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Bloomberg: Investment Management course tips

of hedge funds in Bloomberg? Market Indices How can I find market index prices, members, and movers in Bloomberg? How can I get comparative returns in Bloomberg? Mutual Funds How do I screen for or find performance and rankings of mutual funds in Bloomberg? View Details

08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

product design important, or is manufacturing the key locus of learning? How does a supplier's initial resource endowment play into the dynamic? Our empirical analysis yields interesting findings that have implications for theory and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?

answers depend on the platform. Some products help those who need the most help. Some help only those who have little trouble interacting in the real world anyway. And some platforms offer certain features that help those who need it... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

29 Aug 2024
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A Kick Start for Latin American Startups

supports the real estate industry through a platform that allows brokers to digitize their operations, enabling access to a larger client base and performance data, options that so far have not reached their... View Details

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Fanele Mashwama

Shawn Cole—plus he had an existing network of friends and colleagues in the Boston area—so he felt confident that HBS would be the right fit. “The Business Economics program struck the right balance between background economic theory and... View Details

04 Jun 2013
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spending) are unleashed when givers are aware of their positive impact. In Study 1, an experiment using real charitable appeals, giving more money to charity led to higher levels of happiness only when participants gave to causes that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Feb 2013
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Puzzle of Private Investment in State-Controlled Firms Authors:Pargendler, Mariana, Aldo Musacchio, and Sergio G. Lazzarini Abstract A large legal and economic literature describes how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) suffer from a variety of agency and political... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Do We Tax?

theory recommends substantial "tagging" or tailoring of taxes to personal characteristics (such as height) that are, on average, linked to wages. In the real world, this is seen as a terrible idea, except... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services

28 Apr 2022
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Finding Her Place

certification. Chapman plans to add nursing and entrepreneurship options next. Hudson is also exploring innovations on the fundraising side, such as allowing donors to donate stock or cryptocurrency. “The more we can diversify our View Details

29 Sep 2009
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to make a minimum of 3x on its initial Merlin investment through the dividend recapitalization and at least 5x through the Tussauds acquisition. A third option arose while Blackstone was in negotiation with DIC. This was the opportunity... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Choosing the Right Student Loan | MBA

to their education through a combination of savings and student loans. Borrowing loans can seem daunting, but if you do it wisely, you can minimize the amount you owe and the time it takes to pay them off. There are tons of student loan View Details

01 Dec 2017
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2017 in Media: Courting the Cord-Cutters

services are also helping the established players in the TV industry learn about their customers’ changing viewing habits. Look at CBS’s new Star Trek: Discovery series. A new episode will be released each week. Who will watch it in real... View Details

Keywords: Laura Martin (MBA 1983) , entertainment and internet analyst, Needham & Company

19 Jun 2014
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Turning "Black Gold" to Green

Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated to pull off in the View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

forces have only sometimes been explicitly identified, they underpin every social science theory that argues or assumes the dispensability of individual leaders. The combination of all three forces usually means that individual leaders... View Details

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Ann Chao

to take theory beyond the classroom into a real world setting and make a tangible impact. I felt that an MBA would best equip me with the skills and mindset to do that. I was attracted to HBS in particular... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media

28 Nov 2012
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Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?

compensation at least since proponents of agency theory 25 years ago began advocating the use of stock options in compensation packages. Its use is a source of praise in the evaluation of governance by... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2012
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Alvin Roth Wins Nobel Prize in Economics

kidney exchange system could be created to help match kidney donors with recipients. Al is one of the few economists who can point to real people whose lives have been saved by his work." Roth, who joined the HBS faculty in 1998, also... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies

HBS assistant professor George Chacko, and HBS doctoral candidate Geoffrey Verter that looked at how risk management theory could be applied to understand a biotech firm's decision to buy call options on its... View Details

22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

evaluate their theory by looking at the design evolution of two software product platforms through the modeling lens of design structure matrices (DSMs) and design rule theory. Our analysis shows that DSM models and View Details