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  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Making Finance Personal

Cook Main article: Where Innovation Rules Necessity may be the mother of invention, but as Scott Cook (MBA 1976) can attest, an unhappy spouse can be a powerful prompter of innovation. Spurred by the complaints of his wife, Signe Ostby (herself an MBA), about the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services
  • January 2018 (Revised February 2018)
  • Case

Michael Belkin: Personal Financing Planning as an Entrepreneur

By: V.G. Narayanan and Shawn O'Brien
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  • Article

The Big Five Personality Traits, Material Values, and Financial Well-being of Self-described Money Managers

By: Grant Edward Donnelly, Ravi Iyer and Ryan Howell
Previous research has linked personality traits, material values, and money management to savings, debt, and compulsive buying. To extend previous research, four online surveys examined the Big Five personality traits and material values of those who manage their money... View Details
Keywords: Values; Personality; Well-being; Personal Characteristics; Values and Beliefs; Personal Finance; Money
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High School Curriculum and Financial Outcomes: The Impact of Mandated Personal Finance and Mathematics Courses

By: Shawn Cole, Anna Paulson and Gauri Kartini Shastry
Financial literacy and cognitive capabilities are convincingly linked to the quality of financial decision-making. Yet, there is little evidence that education intended to improve financial decision-making is successful. Using plausibly exogenous variation in exposure... View Details
Keywords: Financial Literacy; Cognitive Capability; Secondary Education; Personal Finance; Decision Making
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  • 07 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends

Over the last ten years, technology has reduced entire catalogues of consumer goods to devices that fit in the palms of our hands. Phones are smarter, networks are faster, and more people have access to more information than ever before. This democratization of access... View Details
Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

CEO Personality and Firm Policies

By: Ian D. Gow, Steven N. Kaplan, David F. Larcker and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina
Based on two samples of high quality personality data for chief executive officers (CEOs), we use linguistic features extracted from conferences calls and statistical learning techniques to develop a measure of CEO personality in terms of the Big Five traits:... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Personal Characteristics; Management Teams
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  • 9 AM – 9 AM EST, 07 Mar 2018
  • HBS Online

HBX Leading with Finance

Leading with Finance helps you build an intuitive understanding of finance to better communicate with key stakeholders and grow your career. Target audience: HBS alumni and colleagues; recommend to someone from your professional of personal network. Program Dates:... View Details
  • 9 AM – 9 AM EST, 17 Jan 2018
  • HBS Online

HBX Leading with Finance

Leading with Finance helps you build an intuitive understanding of finance to better communicate with key stakeholders and grow your career. Target audience: HBS alumni and colleagues; recommend to someone from your professional of personal network. Program Dates:... View Details
  • 9 AM – 9 AM EDT, 09 May 2018
  • HBS Online

HBX Leading with Finance

Leading with Finance helps you build an intuitive understanding of finance to better communicate with key stakeholders and grow your career. Target audience: HBS alumni and colleagues; recommend to someone from your professional or personal network. Program Dates: May... View Details
  • 2025
  • Working Paper

With a Little Help from My Family: Informal Startup Financing

By: Brian K. Baik, Johan Ludvig S. Karlsen and Katja Kisseleva
Using Norwegian administrative data, we identify family equity investments in startups and examine their effects on investor returns and firm behavior. Informal investors earn lower returns than external individuals, and the firms they back are less likely to secure... View Details
Keywords: Early Stage Finance; Informal Investment; Household Finance; Risk Taking; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurship; Personal Finance; Family and Family Relationships; Business Startups; Investment; Norway
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  • 12 Apr – 24 May 2017
  • HBS Online

HBX Leading with Finance

Leading with Finance helps you build an intuitive understanding of finance to better communicate with key stakeholders and grow your career. Target audience: HBS alumni and colleagues; recommend to someone from your professional or personal network. View Details
  • Fall 2011
  • Article

A Brief Postwar History of U.S. Consumer Finance

By: Gunnar Trumbull and Peter Tufano
In this brief history of U.S. consumer finance since World War II, the sector is defined based on the functions delivered by firms in the form of payments, savings and investing, borrowing, managing risk, and providing advice. Evidence of major trends in consumption,... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Finance; Consumer Credit; U.s. History; Consumer Behavior; Personal Finance; Credit; Trends; History; United States
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    The Wisdom of Finance

    The finance industry is widely thought of as being morally suspect. Even those who work in finance tend to compartmentalize between their personal lives and how they get ahead professionally. Mihir Desai argues that not only is this preconception completely false... View Details
    • September 2010 (Revised December 2010)
    • Case

    Santander Consumer Finance

    By: J. Gunnar Trumbull, Elena Corsi and Andrew Barron
    A Spanish company has to decide if they should expand into the fragmented European consumer finance market and has to make important organizational strategy decisions in the midst of the world economic downturn that followed the 2007 U.S. credit crunch. Since 2002, the... View Details
    Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Financial Markets; International Finance; Personal Finance; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Financial Services Industry; European Union; Spain
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    • 23 Aug 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    CEO Personality and Firm Policies

    Keywords: by Ian D. Gow, Steven N. Kaplan, David F. Larcker, and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina; Financial Services
    • 9 AM – 9 AM EST, 07 Nov 2018

    HBX Leading with Finance

    Gain a deep understanding of the principles of finance a toolkit for making smart financial decisions and the confidence to communicate those decisions to key stakeholders. Program Dates: November 7, 2018 - December 19, 2018 View Details
    • 22 Jan 2020
    • News

    What Are The Best Personal Loans?

    • Program

    Finance for Senior Executives

    Summary When you can speak the language of finance, you have the power to build stronger strategies, expand your influence, and make better business decisions. Finance for Senior Executives delivers a foundation in corporate View Details
    • February 2009
    • Case

    HP: The Computer is Personal Again

    By: Rajiv Lal and Cathy Ross
    In September 2008, Todd Bradley, executive vice president of Hewlett-Packard Company's Personal Systems Group (PSG), gathered his thoughts before a meeting with his top executives and managers for product design and marketing. On the agenda was a discussion of... View Details
    Keywords: Revenue; Product Positioning; Corporate Strategy; Computer Industry; Retail Industry
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    • 9 AM – 9 AM EDT, 12 Sep 2018
    • HBS Online

    HBX Leading with Finance

    Gain a deep understanding of the principles of finance - a toolkit for making smart financial decisions and the confidence to communicate those decisions to key stakeholders. Program Dates: September 12, 2018 - October 24, 2018 View Details