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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
investment firm seeking a high-impact agribusiness project in rural Africa. A small company in Tanzania seems to fit the bill, but it faces health-safety issues with the potential to spread E. coli throughout the region. Another problem:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Finnegan Heads HBS Fund
a longtime volunteer. As cofounder and co-CEO of Madison Dearborn Partners, a Chicago-based investment firm, Finnegan attributes much of his success to HBS. “It would have been impossible for me to get a position in private equity without... View Details
- January 1995 (Revised June 1995)
- Case
Note on Yield Conventions
By: Andre F. Perold and Wai Lee
Describes the principal conventions used to report yields on debt instruments. View Details
Keywords: Investment Return; Capital Markets; Asset Management; Reports; Conferences; Governing and Advisory Boards
Perold, Andre F., and Wai Lee. "Note on Yield Conventions." Harvard Business School Case 295-101, January 1995. (Revised June 1995.)
- 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 Dec 2012
- News
Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources
leadership of Henderson and Professor Forest Reinhardt, the BEI coordinates the activities of a large group of Harvard faculty members from multiple disciplines in an effort, Henderson says, "to create new business models that encourage sensible View Details
Keywords: Dalai Lama
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Action Plan: Come as You Are
everywhere, and art needn’t be museum-quality. “So much of the art we love are objects we enjoy for themselves, beyond any potential investment value or recognized worth. An art teacher at my son’s school has done some beautiful work in... View Details
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Research in Action - Alumni
explains his action research, which aims to lower the cost of health care and engaging with practitioners. Using Data to Explore Uncharted Territories Associate Professor Raffaella Sadun explains how she uses data to explore how View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
their focus to developing countries, which have undertaken ambitious and dramatic infrastructure projects in recent years. India’s Golden Quadrilateral highway received new sections and major upgrades between 2001 and 2006, when 95 percent of the work was completed.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Fostering a Supportive Community
services and resources for them, including advising and counseling, one-on-one tutoring, workshops, and specialized career coaching. Holly Fetter (MBA 2020) Holly Fetter (MBA 2020) These offerings have been informed by the work of a task... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 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
- Fast Answer
Social Entrepreneurship & Systems Change
the impact investment sector. Also includes the ImpactSpace database that includes information on and investors and over 4,000 impact investment deals Preqin -... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Research Brief: So Many Sites, So Little Time
Greenstein adds, such as television and radio. “Online advertising is still a work in progress, with considerable effort being invested in improving its cost-effectiveness,” he says. “Those efforts—and lessons learned—are relevant across... View Details
- 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
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
Working PapersAccounting Information as Political Currency Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract We test whether accounting can be used as political currency. Our setting is the US congressional election of 2004,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Fellowship Enables Opportunity in Africa
operations head at Peak Investment Capital, an SME investment platform in Accra. Doha Tantawy (MBA 2019), a native of Cairo, Egypt, will work as a strategy and business development associate at Misr... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
The crucial point, though, is that the bulk of Chinese investment has been financed from China’s own savings (and from the overseas Chinese diaspora). Cautious after years of instability and unused to the panoply of credit facilities we... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Student Real Estate Champs
A team of six MBA students from HBS won the fourth annual National Real Estate Challenge, held at the University of Texas in November. Teams from sixteen MBA programs spent two days evaluating a case involving an investment in a high-end... View Details
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Anddria Clack
variety of industries. How has your overall Harvard Business School experience shaped your goals & career path? All of the resources at Harvard Business School are designed to help you make more informed and thoughtful decisions about... View Details
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
do managers forecast total revenue? You can get a sense of that from looking at investment analysts' forecasts. While it is true that managers have information that analysts lack, analysts' estimates and... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
direct boss get fired for trying to inform the senior management. In 2011, Hunt was told to change the quality control reports so they looked better than they were. That’s when she took a stand. Episode two, “Ask Why,” focuses on Enron,... View Details