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- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
pricing, and that reinsurers' high costs of capital appear to play an important role. Institutional Portfolio Flows and International Investments Authors:K. A. Froot and T. Ramadorai Periodical:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming).... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
head up too high here,” she says. “But if you keep too low of a profile, no one will find you. So I stay in the middle, and I keep on moving.” Japan’s population is aging at an unprecedented speed and exerting tremendous View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 23 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
What are the career opportunities in business and environment? In Summer 2024, over 100 MBA students found internships at the intersection of business and the environment. This post provides a sample of some of the types of companies that students worked at this summer... View Details
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
diversifications are relatively unusual by Western standards, especially into technologies and markets that have relatively high entry barriers and where there is no deep-rooted national technological or scientific foundation. As such Chi... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
stocks: stocks of large, mature, low-volatility, profitable, dividend-paying firms that are neither high growth nor distressed. Variables derived from the yield curve that are already known to predict returns on bonds also predict returns... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Departments | Employment
looking at new ideas and operates in a dynamic environment. Attributes of Successful Staff Members Passion High autonomy Flexible Work well under pressure Diplomatic Interest in and understanding of social... View Details
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
in 2012. However, doing business in emerging markets remains subject to a high degree of "policy risk," namely the risk that a government will discriminatorily change the laws, regulations, or contracts governing an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
'78), the former head of real estate for Fidelity Management & Research Company in Boston who now handles special projects for Fidelity. Real estate syndicators essentially sold tax losses to their well-heeled clients. Savings and loans, desperate for View Details
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
unraveling of social relations, in turn, creates pressures for the state to step in as an economic intermediary. We need to pay more attention to domestic consumer market regulation as a source of national competitiveness. What is... View Details
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
misunderstanding and deceit. If both parties are already familiar to each other, however, face-to-face meetings may not be necessary. And if tensions are already high, then negotiating by phone may be the best choice, so as to reduce the possibility of View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
was a freshman in high school, and so many of us were 14, 15 years old, and that was starting high school. This was the beginning of the new millennium, and that was the beginning. I remember watching Shock... View Details
- 11 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t
research agenda for the future." But the choice to study South Korea first was methodical. The researchers deliberately sought out a country in which the decision to hire a woman would be truly opportunistic-one where there was little to no peer View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
liquidity, and a bustling economy. Early this decade home price appreciation in many markets far exceeded the growth of income, he continued. By 2005 such a high rate of home price appreciation drew ever more investors to the market.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
when they are freed from restraining pre–conceptions and inhibiting circumstances. In the book’s foreword, Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO of Google, notes that in high tech and many other industries today, “the environment is changing so... View Details
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
the discouraging trends she sees are political and religious attacks that stifle science and innovation; growing unease and pressure in the workplace; too few companies recognizing obligations to their communities as well as to their... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
and around Boston. Global Citizen Year Abigail Falik, MBA 2008 Global Citizen Year is building a movement of young Americans who engage in a transformative “bridge year” between high school and college. Global Reference Check Josh Green... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
Turnover in India (revised) Authors: Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani Abstract We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
skills to attract funders for his ships, lifeboats, supplies, and food. He also recognized the importance of assembling a team that could work together and embrace high levels of risk and uncertainty—qualities that proved particularly... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
like high tech or in multinationals—and then how to manage it better. The answers to those "how" questions are the first four sections of the book. Gilbert: The key is that what can be understood as the strategy of a company is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
pressured by higher student acquisition costs amid heightened competition from other online offerings. The School’s annual endowment distribution revenue for fiscal 2023 increased 9 percent year over year to $208 million, or 20 percent of... View Details