Financial Planning - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner

companies have been financed during previous downturns in the venture capital market. Entrepreneurs should not necessarily abandon all hope. Venture capitalists still have many, many billions to invest, so well crafted business plans can... View Details

Keywords: by Carol Elsen; Financial Services

01 Dec 2009
News

Noted & Quoted

“We simply can’t call it capitalism if the biggest financial institutions enjoy a guarantee from the taxpayer that if they go bust, or risk going bust, they’ll be bailed out. That has to change.” — Professor Niall Ferguson, responding to... View Details

September 1992 (Revised September 2010)
Background Note

Executive Stock Options

By: Henry B. Reiling

After a brief comment on the practical problems associated with taxing options and the possible occasions on which taxation might occur, the note describes the current policy imbedded in the Internal Revenue Code and gives examples of this policy in operation. The... View Details

Keywords: Stock Options; Policy; Taxation; Executive Compensation; Employee Stock Ownership Plan

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Domestic Students | MBA

take out a student loan, you assume a legal obligation to repay the principal amount you borrow, plus interest, under a defined repayment schedule. The following information is provided to help in your financial aid planning. Please be... View Details

12 Jan 2015
News

Good Investments

total income. There’s also a halo effect: Anyone who uses the booth to, say, make a bank deposit might also remember to pick up shampoo or soap from her store. Reyes’s booth is one of about 600 installed in mom-and-pop stores in Mexico City; the company View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; impact investing; ideas; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

2010
Case

Vander Mining Partners, IPADE

By: Roberto Charvel

In 2010 Vander Mining was trying to raise one of the few private equity funds specialized in mining. This was difficult among other things because institutional investors did not have a private equity team specialized in mining and emerging markets. View Details

Keywords: Real Assets; Business Startups; Business Plan; Economics; Metals and Minerals; Mining; Assets; Private Equity; Public Equity; Goods and Commodities; Emerging Markets; Market Participation; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America

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Managing International Trade and Investment - Course Catalog

as they participate in and shape cross-border trade and investment. Career Focus This course should interest any student who plans to work for a firm with transnational interests or investments or students with significant interests in... View Details

22 Jan 2019
News

Remembering Walter Shipley

endorsing employee well-being and diversity long before those topics became fashionable. Beginning in 1996, the Financial Times reports, he asked business units to submit plans on diversity, including the... View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

Mr. Start-Up

could stray from an assignment to write market assessments and instead create a start-up business plan. “The professor was Walt Salmon, and fortunately he was all for it,” recalls Cassidy, who eventually made good on the plan to launch... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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Managing Service Operations - Course Catalog

strategy, marketing, and operations. It draws upon cutting-edge research and field examples from a broad array of industries, including financial services, government, healthcare, hospitality, professional services, restaurants, retail,... View Details

22 Aug 2019
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Getting There

(via Bloomberg Technology) (via Bloomberg Technology) In an interview with Bloomberg Technology, Anthony Tan (MBA 2011) and Hooi Ling Tan (MBA 2011), the cofounders of Grab, chronicle the company’s explosive growth from an idea pitched at an HBS business View Details

Keywords: Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

27 Mar 2019
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Fulfilling Their Promise

they might develop character, leadership skills, and self-confidence, Schooner finds she’s grown personally as well. Her leadership qualities were obvious, having used her business acumen to build a financially stable organization, but... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; mentoring

06 Jan 2020
News

Home Grown

view (Granite Equity plans for businesses, including Granite Equity itself, to be sustainable for 100 years or more); and investment in community (often businesses owners or senior officials contribute to the community View Details

Keywords: Finance

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Student Association | MBA

Student Association The Student Association (SA) is the main interface between the MBA student body and the faculty and administration. Its goal is to represent the student body in making the HBS experience as rewarding and enjoyable as possible. This includes acting... View Details

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Charitable Gift Annuity - Alumni

Establishing a charitable gift annuity enabled Gary and Teri Roubos to make a bigger gift than they had thought possible while also fulfilling their financial goals. Let’s Work Together Anne McClintock Senior Director of Development,... View Details

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Jan Petzel

acquainted with Community Action Nepal, a charity benefitting the people of Nepal, who are some of the poorest in the world. In reaching Everest's summit just before his 40th birthday, Petzel committed to raising nearly $17,000—20 percent of the cost of a View Details

Keywords: Other Financial Services

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Frank Spencer

present value on a financial analysis? Absolutely," he says. "But I think one way that HBS has shaped me as a leader is by showing that the right technical answer might not do you much good at all if you can't also manage the... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Services

01 Jun 2016
News

Fellowships Have Impact

San Francisco Frist (MBA 1997, MBA 2001) Family Financial Aid Fund “I received a small grant from a planned gift, and I’ve often thought how inspired it was so many years ago that somebody thought to... View Details

Career Coach

Mark Hardie

Mark (MIT Sloan ’93) is a serial entrepreneur and start-up veteran with a knack for finding innovation roles in any size company. He is a career-long mentor who loves working with start-up teams, founders and would-be entrepreneurs. Mark is currently the Director of... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All)

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Rakhshan Zahid

your business. As a result, I’m planning to develop one of my ideas in an independent project next year to see if my idea has legs. How do your HBS ambitions fit into the big picture of the world beyond? We’re encouraged to solve problems... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

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