Financial Planning - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Oct 2016
Blog Post

What I Learned in the Peek Weekend STEM Cohort

college I knew I was going to enter the working world, but knew my Bachelor’s degree would not be the end of my education. I started researching further educational opportunities so I could set a plan for the next five years. I saw both... View Details

July 1984 (Revised September 1986)
Case

CML Group, Inc.: Going Public (A)

By: William A. Sahlman

Describes a series of decisions confronting Charles Leighton, co-founder and chairman of the CML Group. CML is a successful participant in the leisure time industry with two lines of business: specialty retailing and recreational consumer products. The key issues in... View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Going Public; Strategy; Business or Company Management; Cost vs Benefits; SWOT Analysis; Investment Banking; Financing and Loans; Planning; Corporate Finance; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry

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01 Jun 2009
News

Cynthia Carroll

“International Power 50” list of women executives in 2008, has won praise for combining a conservative financial approach with progressive policies. Raised in New Jersey, Carroll studied geology at Skidmore College, went on to earn a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management; Mining

14 Feb 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in San Francisco

also made note of ways the School is making the MBA Program more accessible and affordable to the most qualified students without regard for their financial status. This includes the decision last summer to provide scholarships to cover... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

Alumni Books

we be good? How can we understand financial managers' ethical failings, which destroyed lives and brought nations and the global economy close to collapse? Das seeks answers to these questions in the Mahabharata, the 2,000-year-old... View Details

15 Oct 2019
News

Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem

enterprise and impact investing panel at the April 2019 Harvard College China Forum in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During her last semester at HBS, she also worked on an independent project that reinvigorated her entrepreneurial drive, creating a business View Details

01 Dec 2006
News

HBS Honors Four Alumni

woman who, fresh out of HBS, had taken the lowest-paying of thirteen job offers to become a Time financial analyst simply because she loved magazines. Rising through the ranks, Moore today presides over an empire of more than 145... View Details

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

07 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

look at the design of option plans and be much more careful about the rate at which they vest. There'll be talk about whether some of the proceeds should go into incentive banks, with a claw-back if there's poor performance. We'll talk... View Details

Keywords: by Harvard Management Update

01 Mar 2009
News

HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008

’92) took a cautious view of the current fiscal year, noting the dramatic economic decline that began last fall. “Given the exposure of the HBS business model to the economic environment, our operational and financial View Details

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

12 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 12

decades, and I identify remedies well-grounded in antitrust precedent. Paper: http://journaloflaw.us/0%20JoL/2-2/JoL2-2.pdf#page=197 The Future of Boards: Meeting the Governance Challenges of the 21st Century Authors:Lorsch, Jay W. Publication:European View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

think several factors are at work. First, financial engineering increasingly allows for cheap recharacterizations of income for tax and book purposes, making tax obligations easily disappear. Second, the growing global reach of companies... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

01 Apr 2002
News

Back in Business

send e-mail to the author: Garry Emmons photos by AP/Wide World September 11, 2001, was a day that New Yorkers will never forget, particularly those who live and work in Lower Manhattan, the city’s business and financial center. With the... View Details

Keywords: 9/11; NYC; New York City; Government

01 Apr 1998
News

Going For The Summit

iVillage soon created sites such as About Work (www.aboutwork.com), Better Health (www.betterhealth.com), and Armchair Millionaire (www.armchairmillionaire.com), a financial planning site. Although Carpenter... View Details

Keywords: Caroline Chauncey

01 Sep 2016
News

Making Progress on Strategic Priorities

decision-making to negotiation. HBX Live is a virtual HBS classroom experience bringing together participants from around the world. Bridges, a three-day capstone course introduced in 2015, gives graduating MBA students an opportunity to reflect on their time at the... View Details

23 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t927286744 Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality Authors:Mark J. Roe and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 1998 (Revised June 1999)
Case

STT Aerospace

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Jeremy Dann

Experienced entrepreneur Charles Damon conducted a "roll-up" from 1987-1994 within the commercial airliner interior products industry. Damon's company, STT Aerospace, took advantage of an industry-wide recession in the early 1990s by buying when asset prices were low.... View Details

Keywords: Retention; Business Strategy; Selection and Staffing; Entrepreneurship; Financial Crisis; Growth and Development Strategy; Compensation and Benefits; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Acquisition; Product Development; Aerospace Industry

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12 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Harvard Business School Case 409-107 Bob Beall is the Chief Executive Officer of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF). CFF is an extremely successful organization, but Beall has to determine how to manage the organization through the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2011
News

Perception versus Reality

HBS doesn’t get the credit it deserves for nurturing the entrepreneurial ambitions of its MBAs. Too many people, MBA applicants included, still regard the School as primarily a powerhouse in financial services and consulting. While it... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; contests; awards; meta

22 Jan 2025
Blog Post

Career Risks and Professional Growth: Finding a Fulfilling Career with Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991)

Learn about the career resources available to HBS alumni through HBS Career & Professional Development When I decided to attend Harvard Business School, I wasn’t entirely sure what my next step would be, but I knew it was time for a change. As a View Details

25 Oct 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

in which they live and work,” said Susan Gilbert, Robert K. Kraft Family Director, MBA Financial Aid. “Embodying the School’s mission to create leaders who make a difference in the world, their contributions to serving those in need make... View Details

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