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- 11 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time
balancing act is perhaps too eloquent; it was more like juggling a few bowling balls while climbing up 10 flights of stairs. I would focus 100% on my internship with an LA-based fintech startup during the day, and then 100% on FinGig in... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
impossible for me to answer this question without sounding hyperbolic, but the reality is VR has the potential to dramatically transform how we live, work, and socialize. Today, VR’s consumer experiences are mostly related to games and entertainment, and we’re already... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
act even though he had plenty of levers he could have pulled that didn’t have to do with changing interest rates. He could have raised margin requirements, for example. But instead, he came up with the ridiculously lame idea that bubbles... View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
As an undergraduate at Princeton, Coupounas majored in philosophy and then spent a year at Oxford studying philosophical theology as a Rotary Foundation Graduate Fellow. She also sang and acted in various choral groups and theater... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
company to success. Act from Choice: Simple Tools for Managing Your Habits, Your Emotions and Yourself, to Be How You Mean to Be by Robert Goldmann (MBA 1961) Goldmann describes what we do (the myriad habitual patterns we allow ourselves... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
policy makers can apply these key lessons, many, if not most, of the sagas of waste and disappointment that we have highlighted could be avoided. Entrepreneurs could find a more hospitable climate, and we would all benefit. Barriers to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
Limited Companies Act in order to achieve greater representation of women on corporate boards. According to the amendment, all state-owned companies and public limited companies were required to have at least 40% women on their boards.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
International: The Second Act Harvard Business School Case 209-110 Thomas McDonald, senior vice president of Equity International (EI), is weighing an investment in the Brazilian homebuilder Gafisa. Was this the right country? The right... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
a stake in addressing the needs of end users; a smaller player might not have much freedom to maneuver, but it needs a channel strategy to ensure its financial success and perhaps nudge the powerful players toward stewardship. The examples in this book illustrate View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
party can expropriate a large fraction of the profits before default becomes likely; with high leverage, even small acts of expropriate can cause the project to default and, at least temporarily, cease operations. Because most projects... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
ability to act on ideas using zero-cost trading tools like Robinhood. On the positive side, Cohen notes, meme stocks signal levels of engagement with the stock market that haven’t been seen in decades. But the valuation of meme stocks is... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
end this. And it was just one of those moments that was simply the most amazing act of forgiveness, but also the most amazing piece of music that I've ever heard. And at that moment, that's when we started the Voice Project, to support... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
April 7 was Hong Kong's Financial Secretary and Acting Chief Secretary Donald Tsang, who challenged some myths surrounding Hong Kong's 1997 handover. The word going around, he said, was that the rule of law would no longer prevail in the... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
regulators can figure out what to do. With artificial intelligence, these issues are going to mushroom by several orders of magnitude and be much more serious. If these big companies want to keep going they need to act in a very... View Details
Keywords: Re: Liangzong Ma
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
Charter School Facilities Fund (CACSFF) and Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Canyon Capital Realty Advisors, found himself at a loss for words. Turner was in the midst of raising capital for the CACSFF, a vehicle designed to promote the success and growth of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
so it could charge transaction fees, but they were reluctant to enter what they considered a regulatory minefield. The recently passed JOBS Act was expected to relax constraints around crowdfunding, and Nivi and Ravikant knew that would... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
worthy and also less unethical, and these judgments led them to act more unethically themselves. These vicarious effects were moderated by whether the miscreant was identified with a photograph and by the type of behavior. Psychological... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
behaviors serve as a signal of prosocial identity and that people subsequently behave in line with that self-perception. In contrast, costless prosocial acts do not signal much about one's prosocial identity, so subsequent behavior is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
Levitt on CFTC Chairman Brooksley Born's 1998 efforts to consider regulating the OTC derivative market. It also provides a summary of the aspects of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act that regulate these derivatives. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
corporate governance, such as the presence of engaged independent board members and other measures, is vital for this separation to work well. “But if management is not under shareholders’ control,” continues Viceira, “it may act in its... View Details