Financial Systems - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 18, 2006

than $100 million. These transactions are large enough to require the help of a financial adviser and attract both strategic and financial bidders. The sale process described is that of a private auction,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 May 2024
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - How to Build a Culture of Intrapreneurship

in recent interviews from the HBS Creating Emerging Markets project. Below, we feature the approaches to building this culture as presented by two prominent executives from Uruguay and Kenya, María Michelena in financial consulting, and... View Details

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

appropriate. That's one pole of the continuum. At the other pole, you have people who really believe there's something extremely wrong with the barrel. Thus it's not just a matter of a few bad apples; what we really need is a wholesale revamping of the View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

06 Dec 2021
News

Monaco's Digital Transformation

size is its strength.” The substantial financial resources at Monaco’s disposal are also an advantage, enabling major investments in technology and the infrastructure to support it. In 2019, the country had the second highest GDP per... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Alexandra Stanek

understanding financial statements, accounting, all the fundamentals managers need. But the larger virtue of HBS is that it’s a place to be challenged. To be in a setting with 90 very sharp people and be able to speak up and represent a... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

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Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

and develop a deeper appreciation of how legal systems operate and how to operate within the boundaries of legal systems. In response to increased student interest in private equity, a module of the course focuses on contracts and... View Details

20 Nov 2018
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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

29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

over time, the relationship between firm size and corporate vulnerability is relatively time invariant. All else being equal, large firms in emerging markets are more financially vulnerable and also View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

at Schulze Global Investments in Ethiopia, the country’s first private equity fund. I specifically wanted to see, in a country with a banking system off-limits to foreign investment and where there are no local capital markets, if foreign... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

08 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries

web of business ties, lending, and cross-shareholdings. In Germany's financial sector, it might be the insurance giant Allianz. In Italy, it may be a set of powerful families. In Russia, it can be the Russian mafia and other protection... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

patients. It presents process maps and financial data relating to the processes used during (1) an office visit to a plastic surgeon for three different diagnoses and (2) application and removal of three different casts in the orthopedic... View Details

01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008

of potential funding sources to solve social problems, much of it stemming from an intergenerational transfer of wealth and new wealth from financial and high-tech entrepreneurs. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2011
News

Faculty Books

which they unwittingly limit themselves. Joining a Nonprofit Board: What You Need to Know by Marc J. Epstein and F. Warren McFarlan (Jossey-Bass) Baker Foundation Professor McFarlan and his coauthor provide a guide to how board members can work with a nonprofit to... View Details

Keywords: Utilities

06 Dec 2021
News

New Wave

commercial scale. Verdant, for example, is currently raising funds to develop turbines twice as large for deployment off the coast of Wales, where Smith anticipates generating megawatts of electricity by 2025. And he has his eyes on an even larger prize: Once the... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

study highlights the small-world system's evolutionary dynamics at both the macro level of the network and the micro level of an individual actor. This dual analytical lens helps establish that, in competitive and information-intensive settings, a small-world View Details

25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

for Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems Authors:Anita L. Tucker, Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes, and Alyson Falwell Abstract Objective. To link safety-related concerns raised by frontline staff about hospital... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2015
News

Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed

The Fed’s structure The Federal Reserve System is overseen by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, an independent agency with seven members who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance

01 Mar 2004
News

Reforming Company Boards

Solutions for Better Corporate Governance (Bloomberg Press) emphasizes accountability, transparency, performance measurement, and a strong system of checks and balances in its practical approach to reform. Why did you write this book?... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Services

18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

address this threat: trust, licensing, and paying agents to stay loyal. We show how the principal can influence the value of these options by modularizing the system and by hiring clans of agents, thus exploiting relationships among them.... View Details