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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
market? How are jobs affected as AI penetrates the workplace? What are the long-term consequences of COVID-19 on the workforce? What is the explanation for America having a record number of job openings and near record-low workforce... View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Investment Consulting Cloaked Trading By: Cohen, Lauren, Dong Lou, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract—Using a novel, proprietary database of micro-level trading activities by asset managers, we show strong evidence... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
patient long-term play, unless, in that ad, there's a very specific call to action like if you call within the next 30 minutes, then you'll get X, right? That doesn't typically tend to happen on Super Bowl. “ when brands don't View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
ground and long-term viewership. As realJoannLyles put it, “YouTube t-h-i-n-k-s it has a suppression problem. Instead, YouTube has a moral problem ” David Wittenberg added, “There's no ‘right answer’ here. No matter what YouTube does or... View Details
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
in Japanese corporate practices plays an important role in this phenomenon. Sometimes justified as an embodiment of Japanese culture, the opacity of Japanese corporations is credited with empowering managers to make long-term business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
dynamic, long-term impacts of bundling on demand. The primary explanation for the profitability of bundling relies on homogenization of consumer valuations for the bundle, allowing the firm to extract more surplus. We find bundling can be... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter An estimated $30 trillion in assets worldwide—including half of all professionally managed assets in Europe—are already evaluated through environmental, social, and governance (ESG) or impact screens, leaving no doubt that... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer In the early 1990s, Geeta Aiyer (MBA 1985) was an analyst and portfolio manager at the United States Trust Company of Boston. Among her investments was Albertsons, a rapidly expanding... View Details
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
When trying to alleviate companies in need, the government should not simply look at sharply lower levels of investments, but evaluate their financial needs using the ‘Groucho Marx’ criterion: companies that are eating up their future and reducing disproportionately... View Details
- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
development challenges facing India and other emerging economies, through impact investing in areas such as affordable housing, financial inclusion, and access to energy. The other is VSG Capital Advisors, an View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 12 Sep 2007
- Op-Ed
Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure
relied on mortgage brokers to find the loans. The brokers made money when borrowers signed on the bottom line—regardless of the long-term prospects of owners' solvency. If the borrower defaulted, the broker bore no responsibility. The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
president and COO. Thain labeled as “nonsense” the frequently heard claim in Washington that executive pay plans, particularly lavish bonuses, spurred the excessive risk-taking that ultimately led to the financial meltdown. He advocates pay plans that reward executives... View Details
- 12 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist
rose from $400 million in 1985 to $60 billion by 2000. Today, thanks to the revival of long-term investments under CEO Omar Ishrak, Medtronic’s shareholder value has risen to $110 billion. The challenge to... View Details
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
managers whose company's stock price is very sensitive to earnings news," Farre-Mensa says. Stein's model suggests that such managers might avoid investing in a long-term profitable project if it meant... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
You Can Bank on This
outlook is murkier, Wall Street's offers aren't so enticing, and the cream of the crop considers offers from other sectors. If 10 percent or fewer of graduating Harvard MBAs opt for careers in financial services, Soifer says that's a View Details
- 16 Feb 2022
- News
Holding Business to Account
returns but who also use the unique access and voice we have as investors to engage management and redirect corporate efforts toward long-term sustainability.” The firm has been active in encouraging companies to be leaders on issues from... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- News
Buffett Protégé Britt Cool to Start Own Firm
Photo via The Wall Street Journal Photo via The Wall Street Journal Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) is leaving Berkshire Hathaway after a decade to start her own investment firm, reports the Wall Street Journal. Britt Cool is currently the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Building a better India through business and philanthropy
Known for understanding opportunities ahead of the curve, Ajay Piramal (AMP 110, 1992) led his family’s business away from textiles to pharmaceuticals in the 1980s. “Our guiding principle has been to build businesses that deliver View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
his insights to set the stage. Senior Lecturer Clayton S. Rose, who for 20 years worked at JP Morgan & Company and headed global investment banking and global equity there, discussed the implications of change in commercial and View Details