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Lehman Brothers Family Partners | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
- 23 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
As Climate Fears Mount, More Investors Turn to 'ESG' Funds Despite Few Rules
Investor interest in social responsibility has skyrocketed in the past three years, even as US regulations to hold companies accountable remain in flux and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) label itself draws backlash. Investors are willing to pay a... View Details
- June 2018 (Revised February 2019)
- Teaching Note
Home Nursing of North Carolina
By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
In 2011, immediately after graduating HBS, Ari Medoff began a self-funded search for a small firm to buy and run as its CEO. After just three month of searching, he identified Home Nursing of North Carolina (HNNC), a home care agency based in Greensboro, NC, as a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
need to secure access to responsibly sourced materials to generate new garments to sell. They are very positive about being a part of the cycle, and I think their numbers will increase dramatically in the very near term,” she says. RESALE... View Details
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Bloomberg: corporate bonds
yield and spread analysis If you know a security ticker the full shortcut would be GM8 1/4 07/23 [CORP] YAS [GO]. Use the blue fractional keys to type fractional denominators. Put a space between the whole... View Details
- 04 Aug 2010
- News
A Lonely Crusader
and distort” campaign allegedly motivated by his quest for a big profit if the company faltered. At the firm’s urging, New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer launched an investigation, and the Securities and Exchange Commission followed... View Details
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Making the Decision to Attend: Our Participants Share Their Stories
helping me secure my new position as CEO of Global Health Corps, which represents a big step forward in my career as a leader. I have been applying many of the lessons I learned, such as developing my professional narrative, building... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
day quantum computing becomes a reality is the day conventional digital security ends.) They should even be able to do things that digital computers cannot do at all, like realistically modeling molecules for more efficient drug discovery... View Details
- 2012
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Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency
By: Alvin J. Silk
What restrictions should be placed on advertising agencies with respect to serving accounts or clients that are competitors of one another in order to avoid conflicts of interest? In recent decades, the advertising and marketing services industry has undergone a number... View Details
Keywords: Advertising Agency; Competitors; Marketing Services Industry; Structural Changes; Agency-client Relationships; Hybrid Conflict Policies; Safeguards; Advertising; Advertising Industry; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
Silk, Alvin J. "Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency." Foundations and Trends® in Marketing 6, no. 2 (2012): 63–149.
- 22 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make
What if businesses could learn from their worst mistakes without actually making them? How might the same progress and innovation occur, without firms incurring the costs associated with such errors? The results of a recent study about close calls in health care... View Details
- 04 Jan 2024
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Great Heights
of women who can make “summit attempts” together. So far, her clients have secured multiple promotions and a collective $1.6 million in salary increases. CareerClimb’s own next step is to use artificial intelligence to reverse-engineer... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 01 Jun 2024
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
fascinated me. Why? Energy is the engine that drives the world’s economy, lifts people out of poverty, and improves quality of life. Oil and gas will be needed for decades and are fundamental to an affordable, just, and secure energy... View Details
- March 2011 (Revised January 2015)
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H Partners and Six Flags
By: Robin Greenwood and Michael Gorzynski
Rehan Jaffer, the founder of hedge fund H Partners, is considering what to do with his investment in Six Flags. H Partners had invested a significant amount of the firm's capital in the senior bonds of U.S.-based Six Flags, following that company's bankruptcy filing. View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Finance; Private Equity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Debt Securities; Bonds; Investment; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
Greenwood, Robin, and Michael Gorzynski. "H Partners and Six Flags." Harvard Business School Case 211-090, March 2011. (Revised January 2015.)
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Shad Hall | About
banker, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and US ambassador to the Netherlands. Known for his dedication to the highest ethical standards during a distinguished, three-decade career in investment banking,... View Details
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Alumnae Circles - Alumni
Circles Member Login button above On the Chronus home page, click the Log In button Select the HarvardKey Login option Enter your HarvardKey username and password HarvardKey Help HarvardKey is Harvard's University-wide secure login... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles
close to his dream. HOME REGION Washington, D.C. UNDERGRAD EDUCATION United States Naval Academy PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE LGS Innovations, Naval Special Warfare Development Group, National Security Agency, Strike Fighter Squadron-122 HBS... View Details
- 21 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?
Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Future of IT Consulting
not economical to maintain in a particular company. For example, computer security consulting requires a high level of expertise, which few firms can economically maintain in-house. By providing these kinds of services to many firms,... View Details
- June 2008 (Revised July 2009)
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COFCO Xinjiang Tunhe Co., Ltd.
By: David E. Bell and Aldo Sesia
In 2005, COFCO Ltd., one of China's largest and most successful companies, acquired Xinjiang Tunhe, a tomato processing firm, which had been, in recent years, poorly managed. COFCO changed Tunhe's management team and set out to create a culture of professionalism and... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Customer Relationship Management; Rural Scope; Supply Chain Management; Performance Consistency; Safety; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; China
Bell, David E., and Aldo Sesia. "COFCO Xinjiang Tunhe Co., Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 508-079, June 2008. (Revised July 2009.)
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
What I want people to know is that we are, I think outside of DC and Boston, we are the largest concentration of PhDs due to Jefferson Lab and NASA. We are on the national security map, because without aircraft carriers, there is no power... View Details