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- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
Author:Sophus A. Reinert Publication:Harvard University Press, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=31289 The Return Experience of Hedge Fund Investors Authors:Ilia... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
clear; 4) Taking the wrong approach to performance assessment. Milestones relevant to each stage of an initiative's development should be established, and key assumptions in the business plan should be linked to the financial forecast; 5) Not knowing how to View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
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Cotting House | About
graduate of Harvard College, Cotting served on the HBS Visiting Committee from 1943 to 1966. In addition to donating the funds to construct Cotting House, he established a permanent charitable trust—one of the largest in the history of... View Details
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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Award from the American Marketing Association for “Adding Bricks to Clicks: Predicting the Patterns of Cross-Channel Elasticities over Time” ( Journal of Marketing , 2012) with Thomas Steenburgh, John Deighton, and Mary Caravella. Julian De Freitas : Recipient of an... View Details
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A Tradition of Philanthropy - Alumni
mutually beneficial ways; and built the case for flexible funding to support innovation. Review the final report highlighting the impact of the Campaign at HBS and beyond. A Campus Built on Philanthropy... View Details
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Arbitrage: Understanding the Low-Volatility Anomaly" (January–February 2011). Malcolm P. Baker : Won the William F. Sharpe Award for Best Paper in 2011 for his paper with Lubomir Litov, Jessica A. Wachter, and Jeffrey Wurgler, “Can Mutual... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
providing the funds to help others make or build something, and it helped me recognize that I wanted to be in a company that produced or manufactured something directly. It also showed me the trials as well as the benefits of a small... View Details
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Industry Information - Alumni
regulated funds globally, including mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), closed-end funds, and unit investment trusts (UITs) in the United States, and similar View Details
- 03 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
Physicians Off the Beaten Path
mutual understanding. I recalled this story while I logged on Zoom to talk to Alexey Youssef (MBA 2022) and Shad Faraz (MBA 2022) about their podcast. Physicians Off the Beaten Path is a podcast that, episode by episode, busts the myth... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people... View Details
- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
Vanguard Group's founder, John Bogle, has been arguing this for years, concluding that mutual funds are more successful when they are not managed.) What are we to do? According to Watts, it may mean... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Connections and Mutual Fund Returns” ( Journal of Political Economy , October 2008). Lauren H. Cohen : Won the 2007 Smith Breeden Distinguished Paper Prize for the Best Paper in the Journal of Finance for... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
a high-quality urban institution, to serving on the Virginia Council of Higher Education, to funding the Batten Center for Entrepreneurship at UVA's Darden School of Business. Batten's biggest challenge these days, he says, is to... View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
pretty exciting to say why the mutual fund industry is terrible, why financial gurus don’t really know anything, and stuff like that, but it also requires a ton of time and energy.” Also different was how... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
importance of spending time with business practitioners However, novelty and relevance need not be mutually exclusive. In “Enhancing the Practical Relevance of Research,” Toffel argues that steering research toward real-world business... View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
networks that have been documented by researchers include mutual learning; enhanced legitimacy and status for the members; economic power; and an enhanced ability to manage uncertainty, she continued. The work of nonprofits is even more... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
15 years old, and his extended family quickly swooped in to seize his assets—a common move known locally as a land grab. Dlodlo’s mother, who was left to raise five children single-handed, fought off her in-laws as long as she could. Eventually, however, she had to... View Details
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Harvard Business School
Partnership into a sustainable and influential social enterprise. She also served as a consultant to such corporations as Abt Associates, Contract Research Corporation, and Urban Systems Research and Engineering. Wiley is currently a director on the boards of the... View Details