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  • 02 May 2008
  • What Do You Think?

What is the Future of State Capitalism?

implications for those in need of capital, particularly if the source of the capital is your strongest economic competitor. For example, the United States, European Union, and South Africa recently have seen several of their very large View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog 3 Technologies that Will Change the World Course Number 1632 Professor of Management Practice Shikhar Ghosh Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits Paper ‘The real problem of humanity is that we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval View Details
  • 17 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 17, 2008

loans to small firms and those with more "soft information"—particularly in states with weak legal enforcement of financial contracts. However, decentralized banks are also more responsive to the competitive environment when... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2016
  • Case

BancoSol and Microfinance in Bolivia

By: Rajiv Lal and Annelena Lobb
BancoSol, a microfinance bank headquartered in La Paz, Bolivia, was forced to adjust its lending strategy and business model because of a regulatory change—60% of the bank's lending portfolio would have to move to the productive sector of the Bolivian economy by 2018,... View Details
Keywords: Microfinance; Banks and Banking; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business Model; Strategy; South America; Bolivia
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  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

The Prophet of Start-Ups

the founder of the modern VC industry, but there’s been remarkably little written about him,” says Josh Lerner, a professor at HBS who specializes in the study of private equity. “He is the first person who basically ran an institutional... View Details
Keywords: Spencer E. Ante; George Doriot; Charles F. Kettering; Lawrence Lowell; F. Warren Hellman; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Labs Enable Large-scale Research

Illustrations from VectorStock.com The Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3) aims to supercharge HBS’s research agenda by applying a lab-based model similar to that used by the scientific community for problem solving,... View Details
  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

Short Takes

HBS professor Michael Beer and Harvard University doctoral candidate Nancy Katz report on a survey of 205 executives from 30 countries in industries such as manufacturing, retail, and financial and professional services. The survey... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
  • August 2009 (Revised March 2011)
  • Case

Shenzhen Development Bank

By: Li Jin, Yuhai Xuan and Xiaobing Bai
Weijian Shan, Managing Partner of Newbridge Capital, faces a tough call in regard to his firm's investment in Shenzhen Development Bank, China's fifteenth-largest commercial bank listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Due to the aggressive lobby of the existing... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Commercial Banking; Investment; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; China
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  • July 2002 (Revised November 2002)
  • Case

Crucial Conversations

By: Thomas J. DeLong and Vineeta Vijayraghavan
Todd McKenna, a third-year associate at an investment banking firm, confronts his boss. His boss had told him he would be the top paid associate at the firm, and McKenna finds out that this isn't true. He approaches his boss to find out why he was lied to. View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Investment Banking; Executive Compensation; Employee Relationship Management; Rank and Position; Banking Industry
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  • 02 Jul 2015
  • Op-Ed

The Future of the Greek Economy

The question is not if, after all the misery, Greece might be better off without the euro (it would not) or if the Eurozone would suffer from financial contagion if it became clear that the common currency is breakable (it would).... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini & George Serafeim; Banking
  • 15 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

significant impact in the structure and interpretation of financial information of banks. This document explains the major changes on bank accounting, their purpose and structure, and discusses their impact on View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Improving the lives of underprivileged children in rural India

groups, has interests in telecom, agribusiness, retail, and financial services. The group’s flagship company, Bharti Airtel, ranks as the world’s fourth-largest mobile operator in terms of subscribers. In 2006, the Bharti Foundation... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Jensen Donates Grant

HBS professor emeritus Michael Jensen, an influential expert in the areas of agency theory, organizational design, and incentives, was awarded the 2009 Morgan Stanley–American Finance Association Award for Excellence in Financial... View Details
Keywords: awards; grants; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

To Educate Leaders Who Make a Difference in the World

mission of the University, and we are a far better institution for it,” Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers observed in his dinner speech. He then declared, “What HBS does in the next twenty years will be more important than... View Details
  • 03 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 3

Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 5 (May 2011) Abstract The financial meltdown made clear that the executives of many major financial institutions were operating with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Real estate: emerging markets

Workspace Introduction. Urban Land Institute
Search the Urban Land Institute collection of research reports for access to their regional Emerging Trends in Real Estate series. The site also allows you to limit your search by... View Details
  • 03 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 3

address poverty and poverty-related social needs. Using a number of illustrative cases, we explore how variation of local institutional mechanisms shapes the local "face of poverty" in different communities and how this relates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Faculty Retirements

Strategy, among other works, and his latest book, Theory of the Firm: Governance, Residual Claims, and Organizational Forms, will be published this year by Harvard University Press. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Financial... View Details
  • 22 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

Publication:Academy of Management Annals Abstract The concept of imprinting has attracted considerable interest in numerous fields-including organizational ecology, institutional theory, network analysis, and career research-and has been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

escalated. A Deloitte survey in 2010 of 131 financial institutions worldwide found that 79 percent had enterprise risk management programs in place or in progress, an increase of 20 percent from just two... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking