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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
June, HBS hosted over sixty representatives from business, government, and NGOs in September. A final workshop was held in Beijing in November. Barrett cochaired the series with John Ruggie, director of the KSG’s Center for Business and Government, but she View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
need new technology, Perry said—we need to apply capitalism and government regulation to these problems to provide incentives to farmers or convince consumers they should pay for this change either through higher prices or by providing carbon View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
Lab. And that may just be the answer to developing a strong small-business sector in emerging markets. In more developed markets, a bank can make loan decisions based on credit scores, that three-digit distillation of a lifetime of bill...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
differently while pregnant?” The focus is on practical, actionable recommendations. Risks are put into context so women can make their own choices, aware of the trade-offs they’re actually making. Pursuing Other Opportunities: A Corporate...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
Antonio Falato of the Federal Reserve Board, Scharfstein says many traditional banks responded by taking outsized credit risk in an effort to boost short-run performance. “The complex interplay of different...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
launched Tokyo-based Rakuten, a 10,000-person company that began as an online shopping mall and now includes banking, travel, e-book, and credit card divisions. With a market capitalization of approximately $14 billion in fiscal year...
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- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
users’ credit card purchases and then connects users with offsets they can buy to mitigate their footprint. Part of Pal’s motivation for building Joro was that she wanted a tool that would not only allow her to better measure the impact...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
need to design a financial strategy that supports your business strategy. Media General is a real-life example of topics that we cover in our finance curriculum such as valuation, financing, and risk management, and it brings together...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
believe most patients are more knowledgeable about their own health care than they are given credit for. The popular press has done a good job of covering advances in genetic research, and consumers are trying to integrate that...
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- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
continued to connect with one another along the way. Murakami was with OECD Tokyo Center, leading discussions on economic policy issues with government and business leaders in Asia, after 20 years in finance, with stints at Goldman Sachs and View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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Vision: Into the Breach
customers or provide them with credit monitoring and other services; they also may be exposed to potential litigation. “We help you find out what happened and stop the attack. We figure out if you have any legal obligations and pay for...
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Alexander Gelfand
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
boutique investment firm; Bear Stearns; and then Gruss Partners, where he concentrated on risk arbitrage and bankruptcy investing. In 1994, Paulson was ready to return to his entrepreneurial roots and set up his own fund. “Ultimately,...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
financials, people, risk management, opportunity, and context. By afternoon, 28 teams in the business and social venture tracks will be named semifinalists. A later round of judging will narrow the field to nine finalists, with the...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
—Assistant Professor Ethan Bernstein (MBA/JD 2002, DBA 2013) I will give the industry some credit and say that it has come around in the last couple of years. I launched RelayRides in the fall of my first semester at HBS, and it took me a...
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- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
inspired me to reach higher, I don’t think I would have even considered the Ivy League. That’s a trap even the brightest kids in public high school graduates experience even today.” After Penn, Huebner headed to Wall Street for a job at View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
California, Rock became a believer in the group's vision and set out to sell their idea to potential investors. Thirty-five companies turned him down; investing in something at the idea stage was too foreign to them. Eventually, Rock found Sherman Fairchild, an...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
chaos, damage to customer relations, and harm to the brand that swirl around any product recall. Nope. By five o’clock that afternoon, the SmartPak customers who had purchased the batch of the product in question had received either a phone call or an e-mail that...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
different from your competitors for having a slightly better campaign. That’s not to say scrap it, though: They’ll notice if your brand isn’t helping the world become a better place. In short, as my mother would say, you don’t get extra View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
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Higher Returns
employees. So that's on the S side of ESG. G, governance. This is really how a company behaves. What are their standards for leadership? What's the makeup of the board? What are their risk controls, shareholder rights, voting rights,...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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The Exchange: Micro Management
to figure out how to operationalize these insights. We have developed two credit products with Sanghamithra that are based on these ideas, and we’ve just deployed the first few dozen of each of them. The first is a graduation loan. For...
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