Bonding - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Insights and Inspiration: A Look Back at the Summer Venture in Management Program

of more than 180 strangers to forming a special bond in just a couple of days. It was all transformative and surreal. Did SVMP change how you think about your future? Oh, for sure. Before SVMP, I did not have much knowledge of MBA... View Details

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Resources for Harvard Economics Students

players in business and finance. Please be cognizant of data download limits (see below for more information). Datastream Historical, global coverage of equities, stock markets, commodities, futures, currencies, options, bond... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies

Froot used a careful examination of a single transaction in the emerging market for catastrophic risk bonds to motivate a search for explanations for anomalies in the pricing and structure of this market. Another highlight of the... View Details

20 Sep 2016
First Look

September 20, 2016

find that the effects are stronger among innovating Massachusetts firms, particularly those facing greater Wall Street scrutiny. The evidence is consistent with staggered boards improving managers' incentives to make long-term investments. Sovereign Debt Portfolios,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Apr 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks

they felt was inadequately represented in the bond market. "We could see this macroeconomic storm on the horizon," says Higgins, whose previous experience at a global macro hedge fund proved valuable to the team. "But there... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

achieved largely through the bond of family membership or the personal loyalty of appointees. The family patriarch might take an annual voyage to visit key foreign holdings, and would perhaps also correspond with the appointed heads of... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

26 Oct 2017
News

Can Farming Save the Planet?

consequence,” he says. “Our yields are comparable to conventional crop yields. We can prove it. These guys have done this for seven to eight years.” Wiviott and his partners plan on doing a series of partnerships and funds, and are hoping to launch a View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Organic farming; Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry; Agriculture

29 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

empirical investigation of the risk of globally diversified portfolios of stocks and bonds and of optimal intertemporal global portfolio choice for long horizon investors in the presence of permanent cash flow shocks and transitory... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

association between creativity and dishonesty, thus highlighting a dark side of creativity. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-064.pdf Issuer Quality and Corporate Bond Returns Authors:Robin Greenwood and Samuel G.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2013
News

Commitment to Leadership

letter with a handwritten note. KATZKE Stacey B. Case (MBA 1988) Stacey Case is inspiring when she talks about the inherent bond between HBS alumni. Case recently hosted a get-together at her home in San Francisco for 1987 and 1988 alumni... View Details

16 Feb 2018
Blog Post

Out of PE, Into Africa

bonding experience. Our hope is that this will give us perspective and a foundation to dampen the inevitable conflicts of our upcoming adolescent parenting years.A few thoughts if you are considering such a trip: Just do it! It's easy to... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

at Fidelity Investments to launch a venture aimed at providing analytical information to bond traders. He showed Sahlman his business plan for a company that he was calling Technical Data Corporation. Basically, Parker had figured out a... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

02 Mar 2017
What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

current account trade deficit for the US followed, with the resulting funds invested by the Chinese government in US Treasury bonds instead of going into increased consumption by Chinese consumers. This depressed global interest rates and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential

OpenSecrets.org. Direct stock or bond holdings were straightforward to categorize as risky or not. For mutual funds Minor tapped investment industry experts to help him devise an algorithm to categorize the 10,000-plus funds as more... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

14 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 14

(defined as the difference between the yield of a sovereign's bonds and the risk-free rate). In this paper, we contribute to the discussion by arguing that an important explanatory factor is the impact that commodities have on the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Dec 2022
News

LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway

they don't want to gloat or because they're afraid the great things won't last. We aim to get participants to stay in the five percent on either end of the curve, because when you do that, you develop really strong bonds and you have the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

10 Feb 2022
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs

people you meet at HBS really make the experience remarkable. I’ve enjoyed bonding with my section and building lifelong friendships. But it's not just the students who make the experience, it's also the professors. I’ve learned so much... View Details

01 Apr 1998
News

Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges

University of Illinois, earned an MBA at the University of Chicago, and after working as a banker in the Midwest, joined Goldman, Sachs & Co. as a bond trader in 1975. Rising through the ranks, he became the firm's chairman and CEO in... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

04 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 4

Harvard Business School Case 210-002 In 2005, Jane Bauer-Martin, a hedge fund manager, is considering what she should do with the fund's large investment in the publicly traded bonds of Delphi Corp., a financially troubled auto parts... View Details