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- 03 Mar 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?
auditors and audit committees whose mutual survival depends on each other, overly complicated accounting and tax systems, and the nature of the reporting relationships between internal auditors and those responsible for the integrity of...
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- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
wins, but because the average bid is probably the best estimate of actual value, the winner will likely have overpaid. The escalation of commitment is a self-justification story. Even if bidders have perfect information regarding the value of an item to them, if they...
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- 01 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Finding the Confidence to Apply to HBS
Erica Santoni (MBA ‘19) is the co-President of HBS’ largest club – the Women’s Student Association (WSA). Erica is Italian by birth and received her undergraduate degree and Master of Science from Bocconi University in Milan. Prior to HBS, Erica lived in Milan, Paris,...
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Michele Biamonte
J.P.Morgan (Investment Management/Private Banking, Internal Consulting Services, Recruiting/Training/Leadership Development/Program Management); Harvard Business School (MBA Admissions Board Member, Career & Professional Development...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Advancing the Vision for HBS
As chair of The Harvard Business School Campaign, I have seen firsthand its impact on advancing key HBS priorities, including field-based learning, HBX, global research, the Harvard Innovation Labs, and financial aid. The philanthropic View Details
- July 2010 (Revised December 2011)
- Case
Controlling Hot Money
By: Robert C. Pozen
The manager of the Japan Equities Fund is faced with an increase in "hot money" moving quickly in and out of the Fund. This short-term trading is an attempt to take advantage of the difference between the closing times of the Tokyo and New York Stock Exchanges. The CFO...
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Stocks;
International Finance;
Investment Funds;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Market Timing;
Market Transactions;
Financial Services Industry;
New York (city, NY)
Pozen, Robert C. "Controlling Hot Money." Harvard Business School Case 311-022, July 2010. (Revised December 2011.)
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
although structure is undoubtedly an impediment to the process, an even bigger barrier is managers' outdated understanding of strategy. At the heart of the problem is a failure to recognize that although the past three decades have...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
for the challenge of educating and acquiring customers new to making large online purchases. But what the company didn’t expect was the absence of the infrastructure necessary to support e-commerce. Very quickly, Cahuzac realized that the company’s attention and...
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- Profile
Lindsay Steinmetz
Conversations with them reinforced my desire to be in social enterprise, where the complexities of social impact are tackled and debated. It was the energy they brought to public health, international development, education and corporate...
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Nonprofit / Government
- 09 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit
EU regulations were in step with sound international practice. Remainers, on the other hand, have spent little time explaining what the UK can do better within the European Union to address the very real competitiveness challenges Great...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
private equity fund invests in distressed businesses across sub-Saharan Africa, and Dozie soon found himself responsible for a coffee cherry washing station in the volcanic hills of western Rwanda. Up until that point, Dozie’s only sense...
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- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Predicting Financial Market Bubbles and Crises in Real-time
Laureate Eugene Fama that stock markets do not exhibit price bubbles. Greenwood and his colleagues used stock return data gathered from a variety of US industries and a gamut of international stock market sectors. They analyzed 40...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
it’s the birthplace and the namesake of those concrete barriers that line America’s highways, the home of the country’s busiest toll road, and a place where summer nights seem custom-made for cruising to the Shore, or nowhere special,...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
readers weighed in on a question posed by KitNipBox cofounder and CEO Deena Malkina (MBA 2008): How could the monthly subscription service for cat owners erect sustainable barriers to entry to the market and secure a market leadership...
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April White
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
In a new book, Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed the World's Toughest Post-Cold War Conflicts, Harvard Business School professor Michael Watkins dissects the art of give-and-take. This excerpt...
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by Michael Watkins
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
sort of questions did they have? Brunell: Well first, there was a preliminary meeting with the head of the investment agency in Yangon. He told me his objective was to prepare a private sector development transition plan to accelerate and...
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- 08 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Private Equity
our experience tells a different story. Industry leaders who have taken summer interns have typically found it to be a great investment of their time and resources as the internship program allows the firm...
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Venture Capital / Private Equity
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Social Entrepreneurship & Systems Change
about the missions, programs, and finances of more than 1.7 million nonprofit organizations. Foundation Directory Online - information and funding history for 140,000+ foundations, corporations, and federal agencies. Yearbook of View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
more complete idea signals to the buyer that the writer/inventor is confident enough to make a real investment in the idea before trying to sell it. This is especially important for relatively inexperienced sellers, helping them break...
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Making Markets - Course Catalog
environments and remedy market failures by building new platforms and marketplaces from scratch or by redesigning existing ones - or who want to advise or invest in entrepreneurs who pursue such opportunities. Educational Objectives...
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