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Exploring Trade Links in the Interior - A Chronicle of the China Trade
information about the size of the tea crop, sales, and current prices, and were often accompanied by personal letters written by a house partner. Heard & Co. charged commissions for the amount bought and sold and for oversight of the... View Details
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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
examining several options for expansion and growth. International Hopital Universitaire de Mirebalais, Partners in Health in Haiti The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery Teaching Cases, Vol. 1 Robert S. Kaplan, Bipin Mistry and Karla Z.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
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Rebooting Europe
flow of more venture capital to EU startups. (Currently, 70 to 80 percent of EU businesses rely on bank loans for funding, whereas in the United States that number is closer to 30 percent. The fund, according to EU Commission estimates,... View Details
- 16 Jul 2014
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Marketing Obamacare
important first step. But AHCT's executives also knew if they were going to really be effective, they'd have to make it as easy as possible to sign up. The federal law allowed for commissions for brokers who signed up new healthcare... View Details
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Adriana Varella & Nilton Maltz Digital DNA 2005 | About
the “circuits in their lives." Phrases appear in a variety of languages, and they speak to a wide variety of ways in which technology and humanity intersect. Digital DNA was originally commissioned by the city of Palo Alto in the early... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
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Protecting the Power Grid
citizen petition to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). In addition to outlining the threat to spent fuel pools, the petition proposed technical fixes to ensure “walk-away” safety, such as solar panels to power unattended electric... View Details
- 11 May 2016
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World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer
Bank in September 2015, previously serving a five-year term as director-general of Nigeria’s Security and Exchange Commission from 2011 to 2015. An alumni profile of her during that stint details her transformative efforts at the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
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Ex-Con Talks Ethics with HBS Students
dropped out of college and joined a New York securities firm. He saw his sales and commissions rise after he decided to be less than forthcoming about potential drawbacks to the investment ideas he was pitching to customers. Over time,... View Details
- 15 Apr 2011
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Students Hear Wall St. Critics
Phil Angelides, a California state treasurer for eight years, is no stranger to big money and politics. But as chairman of Congress’s Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission looking into the 2008 Wall Street collapse, he was shocked. “I am no... View Details
- 09 Apr 2024
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To Serve and Protect the Markets
Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2004) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2000
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OPM Honors Marty Marshall with Professorship
appreciation." Marshall worked his way through the University of Missouri and was commissioned in the U.S. Navy before matriculating at HBS and joining the faculty in 1949. For two decades he helped shape the Marketing area through his... View Details
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Shaping the Corporate Image | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
business, ideological and commercial interests of the factory owners.” 57 The powerful images commissioned by U.S. Steel document the story of the industrial advances, technological might, and human enterprise entailed in transforming raw... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
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Mead Treadwell
sciences, climate, biology, and human development. While we focus on research goals, our advice is tied to major policy issues as well. For example, the commission advocates ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the... View Details
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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
Securities and Exchange Commission (1934-37), the U.S. Emergency Board, convened to resolve the wage controversy between railroad management and labor during the 1938 railway strike, and; and his work as a special trial examiner for the... View Details
- 12 Nov 2014
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A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform
to credit for working families. For many Republicans, the legislation went too far in providing government guarantees. The good news was that the Commission had demonstrated that bipartisan support was possible. The View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
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Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
competition if they don’t serve customer needs, there’s no higher authority lording over the political system. Though the Federal Election Commission is nominally tasked with ensuring that election and financing rules are followed, the... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
institutions, in chronological order. The first story deals with a policy-making process at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The second deals with an administrative legal proceeding regarding anti-trust enforcement by the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Simone Leigh Sentinel (Mami Wata) 2020-21 | About
art to investigate the intersection of cultures and geographies, and to explore ideas about the female body, race, beauty, and community. Originally commissioned for the exhibition Prospect.5 in New Orleans, Leigh’s 2020-21 bronze... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
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Is the Auction House of the Future Online?
online-only model requires limited physical infrastructure, allowing Paddle8 to expedite sales and charge a commission of 8 to 15 percent, well below some auction houses’ 20 to 25 percent commissions. For Julka, it’s the sharing economy... View Details
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
rates is the highest priority in higher education. A bachelor’s degree may once have been a ticket to the middle class, but that is no longer a sure thing. Analyses by labor economists, as well as a survey commissioned by the Pew Research... View Details