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The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management
In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
numbers, industry trends, strategy considerations, shareholder interests, and several other financing options and come up with a plan to save his company. With Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos's recent acquisition of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
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Navigating Success in Volatile Times
that forces us to reinvent ourselves," he said. Throughout the day, panelists shared valuable strategies and lessons from a wide range of career paths and industries. The distinguished list of presenters included Paula Banks (AMP:ISMP... View Details
- 2010
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Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture
By: Laura Alfaro
All managers face a business environment in which international and macroeconomic phenomena matter. International capital flows can significantly affect countries' development efforts and provide clear investment opportunities for businesses. During the 1990s and early... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Capital; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations
Alfaro, Laura. Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2010.
- 01 Dec 2008
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No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
apart, put in little subsets, and sold as a whole variety of different securities. And no one knew what they had. At that point government had stepped aside, had genuflected at the altar of the market as it relates to our housing View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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Alumni Books
requirements with life obligations and to persuade managers to adopt these custom-fit work strategies to improve their bottom line. Telling the stories of people at companies like JetBlue, Ernst & Young, and Best Buy, the authors discuss... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
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America the Difficult
United States. More generally, the presence of highly competitive local firms in the United States undercuts efforts by foreign multinationals that don’t have truly differentiated capabilities. Simply replicating strategies that were... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
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Step Change
working as an economist in the Egyptian Ministry of Finance when the Arab Spring swept through Cairo in 2011. When we met, she was executive director of the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund, a $300 million investment initiative between... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Mar 2014
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Innovation: Crowdfunding College Costs
years, including health care and consumer goods," he says. "If we don't think of new ways to finance and save for school today, we're going to be in a world of hurt 15 years from now." —Julia Hanna View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
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Making History, Starting Over
“it was extremely difficult to make a profit on early-stage investments,” says Cohen. In 1989, he opted for a “balanced” strategy, adding corporate buyouts to the firm’s early-stage investments. It’s a strategy that distinguishes Apax... View Details
- 28 Jan 2016
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A Female Venture Capitalist Shares Her Secrets For Getting Funded
- 22 Nov 2020
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Kazakh Fintech a Pandemic Bright Spot
- 01 Dec 2020
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Well Matched
think everyone’s at a point where we’ve gotten better at communicating and reading people via Zoom. How would you describe your investment strategy at the moment? Broadly speaking, it’s about making everyday life easier for the everyday... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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Good as Our Word
is one of those corners of finance that is very useful to understand, whether or not you work in finance,” he says. In 2008 and 2009, when the field of ratings seemed ripe for upheaval, Becker learned of several planned rating agency... View Details
- 19 Aug 2016
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Lending a Hand to Small Businesses in Emerging Markets
In emerging markets, where traditional credit scores are rare, how can lenders decide who is creditworthy? Just ask, says DJ DiDonna (MBA 2010), cofounder and chief strategy officer of the for-profit Entrepreneurial View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
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HBS Press Books in Brief
what loyalty means or how to build it. Reichheld, author of the 1996 bestseller The Loyalty Effect, outlines six principles of loyalty that can make the Internet a hospitable and highly profitable place for businesses to succeed. 20/20 Foresight: Crafting View Details
- 28 Jul 2021
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Squarely in Their Corner
“personal board of directors,” that includes Sarah Harden (MBA 1999), CEO of the Reese Witherspoon media company Hello Sunshine. The two worked together at Fox Networks Group, where Ahuja helped launch Hulu while Harden served as senior vice president overseeing View Details