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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
If you're saving for your child's college education, you're probably putting money in growth funds, hoping that the returns a decade or more down the line will be enough to pay for tuition. But what if your returns fall short? It's a...
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Elizabeth McNair
- 28 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance
agencies have been congratulated, occasionally by one another and themselves, for having "learned" valuable lessons from the emerging market financial crises and their apparent contagious spread; the dangers of embracing hot View Details
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by Rawi Abdelal
- Web
Speculation and Credit - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Vanity and Virtue Misers, Moneylenders, and Thieves Money Devil Biblical and Mythological Scenes Love and Money Politics and War Louis-Philippe Speculation and Credit Bankers, Financiers, and Statesmen Stock...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Happening Fast
the Street’s 24/7 demands. “There is no substitute for hard work,” Erdoes said. “There is a little luck on the way, but there is no substitute for really superhard work, first in, last out.” Erdoes’s investment group has been very successful, and View Details
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
Lal, Rajiv, and Ishan Sachdev Abstract—Mobile money services are being deployed rapidly across emerging markets as a key tool to further the goal of financial inclusion. Financial inclusion, the development...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1999
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Newman's Own Brand of Charity
profits would have to go to charity. "To make money off that would be so tacky," he noted. From the outset, Newman eschewed costly market research and ignored industry wisdom that new product launches...
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- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
stimulated by advocates of agency theory over the past two decades. And it brings to mind the old Milton Friedman axiom that the business of business is to make money (presumably more than the average for the View Details
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by James Heskett
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
lower the better, with the logic being that more money can then go to actual programs. So an organization might report, "We spend 6 percent on fundraising, whereas the industry average is 12 to 14 percent." That's typical, but...
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by Roger Thompson
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
analyze something quickly and figure out what needs to be done." ADVICE TO STUDENTS "Work in a real business for a while, gain some experience and expertise, be patient and pay your dues. And don't worry too much about money on the front...
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Kimball Thomas
In the third grade, Kimball Thomas sold chocolate-chip cookies door-to-door to save money for the bicycle he wanted. In college, his logistical and travel-arrangement skills were put to a higher test: as a White House intern for the...
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- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
having a hard time getting funded. In fact, only 1 percent of venture capital money was invested in companies run by female CEOs in 2010, the most recent year available according to Dow Jones VentureOne. Not only did Dorsen and Dodi see...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- Fast Answer
Resources for Harvard Economics Students
provides asset sizes, fund flows, performance and holdings analysis, particularly in regards to open-end mutual funds. Also Includes data on closed-end funds, equity ownership, exchange traded funds, hedge funds, market indexes, View Details
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Road to the White House 2024, a Private Sector Perspective on Presidential Politics - Course Catalog
Business School graduates are in a unique position to help solve the problem - as candidates for elective office, as private sector leaders who actively contribute time and money to candidates with high integrity and sound policy, and/or...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
enrolled in US colleges and universities. The Question: Confi’s online health resource is marketed directly to students, but the go-to-market strategy for its sexual assault prevention program is less clear. How can Confi break into the...
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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise Q4 - Course Catalog
relevant to companies of all sizes: What does disruptive innovation really mean—and how does it work? How can entrants disrupt market leaders, and what can market leaders do to avoid disruption? Who is our...
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- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
into an underserved market by allowing clients to invest as little as $5,000. Wealthfront doesn’t even charge a fee for assets of less than $10,000—and even after that charges a 0.25 percent fee, as opposed to fees of 2 to 3 percent by...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lack of Energy: The Problem of Human Inertia
of the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets unit. In a democracy of citizens and taxpayers, such dithering largely comes down to a human foible. “When present losses loom larger than future gains,” states Bazerman, “we fail to act in time...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
market is still the most efficient in the world,” he says. “Over the longer term, one can buy and hold investments and be confident that price disparities will smooth out with time and be reflective of real value.” The author and coauthor...
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Garry Emmons
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?
by Harvard Business School professor Forest Reinhardt, considered whether firms should and do engage extensively in CSR. This essay, in other words, considered empirical evidence. Reinhardt found that relatively few firms do engage in real CSR, and those that do can do...
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by Manda Salls
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
with ransomware and needs to spend $5 million on restoration, that’s money that doesn’t go to parks and roads and schools.” “When a small town gets hit with ransomware and needs to spend $5 million on restoration, that’s View Details
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Alexander Gelfand