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- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
through the business world is a great advantage. The IPO went well? Yes, we raised nearly $190 million, which enabled us to retire debt and go in some new directions. My main challenge now is managing growth... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
they don't contribute. My support for young people cuts across a broad spectrum - from supporting a balanced budget amendment so we won't pass our debt on to them, to things more traditionally thought of as kids' issues: Head Start,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
current account trade deficit for the US followed, with the resulting funds invested by the Chinese government in US Treasury bonds instead of going into increased consumption by Chinese consumers. This depressed global interest rates and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
Bridgespan’s founders readily acknowledge their intellectual debt to the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, an innovator for the past seventeen years in applying business skills to the challenges of running social sector organizations.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
Video Embed Eight months after the levees broke, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra returned to New Orleans to play a concert. They weren’t home yet, though. Their usual venue, the 87-year-old Orpheum Theater downtown, was in ruins, still covered in mud View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
Learning by Doing: Stock Pitching When it comes to getting an edge in a stock trade, HBS finance professors Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy urge students to go straight to the source. “We encourage them to get out in the field View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
to 2.5 million women across the country and launching his own startup, Salud Cercana (Health Near You), to address the issue of heart disease in low-income Mexico communities. One of only a few Mexican physicians with an MBA, Ocejo, 31,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison
very own debtors' prisons. Their task is Sisyphean: they work, pay the monthly debt to the lender, yet see a perpetual gap between payments and value. The payments can seem like an extortion episode from The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
Schwarzman Illustration by Roberto Parada Last year the U.S. private-equity business set a number of impressive records: most money raised at $375 billion, most deals closed at 654, and biggest buyout ever at $38.9 billion. Of all the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Looking back; looking forward
Administration. The faculty — all fifteen of them — had their work cut out: Using classrooms borrowed from Harvard College, they had to determine what to teach and how to teach it. During the early years, we... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
environment. He has written on a broad range of restructuring topics, including corporate bankruptcy and debt workouts, tracking stock, equity spin-offs, corporate downsizing, bank mergers, View Details
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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library
old. Yet credit itself is as old as commerce. The site shows how previous generations devised creative ways of lending and borrowing long before credit cards. The High Art of Photographic Advertising: The... View Details
- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
the Trump Administration authorized $7 billion in disaster loans for small businesses affected by COVID-19. The program helps businesses in states that have declared emergency status borrow as much as much as $2 million View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
can’t yet afford to pay market rates. For some qualifying students, the Rock Loan Forgiveness Program helps reduce their debt burden after graduation. FAST FACTS 45 Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, Rock Executive Fellows, View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
sales. If the economy remains shut for more than a couple of months, the enterprise will not survive. A creative donor rushing in with debt at low rates and a grace period may decide the future access of the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
Gravity, the space thriller released last week, features two of Hollywood's brightest stars: George Clooney and Sandra Bullock. It rocketed to an October record $55 million gross in its opening week, well on its way to returning a profit... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
Borrowing the late HBS professor Ted Levitt's deceptively probing question, the Bulletin recently cold called Brad VanAuken (MBA 1984): "What business are you in?" A brand management and marketing executive... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures
doesn't have a global perspective on access to resources. Its customers include Wal-Mart, Kmart, and Target; it has 60 percent market share in the U.S. But, like many Korean firms, Jinwoong financed itself with lots of View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
practically zero here. One thing to watch for will be how China ensures the stability of its financial system since total debt has reached 250 percent of GDP, credit has been abundant, and the size of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
business idea. Now. Propped up on her elbows and staring at her laptop as ideas furiously dance in her head, she considers all possibilities. What about a monthly subscription box sent to a woman just before her period? Tampons.... View Details