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- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
Through the Generations Rodolfo, Marco, and Edoardo De Benedetti had received from their father his controlling shares in COFIDE, a publicly listed holding company that held 45.8% of CIR Group, another... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
Funding Circle, among others. It was a wide circle. These startups are part of a new ecosystem filling the void left by traditional banks that don’t want to lend to small businesses because they are too risky or because interest rates are... View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Holding (BBH) and invest in the former USSR by buying Estonia's biggest brewery, Saku. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710471-PDF-ENG Central Europe after the Crash: Between Europe and the Euro Diego Comin,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Africa Business Conference Creates Ongoing Forum for Change
that evening by Angélique Kidjo, a Benin-born singer whose repertoire ranges from reggae to gospel to Zairean rumba. Frank Savage, CEO of the financial-services company Savage Holdings LLC, delivered the... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
on the Angie’s List “campus”—a collection of buildings the company bought and renovated in Indianapolis— when an employee asks to take a selfie with her. While she has been the name and the face of the View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
Maggie L. Walker
Walker first organized an insurance company within the Order of St. Luke to help curb the problems suffered by many families when their major income-earners passed away. Capitalizing on the success of the insurance company, she went on to... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
A Remarkable Life Story
didn’t help her self-esteem when she fumbled her first cold call. Not one to hold a “pity party,” Lambert joined an effort in 1967 to recruit black students from other schools (the number swelled 450 percent in the Class of 1970) and was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
in the United States. Those profits are now subject to a 35 percent corporate tax rate, but the tax can be totally avoided as long as American corporations hold the profits in their accounts at foreign banks. The current system needs... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
served as assistant to U.S. Transportation Secretaries Drew Lewis and Elizabeth Dole. Christensen holds a BA with highest honors in economics from Brigham Young University and an M.Phil. in economics from Oxford University, where he... View Details
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-048.pdf The Private Equity Advantage: Leveraged Buyout Firms and Relationship Banking Authors:Victoria Ivashina and Anna Kovner Abstract This paper examines the impact of leveraged buyout firms' View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Lehman Brothers Archives | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
widespread distress: Corporate credit quality and growth, says Harvard Business School Professor Victoria Ivashina. “It's only in the US in 2007 and 2008 that we observed the highest fraction of the non-performing loans coming from households.” Debt incurred by View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
reinsurance. During almost four decades in the insurance business as a salesman, entrepreneur, top executive, and industry leader, he established a remarkable record of success while maintaining a sterling reputation for character and integrity. For example, in 1978... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
Do successful firms in different countries share cultural traits? HBS professor Rohit Deshpandé's long-standing interest in this and related research has led him, with Professor John U. Farley of Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School, to examine the forces at work in View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
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Susan Wu
particularly well-equipped to help in 3 areas: 1) understanding a less traditional path in banking, specifically the intersection of banking with governments; 2) big tech recruiting: understanding how to recruit for big tech View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
to clean oil spills Bickley Stevens II (MBA 1969) Stevens Capital Advisors Cambridge, Massachusetts Advisory and investment banking services to clean-technology companies and investors Alexander Taussig (MBA... View Details
Arthur Reynolds
Reynolds shepherded Continental and Commercial through a series of expansionary acquisitions, growing the company into the United States’ third largest commercial bank with resources of $1.1 billion in 1929. View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
"Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment," at the Harvard Business School Möbius Leadership Forum on April 12. Hayes holds the Jacob H. Schiff Chair in Investment Banking at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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William H. Draper, III | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Skip to Main Content HBS Entrepreneurs Collection Profiles About This Collection Contact Us Special Collections Search Paul Baier PurchasingCenter.com/Excara Frank Batten Weather Channel Steven B. Belkin Trans National Group (TNG) Hakeem Belo-Osagie United View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
laundering and illegal flight capital." These are among the most opaque problems the world faces," Baker says. "In this era of globalization, they constitute the biggest loophole in the free-market system." You assert that Western banks... View Details