Credit Term Harmonization - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

ask the Japanese, the Chinese, and some others for their goods, and they give them to us. And then they lend us the money to buy them. We are both borrowing—literally borrowing in financial terms from, particularly, the Asians—and getting... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Nov 2022
HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

companies, US mid-sized companies, international small companies, and international equity. Brown’s teams use revenue instead of market capitalization to define their areas of focus, and search for companies with high long-term growth potential not recognized by the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

11 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

opportunity to shine.” Kim did just that, quickly moving over to represent Salomon Smith Barney’s business in Asia, with a focus on Korea. “People who went through the Asian financial crisis would probably remember that Korea was one of the worst hit, in View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

01 Oct 1997
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L.E. Simmons

who has achieved lofty financial success in his professional career while remaining firmly grounded in solid business wisdom. The second oldest of four brothers who grew up in rural Kaysville, Utah - all of whom went on to earn MBAs at Harvard - Simmons View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

30 Jan 2019
Blog Post

The Life and Role of a CEO

where we focus on one single decision point, we discussed the CEO as a role. In other words, instead of looking at a snapshot of their life, we took a broader view of their role in terms of topics, stakeholders, and time constraints. This... View Details

01 Jan 2012
News

Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

credit cards, online shopping, banking, and the Rakuten Golden Eagles baseball team. With 10,000 employees worldwide, Rakuten currently has a market capitalization of approximately $14 billion. It is the number one e-commerce company in... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

search, we found nearly 3,000 articles and books had been published on some of the topics you just mentioned. However, there was an apparent discrepancy. There had been this wide, long-standing recognition of Toyota as the premier automobile manufacturer in View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

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Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Related Collections Site Credits When the proposition was first made of my going to China with Uncle Augustine I jumped at it. I knew it involved a question of years, but there was a romantic side to it which appealed to my imagination. I... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

undergraduate credit option for the Credential of Readiness (CORe) program, you will be enrolled at Harvard Extension School (January or September CORe cohorts) or Harvard Summer School (May CORe cohort) and eligible for student... View Details

11 Oct 2006
What Do You Think?

How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

"The only viable long term solution is for people (and their employers) to invest enough over the length of their working life . [It] is the only way in which the dependency ratio can be made irrelevant." Other suggestions... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

10 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

good To encourage more companies to develop solutions that benefit communities, Nagle presents four potential strategies policymakers and organizations should consider: Align the incentives, otherwise known as the “win-win solution.” A lumber company gets a carbon... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Crisis" (February 2018) with Bo Becker. Elisabeth Kempf : Winner of the 2018 Best Paper Award at the Financial Research Association Annual Conference for “Partisan Professionals: Evidence from Credit Rating Analysts” with Margarita... View Details

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Privacy Notice SMS Terms Terms of Use FERPA Community Values & Honor Code Trademark Notice Cookies Harvard Business School Online Privacy Notice If you have questions about this notice, our handling of your... View Details

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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS RESEARCH LINKS SITE CREDITS GEORGES F. DORIOT Introduction EDUCATION Early Years at HBS Educating Leaders INNOVATION & VC Wartime Innovation ARD... View Details

30 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides

transactions. For five months, the bank randomly offered customers on its websites two sales pitches—one that emphasized a credit card’s features and another that also highlighted downsides that would normally only appear in the View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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Harvard Business School

commercial banking, international finance, and credit and operational risk. He served a four-year term on the Board of Directors of the Federal Home Loan Banks. During a successful 14-year career as... View Details

01 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan

that farmers have access to credit lines. However, it's understandable why lenders might hesitate to grant loans to the cheese producers. Trichakis explains that farms are essentially small- and medium-sized enterprises, helmed by farmers... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Food & Beverage

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

rationale for adopting bitcoin, learn about the financial accounting implications or holding cryptocurrencies, and explore what these investments mean for corporate managers in terms of communication and reporting performance to the... View Details

07 Oct 2020
Blog Post

7 Coming Out Stories from the HBS PRIDE Club

Catholic grandmother the truth. She listened carefully. When I finished she embraced me and observed, ‘That must have been very hard for you to share.’ I nodded with relief and realized how little credit I had given her unconditional love... View Details

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