Personal Finance - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2012
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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

22 Jan 2020
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What Are The Best Personal Loans?

01 Jun 2011
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Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side

passionate he was about HBS. I knew he would bring his customary relish and gusto, but even I was surprised at the enormous energy he put into it. He had a wonderful impact on our alumni and made deep personal connections with them.... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

24 Aug 2018
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Lenders Shunned Risky Personal Loans. Now They’re Competing for Them.

29 Apr 2015
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Using Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks

01 Apr 2001
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Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments

Forget millions; think billions. That’s what HBS associate professor Benjamin C. Esty does in Large-Scale Investment, a new MBA elective course he has developed that examines how companies structure, value, and finance large,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motorola; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance

01 Jun 2017
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Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance

“The author is British, and he and his wife went to live in Provence. The French way of doing things differed from theirs, sometimes in surprising ways, but in the end, the larger humanity in people came out. I’m inspired by the simplicity of his life—and he’s a very... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Elevator Pitch: Banking On It

institutions through self-serve customization, a low-code API builder that allows lenders to integrate partners of their choosing, and personalized agent portals that provide effortless onboarding and department-specific dashboards. The... View Details

Keywords: fintech; finance; entrepreneurship; Finance

01 Jun 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental

new, for big, and that’s what the United States embodied to me.” As a college student majoring in economics and finance at Bentley University, outside Boston, she interned and later worked full-time at Merrill Lynch. “They said,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; investment; exports; infrastructure; life experience; finance; Finance