securities - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Nov 2020
News

The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises

opportunity to start my own business. I actually wrote the business plan in one of my HBS courses as the final project. I then took this business plan to the bank and was able to secure a loan to start a real estate investment company... View Details

19 Jun 2017
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How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe

country, or I'll go to another team. But I try not to play hardball because I learned early on that's a strategy that doesn't work. What I do play hardball with-- it's not the money but it's certain other provisions. For instance, making sure that she's housed in a... View Details

01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

idea to investors, and by 2014 he had secured the capital necessary to expand Go-Jek rapidly. Almost overnight, Go-Jek overhauled the image of the lowly ojek. Before then price gouging of the uninitiated was rampant, and ojek were... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran

01 Jun 2009
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Letters to the Editor

measures. The election is held, and the union is either accepted or not. Unions are now trying to change the rules, by lobbying for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, under which workplaces would be automatically unionized if union organizers View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

strategies Ashar may pursue to secure and enhance its market position. Discussions emerging from this case study have the potential to illuminate directions for market transformation. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

and investors and borrowers will keep on believing that they've been hoodwinked and fleeced. Moreover, he points out that only a thorough repair of the agencies that handle securities and banking regulation can prevent new crises down the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

military significance of wireless technology, especially at sea. It was essentially the creation of the U.S. Navy and a General Electric executive named Owen Young to serve a combination of commercial and security purposes. RCA was a... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

Issue Focus: Leadership Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Reimagining the MBA Leaders come in all colors, ages, shapes, and sizes, with all manner of skills and temperaments, a variety and diversity seemingly matched only by the real-world challenges they must... View Details

05 Apr 2017
Research & Ideas

For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost

securing a better price for a service should learn to haggle more. Israeli points to research that suggests one reason women have lower salaries than men for similar positions is because they are less likely to negotiate. “What that... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Auto; Service

06 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?

In trying to secure financial backing for a new product, independent innovators generally face the question of how much to invest in development before showing it around. Should they create, say, a working prototype (and maybe even... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Motion Pictures & Video; Entertainment & Recreation; Banking

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable

secured his place in history with the critical Louisiana Purchase, Mukunda argues that "no diplomatic virtuosity or intellectual brilliance was required there is nothing in the events surrounding it that suggests any normal president... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

09 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?

Many corporations have gotten good at pulling the levers of government to tilt the odds in their favor, weakening regulations or securing perks, justified or not, to further their business interests. Economists use the term... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Biotechnology; Agriculture & Agribusiness

12 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch

matters, too. Teixeira now is looking to discover the factors that make the former lead to the latter. "Attention is the biggest bottleneck, and we need to get through it," he says. "But after you've secured attention through good ads,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

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Dana Hoffmann

Before she applied to HBS, Dana Hoffmann seemed to be on a dream career trajectory. With a master’s degree in applied mathematics, she had worked as a financial analyst at Symantec, the Silicon Valley security software giant, and was... View Details

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Marcela Sapone

sending gifts, booking appointments and reorganizing closets. By assuming the time-draining task of finding high quality service providers, Alfred secures the best professionals on a subscriber’s behalf. Sapone tips her cap to Angie’s... View Details

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Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Motor Co. United Fruit Co. Smaller Collections Yousuf Karsh Portraits Margaret Bourke-White Farm Security Administration 1934 Art and Industry Exhibition Early Aviation Electric Railway Jones & Laughlin Steel 19th-Century Boston Portrait... View Details

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Board Diversity: Pressure Leads to Action - Blog: RGE Report

director from a diverse background) Companies also must annually disclose diversity statistics about the composition of their boards on measures including sexual orientation identification, gender, race, and ethnicity. The Securities... View Details

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Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions - Course Catalog

have different allocations and distributive effects. Indeed, rising inequality, the weak labor market performance for workers at the lower end of the skill spectrum, the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-2009, the COVID pandemic, wars, terrorist’ attacks, and View Details

01 Jun 2005
News

Bringing Hope to a Violent Land

despite ongoing violence, in meeting the humanitarian needs of the people in Darfur and in other parts of Sudan, without security we cannot fully carry out our mission and our fundamental programs.” Those programs are low-cost,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; UNICEF; nonprofit; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

Participation of Disability Insurance Applicants By: Shu, Pian Abstract—Using panel data from the RAND Health and Retirement Study, I show that rejected applicants for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) possess significantly more... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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