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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library
iconic landscape photographer Ansel Adams. The South Sea Bubble, 1720 Explore one of the most extensive collections in the world relating to the first international stock market crash. An exhibition featuring selections from the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
education may be able to buy a "contract" with a financial institution that will lock in the cost of tuition at today's rates. By making payments to such a contract rather than investing in growth funds, they will be able to avoid the... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Latin American Conference Highlights Region's Diversity
solvent and that a credible monetary policy will emerge, he said. The country also needs international support, but such aid may be hard to come by now. Asked if converting the Argentine money supply into long-term bonds that people don't... View Details
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
organizations had 512 trustees and numerous senior staff. Levy oversees the Lincoln, but has no hiring or firing power within its organizations. Like many nonprofits, Lincoln Center has both thrived and struggled over the years. By the late 1990s, deferred View Details
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
subset of countries. This paper uses a difference-in-difference analysis that compares US equity holdings in affected and unaffected countries. The international investment responses to JGTRRA were... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 7, 2015
Amgen, not least because it contravened Amgen's mission. Internal debate was exacerbated by the presence of considerable uncertainty over the regulatory requirements for BS development and how difficult it would be to develop a BS. Some... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
not just maximize shareholder value but doing good by doing well—how to pursue business that has a social mission at its heart while also generating returns for its investors,” said Mbanusi. Casting a wide net in his applications, Mbanusi says he was drawn to HBS for... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
high impact." After a series of promotions, she became a member of the founding executive team of Apple software spin-off Claris, where, as VP international, she grew international revenue to 50 percent of the business. In 1992 she met... View Details
- 06 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem
the true level of its operating expenses. All the required information was there: It just was ignored by the investment community. The real accounting scandal at Enron had nothing to do with the failure to expense options.—William A.... View Details
Keywords: by William Sahlman
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Lessons from History - Creating Emerging Markets
justice and civil rights? These were among the questions tackled with the future in mind, but with lessons from the past ever-present. View conference clips & discussion questions View resources on indian business history Bringing History into View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
Ickis (MBA 1971, DBA 1978) REISNER: One of the hottest areas of investment growth is in cross-border shipping, but there are two core problems: In an age of terrorism, customs are commercial constraints and also valuable public safety... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 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... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
sector supports, develops, or acquires the most promising low-carbon energy technologies of the future. Ultimately, the companies that are willing to make investments in these technologies will become our next generation of corporate... View Details
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
mortgages, accumulating twice the holdings of more seasoned managers. Moreover, inexperienced managers who personally experienced severe or recent adverse investment outcomes behaved more like seasoned managers. Training and institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-024.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBerkshire Partners: Purchase of Rival Company (A) Harvard Business School Case 208-023 Berkshire Partners, a private equity firm in Boston, was pleased with their recent View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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From the Chief Financial Officer - Annual Report 2020
of fellowships and professorships, income from the internally generated funds invested in the endowment is unrestricted. Given the economic uncertainty and market volatility, we elected to hold our fiscal... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
- 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008
suffering incurred by the affected population. We use a political economy model of disaster prevention, supported by case studies and preliminary empirics to explain why some governments prepare well for disasters and others do not. We show how the presence of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008
financial advisors to make saving and investment decisions. Low literacy and lack of information affect the ability to save and to secure a comfortable retirement; ignorance about basic financial concepts can be linked to lack of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
built international political and military coalitions, and negotiated a U.N. Security Council Resolution authorizing "all necessary means" to eject Iraq from Kuwait. Only after these steps were taken did the Bush administration... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius