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- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
F. Ward, and Michael I. Norton Publication:Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (forthcoming) Abstract When people are the victims of greed or recipients of generosity, their first impulse is often to pay back that behavior in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
"reserve requirement" to back up supply commitments. Enron had a major advantage over competitors as a middleman between producers and consumers because it operated one of the nation's largest natural gas pipeline networks.... View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
1902. A strictly enforced ban on any player clothing other than white dated back to the 1800s. And, whereas other tournaments referred to their Men’s and Women’s Championships, at Wimbledon, these events were referred to as the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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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 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details
- 20 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think
Think back to recent events when people making unethical decisions grabbed the headlines. How did auditors approve the books of Enron and Lehman Brothers? How did feeder funds sell Bernard Madoff's invesments? We would never act as they... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
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Leadership - Faculty & Research
payments, credit, wealth management, and business payment processing. Ualá’s hypergrowth was driven by a record-breaking $350 million funding round in 2021, enabling it to enter new markets, secure banking licenses, and acquire financial... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
professor Noel Maurer and economic historian Carlos Yu discuss the canal's complicated economic and political history—including the first proposals dating back to 1529, the massive cost overruns associated with digging the canal in the... View Details
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Profiles - MBA
commercializing academic research and securing early stage funding. Through these projects, I engage in the construction of bridging biotech and business and am constantly inspired at conferences by the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
jobs, and people applied for them. For many of us, however, the pandemic has brought back into focus the critical job we “hire” employers to do for us—make progress in our lives and careers—and how divorced that progress has become from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Seth Klarman, MBA 1982
History and Ourselves 2008 Selected lead editor of Graham and Dodd's classic Security Analysis, 6th edition Seth Klarman wrote the book on value investing. Literally. His 1991 Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for... View Details
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
research here , and Jeffrey’s other research here . More Info Loan types and the bank lending channel By: Victoria Ivashina , Luc Laeven & Enrique Moral-Benito MAR 2022 There are four main types of commercial credit: asset-based loans,... View Details
- 05 Jun 2009
- What Do You Think?
What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?
services? The latter grew so rapidly in the U.S. in recent years (with every mortgage backed security and credit default swap transaction counted, resulting in substantial... View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
financing a risky venture. Structured experimentation, popularized by Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup, has been widely embraced as the gold standard for how to approach the commercialization of radical new ideas. From Boston to Beijing to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
first commercial infrastructure for enabling secure commerce on the Internet and provided the software and services that enabled companies like Time Warner and AT&T to offer their services on the Internet.... View Details