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- June 5, 2015
- Article
How Banking Analysts' Biases Benefit Everyone Except Investors
By: George Serafeim, Joanne Horton and Shan Wu
Keywords: Banking; Sell-side Analysts; Financial Analysis; Financial Analysts; Career Management; Career Advancement; Labor Market; Prejudice and Bias; Investment Banking; Personal Development and Career
Serafeim, George, Joanne Horton, and Shan Wu. "How Banking Analysts' Biases Benefit Everyone Except Investors." Harvard Business Review (website) (June 5, 2015).
- Profile
John Rogers
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? As a non-business person by prior education and work experience and as someone with a specific career interest, I wanted to join a program that would significantly stretch my understanding... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
difficult-to-quantify constructs like meaning-making seem less useful as an analytical construct. Put more crudely, return on investment makes for a more tractable dependent variable than meaning. Q: How do you think leadership matters to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Changing Lives One Computer at a Time
for a new opportunity for alumni to connect with the community. "It's important that we invest in our youth," says Powell, who brought Dell and the middle school together for the innovative collaboration. Making the project easy for... View Details
- Career Coach
Cheryl Rousseau
While a Senior Vice President for global consulting firm Lee Hecht Harrison (LHH), Cheryl was invited to join their International Center for Executive Options (ICEO) practice where she is a Confidential Advisor and Coach to C-Suite and E-Suite executives. In her 15... View Details
- June 2005
- Article
Currency Returns, Intrinsic Value, and Institutional Investor Flows
By: K. A. Froot and T. Ramadorai
Keywords: Currencies; Exchange Rates; Purchasing Power Parity; Real Exchange Rate; Forecasting and Prediction; Behavioral Finance; Investment Return; Market Transactions; Performance Expectations; Personal Characteristics; Asset Pricing; Financial Services Industry
Froot, K. A., and T. Ramadorai. "Currency Returns, Intrinsic Value, and Institutional Investor Flows." Journal of Finance 60, no. 3 (June 2005): 1535–1566. (Revised from NBER Working Paper no. 9101, August 2002 and Harvard Business School Working Paper no. 04-036, December 2003.)
- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
power for more than 20 years). Vallée and Pérignon analyzed how the politicians used the loans—whether they had invested the money in equipment or services for the city, or used the cash to lower taxes for their constituents, or both. It... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
intervention that amounted to less than $10 per person (but at no cost to the farmer). Even more encouraging to Cole was news that another colleague, Harvard economics professor Michael Kremer, had seen similar results in Kenya. “We were... View Details
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
from this short-term fixation. Palepu: Through tax deferments on pension money, society is giving tax breaks so that people can save and invest for the long term. And so one idea that has been proposed is that, because the government is... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- Web
Diversity & Entrepreneurship: Race & Gender Gaps Persist - Race, Gender & Equity
relationships Ability to combine work and personal life Opportunities for career growth However, among tech founders, women are somewhat less satisfied with these aspects of life than are men. How are founders faring with funding? Most... View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
succession planning processes are very important in leveraging great executives and managers. It pays for firms to invest in hiring and developing great managers. Second, a given year’s winning percentage is not affected by the previous... View Details
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Capital IQ | Baker Library
Capital IQ Data on public and private companies, investment firms, capital transactions, and people. Includes S&P RatingsDirect. Read More Data on public and private companies, investment firms, capital... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
of Nepal, who are some of the poorest in the world. CAN was founded by Doug Scott, who in 1975 made the first British ascent of Everest. Petzel met Scott at a Royal Geographic Society event and was inspired to assist the cause. For several years, he made View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
a networking toolkit for career success by offering inspiration, motivation, and practical advice, including real stories from those beginning the networking process, sample résumés and outreach emails, dos and don’ts, and reflection exercises. Built for Growth: How... View Details
- 2008
- Chapter
The Importance of Default Options for Retirement Saving Outcomes: Evidence from the United States
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
This paper summarizes the empirical evidence on how defaults impact retirement savings outcomes. After outlining the salient features of the various sources of retirement income in the U.S., the paper presents the empirical evidence on how defaults impact retirement... View Details
Keywords: Saving; Financial Condition; Retirement; Investment Funds; Microeconomics; Outcome or Result; Government and Politics; Financial Institutions; Macroeconomics; United States
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "The Importance of Default Options for Retirement Saving Outcomes: Evidence from the United States." In Lessons from Pension Reform in the Americas, edited by Stephen J. Kay and Tapen Sinha, 59–87. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
professional and personal involvement as they embark on their post-MBA careers. Aaron Rudenstine (MBA ’09) New York, NY Curbing Corruption I highly commend the editor for publishing “Show Me the Money” and “M.I.A. Boards” in the June... View Details
- Career Coach
Matt Spielman
Teacher’s College and Columbia Business School. As a former nationally recognized collegiate athlete, marathon runner and certified personal trainer, Matt places great importance on taking a holistic approach to empower and enable his... View Details
- Career Coach
Beatriz Delorme
companies and recruiters in Brazil and Latin America more broadly. Bea has experience conducting mock interviews and polishing your personal story. Work Experience: Praxair; BCG; CrossBoundary View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
Financial Services Support Mexico’s Most Underserved Communities
Alvaro Rodriguez-Arregui (MBA 1995), cofounder and managing partner of Ignia, explains how his organization’s impact investing has brought personal finance services to residents of the largest slum in Mexico... View Details
- 02 Dec 2020
- News
Nine Ways to Have a Better 2021
illustrations by Rose Wong Find Your Maximum Sustainable Goodness Invest in the New Abnormal Bounce Back from a Blunder Hit Pause Kill Groupthink Up Your Time Affluence Advance Racial Equity in the Office Embrace the Corona-Blur Take Time... View Details