Borrowing and Debt - Publications - Faculty & Research

Web

Key Metrics | Annual Report 2024

Key Metrics Financials (in millions) 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 Revenues $ 1,098 $ 1,067 $ 966 $ 805 $ 861 Expenses 1,062 1,003 908 779 831 Net Operating Surplus 36 64 58 26 30 Capital Investments 37 31 43 22 43 Building Debt Outstanding 17... View Details

03 Jun 2016
News

Again in a Great City

Above: Cummings in the iconic Fisher Building, known as “Detroit’s largest art object.” Cummings and his partners are redeveloping the 28-story landmark. A trip through downtown Detroit with Peter Cummings (OPM 13, 1988) is part urban... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

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 Sep 2024
News

Basket Chase

providing the equity for the business. Whatever it would’ve been, you would’ve borrowed some money, but you wanted to be primarily family money, your money. RK: That’s right. Yeah, and a small loan from my... View Details

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

01 Dec 2001
News

September 11: A Community Reflects

significant contribution to the relief effort. After committing $10 million in support, Paulson praised the efforts of others. "We owe a huge debt to our firemen, policemen, rescue workers, doctors, nurses, View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

08 Mar 2013
News

The Accidental Innovator

mention for 30 seconds that Greece might have to do an austerity program, and they’ll repeat it 100 times over the next week. Unfortunately, 99 percent of the viewers don’t know what an austerity program is, View Details

Web

Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About

acted courageously to address his country’s debt crisis by raising taxes and cutting spending—never a popular path. And Stephen Schwarzman acted courageously in cofounding... 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

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photography by Chris Churchill

Web

HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

total cost of tuition and course fees for the 10 percent of students with the greatest financial need. Capital Investment (in millions) FY 23 $31 FY 22 $43 FY 21 22 FY 20 43 FY 19 38 IT Investment (in millions, excludes capital expenses)... View Details

Web

HBS - Financials | From the CFO

Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information From the CFO In fiscal 2021, Harvard Business School navigated the operational and financial challenges of the global pandemic by staying true to its... View Details

19 Mar 2015
News

Walter Salmon Remembered

also showed the right path to take. All this he did in a very natural and unassuming way, never making one feel that she had somehow missed the obvious but gently leading into a depth of understanding that no amount of lecturing could... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 1996
News

An Entrepreneurial Journey

It has been said that because of the case method, entrepreneurship has always been at the core of a Harvard Business School education. The case method, after all, teaches students to analyze problems, think creatively, and be alert for... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

Letters

reducing poverty have generally been the same. More aid. More debt relief. More foreign direct investment. And, of late, more free trade. I agree with all of these. However, the greatest contribution Western countries View Details

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

Small businesses and lenders should push President Trump to streamline the current “spaghetti soup” of regulation that is supposed to ensure greater access to capital, transparency, and View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

01 Sep 2020
News

The Devil You Don’t Know

signal to people that there will be demand in the future and things are going to get better. The way to send that signal, in his view, was through deficit spending. If the government borrowed heavily View Details

27 Mar 2019
News

Life Is a Startup

that dream and how you want to go and impact the world, that you go and push to the side initially when you’re coming out of school. Maybe you have student View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Vive la Madeleine!

the potential to write a new chapter, to set an example. But he was also a realist. On that trip to Caen, it became clear that saving the company and the workers’ jobs would require a new factory and new... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

02 Oct 2015
News

The ‘F’ Word

received that they were going to put us in more stores—but still no check. Everyone told us to get a line of credit, but I couldn’t understand why I should have to borrow money and commit personal guarantees... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

01 Dec 2007
News

The Wise Men

In April 2008, the School will mark its Centennial birthday — 100 years of history and achievement. To be sure, that’s an impressive figure, but consider also the combined years at HBS — nearly 160 — of emeriti professors Charlie... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

Publications