Financing College - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior

Milkman, among others, the group settled on four areas of particular interest to nudge units in the United States and United Kingdom—retirement savings, college enrollment, public health interventions, and energy consumption. They then... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

25 Jun 2020
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Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

organizations that changed people’s lives for the better.” While there, she cofounded local chapters of two nonprofits, in education and healthcare respectively. HOME REGION San Francisco, CA UNDERGRAD EDUCATION Dartmouth College PREVIOUS... View Details

06 Oct 2003
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The Problem with Hedge Funds

Hedge funds sell short. Short selling is always speculation, not investment. The growth of hedge funds thereby injects a much larger speculative element into the market. This makes the market much more dangerous for investors who are trying to View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Introduction

Credits “A river of red ink runs through American history.” — Lendol Calder, Financing the American Dream (2000) There is a myth of a lost golden age of economic virtue. Once upon a time, the story goes, people lived within their means... View Details

16 May 2024
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On the Job

Achievement Award are no different. One spent a summer during college doing hard labor in a lumber mill. Another pumped gas and washed windshields as a teenager. Across a diversity of experiences, one thing is clear: Work does much more... View Details

Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Golden Age of Black Business

Herndon returned to Atlanta to oversee the growth of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company (today the Atlanta Life Financial Group), founded by his father Alonzo. Herndon continued his family's tradition of philanthropy with major financial contributions to the United... View Details

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

consultancy now called Monitor-Deloitte. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School and a director of PVH Corporation, Aera Technology and Helios Consulting, a trustee of Western Governors University and a Senior... View Details

18 May 2023
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India's New Money Managers

finance piece was completely missing," says Gupta. "So for two years, I went to his office and I worked on our personal portfolios." As she pursued finance in college and as a... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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Faculty - Private Capital Project

Faculty Faculty Co-Directors Victoria Ivashina Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration Victoria Ivashina is the Lovett-Learned Chaired Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School. She is a Research Associate at the... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Cars on Time

Individual cases reveal that in Plymouth, as in the rest of the country, borrowers would go to extraordinary lengths to fulfill their contracts, even in the depths of the Great Depression. 23 James Surowiecki, “Masters of Main Street,” The New Yorker , July 12, 2010.... View Details

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

discuss how these findings advance understanding of how organizational structure and corporate leadership interact and of how organizations can more effectively realize the strategic value of corporate social responsibility activities. Article Corporate Social... View Details

16 Oct 2015
Blog Post

HBS and the Arts

would delve into. Art became my portal to everything: history, philosophy, science, far away cultures, and those closer to home. Through the works we studied, framed by our collective perspectives, I was able to explore all facets of the human experience. Between View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit in a Consumer Society

The Rise of Installment Selling Home Finance Cars on Time The Secondary Credit Market The Usurer's Grip Research Links Credits “Beautiful credit, the foundation of modern society!” — Mark Twain, The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day (1873)... View Details

04 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

Islamic finance and an emeritus professor of investment banking at Harvard Business School. Hayes, who continues to travel regularly to Islamic countries for research and consulting, offered advice to HBS students on January 23 as part of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified

Luca, Harvard University Economics Professor Edward L. Glaeser, and HBS doctoral student Hyunjin Kim. The researchers combined data from US Census reports, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Google Street View, and Yelp to explore... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2024
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

secondhand truck and started delivering fuel oil; that was the founding of our company. I felt it was essential to go to college and business school to prepare for the business world. HBS taught me how to stand up for my views, be a good... View Details

01 Jan 2012
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E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974

internships, or other activities that enrich the college experience. The Stamps program requires an investment from the schools involved—they must agree to fund half of the costs. “We don’t believe in just giving away money. We want to... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Case Study: Staking a Claim

Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

01 Sep 2010
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Now Starring: Single Dad

WAND: With Robby, at HBS. Courtesy John Wand John Wand (MBA ’81) was about to enroll in Harvard College when his high-school sweetheart in Boise, Idaho, told him she was pregnant. The couple married and moved to Cambridge, but after a... View Details

Keywords: single parents; fatherhood; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

of 1974, "but we anticipated that the majority of our work would be relatively small-scale and client-oriented. I don't think anyone was ready for the amazing ride we've had." Ready or not, those 1974 classmates who entered the world of View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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