Financial Planning - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Aug 2022
News

To Serve and Protect the Markets

retired and who can have financial security in their golden years because their finances were managed well. It could be a young person buying their first stock. It could be a small-business owner needing capital. If those people couldn’t... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Entrepreneurial Finance - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Entrepreneurial Finance Course Number 1624 Professor Sabrina Howell Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Career Focus Entrepreneurial Finance is primarily designed for students who plan to get involved with a new venture... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

Research Brief: Launching into a Downturn

High-Tech Start-Up Outcomes,” Roche and coauthor Annamaria Conti found that high-tech and medical-device startups launched in uncertain financial times underperform those whose founders have better job security. As a result, the bar for... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Apr 2002
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Pamela Thomas Graham on September 11

“We cover the financial community as our beat,” says CNBC president and CEO Pamela Thomas-Graham (MBA ’88/JD’89). “So in many ways the terrorist attacks felt very personal to us as a news organization.” After doing a headcount to... View Details

Keywords: terrorism; leadership; television; news; stock market; decision making; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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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

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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Shawn Cole Sustainable Investing Finance Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 Jacob Cook Digital Marketing & AI Workshop Marketing Fall 2025 Q1 1.5 Ben Creo Field Course: Advanced Business Plans for Innovating in Health Care General... 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

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

President Trump’s infrastructure plan and a counterproposal by Senate Democrats are rising toward the top of the national agenda. All agree that there is a pressing need to fix the collapsing bridges, potholed roads, crashing trains, and... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

07 Apr 2017
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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

01 Dec 2016
News

How DC is Taxing the Country

to deliver desired outcomes our “gravest competitive weakness,” the authors propose their solution: an eight-point plan for Washington, recommending changes that they say would have impact within two to three years, such as streamlining... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

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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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Staff Directory | Baker Library

Specialist Baker Research & Data Services Areas of Expertise: data licensing and vendor relationships, data sourcing and access. Jen Beauregard Information Research Specialist Baker Research & Data Services Areas of Expertise: financial... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut

consumer finance? The household sector in America is huge, representing approximately $61 trillion of assets. And consumer finance businesses are the touch points between the financial system and millions of consumers. Despite its size... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance

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Independent Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

internal strategy group to determine the appropriate efficient scale for country offices. Explored interactive media approaches for an organization focused on expanding access to financial services for low-income families. Developed a... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Finance (Q3) - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Entrepreneurial Finance (Q3) Course Number 1625 Assistant Professor Raymond Kluender Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions Exam Career Focus Entrepreneurial Finance is primarily designed for students who plan to get... View Details

20 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Private Equity and Financial Fragility During the Crisis By: Bernstein, Shai, Josh Lerner, and Filippo Mezzanotti Abstract—Do private equity firms contribute to View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2022
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Road to Recovery

in 2016, with Gastfriend as CEO and his father as chief medical officer. A 2014 study estimated that 12.5 million Americans had substance use disorders, and that number was rising, largely due to opioid use. In addition to the human toll, the View Details

Keywords: April White; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

April 1998 (Revised May 2000)
Case

Guidant Corporation: Shaping Culture Through Systems

By: Robert L. Simons and Antonio Davila

Guidant is a successful IPO start-up selling pacemakers and defibrillators. The case describes how managers install systems to balance innovation and control. Three parts of a shareholder value strategy are described. Controls include incentive systems, beliefs... View Details

Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; Planning; Risk Management; Management Systems; Business Strategy; Value Creation; System; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry

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Purchase

01 Mar 2010
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Rx for Too Big to Fail

approach seems to enjoy more support from the left and the second from the right. Unfortunately, neither plan is likely to work on its own. While a number of major financial firms should be broken up, it is... View Details

Keywords: David Moss; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

Portrait Project

Anita Lynch

forget. They remind me to consider the kids who are growing up today even worse off than I did. America's working poor need better economic opportunities, and I believe a lot can be done to help them create these opportunities for themselves. I View Details

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