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  • 21 May 2019
  • News

Meet The Female Physicist Who Sifts Through Corporate Babble For Trades To Beat The Street

  • 23 May 2018
  • News

Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987

Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1962 Born, Port Arthur, Texas 1984 Earns AB, Economics, Harvard University 1984 Joins Booz Allen Hamilton, Consultant 1987 Earns MBA 1987 Joins Morgan Stanley, Associate 1994 Joins St. View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 22 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 22, 2016

November 2016 Quarterly Journal of Economics Stereotypes By: Bordalo, Pedro, Katherine Baldiga Coffman, Nicola Gennaioli, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—We present a model of stereotypes based on Kahneman and Tversky's representativeness heuristic. A decision maker... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Cotting House | About

Cotting House Cotting Cornerstone Ceremony 1967 Cotting House was made possible by, and is named in honor of, Charles E. Cotting (Harvard 1911). Constructed in 1967 during the tenure of Dean George P. Baker and designed View Details
  • 06 Jun 2016
  • News

Your Investment Tool Is Failing You

  • August 1992 (Revised June 1993)
  • Case

Compania de Telefonos de Chile

By: W. Carl Kester, Enrique Ostale and Charles McHugh La Follette
The newly privatized Chilean telephone company, Compania de Telefonos de Chile (CTC) must raise substantial new funds externally in order to finance its expansion program. This task is complicated by Chile's small, illiquid capital markets and the skeptical view of... View Details
Keywords: Capital Markets; Financing and Loans; Managerial Roles; Privatization; Expansion; Telecommunications Industry; South America; Chile
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  • 19 Mar 2018
  • News

Warren Buffett Is Just an Average Employee

  • 17 Jan 2013
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Social Impact Investing Will Be the New Venture Capital

  • November 2000 (Revised May 2001)
  • Case

State of South Carolina, The

By: Randolph B. Cohen
This case presents the managerial dilemma faced by the treasurer of South Carolina in 1998. Until last year, the South Carolina state pension fund (with over $17 billion in assets) was barred by the state constitution from investing in equities. After the constitution... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Capital Markets; Investment Return; Public Administration Industry; South Carolina
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  • 04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

organs faces widespread disapproval. We survey a representative sample of Americans to assess disapproval for several forms of kidney markets and to understand why individuals disapprove by identifying factors that predict disapproval,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 2000
  • Case

MCI-WorldCom Combination, The (A)

By: Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen
Outlines the accounting decision faced by WorldCom in its acquisition of MCI. Two methods are discussed (purchase and pooling) and students are asked to evaluate which would be more suitable for WorldCom. View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Accounting; Telecommunications Industry
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  • August 1999 (Revised February 2000)
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Cisco Systems, Inc.: Acquisition Integration for Manufacturing (A)

By: Steven C. Wheelwright, Charles A. Holloway, Nicole Tempest and Christian G. Kasper
Describes the procedures and processes used by Cisco Systems in its acquisition of high-technology firms. Its goal is to retain key engineering talent and to leverage existing product development efforts, but to quickly merge acquired companies its own systems and... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Leveraged Buyouts; Acquisition; Integration; Mergers and Acquisitions; Production; Activity Based Costing and Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources; Manufacturing Industry; Technology Industry; England
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  • 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

Lee, Charles M.C., Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Applying a "co-search" algorithm to Internet traffic at the SEC's EDGAR website, we develop a novel method for identifying economically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

of dollars every year. I estimate that liquidation is frequently chosen when a reorganization would have maximized total creditor recovery. I estimate that courts could dramatically improve creditor recovery by assigning liquidations... View Details
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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Robertson : Received the 2023 Charles M. Williams Award for Teaching Excellence. Charlotte L. Robertson : Received the 2023 HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award for exceptional contributions to the experience of the graduating... View Details
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Globalization - Faculty & Research

competition, and earnings management affect mean reversion in accounting return on assets. Using a sample of 48,465 unique firms from 49 countries, we find that accounting returns mean revert faster in countries where there is more product and capital market... View Details
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Events - Private Capital Project

and David Musto (University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business). The General Partner Perspective panel was led by Vikram Gandhi (Harvard Business School) with panelists Sir Ronald Cohen (Global... View Details
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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

offer. Alternative Investments $1,850 Next 5-week session starts June 11th Enroll Now Take your finance knowledge to the next level by learning how to maximize investment portfolio value with alternative investments, including private... View Details
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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

College. Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Lehman Brothers "partners' room," 1957. Courtesy of the Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona. Photo by Dan Weiner; Copyright John Broderick. Aerial view of Pan... View Details
  • 27 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

and SEC oversight than previously suggested. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52776 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Reexamining Staggered Boards and Shareholder Value By: Wang, Charles C.Y., and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne