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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
adopt new technology have been forced by circumstances to change their processes. “Outreach really created the category,” says Melissa Fisher (MBA 1998), who recently joined Outreach as CFO to help manage its rapid growth. She comes to the company from Qualys, a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
hope of digging into Wall Street’s high profit margins. Current robo-advisors focus on passive “buy-and-hold” strategies, selecting a handful of low-cost exchange traded funds (ETFs), investing the funds according to a standard portfolio... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
state-owned land that will be released for development, and the light rail will come in on the other side of those trees.” He turns and points in the heat of an April afternoon, taking in the city as it is now, orienting his vision from every direction. There’s the... View Details
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
former HBS professor who is now dean at the new Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University; and Sakakibara, a former Ministry of Trade and Industry (MITI) official with a doctorate from Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
develop three novel measures of how much of the price impact of their trading different mutual funds internalize. We show that mutual funds that internalize more of their price impact hold larger cash buffers and use these buffers more... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
latter. Richard Vietor In the first decade of the 21st century, two macroeconomic trends have dominated the global economy. First, a huge asymmetry in current account balances evolved, and continues to remain unresolved. The US runs massive deficits on its current... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
experiences with the flat tax. He also gave advice on what he believed the flat tax should be linked with (privatization and access to a free trade area) in order to turn the economy around and make it grow. Jensen: Former Finance... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
Kominers: NFTs go mainstream Last year saw a huge spike in the creation and sale of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), digital ownership records stored on distributed ledgers called blockchains. People bought and traded NFTs of everything from... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
and the founder of the Tang dynasty, Taizong’s chief accomplishments were on the battlefield. He defeated the descendants of Attila the Hun, opened up the Silk Road trading route, created a golden age of prosperity and cosmopolitan... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
influence over so many areas of business and society. "World War II catalyzed mass production techniques, quantitative analysis methods, women in the workplace, and world trade through the Marshall Plan and Japan's economic renaissance,"... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
to the trade group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), only one of 5,000 to 10,000 experimental compounds make it to FDA approval, and just 2 of the 10 that get that approval produce enough revenue to exceed the... View Details
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
a quandary: Should they patent inventions coming out of their manufacturing process development work, should they keep them as trade secrets, or should they publish them so that they would go into the public domain and nobody else could... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
financial institution, but our clients were the heads of equity, the heads of sell-side research, sales and trading in investment banks. So, you have this career, which I really enjoyed. There were a couple of transitional points with the... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
current events really are helping us all see that society is not working for a lot of people. And the question I get a lot is, well, should I go be a product manager at Twitter and really learn some of the skills of the trade first and... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
Lambert wanted to leave behind her agricultural roots. Now, serving as the nexus for a community of farmers, entrepreneurs, investors, and researchers, she feels entirely at home. Work of Art Trading private equity for the arts, Jason... View Details
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
that a monopolistic market maker is able to extract from impatient investors. The mechanism for trade is a limit order, and immediacy is supplied when the limit order is executed. We show that limit orders are American options and their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery | About
England economy, and powerfully shaped Harvard University. Harvard leaders, faculty, staff, and benefactors enslaved people, some of whom labored at the University; accrued wealth through the slave trade and slave labor; and defended the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
Similarly, Prysm’s online courses are designed to help working professionals grasp the business implications of emerging technologies, regardless of sector. If you want to trade in digital assets, for instance, it doesn’t matter whether... View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
integration. The reason is that at low prices, increases in revenue resulting from enhanced productivity are too small to justify the cost, whereas at high prices, the revenue benefit exceeds the cost. Trade policy provides a source of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
briefly discussing how mortgages were structured and traded in the pre-1990 period, it describes subprime mortgage lending, as well as other innovative mortgages issued in the 1990s. It also discusses how these mortgages were packaged... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace