Financial Planning - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 25

the investor's and the investee's countries, affects the asset allocation decisions of global mutual funds. We find that investors tend to underweight investees with greater accounting distance. Using the mandatory adoption of International View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives

plan within their organization. A: There are many issues inherent in this question. But I would point to three issues that typically are front and center when companies get serious about developing and executing an integrated strategy in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

19 Oct 2023
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures

trial-and-error process of siting and planning grid-scale solar projects with an all-in-one software that optimizes plant design. Prometheas AI - Sofoklis Melissovas (MBA 2023) - In ancient times, Prometheus stole fire from the gods and... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits

strategy, offered advice on strategic planning. The summit took place against the backdrop of a mounting financial crisis on Wall Street and a deteriorating economy, both of which heightened concern about expected declines in giving,... View Details

19 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

Lauren Cochran were considering whether to invest an additional $1 million in PEG’s upcoming $5 million Series B round, at a $20 million pre-money valuation. PEG offered pay-as-you-go (PAYG) financing plans that allowed customers to make... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 1997
News

A Piece of the Action

veteran Valleyite Christina L. Darwall (MBA '75). For more than two decades, Darwall has been a player in the Valley's business community, working first for McKinsey & Co., where she became a principal, and then as senior vice president and chief View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

wagon, so what?" Fumbling the Future was published in 1988, and the impact of this book reverberated throughout Xerox, stimulating many responses. As the story was recounted in the business and financial press, PARC's technological... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

Profile

Anthony Tan

of safety issues when taking a taxi. Why don’t you do something about it?’” Tan said in a 2014 interview with the Financial Times. The tease turned into a catalyst for Tan and another HBS classmate Tan Hooi Ling, and GrabTaxi,... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

Case Study: Off to a Fine Art

is filling a market need, and the first-year revenue response is confirmatory. Since many events like weddings are planned far in advance, I suspect that Clay can still deploy a consignment model until it builds up the needed inventory by... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

20 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 20, 2008

this want/should pattern, and we briefly discuss survey results suggesting a potential explanation for this. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-078.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAEC Systems Business Plan Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

Man, and operates ships that travel around the world. In analyzing the choices he faces, students must consider how the initial capitalization of Navigator contributed to its financial distress, evaluate several restructuring View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Career Coach

Matt Spielman

Matt (Columbia ’94, HBS ’99) is the Founder and Managing Partner of Inflection Point Partners, an executive coaching and leadership development firm dedicated to igniting careers and energizing lives. Matt and his team at Inflection Point form meaningful partnerships... View Details

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19 Jan 2016
First Look

January 19, 2016

of science and technology, law, management, and policy. The empirical contexts for their studies range from household goods to financial services. After discussing the fundamentals of user innovation, the contributors cover communities... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

my goals. The financial services industry was just opening up to women, and I was on a mission to be one of the first to participate. I loved being a pioneer. I had my goals and was determined to achieve them. They were, and still are, to... View Details

26 Jun 2015
Blog Post

7 Things International Applicants Should Know About HBS

of sitting in a classroom and hearing the case unfold. 3. Financial aid doesn’t have to be frightening Esme: HBS’s Prematriculation Checklist is great – it lays out exactly what you need to do and by when. I had a sponsorship offer from... View Details

04 Apr 2008
What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

developed and distributed in China, had to come up with a realistic business plan projection a couple of years ago. It required an estimation of the share of potential revenues that would be siphoned off by others appropriating the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

06 Aug 2020
Blog Post

WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB

students interested in investing careers. On a tactical level, we plan to achieve this in several ways: Regular events with HBS Black investment alum to facilitate career advancement and mentorship for current students Creating... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

Web

The Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration: 1956 - 1962 | Baker Library

activist for workers' rights as well as a faculty member, helped to sustain the program with her financial support. Opportunities for Women and the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration, 1956-1957. Harvard-Radcliffe Program... View Details

15 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Be Unapologetically Yourself: Interview with Singer-Songwriter and Banking Strategist Andrea Mendoza

consulting) but Mendoza has embraced the surprise factor and learned to be unapologetically herself. What that looks like is a financial services professional, a strategic leader, and a performer all wrapped into one multidimensional... View Details

16 Apr 2013
News

A Walkabout to the Ocean

the air outside New York City's JFK airport and eventually hitchhiked across the country." Merkl fell in love with California and decided to stay. Enrolling at the University of California at Santa Cruz, he studied environmental science, regional View Details

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