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  • 01 Aug 2017
  • Blog Post

Redefining the Term Networking at HBS

participated in FIELD, where I naturally developed relationships that still warm my heart to this day. I even remain close friends with my RC dorm room neighbor. We bonded over similar challenges and never looked back. In EC year I ended... View Details
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Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring - Course Catalog

situations (including threats to their survival). Restructurings are often extremely complicated, and involve multiple issues around valuation, bond indentures, subordination agreements, bankruptcy law, employment law, taxes, litigation,... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Cathy A. Nichols

kidding," Nichols says, "and then I realized he was serious." Although a few such Jurassic-like creatures roamed the School back then, Nichols notes that "women students got through such encounters by doing a lot of bonding - with men as... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
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Investment Strategies - Course Catalog

bonds outstanding. Every day, public markets set prices for CEOs and CFOs, financial institutions, and investors, all seeking to raise and invest money in a way that drives the economy forward. A public exit - whether through an initial... View Details
  • January 2004 (Revised June 2004)
  • Case

Innovation at the Treasury: Treasury Inflation-Protection Securities (A)

By: Kenneth A. Froot, Peter A. Hecht and Christopher Edward James Payton
In 1997, the U.S. Treasury was deciding whether to proceed with a proposal to issue inflation-indexed bonds. This case explores the challenges facing innovation in the financial markets as the Treasury tries to determine whether to introduce Treasury... View Details
Keywords: Inflation; Innovation; Federal Government; Securities; Debt Securities; Risk Management; Bonds; Investment Portfolio; Capital Markets; Inflation and Deflation; Government and Politics; Innovation and Invention; United States
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  • 19 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations

influence of social networks for a while. We noticed that every time we met people at conferences, an immediate starting point in conversations was to ask where one went to school. Educational connections seemed to be the first way people tried to View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 24 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

When Reputation Trumps Regulation

Financial Economics, suggests that reputational bonding better explains the success and failure of cross-listings than legal bonding. This is largely due to the fact that the Securities and Exchange Commission, for a number of reasons,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 11 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive Measuring the Perceived Liquidity of the Corporate Bond Market Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

An Authentic Leader

communities where they serve. It sounds old-fashioned, and yet it’s almost revolutionary. What set the stage for recent business scandals? Greed took over. It started with the junk bonds and the corporate raiders of the late 1980s. This... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 05 Jul 2016
  • Blog Post

The Softer Side of Business at HBS

hopes and dreams – and an equally important time to learn from and bond with your groupmates.  I know I learned more from their stories and how they dealt with adversity than many other classes put together.   If you couldn’t already tell... View Details
  • 03 Feb 2014
  • News

Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs

professor for taking the place of a male student who needed to support his family. She shot back: "Why can't I support mine?" "It was lonely; the women were very few and we didn't really bond together," she says of her HBS days on campus.... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Management; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • Blog Post

One MBA's Path to Boston Consulting Group

other colleagues for orientation. The full week of training gave us all plenty of opportunities to bond with each other as fellow interns and meet many full-time associates. I was elated to be staffed on a consumer goods project and... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products / Retail
  • 07 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 7, 2016

spread, defined as the spread of local currency bonds over the synthetic local currency risk-free rate constructed using cross-currency swaps. We find that local currency credit spreads are positive and sizable. Compared with credit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

in times of need?” Business networks form In this sense, the experience created intergenerational ties, supplementing those formed among camp internees. These bonds proved useful to Germans in finding new positions and receiving... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing
  • 19 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Climbing the Great Wall of Trust

of Business, and Janet Murray of the University of Missouri—St. Louis, explores the role that trust plays in forming bonds across cultures and national borders—an area that has received surprisingly scant attention in our globalized... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Banishing Balkan Ghosts

television, ended peacefully and boosted the new government's standing. Djelic cites a simplified tax system, new labor laws, aggressive privatization (“twice as fast as Poland”), and a 5.5 percent annual growth rate as successes to date. Key tasks ahead are creating... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 05 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 5

emerging Asian markets. Paper: http://www.asiabusinessinsights.com/articles.html#sub_articles_E-commerce_in_Asia Issuer Quality and Corporate Bond Returns Authors:Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel G. Hanson Publication:Review of Financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96

require three or four years of work experience," says Wheelwright. "In fact, we don't. We're interested in having more students consider coming to HBS directly from college; many of our alumni who did so say the experience helped them form a stronger View Details
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

helps them hedge real interest risk and inflation risk, or because it helps them reduce the volatility of their portfolio of stocks and bonds because its return is negatively correlated with the returns on those assets. This article... View Details
  • 07 Jul 2020
  • Blog Post

The JD/MBA Seminar: The Perfect Practice Ground

contentious parts of the debate and how to resolve those pieces. We will never forget the long-lasting, personal bonds forged in this seminar. In the future, this cohort gives us both the strength and the sounding board we need to help... View Details