Financial Planning - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2016
News

Rethinking Housing in the Motor City

thinking ‘where is the best opportunity going to be for me professionally?—I couldn’t move back to Detroit,” Rhea says. Instead, he went into finance in New York. After the financial collapse he left banking for a position as chairman and... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2010
News

Laura Alfaro to Costa Rican Post

HBS associate professor Laura Alfaro is taking a leave of absence from the School to serve as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in her native Costa Rica. At 38, Alfaro, who has no prior service in Costa Rican public... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Dec 2010
News

HBS Contributors Report

The HBS Contributors Report was mailed to some 13,000 donors in November and reflects all new gifts, pledges, and planned gifts received during fiscal year 2010, ending last June 30. Total commitments exceeded $130 million. Alumni gifts... View Details

Keywords: meta

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

Citation

Educators

Purchase

Knight introduced a methodical planning process throughout all company activities that focused on financial performance metrics. Under his leadership, Emerson has grown into a $14 billion company that... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

11 May 2017
News

Going with the Flow

1971, JD/MBA 1978). Now Fisher is also on the board of Easterly Government Properties, and she’s launching two additional businesses: FitMoney, a nonprofit K–12 financial literacy program, and a health IT company that is still in the... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

20 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 20, 2007

ownership patterns across different towns, allowing credible identification of the effects of bank ownership on financial development, lending rates, and the quality of intermediation, as well as employment and investment. Credit markets... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Apr 2017
News

Transforming the “Misery Towns” of Buenos Aires

When economist Horacio Rodríguez Larreta (MBA 1993) was elected mayor of Argentina’s capital in 2015, he promised to address conditions in the city’s slums, which house about a quarter million of the city’s 3 million people. A recent article in the View Details

Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

December 2001
Exercise

Exercise on Employee Stock Option Dilution

By: Brian J. Hall

Discusses the effects of option dilution on stock prices and shareholder value. To simplify the example and isolate the complexity of option dilution, we make a number of simplifying assumptions. View Details

Keywords: Stocks; Price; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Business and Shareholder Relations; Complexity; Value

Citation

Find at Harvard

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

Profile

Jessica Kramer

into finance, but into her own values. “I got a front-row seat to the financial crisis of 2008,” Jessica says. But even with the crisis aside, she began to wonder if finance was the right fit for her. “I saw that my boss was doing exactly... 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

05 Jun 2015
Blog Post

The HBS Investment

was so terribly short sighted. HBS cost me much more than an enhanced insurance policy. At HBS, I lost sight of what I thought my career should be. Rather, all that I had planned for turned out to be so limited. I had quite a narrow... View Details

Profile

Juan Eyzaguirre

through government again." On campus, Juan's wife, Cecilia Vial, is collaborating with other entrepreneurs on a media enterprise for Latin American women. Juan admits his own ambitions are currently less precise. Ultimately, the couple View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Financial Services

16 Aug 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers

marketing has undergone immense changes over the past decade, and those changes are driving an increasing need for data analysis. Marketing today combines both art and science: Managers must combine creative thinking with rigorous analysis when making decisions.... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

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

01 Mar 2011
News

Fiscal Year Ends on Upbeat Note

HBS entered fiscal 2010 with an aggressive plan to reduce costs in anticipation of a prolonged period of diminished revenue in the wake of the global financial crisis. But when the books closed last June,... View Details

Keywords: alumni; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2004
News

Salter New Head of External Relations

Stevenson, who has been named senior associate provost for Planning and Resources for Harvard University. Stevenson remains a member of the HBS faculty. In announcing Salter’s appointment, Dean Kim B. Clark said: “I am confident Mal will... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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