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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market
The Rise of Installment Selling Home Finance Cars on Time The Secondary Credit Market The Usurer's Grip Research Links Credits “We must divorce the three golden balls from the three Furies.” — Charities Review , 1892 Installment plans, home mortgages, and auto loans... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Goldman Supports Case Method
The Goldman Sachs Group will fund outreach and scholarships to bring a dozen or more senior faculty from leading Indian business schools to HBS this summer to participate in the School’s two programs that teach how to teach the case method. HBS began View Details
- 07 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
How One Organization Increased Their Internship Yield
confusion. “Consider Sara,” says Lauren Murphy, Director of Career and Professional Development at HBS. “Sara” is not a real student, but a hypothetical illustration of a real phenomenon Murphy has frequently witnessed. “She’s been interviewing with a company and has... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
have distilled six counterintuitive practices these organizations use to improve the world. They offer lessons for readers interested in creating significant social change, including nonprofit managers, donors, and volunteers. The... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
says Felipe Ortiz-Monasterio (MBA 1977), who was among the founders of the nongovernmental organization and is currently chair of its finance committee. With that straightforward pitch, the upstart Fundación raised money quickly. An View Details
Keywords: April White
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
not sufficient to assign every student to a school. Annually, while about 17,000 students would receive initial offers from multiple schools, about 50,000 received a single View Details
- 05 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Our Godrej Site Visit
CSR initiatives do not include the mangrove conservation project, but are instead focused around skills & livelihoods, public health, waste management, and watershed management (3). As we discussed extensively during our visit,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
another course spawned by the Initiative on Social Enterprise - Society and Enterprise (S&E), a module that offers lessons about corporate involvement in the social sector. S&E is required of all MBA... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
euros, so people buy into the coin and cash out of it in more or less the same way as you would with deposits at a bank. Wang: And the reason this is desirable is presumably that it’s a superior system for transparency and trust.... View Details
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Mohamed Farid
his path to HBS, which was not part of his initial plan. "I thought I'd go directly into private equity," Mohamed says. But he's grateful things did not go according to his original expectations. "After I got here, I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Sustaining HBS’s Unique Economic Model
multiple revenue sources, continued investments in the campus, and limited debt. The surplus we generate allows us to invest in innovation, self-fund faculty research, and offer generous need-based financial aid.” Increasingly, however,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
MBA Cohorts Will Merge Next Year
accommodate two required curriculum offerings per year and the exceptional demands the system put on faculty and MBA Program staff. Kester emphasized that despite the decision, the January cohort had brought many lasting benefits to the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Adventure in China
where she excelled at English and law, Zhang went to work as an assistant and interpreter at the regional railway. She so impressed a visiting Thai bank president after interpreting for him that he offered to pay her way through HBS if... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas... View Details
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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
1970s, the seeds of change for ARD were in the air. The Small Business Investment Act of 1953 had promoted the creation of small business investment corporations (SBICs) through financial support and loans. Over time, the financial benefits View Details
Chandler’s Legacies
had access to a wealth of resources through the Baker Library, and received fantastic support from librarians who opened my eyes to new sources of information. Furthermore, my time at HBS offered me the chance to see how members of the... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
HBS alums Greg Avis (Summit Partners, MBA 1984), Chad Keck (Needham & Co., MBA 1976), Tom Volpe (Prudential Volpe, MBA 1976), and Tony Blenk (Everen Securities, MBA 1976), Crane led the company in acquiring 13 companies, raised four rounds of venture capital, and took... View Details
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
A few years ago anyone could become an entrepreneur. All you needed was a half-baked idea and a phone to hear offers from salivating venture capitalists. Now the environment is much more difficult. Question: Do you have what it takes to... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
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Course Asks Students: What’s More Important—Purpose or Profits? Barbara DeLollis 16 Mar 2023 Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) Debuts New Offering Exploring the Pu... INITIATIVES... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
The Next Big Swing
direction for the future at the moment,” says Tippett, pointing to pioneering new initiatives like Major League Baseball’s Statcast (above), which offers statistical insights into every play—from the launch... View Details