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- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
examination of how changes in a firm's performance and position are communicated to key external stakeholders in an effort to retain their confidence, while market conditions worsen, the balance sheet deteriorates, and the firm's credibility is challenged by a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2022
- Book
When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career
orchestra as a soloist just within reach. But suddenly, his performance started to worsen. No amount of practice or specialized training helped. In fact, the harder he raged against his decline, the faster it inevitably came. He took a job teaching music and, to View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Allison Hughes
Looking ahead to a career in hedge funds, Hughes is enthusiastic. "Analyzing companies from a qualitative and quantitative perspective is a natural progression from case studies at HBS," she says. She... View Details
Keywords: Charlie Hogg
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- Web
Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
quantitative implications match a range of moments not targeted in the estimation quite well. We then characterize the optimal policy path implied by the model and our estimates. Optimal policy makes heavy use of research subsidies as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
It’s raining in Sarasota. And not a light sprinkle but a proper, Florida drenching, so the outdoor courts at the Pickleball Club’s Lakewood Ranch location are deserted. Inside is a different story. Most of the 12 courts are in play. With four people to a court, all... View Details
- Research Summary
Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920
Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details
Keywords: Commodities; Coffee; Mexico; Foreign Investment; Institutions; Immigration; Developing Agriculture; Development; Export Crop; Emerging Market; Property Rights; Labor History; History; Capital Markets; Business History; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Latin America; Mexico; Central America
- Web
Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online
Alpha, and the World of Hedge Funds Going to Extremes: Activist Investing at TCI Arbitrage and Global Macro Quantitative Hedge Fund Investing Putting It All Together -... View Details
- Fast Answer
What are the best finance interview prep resources?
in the menu bar. Select Banking & Finance. Titles include Vault Guide to Finance Interviews and Vault Guide to Advanced Finance and Quantitative Interviews Street of Walls - Their training courses cover... View Details
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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online
Syllabus 3 Courses (with Exam), 10–17 Weeks Download full syllabus 40 hrs Course – 5 Modules Business Analytics Beginning with basic descriptive statistics and progressing to regression analysis, you’ll implement analytical techniques in Excel and apply fundamental... View Details
- 05 Sep 2014
- News
Keeping Education in Check
David Berman (MBA 1991) is a successful hedge fund manager and a regular commentator on CNBC and Bloomberg TV, who has been deemed “the king of the retail jungle” by Fortune. But none of this, he says, would have been possible without the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- Web
Curriculum - Business & Environment
leadership positions (CEO, CFO, COO, or CMO) in both large and small companies; as strategy consultants or investment bankers who advise companies; or as private equity, public equity, venture capital, or hedge fund investors seeking to... View Details
- 27 May 2022
- Blog Post
Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023
application process was a chance to reflect on my life experiences up to that point and consider seriously what I wanted going forward. Christy Talisse (MBA 2023) Hometown: Visalia, CA Undergraduate university and major: US Naval Academy; View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
as I've aged, I've become much more interested in building successful enterprises than in making money personally. Another change is that when I was starting out, I didn't clearly grasp the difference between being an owner of something and being an employee. I've... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
global hedge fund initially focused on managing his own money. Over the last 15 years, Jakurski and his team have grown the now 80-person firm into one of Brazil's top five independent asset management firms that includes credit and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 24 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions
limited to working at law firms, management consulting firms, investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, venture capital firms, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, the U.S. court system, start-ups and non-profit... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
market was far from welcoming. His dream would, once again, have to be deferred. Instead, Platzer applied his quantitative background at a hedge fund and in other investment management roles. In 2009,... View Details
- 26 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness
Being a young Nigerian female on a highly quantitative desk was already unconventional, but I was also joining the firm with an untraditional background as a liberal arts major with previous experiences in media. Nevertheless, I was still... View Details
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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity
Business Administration Alexandra (Allie) Feldberg is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Feldberg uses qualitative and quantitative methods to... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
LOVE At HBS
apartment, and the other fun experiences we were bound to share as roommates. Although we may not remember everything we’ve learned in class, we’ll always remember the incredible memories we’ve made together at HBS and the love we’ve... View Details