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- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
Statistics Trade Credit and Taxes By: Desai, Mihir, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. Abstract—This paper analyzes the extent to which firms use trade credit to reallocate capital in response to tax... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
Security and Exchange Commission mandated that publicly traded companies had to disclose all material information to their investors at the same time. The researchers found that after the introduction of that rule, the return spread of... View Details
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
interface, is poised to take another bite out of the hearts (and profits) of companies from Doubleday to Putnam. "Traditional trade book publishers are scared," says Harvard Business School professor Peter Olson. "The View Details
- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
trade war continues (TonyO), leadership or lack thereof (Harry White), actions by the current US administration to encourage firms to bring jobs home and promulgate “America first” policies (Todd Z.), reduced dependency on foreign oil,... View Details
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
property access, which then lead to the creation of private property rights because that's the only way of solving the problem," he said. Solving the problem by treating water like any other commodity sparked lively discussion. “If the View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
Republican administration of U.S. President George H. W. Bush and the Democratic administration of U.S. President Bill Clinton during its implementation. It created the largest free trade area in the world... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
in Brazil, is the largest grower and processor of sugarcane in the world and the largest sugar and ethanol producer in Brazil; it is also the world's largest exporter of ethanol for vehicle fuels. Rubens... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Starting Now — Bruce Wasserstein (MBA 1971)
In the high-powered, high-stakes world of mergers and acquisitions, Bruce Wasserstein is considered something of a legend. He was the wunderkind who helped make First Boston Corporation a leader in M&A in the early 1980s -- and then shook... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Career to Smile About
Whether jetting around the world or working from Colgate-Palmolive's midtown Manhattan headquarters, Lois Juliber has helped her company become a consumer-products powerhouse that does business in 212 countries and derives 75 percent of... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
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Introduction - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
more than twenty-five years ago to the impact and growth of his groundbreaking work in the current academic and financial communities. The Black-Scholes option pricing model established the everyday use of mathematical models as essential tools in the View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Michael Schrader (MBA 2012) on Finding Entrepreneurial Success with HBS Resources
have the motivation that you are doing something that could be meaningful to the world helps you stick it out through the hard times." A mechanical engineer by trade who had worked in design for Honda... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
When American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center on the bright, sunny morning of September 11, 2001, it set off a chain of dark events that would kill 3,000 people and change... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
1984 Joins Bear Stearns, M&A Managing Director 1988 Named Partner, Gruss Partners 1994 Launches Paulson & Co. 2007 Makes what many call the “greatest trade ever” on subprime mortgage market 2012 Contributes historic donation to Central... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
Panitchpakdi, the next director general of the World Trade Organization and the deputy prime minister of Thailand, discussed the need for managing developing countries’ reactions to rapid and widespread... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
Andrew Miller (MBA 1988), writer and coauthor, Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN Nick Taranto Photo courtesy of Nick Taranto "We will see more investment in the tech-enabled food space. Many investors and entrepreneurs... View Details
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
routine part of most people's lives, there is no doubt that technology—especially Internet technology—is having a huge impact on the financial services industry. With much hype and headlines, Web trading has revolutionized the securities... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
point out that the old players still have a strong competitive advantage. Schwab, for instance, "finds the Merrill Lynches of the world to be much more frightening than the E*Trades," according to McFarlan. Unlike the new online entrants,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
the Modern Administrative State, 1912–1925: Trade Associations, Codes of Fair Competition, and State Building By: Sawyer, Laura Phillips Abstract—From its founding in 1912 through the interwar years, the Chamber's history shows a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
classic trading system of exchange is identified with David Ricardo, the early nineteenth-century economist who first analytically clarified it. Imagine that tribe A is good at both hunting and fishing, but more efficient at hunting.... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
Baker returned to the United States and was involved for many years in a variety of trading activities that took him to some two dozen countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Observing further how corruption could subvert markets... View Details