by Troy Smith - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Jul 2008
Working Paper Summaries

A Replication Study of Alan Blinder’s “How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable?”

Keywords: by Troy Smith & Jan W. Rivkin

Profile

Fred Smith

Fred Smith comes from an impressive of line of entrepreneurs. His grandfather founded what would become the largest tour company in Jamaica. Fred's father created his own tour company, then extended the family's interests into real... View Details

Frederick W. Smith

ever since. Smith has achieved success at FedEx by creating strategic partnerships with merchandisers and by becoming a key player in other unique industries, most notably the... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

Cyrus R. Smith

Praised by his employees at American, Smith led the passenger transport revolution in the airline industry. Under Smith’s guidance, American became the first airline to use the popular DC-3 planes in 1936,... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

01 Oct 2001
News

Q&A: Orin Smith

work was under way to repair damage done by February's 6.8 magnitude earthquake. Despite this activity — to say nothing of the high-octane pace of Starbucks' growth — Smith was calm and seemingly... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

February 1997 (Revised March 1998)
Case

Smith Breeden Associates: The Equity Plus Fund (A)

By: Robert C. Merton and Alberto Moel

In early 1997, Smith Breeden Associates, a money management and consulting firm, was pondering the future of the Equity Plus Fund. The Equity Plus Fund was an S&P enhanced-index fund that tried to outperform the S&P Index by replicating the index using low-cost... View Details

Keywords: Assets; Cash; Financial Markets; Financial Strategy; Mortgages; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Marketing; Performance; Consulting Industry

Citation

Educators

Purchase

20 May 2019
News

What it can mean for Morehouse grads to have loans paid off by Robert Smith

01 Jan 2002
News

Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)

Starbucks the world's fastest- growing global brand. "We're fortunate because coffee and the coffeehouse concept have cross-cultural relevance," Smith observes, predicting that the company will have a presence in fifty countries View Details

24 Apr 2017

Peek Program Chat at Smith

Stop by to learn more about Peek Weekend at HBS, an educational experience designed for college students to increase their knowledge and insight into the MBA degree. This session will be hosted by an HBS... View Details

07 Sep 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Diversification of Chinese Companies: An International Comparison

Keywords: by Joseph P.H. Fan, Jun Huang, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Troy D. Smith & Mengxin Zhao

Web

Adam Smith - Vanderblue Collection | Baker Library

collection was donated by Homer B. Vanderblue, Harvard Business School Professor of Business Economics and Dean of the School of Commerce. Professor Vanderblue was also honorary Curator of Early Economic Literature in Baker Library. The... View Details

2009
Working Paper

Smith and Rawls Share a Room: Stability and Medians

By: Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus and Flip Klijn

We consider one-to-one, one-sided matching (roommate) problems in which agents can either be matched as pairs or remain single. We introduce a so-called bi-choice graph for each pair of stable matchings and characterize its structure. Exploiting this structure we... View Details

Keywords: Fairness; One-Sided Platforms; Two-Sided Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods; Balance and Stability

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07 Mar 2022

HBS College Programs Information Session at Smith College

Do you know where an MBA can take you? HBS offers four programs for college students that could be of interest to you including three preview experiences (Peek, Virtual Venture into Management, and the Summer Venture in Management Program) as well as the 2+2 deferred... View Details

13 Dec 2022
News

The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith

Christine Keung (at podium) and Reginald Smith (both MBA 2020) present recommendations for economic development to the West Virginia State Senate in May 2022. How did you meet? Reggie Smith: "We first met before classes started RC year at... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

Breaking News

Illustration by Dana Smith Illustration by Dana Smith Throughout your work at HBS and HKS, you’ve studied the changing media landscape from... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

28 Feb 2017
Blog Post

Why I Love My Job: Sierra Smith Talks Her Fashion Startup Internship

be the online destination for luxury fashion by emerging designers. I met the founder, Catherine Smith, while she was giving a guest lecture on campus. What attracted me to the opportunity was the chance to be a total utility player. The... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

13 Mar 2019
News

The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)

Taylor Wiegele and Sierra Smith on Shark Tank (photos by ABC) How did you come up with the idea for Zorpads? Sierra Smith: “We started Zorpads as part of a school project for FIELD 3 (which apparently no... View Details

27 Sep 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Salience in Quality Disclosure: Evidence from the U.S. News College Rankings

Keywords: by Michael Luca & Jonathan Smith; Education; Information; Publishing

10 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

who also conducted an earlier study with Smith on college rankings. “The fact that a single widely covered scandal might impact applications as much as a drop in rankings from, say, 6 to 15, sheds light on how students trade off the many... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

17 Dec 2018
Blog Post

Thinking of Joining a Board? Christiana Smith Shi (MBA 1986) Shares Her Experience

interviews with Nomination committee members by phone, then in-person interviews with the CEO and chairman. I didn't know what to expect, so I did tons of reading and research on the company, which helped me engage in good discussions.... View Details

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