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- 01 Dec 1997
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Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
trading has been beneficial. Derivatives serve as a form of sophisticated "adapters," he said, linking economic systems together and helping to bring about a unified world economy. They have also brought about vast reductions in costs by...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
that. They were an extremely sophisticated group who knew about the world, and they really motivated me.” One of only a few African Americans in his class, O’Neal says simply: “Not a lot of people looked like me.” That was also the case...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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Making the Case for Maine: HBS Club and State's CEO Discuss Business Issues
draws for new business, including location, lifestyle, a loyal and dedicated work force, and a sophisticated fiber-optic telecommunications system. It also lays out the problems that new businesses face, such as high taxes and a lack of...
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Janine Brunell Looker
- 01 Mar 2011
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The Path to Economic Revival
becomes more and more problematic. We see the symptoms of decline, which are driven by things like labor arbitrage and industries moving assembly overseas, followed by more and more sophisticated work. The thesis that we advance is that...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
mortgages are now held by institutions with little connection to local communities? It obscured the risk that is inherent in lending and in owning. We have developed such a sophisticated housing-finance system that we were able to layer...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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The Case for Studying Financial History
quantitative approach. There are many admirable things about the way in which finance became more statistically sophisticated over the past twenty or thirty years. But many of the assumptions on which the more elaborate mathematical...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Feedback
sophisticated program, it makes a great deal of sense to expand the international and technological aspects of HBS. My sincerest compliments. —Bill Fotsch (MBA 1983) via alumni.hbs.edu
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- 01 Sep 2005
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Perfection’s Price
emphasize a shopping experience that includes spacious aisles, comfortable seating throughout the store, sophisticated climate control because their customers “tend to get warmer faster,” larger dressing rooms and mirrors, and a sales...
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- 25 Apr 2023
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Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
Clubs News Clubs News In a first-ever result, all of the winners in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition (ANVC) hail from the same HBS class: the MBA Class of 2022. The ANVC finale, held virtually on March 22 and 23, brought eight global regional winners together...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2024
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The Exchange: Chance Encounters
approach.” Other contexts that I’ve been looking at are really established, super high-tech companies. One of them makes the optical solutions that go into the most sophisticated big-chip printers. They have a huge campus, like a...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2017
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In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
(Photograph by Stephen Voss) World Bank VP and Treasurer Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990) has a clear sense of why she likes her job: “You bring very sophisticated finance tools to tackle the world’s most challenging problems.” Originally from...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2016
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In My Humble Opinion: Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978)
art. “Even though you can’t apply sophisticated financial models to it or the complex structures that I learned in Production and Operations Management,” he says, “art is a business.” And Deitch, in his three-plus-decade career as an art...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2015
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Case Study: Bionic Banking
new to the firm: A majority of the team are computer programmers and developers, employing sophisticated algorithms to manage more than $275 million in assets. This active model would pit Alpha Architect against big banks, but with an...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Clicks and Mortar
created in a moment of conversation and connection that wasn’t about ease, speed, and convenience. What are the big questions for legacy retailers trying to find a way forward in this new space? AM: How to remain relevant. Most retailers are now View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
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The Doctor Is In
government's administrative costs for Medicare are only about 5 percent. And I'm not sure that untrained consumers can ever become sophisticated enough to make truly informed choices about their medical needs, a scenario that some tout as...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Case Study: Sweat the Technique
version first. Launch it to test real demand and to better understand usage patterns and segments. If it is successful, raising more capital for developing the digital shouldn’t be a problem. You can then position a more sophisticated...
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Dan Morrell
- 25 Aug 2022
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The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
ready for widespread use is that while the technology is technically transparent, it’s still very opaque for the average consumer, or even for the very sophisticated consumer. This shows up in the extent to which even very View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
healing modalities including becoming a Reiki Master Teacher. Investing for the Smarter Sex: Wealth Building Tips and Secrets Sophisticated Women Know (But Wall Street Won’t Tell You) By Tiffany Kent (MBA 2001) Wealth Engagement LLC...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1997
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"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
for the course was later published, and Paul asked me to become his research assistant. Working with him was critical to me, because he was one of the few economists at the time whose work really integrated sophisticated mathematics and...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Better Hiring Through Brain Science
was already awash with sophisticated algorithms employed to match people with the perfect Amazon purchase, Netflix binge, or Friday night date. Why hadn’t anyone applied these models to match people to their perfect career? MORE Polli...
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Dan Morrell