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- 01 Jun 2010
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Paulson Advocates Regulatory Reform
lot better than the alternative. We would have had a disaster on the order of the Great Depression.” Paulson proposed two key reforms. The first would be the creation of a systemic risk regulator to monitor markets and intervene when any View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Research Brief: Unveiling the Truth about Transparency
Professor Zoë Cullen finds that the long-term effects of pay transparency reverse the winners and losers, with firms benefiting significantly more than workers. “This was one of the most counterintuitive findings I have ever discovered,”...
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Jennifer Myers
- 18 May 2017
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Pioneer Spirit
liquid hydrogen rocket engine that was subsequently used in many of the major space exploration programs, and Fern taught in the first public high school in Palm Beach County to be integrated.” One of the goals the couple had when they moved to Florida was to save...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2024
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Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China
Mexico, among other countries, have seen an increase in their share of American imports. Alfaro compares China’s situation to that of Japan 60 years ago. In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States imposed tariffs on Japanese goods. In response, Japanese View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
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Banking on Africa's Future
Tope Lawani Tope Lawani (MBA 1995) is a man on a mission—make that two missions, actually. The cofounder and managing partner of London-based Helios Investments, Lawani says his firm aims to reward investors with "attractive,...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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On the Outside at HBS
cultural issues. — Debbie Rosenbaum (MBA ’08/JD ’10) is an intellectual property, technology, and Internet attorney with a law firm in Washington, D.C. She also works with entrepreneurs on new-media...
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- 08 Jul 2016
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So Why Don't You Have Your Dream Job Yet?
Big Think, “it's relatively easy to maximize one point on the triangle and it's often okay to maximize the second, but usually the third point slips.” Citrin, partner at executive search firm Spencer Stuart, offers a few potential...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
Harvard Law School professor Howell Jackson (MBA 1980), the elective course attracted 52 students, with one-third coming from the Law School. Tufano recently talked about the course and his determination to...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
juvenile law, however, O'Neill decided that his efforts would be better spent working with kids before they got into trouble. He accepted a position in a corporate law firm in Connecticut in 1984 and began...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2002
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John R. Davis
In many ways, John Davis is a typical businessman. He works long hours, keeps excellent records, and focuses on using resources wisely. He often brings work home, and his trade is ruled by the laws of supply and demand. But Davis, fit and...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Antoinette J. ("Toni") Rapone
Behavioral ecologist Toni Rapone knows that natural selection is the law of the planet. But for the vibrant and down-to-earth MBA-cum-scientist, that knowledge comes from more than textbooks. Rapone, whose given name, Antoinette, honors...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2014
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Research Brief: Capitol Gains
representatives from the 101st to 110th Congresses. After assessing the main purpose of each bill and classifying each according to 49 industry categories, they watched how legislators voted when their home state's GDP was significantly driven by View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
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Strange Bedfellows
firms are well-governed. The actors in various corporate scandals, including Enron, Tyco, and Parmalat, were expert in exploiting the dual-tax system to manufacture accounting earnings. Corporate tax shelters that reduce book income are...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Faculty Books
Talent and the Portability of Performance by Boris Groysberg (Princeton University Press) Many firms try to buy star performers by luring them away from competitors. But after examining the careers of over 1,000 star analysts on Wall...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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MBA vs. MBA
immigrants food stamps, a claim Edwards calls “false, outrageous, and offensive.” Edwards’s approach to curbing illegal immigration is less hard-line and more centrist, seeking more border security (he helped write the law that added...
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- 01 Apr 2000
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Getting the Message
astronomical -- as much as $33 billion worldwide by 2004, according to Forrester Research, a consulting firm specializing in e-commerce. Industry observers are shy to predict just what the future of advertising will look like, but they...
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Susan Young
- 06 Apr 2017
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From Lobster Traps to Border Fencing
A Massachusetts firm that makes wire mesh for lobster traps says its technology could save millions in building the US-Mexico border wall proposed by President Donald Trump. "It's difficult to climb, it's difficult to cut—I think it just...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Washington. With Gratitude: Barker Steel and the People Who Made It Work by Robert B. Brack (OPM 2, 1977) ArchwayPublishing When Robert Brack returned to Barker Steel Co. (the business started by his grandfather in 1920) several years after college, the View Details
- 21 Mar 2019
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Helping Veterans Build Careers
program,” he says, “every $516 places a vet in a job.” Goldenberg’s path to the Endowment began in 2008 when he was working at the consulting firm Frost & Sullivan. As the financial crisis hit that year, he witnessed sailors who were...
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Jill Radsken
- 30 Oct 2017
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Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
Boston Consulting Group, Matt Halprin and Bruce Holley, helped him figure out how to put it together (Halprin is still on MLT’s board). BCG’s analysis showed that, while medical schools and law schools had enrollments consistent with the...
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Constantine von Hoffman