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- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
close examination and clear explanation of how the process of securitization transformed trillions of dollars of risky assets into securities that many considered to be a safe bet. Authored by HBS professors Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford, with Jakub Jurek (HBS... View Details
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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Effect of Federal Taxes on Growing Enterprises . Study No. 2 focused on Polaroid as representative of the post-war financial issues facing new, expanding firms without large capital resources. Both graduates of Harvard's economics department, John Lintner went on to... View Details
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
are steps that major players working together in metropolitan areas can do to save their cities: When it comes to the elements of soft infrastructure such as education and healthcare, it's essential to create an environment for capital,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
Professor Bill Poorvu recruited him to help manage a $27 million pool of capital in the newly formed Baupost. While the starting salary was an underwhelming $35K, it turned out to be the opportunity of a lifetime. In 26 years, Baupost has... View Details
- 01 Feb 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?
highest. The course orientation fits with popular conceptions of the world of small business, offering visions of highly energized individuals passionate about doing their own thing developing new ideas and creating most of the jobs in an... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
employees is "a competitive world, in which you come to work every day just a little bit scared." Making The Pie Bigger If you're an independent operator and an industry giant like Wal-Mart or... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
vision, guts, and a can-do spirit can transform weak institutions, invent wildly creative contraptions, build fantastic new markets, and conquer distant infidels. American men love the populist guy who stands against dominating institutions, fights for View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
our economy and our global competitiveness? The IS2K presentation "The Impact of Future Telecommunications Infrastructures" offered the two scenarios above, the result of an IEEE-USA/Cornell University... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, strategy firms initiated a growth-driven hiring spree. However, as economies slowed, these firms faced a significant imbalance between their staffing “supply” and the declining demand for their... View Details
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
just a term—you can take it or leave it. But the phenomenon of across-the-table competition, as exists in a negotiation, and also same-side-of- the-table competition, as exists in an auction, is pretty ubiquitous in our increasingly... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
decisions about which extracurricular activities to pursue, which schools to apply to, and which topics to choose for their essays. An Introduction to Real Estate Finance by Edward A. Glickman (MBA 1981) (Academic Press) This textbook for... View Details
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
perspectives, and it's aimed at the general manager. Participants acquire a set of principles and perspectives for looking at the pieces of the supply chain and understanding how to develop an approach or system that enables their supply... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
appear before you today to discuss the accounting and tax treatment of incentive compensation. I am an associate professor of finance at Harvard Business School and a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research.... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
supervisor, peers, and customers. You're constantly fighting fires. You're mired in office politics. You end each day exhausted and discouraged, wondering what, if anything, you've accomplished. You're not alone. As Linda Hill and Kent Lineback reveal in Being the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct By: Egan, Mark, Gregor Matvos, and Amit Seru Abstract—We construct a novel database containing the universe of financial advisers in the United States... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
convenience and efficiency, at a fraction of the cost, made more than a few entrepreneurs on both sides of the Pond sit up and take notice. As cofounder and CEO of e-Dialog, an early entrant in the field of e-mail direct marketing,... View Details
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Bibliography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
And Mark an Era: The Story of the Harvard Business School . Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1958. Full Text Available . Cruikshank, Jeffrey L. A Delicate Experiment: The Harvard Business School 1908-1945 . Boston: Harvard Business... View Details
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
typically build up around a geographic location where natural resources, an appropriately educated labor force, and a university or other research institution co-mingle. In recent years, some economists have argued that manufacturing... View Details