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- 01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand
to approach business relationships—and life—with an open mind and a readiness to learn from everyone. Lisa Carnoy (MBA 1994), managing director, Bank of America Merrill Lynch New York, New York Courage. Perhaps because we're not as bound...
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- 13 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 13, 2010
education program has modest effects, increasing demand for bank accounts only for those with low levels of education or financial literacy. In contrast, small subsidies greatly increase demand. A follow-up survey confirms these findings,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals
those who were usually called 'raiders' in the eighties - entrepreneurs who were putting their own money and reputations on the line." Jensen believes that most current mergers undertaken to reduce excess capacity and combine related services (such as the recent...
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
The United States has been both credited and criticized for its powerful role in promoting global financial liberalization—the flow of capital across country borders. But research by Harvard Business School Professor Rawi Abdelal has...
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by Ann Cullen
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
interviewed both bankers and managers, owners, entrepreneurs in the post-Soviet economy, in the Russian economy, to understand whether a market for credit was arising endogenously. Russia, at that point, didn’t have many of what we...
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About
failure not as something that weighs them down, but as something that teaches them valuable lessons. Third, they think of their organization ahead of themselves. It is never about them. They are willing to take the blame when things don’t work out—and give View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-030.pdf Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers Authors:Shawn Cole, Martin Kanz, and Leora Klapper Abstract This paper uses a series of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009
in the United States. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709037 Consumer Payment Systems—United States Harvard Business School Case 909-006 In 2008, the U.S. consumer payments landscape was characterized by the ongoing...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Bob Wilson (MBA 1961, DBA 1963) attended high school in Lincoln, Nebraska, going on to Harvard College as a scholarship student. He didn’t love his undergraduate experience, and struggled to find meaning in...
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- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
take advantage of the opportunity, which is consistent with the idea that it is the mere availability of human contact that mitigates anxiety’s deleterious effects. Finally, in a field experiment conducted with a credit union’s...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
from everything—invoice processing to core banking systems to credit card reconciliations, all sorts of manual tasks. A lot of compliance tasks they are doing. But also we have modern companies—Pandora or...
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- 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28
has long been recognized as an engine for economic growth and development. Unlike bank loans, where the entrepreneur receives money and is left alone as long as the payments arrive on the pre-arranged schedule, venture capital investments...
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Carmen Nobel
- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
many high-growth businesses in China, Gome has only moderate financing needs. Its charismatic and ambitious chairman Wong Kwongyu has built an expansive retail network in China and successfully used trade credits by suppliers and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life
afforded Middlebrooks precious peace of mind at work, knowing her children were in a safe, loving, and familiar environment. In addition, she credits husband William, who owns a customer service and training firm, with sharing equally in...
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- 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006
requires upfront capital investments. The more developed the local financial markets, the easier it is for credit constrained entrepreneurs to start their own firms. The increase in the number of varieties of intermediate goods leads to...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
bank teller, and you’re going to a couple of different large banks, right now you’re making that evaluation based on what the starting salary is and maybe some other factors that aren’t necessarily determinative to your career...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
higher education, professional development, and skills training?Welcome to the Managing the Future of Work podcast from Harvard Business School. I’m your host, Bill Kerr. My guest today is Leah Belsky, chief enterprise officer at online learning platform Coursera. Leah...
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