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03 Oct 2023
Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

world. You better use it wisely. And the best thing that you can do is to lift people up and bring them together in bonds of happiness and love. And when we met each other and realized that we thought, wow, if we could join up forces... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Staff

21 Nov 2014
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The Decoupling Effect of Digital Disruptors

Keywords: by Thales S. Teixeira & Peter Jamieson

2015
Working Paper

Customers and Investors: A Framework for Understanding Financial Institutions

By: Robert C. Merton and Robert T. Thakor

Financial institutions have both investors and customers. Investors, such as those who invest in stocks and bonds or private/public-sector guarantors of institutions, expect an appropriate risk-adjusted return in exchange for the financing and risk-bearing that they... View Details

Keywords: Financial Institutions

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Jameson gjameson@mba2026.hbs.edu Emma Morgan emorgan@mba2026.hbs.edu Website http://hbsrugby.org Club Email rugby@studentclubs.hbs.edu Social Impact Club Co-Presidents Guillermina Bond gbond@mba2026.hbs.edu Semilore Olatunde... View Details

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About | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

John Hancock’s Bond and Corporate Finance group. Margot Dushin Director of Programs Margot Dushin joined the Social Enterprise Initiative in 1996. Margot plays a principal role in the Social Enterprise Initiative's MBA Program activities,... View Details

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Finance - Faculty & Research

in MBS duration function as large-scale shocks to the quantity of interest rate risk that must be borne by professional bond investors. I develop a simple model in which the risk tolerance of bond investors... View Details

2024
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How Do Global Portfolio Investors Hedge Currency Risk?

By: Robin Greenwood and Alex Cheema-Fox

We use monthly portfolio data from one of the world’s largest custodian banks, with over $40 trillion assets under custody, to study how global portfolio investors hedge foreign exchange risk in their equity and fixed income portfolios over the past 25 years. The data... View Details

Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Investment Funds; Currency; Risk and Uncertainty

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Bloomberg: tickers

How do I type tickers in Bloomberg? Examples: MSFT US [EQUITY] for Microsoft Corp. stock VOD LN [EQUITY] for Vodafone stock GSK 5.375 04/15/34 [CORP] for GlaxsoSmithKline bond Bloomberg tickers include the following: ticker (e.g.,... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details

Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Mar 2024
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In Harmony

States from Seoul at age 12 and returns to his home country in his late 20s, MBA in hand, to help underwrite the sovereign bond offering that will save South Korea from financial ruin. It’s a novel of many elements, somehow managing to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

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entrepreneurial challenges and opportunities. In the process, you'll reunite with classmates and program faculty—and forge new bonds with a diverse group of accomplished alumni from other OPM cohorts. Key Benefits Immersed in intensive... View Details

19 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2022

even in a job you don't love. 9. Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together Rituals—even seemingly silly ones—help employees bond and add meaning to their work, says research by Michael Norton, Francesca Gino, and colleagues.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

10 Dec 2012
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Vulnerable Banks

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood, Augustin Landier & David Thesmar; Banking; Financial Services

01 Sep 2023
News

Solving for Z

in many different ways and in service of many different priorities. Bronstein, for instance, says that Bank of America’s commitment to sustainable finance, such as issuing green bonds that support projects with positive environmental... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

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Measuring Sentiment & Expectations - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

securities. The series takes its highest values in 1988, 1989, 1997, 2004, and was high in 2014 before falling recently. Note: This dataset uses the latest bond issuance data from Mergent via Wharton Research Data Services. There may be... View Details

26 Aug 2019
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Lipstick Tips: How Influencers Are Making Over Beauty Marketing

bonding with these influencers,” Vettese says. “They have regular conversations back and forth, and they think of the influencers as being directly ingrained in their day-to-day lives.” Some of the most popular beauty influencers the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products; Beauty & Cosmetics

14 Mar 2023
In Practice

What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?

rates, but most bank loans are mortgages, which tend to have fixed interest rates, and US Treasury bonds have fixed interest rates, too. Of course, because the interest payments are fixed, the value of these assets is sensitive to changes... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

23 Jan 2023
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After High-Profile Failures, Can Investors Still Trust Credit Ratings?

Credit ratings play an essential role in global finance by assessing whether borrowers can meet their debt obligations. Agency analysts study data from financial statements to make initial assessments about bond issuers, which include... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

23 May 2005
Research & Ideas

What Could Bring Globalization Down?

book about the banker Siegmund Warburg, who was a key proponent of globalization after 1945 and deserves much of the credit for the emergence of the Eurobond market, among other things. More generally, I am continuing to do research on the international View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

24 Jan 2023
Blog Post

Dispelling Myths About HBS Through My Summer Venture in Management Program Experience

SVMP cohort led me to embrace my differences and speak confidently (and humbly) about my accomplishments. Through discussion groups and networking sessions, I formed close bonds with members of my cohort, View Details

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