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A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877
personal perspectives of the life and trajectory of a nineteenth—century firm—a firm that prospered at the height of the China trade and met its decline with the advent of new technologies and the emergence of the Chinese as mainstream... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
open up within them, giving companies a powerful mechanism for arbitrage across national financial markets. Managing these internal markets to build an advantage requires that CFOs must balance new financial opportunities with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
and services that supported sales managers, including trade journals and popular magazines about salesmen and sales management. The creation of methods of sales management also opened up new branches of academic inquiry, such as... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 01 Dec 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?
mind in the face of the debate over immigration and outsourcing, essentially trade in labor. And it is prompted by a new book, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World, by Gregory Clark that identifies what he calls... View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
and the United States were both friends and potential foes. In the meantime, Russia's own ambivalent relationship with the United States and its Western allies has worsened. In this context, China and Russia have grown closer. Bilateral ties in the energy View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
one dimension or another—for instance, Dollar General lost its focus on the values in its culture and, as a result, recently had to restate its earnings. It's much easier to be a tumbler than it is to remain a winner. Our research found that less than 5 percent of all... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
online trading platform of Interactive Investor, a London-based financial advisory site. She also spent a summer on Wall Street working for Merrill Lynch in its Financial Institutions M&A group. She began her investment career as an... View Details
- 09 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back
each other’s perspectives. Carving out time to really get to know each other was particularly rewarding. What is your biggest takeaway from the last two years that will help you in your future endeavors?I internalized the difference... View Details
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Events - Business History
Financial Cooperation from International Organizations (1960s-1970s)" 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm. Part of the 2025 Business History Seminar, "Rethinking Entrepreneurial History," co-organized by Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski. Nov 10 10 Nov... View Details
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Morgan Hall | About
philanthropist, art collector, and iconic figure in US business. Morgan began his career in 1857, working in international finance in a firm headed by his father. In 1871, with Anthony Drexel, he cofounded Drexel, Morgan & Company, a... View Details
- 05 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations
also offer other forms of evidence of past success in similar relationships, such as media or trade reports. 3. Make dependence a factor The more dependent you are on someone, the more willing you'll be to trust her. This phenomenon plays... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
non-CEO executives in banks with materialistic CEOs insider trade more aggressively around government intervention during the financial crisis. Finally, we find that banks with materialistic CEOs have significantly more downside tail risk... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
brings together a prestigious group of international experts who were tasked with choosing, introducing, and commenting on seminal texts focused on creativity, invention, genius, and imagination from the period of 1850 to 1950. This... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
conference calls show less trading volume and price movement following the information releases, after controlling for the actual earnings news. Further, the capital market's response to linguistic complexity is more pronounced when there... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
product—micro-cap stock research. The firm has hired a group of five analysts who will produce written research reports on micro-cap stocks, that is, publicly traded stocks with a market capitalization of less than $250 million. Peter... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
remains a significant amount of empirical evidence that trade remains much stronger within countries than across borders (Mayer/Zignago, 2005), even when traditional tariff and non-tariff-barriers have been removed like in the EU's View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
invested in stocks or in a mutual fund, and as stock prices rose so did his or her account, and when they fell, so did his or her account. With hedge funds money is going to be made, and lost, in arcane positions trading with or against... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 06 Jul 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?
trade between nations, but the cost is horrendous I remember reading Thomas Friedman’s book, The World Is Flat, and thinking that it sounded good in theory, but there would be years, if not decades, of employment pain here in the U.S.”... View Details
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
Biases By: Zhang, Ting, and Max Bazerman Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://www.sagepub.com/refbooks/Book235986 Working Papers Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration? Evidence from Trade Policy By: Alfaro, Laura,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne