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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Piloting new career horizons for women in aviation
speak at schools and career fairs and try to help women get into aviation," she says. "I see a lot of myself in the girls I meet." Eaton also serves on the board of the Eastern Region Helicopter Council and several aviation organizations,...
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- Portrait Project
Thomas Rajan
industry one airline at a time to where value isn't just a fair ticket price or a healthy balance sheet, but where customers and employees are treated with dignity and respect as well. To lift nations to the heights of their economic...
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- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
average in the period 1953-2005, it was particularly high in the early 1980s and negative in the early 2000s. This paper specifies and estimates a model in which the nominal term structure of interest rates is driven by five state...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
That’s not helpful to companies, consumers, or economies. Related Reading: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership? The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed...
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by Willy C. Shih;
Manufacturing;
Auto;
Steel;
Air Transportation;
Technology;
Telecommunications
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997) “Everyone deserves a fair start regardless of their zip code,” says Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997). Reforming that start is what motivates her. “The effects of income disparity start early in our society, and...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Investigation Leads to Sanctions, Recommendations
working with students, faculty, and administrators to establish procedures "for preventing these kinds of situations in the future and for addressing violations of our standards in a fair and prompt manner." He noted that the School has...
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- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
Build a Better a Better World (Or at Least a Better Organization)." Edmondson summarized a line of research in which she and colleagues studied communication within several neonatal intensive care units at hospitals in the United States...
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- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
manufacturing hives and offering village-level demonstrations and training. A social enterprise that has won multiple international awards, Honey Care also provides a guaranteed market at fair trade prices for the honey produced by...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
when single mom Roxanne Quimby met Burt Shavitz, a bearded beekeeper living in a renovated turkey coop in rural Maine. The pair teamed up to sell beeswax candles at craft fairs before branching out into a few personal care products,...
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- Portrait Project
Nick Shurgot
mean that I will work 100 hours per week, it means that I will try not to be complacent or intellectually lazy or feel that I have "done my fair share." It means that I will take every opportunity to teach my children little...
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- Portrait Project
Karina Rodriguez
finest institutions, but I very easily could not have ended up here. Several of my peers growing up were brilliant. Yet somewhere along the path towards our high school diplomas, they fell through the cracks of our public education system. Unfairly, the system...
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- Portrait Project
Craig Maughan
hugs, dirty diapers, squeals, tears, and smiles are teaching me sacrifice, patience, and love. Mostly love. In exchange, I do my best to keep my kids well-fed and pointed in a good direction. I’m not sure it’s a fair exchange; this world...
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- March 2013
- Case
NovaStar Financial: A Short Seller's Battle
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Amy Kaser
The NovaStar case describes the challenges faced by short seller Marc Cohodes of hedge fund Rocker Partners as he tried to expose what he thought was widespread fraud in mortgage lender NovaStar Financial. The case is set in the time period from 2001 to 2007 and tracks...
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Short Selling;
Financial Accounting;
Financial Analysis;
Financial Analysts;
Valuation;
Business Analysis;
Financial Statement Analysis;
Financial Statements;
Securitization;
Securities Analysis;
Fraud;
Accounting Quality;
Accounting Red Flags;
Accounting Restatements;
Hedge Fund;
Hedge Funds;
Accounting Scandal;
Accounting Fraud;
Financial Crisis;
Financial Intermediaries;
Financial Firms;
Corporate Accountability;
Subprime Lending;
Mortgage Lending;
Accounting;
Accrual Accounting;
Fair Value Accounting;
Governance;
Governance Compliance;
Corporate Governance;
Governance Controls;
Financial Services Industry;
United States;
California
Srinivasan, Suraj, and Amy Kaser. "NovaStar Financial: A Short Seller's Battle." Harvard Business School Case 113-120, March 2013.
- Portrait Project
Joel Bryce
spend 70 hours busing across Southern Africa? Fair questions. But. . .I'm afraid I don't have the answers. So go ahead. Cold call me. I'll look like I did on the first day of class. I may stumble over my words and say that it may be the...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
is not just the poor. In Massachusetts, state government discovered that a significant proportion of the uninsured had incomes of $90,000 a year or higher. Health insurance must become mandatory, to make sure that everyone pays their...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Faculty Research Online
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants Because of an organ shortage, thousands of people miss out on needed organ transplants each year. Business researchers at Harvard and MIT are rethinking how kidney transplants are allocated to...
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- Web
Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Slider Selection of springs made by U.S. Steel, American Steel & Wire, Waukegan, Illinois. U.S. Steel Annual Report, 1951. Corporate Reports Collection, Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Douglas A. Fisher. Steel Serves the Nation, 1901-1951: The Fifty Year Story...
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- Web
Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
Philadelphia printers conduct first successful strike for increased wages 1787 United States Constitution adopted 1790 William Pollard is issued the first patent for a machine that roves and spins cotton 1794 Eli Whitney patents gin that...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
She’s Got Your Back
from homeowner hell, and at a fair price? “These are not things we embrace,” says Angie Hicks (MBA 2000), cofounder and chief marketing officer of Angie’s List, an online service that collects verified consumer reviews of service...
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- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-099.pdf Consequences of Voluntary and Mandatory Fair Value Accounting: Evidence Surrounding IFRS Adoption in the EU Real Estate Industry Authors:Karl A. Muller, III, Edward J. Riedl, and Thorsten...
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