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Alumni Bulletin Past Issues Select a Year 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 September 2024 Next Level How Sarah Bond (MBA 2006)... View Details
- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
accusations that it claimed to do something but then failed to deliver on it. This charge is called greenwashing when the claims are related to the environment, but similar charges are also being levied at firms that adopt codes of conduct for a range of other... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
their product recommendations in a personalized way,” says Yeomans, who co-authored the article with Jon Kleinberg of Cornell University and Anuj Shah and Sendhil Mullainathan, both of the University of Chicago. “The fact that the market... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others
advancement—especially important in a hot labor market at a time of economic uncertainty. “Your digital network can have lasting implications on how your career progresses, not just over the next year, but over your whole life,” says... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
the COVID-19 pandemic approaches its third exhausting year. Validating someone’s feelings can be as simple as pausing during the day to say, “You seem anxious,” says Zlatev, a professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
but this article shows it has never been true historically. Using longitudinal data on individual firms from the nineteenth century onwards, it reveals evidence of how entrepreneurs and firms with multinational activity faced by market... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
inhabitants of Seoul, a sprawling metropolis packed with boutiques, nightclubs, and skyscrapers. Kim left Korea in 1974, at age 11. Educated in the United States, he returned as COO of Asia-Pacific investment banking at Salomon Smith Barney and in 1998 helped... View Details
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
or local companies. It was also the sheer spread of businesses it owned beyond packaged consumer products, including African trading, plantations, specialty chemicals, paper and packaging, transport, advertising, and market research... View Details
- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
Harvard Business School have as much pain shopping for a new car as the rest of us. For Jill Avery, a senior lecturer in the Marketing Unit, one experience included being ignored by a salesman, who turned repeatedly to her husband to talk... View Details
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
support every low- to moderate-income family, says Tufano. Beyond valuable programs like Social Security, tax breaks for savers, or auto-enrollment initiatives, there are more innovative and exciting projects: Prize-linked savings accounts like the United Kingdom's... View Details
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
show that, even in a world with perfect capital markets and without differences in innate ability, wealthy parents invest, on average, more in their offspring than poorer ones. As a result, persistence of economic status is higher at the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
"bottom-up" forces highlighted in these models and instead reflects more "top-down" interventions. We conclude with a discussion of some of the historical evidence on top-down interventions. Economic Catastrophe Bonds... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
Hervas-Drane Abstract—We analyze the implications of consumer privacy for competition in the marketplace. We consider a market where firms set prices and disclosure levels for consumer information, and consumers observe both before... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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What is an HBS Section? - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
railroads represented a highest percentage of listed stocks and bonds issued on the New York Stock Exchange. The stock market grew from a few shares in the 1830s to hundreds of thousands in 1850 to millions... View Details
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Capital Allocation" (May 2023) with Mancy Luo, Larissa Schäfer, and Margarita Tsoutsoura. Ishita Sen : Received an INQUIRE Europe Research Grant in 2024 for “The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk: Quantities and Asset Prices” with... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
endowment assets for fiscal 2022, net of investment expenses and fees, was -1.8 percent, reflecting significant weakness in the equity and bond markets during the past year caused by persistent inflation and... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment
investment solutions ranging from green bonds and renewable infrastructure to thematic strategies that allow clients to align their capital with specific ESG outcomes. The Sustainable Investing team is responsible for ESG integration in... View Details
- 31 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
When Good Teams Go Bad
go in the varsity boat, just as a business would tap for its frontline team the best available finance or marketing person. But sometimes, as in business, crew coaches find it's preferable to pick someone whose greatest strength is... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons