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- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Publisher's Link: http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470392509.html How to Catch a Tiger: Understanding Putting Performance on the PGA TOUR Authors:Douglas Fearing, Jason Acimovic, and Stephen C. Graves Publication:Journal of View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
term, what was he going to do in the meantime? As he was mulling how to create change without a fortune, he recalled an interview for a hedge fund job early in his career. It was a long and tortuous interview that started at 1 a.m.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 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
- 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 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
childhood paper route. “What I’ve learned is that you don’t have all the answers. You take the info you have within the time frame given, and you make the best decision you can, even if it isn’t always right,” he says. “It’s fun to be in... 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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Profiles - MBA
has given me insight into the worlds of financing and quantitative investment. Professional goals I am interested in merging my background in theoretical physics with the "real" world via cutting-edge industry research, product management... View Details
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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online
arbitrage and strategies. Highlights Long Short Strategy The Pitfalls of TCI's Approach Fundamental vs. Technical vs. Quant Show Hide Details Concepts Beta, Alpha, and the World of Hedge Funds Going to Extremes: Activist Investing at TCI... 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
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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online
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
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity
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 examine intersections between... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
new book, Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads. Employing a wealth of interviews and quantitative data, their book takes the first comprehensive approach in decades to examine the evolving MBA marketplace and its threats... View Details