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- 17 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Going the Distance for Investment Excellence
that, in his own words, was “a bit of a news junkie household.” Surrounded by stacks of publications like The Wall Street Journal, as a teenager he developed a keen understanding of macroeconomic terms—an interest that grew as he later... View Details
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
at Princeton University, the paper analyzes the difficulties of rating structured finance assets and the perils of relying on ratings to determine prices. "We began studying the corporate bond CDO market roughly three years ago and... View Details
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
don't be afraid to scrap your 2019 strategies in 2020. Rembrand M. Koning (@orgRem) is an assistant professor of business administration. Karen Mills: Lift small businesses, support the economy For many Main Street small businesses, the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
worrying about cost overruns, loans called in early by nervous banks, and credit-card debt. The company's woes strained the partnership, which ended in 1990, when Shafir took loans from his two Wall Street banker brothers to buy out... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
No less intense was the off-field rivalry between the world's leading athletic equipment companies. With their dueling events, giveaways, and advertising - and through the on-field heroics of the teams and stars they equip - the companies' ongoing multinational View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
$18.9 billion in 2003, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. From Boston to Silicon Valley, top firms are competing for deals again. And the initial public offering market — the favored exit for venture-capital investors — rallied last... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
they'd like to have some very low-risk assets like cash and fixed income and — rather than worry about the public-equity markets — barbell that with much higher-risk assets, such as private equity, real estate, and hedge funds. How would... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
president of HSA and knew that she wanted to be an entrepreneur. She was offered a deferred admittance to HBS and took a position at Morgan Stanley after graduation. Her two years on Wall Street provided a strong foundation. “It was a... View Details
- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
out, "There is already available in proxy statements what the compensation is. It's supposed to be public knowledge, except few of the public learn of it, and few investors, apparently, get upset." Ravindra Edirisoorlya said that "the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Breath of Life
but brought back from the brink of bankruptcy by its current president David Green (MBA ’91). Explaining that a natural trachea is shaped by its “scaffold” (its framework of cartilage and muscle), the Wall Street Journal (July 8, 2011)... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
You Won't Make It If You Fake It
quickly, until Theranos was challenged by a Wall Street Journal investigation. On the surface, Holmes’ story seemed to be the perfect narrative. The would-be Silicon Valley entrepreneur dropped out of Stanford at the age of 19 to found... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
class, places like Payatas, or the teeming streets of Calcutta, or the favelas of Rio de Janeiro—places where only the entrepreneurial survive—are never far from his mind. According to the World Bank, nearly half the world's... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits
accountability and governance, and development and marketing. Professor Kash Rangan, who cochairs the School’s Social Enterprise Initiative, reviewed his research on nonprofit trends. Professor John Quelch, a marketing expert, focused on... View Details
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
revisit another. But the goal remains the same: Find the option that can set your company on the path to disruptive growth. Customer Diagnostic This diagnostic assesses customers in order to identify "disruptable" market... View Details
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
experience planted a seed for Pomeranz's future research: how to promote financial savings among "microentrepreneurs" such as food cart owners, street vendors, and cosmetics saleswomen, whose income is low and often fluctuates.... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 22 Dec 2016
- Op-Ed
The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth
American in ways that are not only tangible, but also, in fact, consequential. Half of the people who work in America either own or work for a small business. And small businesses have created 60 percent of all net new jobs since 1995. Four million Main View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
some of the world’s biggest money managers, including BlackRock and State Street Global Advisors. Savova is excited to see how expanding the floodlights of transparency could transform pension investing—or even society at large. Savova is... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
residents with tangible results: When a BOS:311 app user posts a photo of a downed tree limb, for example, the responding public works team often adds a photo of the clean street as well as the workers. “It closes the loop,” she says,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”
point to history to make their case. The country's first major financial crisis—the Great Depression—led to the Securities Acts of 1933 and 1934, which effectively regulated the stock market for nearly seventy years, noted Goldschmid.... View Details
Keywords: by Catherine Walsh
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
you think? Share your insights in the comments below. References:Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald, Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People (New York: Delacorte Press, 2013). Jennifer Maloney and Lauren Weber, "Coke’s Elusive Goal: Boosting Its Black... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett