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Community Values & Honor Code | HBS Online

crafting a response: “ChatGPT, response to “What is the history of the bond market?” OpenAI, February 8, 2023.” o Quoting material from a company website: Walt Disney Company, “Company Overview,” http://corporate.disney.go.com/... View Details

01 Mar 2017
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In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)

“Because the money was not immediately available during the Ebola crisis, we had more human losses than we should have, which rolled back development gains made in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea.” High finance, wide impact: The Mulan View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

15 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

"bottom-up" forces highlighted in these models and instead reflects more "top-down" interventions. We conclude with a discussion of some of the historical evidence on top-down interventions. Economic Catastrophe Bonds... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Sarah Zia

invest in those. Meet people both inside and outside of your section, get to know them, and have fun with them. For me, it was often the little moments (e.g. late-night Dominos runs, bonding in airport lounges, game nights, staycation at... View Details

Portrait Project

Luke Henesy

trajectory on its head. Tucker was about to become a father and knew he wasn't ready. As I listened to them and shared stories of my own, they began to trust me in ways my previous students had not. Our bond strengthened, and their... View Details

03 Oct 2016
Blog Post

What I Learned in the Peek Weekend STEM Cohort

of what you studied as an undergrad. The cohort experience was great. With so many STEM majors being represented we all immediately bonded over our tumultuous engineering (or other major) schooling. Despite all being STEM minded, we still... View Details

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Daniel Serna

section bonds to lessons in leadership. "Even in a functional class, such as Financial Reporting & Control — it's not at all just about accounting. We always talk about the rules in terms of the gray areas, the boundaries. Good... View Details

24 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

of an estimated secular increase in the cross-country correlations of both stock and bond returns since the late 1990s. Increased correlations of inflation shocks are also an important source of the shift in View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

16 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs

different perspectives, questions, and insights were extremely enriching. After every company visit we would continue back on the bus to discuss and debate what we saw and how we interpreted it. And I think we formed stronger bonds among... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Frequently Asked Questions - Alumni

emphasized enough. Commitment to consistent attendance at monthly Circle meetings for one year is important for building relationships and effective group dynamics. Shared commitment will give members the time and space needed to bond and... View Details

01 Dec 2015
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Giving Advice

(courtesy of Susan Wolf Ditkoff) The philanthropy economy is booming. Last year, America’s charitable giving totaled $358.38 billion, equaling 2.1 percent of GDP—a number last attained in prerecession 2004. With that growth have come a number of new options, including... View Details

19 Jan 2016
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Electric Avenues

which takes the market risk,” says Riva. Bonding Together to Beat Traffic Since its 2009 launch, the navigation app Waze has provided drivers with a crowdsourced commute, with user-supplied traffic reports providing more efficient city... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

06 Dec 2019
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Moving to the States with My Daughter to Pursue an MBA and Switch Careers

adapting well to the new education system here and has made new friends, which include her classmates and kids of my section mates. As a family, there are still ambiguities ahead around where we’ll be after graduation, but we’re okay with that. We know that we have... View Details

29 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 29

some cases down to the source code level. Our study thus extends the concept of IP modularity to comprise the notion of hierarchy levels. Working PapersInflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

February 2019 (Revised October 2022)
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Scandal at Steinhoff

By: Kristin Mugford and Phil Caruso

Keywords: Volatility; Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Liquidity; Bonds; Corporate Accountability; Failure; International Finance; Restructuring; Business Conglomerates; Crime and Corruption; Retail Industry; South Africa; Austria; Netherlands

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06 Jul 2020
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A Letter from the Women in Investing Club

has been fostered in this group, the bonds made are able to transcend physical proximity. While racism is nothing new in this country, much less the world of investing, as women of color, we recognize the importance of using our platform... View Details

17 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

development relies on investor protections offered by national laws and regulations. So why did investors flock to Brazil's stock and bond markets between 1882 and 1915, when national protections were relatively weak? A: Investors in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

01 Sep 2017
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Alumni on the Best Business Advice They’ve Ever Received

connect with people, trying to get them to trust you. And the more authentic that bond is, the better leader you become. And it’s that simple—you don’t have to come up with any other fancy formula. As soon as I internalized that, it... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Skydeck; podcast; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

19 Aug 2010
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Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers

intensive exposure to case studies and their particular methodology) “Predicting the past with ever-increasing accuracy.” TGMP 5 does, in fact, have a motto that bonds us. It's “Keep Smiling,” which resulted from the final morning of... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

07 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-040.pdf Financial Guarantors and the 2007-2009 Credit Crisis Authors:Daniel Bergstresser, Randolph Cohen, and Siddharth Shenai Abstract More than half of the municipal bonds issued between 1995 and 2009... View Details