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- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
travel reservation systems, payment card systems, marketplaces, rebate services, search engine advertising, and various types of brokers and agencies. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2373671 Search Based Peer Firms:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
competitors in the room. I had reinsurers in the room. We had brokers in the room. We had academics from university in the room—someone from Harvard was there. We had someone from the US Department of Energy. We had someone from the US... View Details
- Profile
Kanwaljit Bakshi
enforcement, to create mechanisms for real-time information sharing—strategically helping them focus on what the UN should be doing about child trafficking. Whether creating resources or creating new laws or just being the broker for... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
employer and employee, Nomad manages the process, from background checks to malpractice insurance to payroll. It charges health care institutions a 15 percent commission for each hire—a transparency unheard of in a sector in which the employment agency typically serves... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
by the Maoists. But the latest one at least seems to be holding up for now. Many peace agreements are brokered by a third country. Is that necessary? Under what conditions is that kind of agreement going to work? The other branch of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
transactions quickly and economically have spurred organizational and strategic transformation. Customers' expectations and demands are escalating, as well. As Schwab's Goldman says, "What people expect and what brokers are willing... View Details
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Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows - MBA
she leveraged her resources to mentor several women of color and expand hiring practices. After HBS, Sabrina hopes to continue this advocacy as an executive leader in corporate philanthropy, brokering partnerships that bring the resources... View Details
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Negotiation and All That Jazz
directly to negotiations," says Wheeler, whose own background is in law and policy analysis. "I'm not speaking metaphorically. By emulating what jazz masters do, we all can become better negotiators." Indeed, the late diplomat Richard Holbrooke—who View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
floor of Merrill Lynch headquarters at Manhattan’s World Financial Center. As president of Merrill’s U.S. Private Client Group, O’Neal oversees sixteen thousand brokers — or financial advisors, as he calls them — in eight hundred branch... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
home mortgages in the 1990s. As recently as 2001, it represented only 2 percent of home purchase originations. In 2005, it represented 20 percent." By now the system promoted and rewarded the selling of mortgages. Mortgage brokers... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
Ltd. (GCS). "There is no way I could have guessed what Kodwo and I would accomplish," says the soft-spoken Richardson, who, along with Mills, became a licensed broker within two months of arriving in Ghana, ultimately trading 20 percent... View Details
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
incentives at each stage of the process. We need to ensure that mortgages are appropriate for the resources of borrowers, and that mortgage brokers have skin in the game when they sell loans. We need to control the conflicts of interest... View Details
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
up similar red flags for financial risk taking, which could trigger greater surveillance. For investment brokers and advisors, certain transactions raise a red flag, but personal character traits do not. Some social psychologists tend to... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes In 2002, Wally Eamer (MBA 1979) took a job that no one really wanted: Trying to broker peace between logging companies, environmentalists, First Nations and the government... View Details
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Dana Hoffmann
provides tenants with the quality of a rental broker but without the exorbitant cost. We decided to pivot and create a tool for consumers, using a platform of qualified tenants. When did you launch Portico? We pivoted to Portico on March... View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
supportive analysis of the impact of the 2011 Japanese tsunami on CDS markets; and (v) a discussion of why the role of dealers as prime brokers does not impact the stylized facts and results presented throughout the paper. Economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
along with the new legal restrictions, New York's top brokers had to decide whether a new system for securities trading was needed and, if so, what it should look like. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
leader in technology,” he says. “Somehow, over the years, we had become the nation’s technology broker to outside companies.” The 2011 shuttering of the shuttle program—and its $600 million per launch costs—left them without a... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
live online webinars-that allowed real estate professionals like brokers and agents to manage and market rental listings, communicate with clients, and complete transaction paperwork (e.g., tenant applications, credit screening, lease... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
address: that salespeople promoted innovations; that they acted as brokers of information; and that their activities "embodied the spirit of capitalism in popular culture." Could you elaborate on the importance of these themes? A: In the... View Details