published by the OECD in 2011, has attracted interest from... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
Paul A. Gompers Paul Gompers specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high-growth, and newly public companies. He holds a joint appointment in the Finance and the Entrepreneurial and Service Management units.... View Details
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
—Robert Todd, HSBC "Following the tragic events in Japan, this has spurred many people to review their policies towards nuclear," said Robert Todd, director for renewable energy in the Resources and Energy Group at HSBC.... View Details