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- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
attributable to comparability. Together, the findings are consistent with mandatory IFRS adoption improving comparability and thus leading to capital market benefits by reducing insiders' ability to exploit private information. Epistemic Contests and the Legitimacy of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Light Probable Futures ProNicaragua Right To Play International Robin Hood Foundation Rocky Mountain Institute Save the Children Sesame Workshop Single Stop Social Finance Special Olympics Teach for America The Boston Foundation The Nature Conservancy The Shed The... View Details
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
power Creation of IMF and World Bank Marshall Plan Cold war begins Influence: Medium-High 50 1950 s 19 Cold war escalates Korean War forces another mobilization effort Influence: High 60 1960 s 19 Cold war... View Details
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Leading Successful Digital Transformation
For more than ten years, I have studied digital strategy and worked with scores of companies around the world on their digital transformation. I have seen first-hand what works and what doesn't. Here are a few highlights. Why digital... View Details
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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Golden Age of Black Business
success within a black economy, which developed in response to the nation's rise of two worlds of race." 4 African Americans who attended HBS during this time went on to make significant contributions in diverse fields and in their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
rural regions, and regulatory uncertainties. “One of the exciting things about Alibaba and Ant Financial is Jack Ma’s vision of financial inclusion across China. So you have rural potato farmers who have really no bank accounts and no... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
market funds, we show that funds with large exposures to risky Eurozone banks suffered significant outflows between June and August 2011. Due to credit market frictions, these outflows have significant spillover effects on other firms:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?
tariffs on Chinese imports? What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below. References: Henry Kissinger, Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy (Penguin Press, 2022) Courtney McBride, “Kissinger Warns Biden Against... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
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McArthur Hall | About
McArthur remained at the School as the George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus and Dean Emeritus. He served in multiple advisory roles in business, government, education, and health care. McArthur was senior advisor to the president of the... View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Jonathan Oakes Nathan Freitas Business Track Runner-Up ONTV brings sustainable creativity to people around the world through the delivery of media distribution and commercialization technologies. Social Enterprise Track, 2006 The Yashmere... View Details
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Lehman Brothers Family Partners | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
While conceding that songwriters and poets can make a strong case for "I love you," economists know that the three little words that really make the world go around are "supply and demand." This familiar marketplace mantra - its symmetry... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 21 May 2024
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A New Chapter
Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one... View Details
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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
The westward expansion of the railroad blazed the trail for transcontinental commerce in the second half of the 19th century. Entrepreneurs and capitalists like F. L. Ames, Jay Gould, J. P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Henry Villard increasingly invested in the... View Details
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
do so. Maybe someone else wants to sell her kidney. Such a law would make her better off. So let's say that selling your kidney was legal, and you don't want to sell yours. But now you go to get a mortgage. The bank says to you, "Ah,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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... View Details
- January 2009
- Supplement
The Tip of the Iceberg: JP Morgan Chase and Bear Stearns (B1)
By: Clayton S. Rose, Daniel Baird Bergstresser and David Lane
Bear Stearns & Co burned through nearly all of its $18 billion in cash reserves during the week of March 10, 2008, and an unprecedented provision of liquidity support from the Federal Reserve on Friday March 13 was insufficient to reverse the decline in Bear's... View Details
Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Capital; Financial Liquidity; Banks and Banking; Governance; Crisis Management; Failure; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Balance and Stability; Valuation; New York (state, US)
Rose, Clayton S., Daniel Baird Bergstresser, and David Lane. "The Tip of the Iceberg: JP Morgan Chase and Bear Stearns (B1)." Harvard Business School Supplement 309-070, January 2009.
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Cotting House | About
century, Cotting family members were instrumental in the construction of landmarks such as Post Office Square and India and Central Wharves, as well as infrastructure projects that led to the development of the city’s Back Bay neighborhood. Cotting began his own career... View Details
- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
the global value chain, and what more might we expect? Laura Alfaro and Ester Faia: In 2012, a survey by the World Economic Forum and [the consulting firm] Accenture, devoted to assess the risk of a disruption in the global supply chain,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne