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24 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost

investment budget is only about $20 billion – for all areas of concern in all nations, according to World Bank Information. Further, the entire GDP of Nigeria, the largest economy in Africa, is only about $37 billion - for everything, not... View Details

20 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

initiatives more closely to specific objectives: preventing misconduct, detecting it, or aligning policies with laws and regulations. Then, using careful model design and some creativity, firms can develop better metrics to measure what’s... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jun 2017
Blog Post

Doubts about Applying to HBS

I am a first generation Mexican-American born and raised in farming and immigrant communities in Arizona. I earned my undergraduate economics degree from Arizona State University. After graduating, I worked for Bank of America Merrill... View Details

15 Oct 2019
News

Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem

develop an impact investing conference in Shanghai. On December 19, 150 pioneers in social enterprise and impact investing, other practitioners, and academics in China gathered for engaging discussions about the topic. “As a native of... View Details

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Chapter

Is a Career in Finance (and which one?) Right for You?

By: James Waldroop and Timothy Butler

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Personal Development and Career; Finance; Banking Industry; Banking Industry

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01 Oct 1996
News

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

At the Cedars-Sinai Hospital complex in Los Angeles, patients, visitors, doctors, nurses, and delivery people stream up and down the hallways on a busy summer afternoon. The bank of phones in the lobby is fully occupied. On one of them,... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

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HBS Entrepreneurs Collection | Baker Library

HBS Entrepreneurs Collection In 2001, HBS initiated a two-year oral history project to capture the stories of some of the most significant entrepreneurs of the time. The interviewees speak on a common set of themes including their View Details

16 Nov 2017
News

The Business of Social Justice

“I was incredibly nomadic, open to going wherever,” she recalls. A Luce Fellowship followed, offering Brooks the opportunity to settle in one spot for a while. She spent two years in Vietnam working with the International Finance Corporation of the World View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

16 Jul 2024
Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

shareholder value. The GE board had deferred to Welch in a highly public selection process, which had favored the sales-focused Immelt over someone who could transform GE to prepare the company for the future, just as Welch had done in the early 1980s. Immelt never... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

23 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407028 Embrapa Harvard Business School Case 507-019 Brazil's national agricultural research corporation, Embrapa, has developed an integrated crop and livestock production... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Feb 1998
News

C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe

made a significant contribution to the growth and development of public education in North Carolina and throughout the Southeast. "Dick does things quietly," observes Richard H. Jenrette (MBA '57), a longtime friend. Among those "quiet"... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne

14 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 14

October 2014 Review of Financial Studies Money Creation and the Shadow Banking System By: Sunderam, Adi Abstract—Many explanations for the rapid growth of the shadow banking system in the mid-2000s focus on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Racial Diversity Pays Off

rather than ignore or suppress them. Comparing 450 bank branches of a single organization, a large commercial bank in the northeast U.S., Ely and Thomas discovered that when work groups actively acknowledge... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

firms they work in? Are they specific to the firms that have developed them; or are they stars because they have some intrinsically special qualities and abilities? We have looked at investment analysts in research departments of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Jan 2021
News

Better Than Cash

Courtesy Ruth Goodwin-Groen Today, 100 million unbanked adults worldwide receive government transfers, wages, or pensions in cash, a payment method that is highly vulnerable to fraud and theft. Furthermore, 1.7 billion adults lack a bank... View Details

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Future Positive - Managing the Future of Work

the twists and turns of a rapidly evolving economy. “The majority of people in disappearing jobs do not realize what is coming,” the head of strategy at a top German bank recently told us. “My call center workers are neither able nor... View Details

25 May 2016
News

Education Is the Key

Claudio (OPM 12, 1987) and Rosalie Haddad In 1998 Claudio Haddad (OPM 12, 1987) had achieved great success in a nearly 20-year banking career. He easily could have rested on his laurels, but instead, he left the world of finance to put... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer

interview didn’t work for me.” A stint as a New England business correspondent for the Associated Press was a better fit. “Suddenly I was interviewing CEOs and covering banking scandals, and I thought, ‘Wow, this is where it’s happening,’... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Mar 2013
News

Leveraging Female Talent

The research of HBS professor Boris Groysberg centers on a question that troubles many managers: How do I hire and develop top performers who will contribute to my company's success? The author of Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

02 Jun 2011
What Do You Think?

Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

involved a developed economy, "That would (suggest) a new type of fourth world country, a developed economy which just turned into a developing one." Should world... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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