Financial Product - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Oct 2020
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Exploring Technology and Public Impact Through the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program

impact. Along the way, I’ve been able to develop my understanding through both coursework and extracurricular offerings at Harvard. My background in the tech industry Before HBS, I worked at Google, where I started in the rotational Associate View Details

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Digital Operations - Course Catalog

Career Focus: Designed for students aspiring to leadership roles at the intersection of technology and operations, the course is relevant for careers in operations, consulting, product management, entrepreneurship, and venture capital.... View Details

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

tasks like perfecting their technology, learning how to manufacture it, and financing the needed investments in research, development, and marketing through a combination of product sales and venture funding. And so emerged several... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

05 Apr 2016
First Look

April 5, 2016

start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: you can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small company offers significant financial rewards—as well as personal and professional fulfillment. Leading... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

01 Jun 1998
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Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer

the boundaries in financial services, the two giants have challenged more conventional banking mergers in which organizations merely seek to grow larger while remaining banking concerns." Crozier also sees the current merger trend as... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

13 Mar 2018
First Look

March 13, 2018

hurdle for financing R&D. We decompose the effects of RER changes on productivity growth into these channels and explain regional heterogeneity in the effects of RER changes in terms of differences in export intensity, import... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2014
News

Start Me Up

ball forward every day." Culture "Too many founders get caught up in raising money or getting a product to market, while neglecting culture and cofounder relationships, which are integral to a startup's longevity." Foundation "It's worth... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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Class Profile | MBA

Average GPA (based on US schools that use a 4.0 grading system) Undergraduate Majors Arts / Humanities 5% Business / Commerce 24% Economics 19% Engineering 22% Math / Physical Sciences 18% Social Sciences 12% 5 Years Average Work Experience Pre-MBA Industry Consulting... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)

admire Madam C.J. Walker, an African American woman who became a millionaire by creating and marketing hair products that she couldn’t find for herself.” On corruption: “When you read the press on Nigeria you assume that everybody is... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2010
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Alumni Books

design thinking, rooted in how knowledge advances from inchoate mystery to codification, thereby causing productivity to grow and costs to drop. Martin shows how companies like Procter & Gamble and Cirque du Soleil use design thinking to... View Details

Keywords: mathematics; statistics; Finance

12 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

understand customers and their needs deeply. Develop the ability to respond to this understanding with better-tailored assortments, replenishment of the hits, and timely markdowns on what is left over. Execute well, especially at the stores. Attend to data inaccuracy... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

software, consumer electronics, and pharmaceuticals. Such companies hold many important patents and boast R&D labs that rival facilities at the best universities in the world. They are headquartered in countries with myriad institutions that support innovation:... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

already have products on the market, as does Amgen, where Gordon M. Binder (MBA '62) served as CEO until his retirement last month (he will continue to serve as chairman through December). Amgen's Epogen (a treatment for anemia in kidney... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

01 Jun 2009
News

Inside the Partnership

the 1929 stock market crash revealed disastrous investments made by his superiors, Weinberg, who became head of the firm in 1930, worked tirelessly throughout the Great Depression and World War II to keep the firm alive. At the same time, in service to his country,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

November 1994 (Revised November 1994)
Case

MW Petroleum Corporation (A)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman, Peter Tufano and Barbara Wall

Amoco Corp. is negotiating to sell a wholly-owned subsidiary, MW Petroleum, to Apache Corp. MW owns large reserves of oil and gas comprising many properties at different stages of engineering, development, and production. The proposed acquisition is a large one for... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Business Subsidiaries; Mining; Cash Flow; Stock Options; Financing and Loans; Price; Negotiation; Production; Valuation; Mining Industry

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30 Nov 2018
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What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

13 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

No matter how you slice the numbers, all arrows in biotechnology's financial performance after twenty years are still pointing downward, said HBS professor Gary P. Pisano recently. Despite the great promise of the sector—to improve the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

01 Mar 2007
News

Daniel Vasella

portfolio of product lines, setting Novartis apart from its global competitors. Although initially regarded by critics as too inexperienced to lead a multinational pharmaceutical company, Vasella has triumphed. Three years ago he was... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; multinational pharmaceutical company; prescription drugs; vaccines; Medicare; generics business; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 1997
News

Blockbuster Deals

product markets and increased investment in financial markets by international investors. India, for one, has recently taken steps to facilitate the orderly development of an M&A; market there. With this... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

01 Jan 2005
News

Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975

communities." Today, the WWB network provides financial services in more than forty countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. At the same time, this global organization helps microfinance... View Details

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