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- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
bottom lines, ultimately depressing stock prices. To circumvent this problem, some firms issue "tracking stock," hoping that capital markets will perceive them much like traditional start-up stocks. So when should a company... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
Depression during the financial crisis of 2008, with the failures consisting mostly of community banks. This environment—where troubled local banks appear unable to meet re-emerging small firm credit needs—would be an ideal market for new... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
certainly anticipated something very large because the parallels are not just with the Great Depression but with the financial crisis of 1914, which in many ways was more spectacular. So, this was a case of history informing judgments... View Details
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
an interesting ripple effect for the rest of the management team. In many companies, when the founder-CEO's compensation is below market, it may also depress the compensation of the other team members. An investor who serves on the board... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
dominant architect of the building boom in the early 20th century. But the Depression ended all that. Nothing like 740 or 834 was built for another 75 years. What newer additions to the New York skyline will future generations be... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
for that very reason that she is cutting out intermediaries and may sacrifice some value (and possibly depress the value of other lesser Picassos) in the process: because she is intent on purging herself of painful emotional ties to that... View Details
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources
Williams, Brett. Debt for Sale: A Social History of the Credit Trap (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). Woloson, Wendy A. In Hock: Pawning in America from Independence Through the Great Depression (Chicago: University... View Details
- 09 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Meet The HBS Sound Society
The Chainsmokers, whose song “Roses” recently made it to #8 on the Billboard Top 100. 2016 kicked off with an event featuring Australian touring artist Alison Wonderland and her manager, talking to students about her Red Bull sponsorship and connection with an... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
New Deal. Still, it was an important stepping-stone from the previous generation who did not fathom a role for government in modifying the business cycle at all. Q: What effect did the Great Depression have on the prediction business? A:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
management itself, the times seem ripe for reopening the question of what exactly this institution is for, what functions we as a society want it to perform, and how well it is performing them. Great Depression Rekindles the Drive for... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
state policing powers rather than intrastate trade. Aided by the Great Depression The Fair Trade Act brought businesses to California and led to other states enacting similar legislation. The Great Depression, with its widespread price... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
including Dollar Shave Club, Rent the Runway, and “pay as you fly” insurance for drone flights. Finally, the authors outline the challenges in adopting these new models and offer guidance to overcome them. Spirituality After Harvard: My Path Out of View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
Customer: New Rules for Winning in a Time-Starved, Always-Connected Economy by Adrian C. Ott (MBA ’87) (Harper Business) 101 Things I Learned in Business School by Michael W. Preis (MBA ’72) and Matthew Frederick (Grand Central Publishing) How to Protect Your Life... View Details
- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
others will receive a call the day their efforts are needed. Hussam’s team piloted the study with 300 households last spring, and the preliminary findings were promising. Refugees who worked had significantly lower rates of depression and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 28 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Managing Your Health and the Recruiting Process: Advice from HBS Alumni
Bipolar Disorder and ADHD, Hamilton knew that managing both her hypomanic and depressive episodes would be important, especially during recruiting, to ensure she could both slow herself down to clearly articulate her skills in interviews... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
of HBS alumni. "On the other hand, we have a worldwide agricultural economic depression and a mistrust of the science by some consumers." With so many pressing issues on the agenda, Goldberg is eager to continue to make lasting... View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
Julia Cole, Tina Keshani, and Sophia Richter (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Tina Keshani (MBA 2020), Julia Cole (MBA 2020), and Sophia Richter (MBA 2020) met at Startup Boot Camp in their first year at HBS, they quickly discovered they shared a vision to create a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Web
Shaping the Corporate Image | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
TV Bibliography From the Director Site Credits Visit & Contact Us Special Collections Baker Library Search Search Search U.S. Steel Exhibition Shaping the Corporate Image Shaping the Corporate Image: Header Shaping the Corporate Image Shaping the Corporate Image: Intro... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
tractor-tanker into Marcia Rhodes’s stopped car: horrible medical traumas, an unending financial struggle, a daughter’s deep depression and alienation, and endless battles against insurance companies and an uncaring legal system. Spinoza... View Details
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
hiring, and promoting minority workers, and he hopes the research will spur them to re-evaluate ways of reducing segregation. “These research findings are depressing because we value integration as a social goal,” Koning says. “Americans... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman