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01 Jun 2006
News

HBS Annual Report Details Strong Financial Growth

million to reach a total of $62 million, reflecting gifts to The Campaign for Harvard Business School and another above-average year of investment returns for the School’s endowment. Campaign gifts and endowment funds enable HBS to make... View Details

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

01 Sep 2010
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Letters to the Editor

Individual Donors Enrich Fellows’ Experience As a beneficiary of the HBS Leadership Fellows program, I was excited to see the June cover story about the program and the profiles of several colleagues associated with it. Â As the article suggests, the program provides a... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

01 Sep 2012
News

Alumni Books

Green (MBA 1976) and Andrea P. Howe (Wiley) Twilight Reflections: Where the Elderly Find God by Greg Hadley (OPM 5, 1981), helped by Kimi Tomaszek (CreateSpace) Swan Wait by Gwen Keane (PMD 50, 1985) (Keane Writers Publishing LLC) The Best Book On View Details

Keywords: Information; Information; Information; Information

October 2009
Article

Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients

By: Lauren Cohen and Breno Schmidt

We explore a new channel for attracting inflows using a unique dataset of corporate 401(k) retirement plans and their mutual fund family trustees. Families secure substantial inflows by being named the trustee of a 401(k) plan. We find that family trustees... View Details

Keywords: Value; Information; Investment Funds; Stocks; Relationships; Financial Services Industry

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03 Dec 2024
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Magic Numbers

the state of national security. But to Sharma, America’s struggles with math also represent opportunity. “Imagine if every single kid caught up in math,” she says. “The return on investment is infinity.” For more than a decade as a... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford

01 Jun 2012
News

Good as Our Word

For most of the 20th century, three bond ratings agencies—Moody’s, Fitch, and Standard & Poor’s—controlled 97 percent of the credit ratings market. The status quo was disrupted, however, by the 2008 global economic recession, an event that the Big Three contributed to... View Details

Keywords: Maggie Starvish; Bond rating; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

01 Mar 2008
News

Lessons from Private Equity

GADIESH: To reap private equity returns, act more like a private equity manager COURTESY OF BAIN & CO A recent Harvard Business Review article headlined “If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business” gave many leaders of public companies a thoughtful pause: Why can’t we... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

01 Jun 2011
News

HBS on Squawk Box

CNBC’s morning business show broadcast live from the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center’s Stamps Reading Room on February 9, giving faculty and alumni an opportunity to air their views on investing and access to capital. Host Carl... View Details

01 Aug 1998
News

Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories

reunion this year because "faith and meaning are about connections. And the connections I made with my B-School classmates are just about the most real I've ever made." Jeremy E. Verba (MBA '93) Jeremy Verba is working at the intersection of the two industries to which... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

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Pharmaceuticals: Company Data and Analysis

not only information on pharma companies, but also covers drug pipelines and global trials, pharma deals, drug sales, and patents. Access is available to HBS AND HU students, staff and faculty onsite at Baker Library (users must be... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

Team MBA

for investment banking internships, so Amyn was a great resource for us during that time. Sonia Sahney: When I went to my summer internship at Goldman after our first year I had already seen how they did modeling because Amyn had shown me... View Details

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

01 Jun 2005
News

Mookerjee Picked as First Director of New HBS India Research Center

presence in research and education. Each center is led by an HBS graduate from the region. After earning his doctorate from HBS, Mookerjee worked in consulting with Booz Allen Hamilton and in investments with GE Capital. He then went on... View Details

Keywords: HBS; India Research Center; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2012
News

FIELD 2: Global Intelligence

Watch the thinking that underpins HBS’s new field method of study Investing in HBS Great Expectations Model Teamwork Donor Spotlight Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech FAQ For the second module of FIELD (Field Immersion... View Details

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

01 Oct 1999
News

A Message from Dean Clark

that are yielding substantial results. Our extensive investment in information technology (IT) has been particularly effective, enhancing our ability to teach, conduct research, and serve our diverse and... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Giving Through HBS

Investing in HBS Giving Together Jump-Start From Fellowship Recipient to ‘The Most Influential Business Thinker On Earth’ FAQ In talking to alumni about supporting the School, one of the things I like to remind people is that they don’t... View Details

Keywords: Professor Howard Stevenson

02 Mar 2016
News

On Credit

the papers of influential business leaders and the records of innovative companies in the late 20th- and 21st-century global business world,” says Laura Linard, Baker Library’s director of special collections. More recently, that focus has led to relationships with... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Apr 2001
News

K.O. Chia: The Voice of Experience

success or disaster. “When I sit on a board, I think of it as mentoring,” says Chia, EVP of Walden International Investment Group in Hong Kong. “I don’t think of myself as a venture capitalist but as somebody providing venture assistance,... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Hewlitt-Packard; Apple; Information; Information; Information

30 Jan 2006
HBS Case

The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand

marketing his work, sometimes investing his own money in outlets such as television commercials and billboards that are more frequently used for fast food than books. Whatever the genre (he has also published romance novels, science... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Information; Information; Information

28 May 2019
News

Research Brief: Field Research

agronomist researches the matter and sends a tailored reply within 24 hours. The more information a farmer shares with PAD—about planting practices, market prices, or soil conditions—the more its recommendations improve with time. “The... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Crop Production; Agriculture

26 Apr 2011
News

BioMine Strikes Gold

and PhytoTEK were semifinalists, while AI Exchange received a mention at Monday's awards dinner as the winner of an informal popular vote. Modeled after the HBS student Business Plan Contest, now in its 15th year, the Alumni New Venture... View Details

Keywords: Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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