Bonds - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Oct 2001
Op-Ed

Lessons from the Rubble

have been obvious even without the devastation we have just witnessed. First is that the new economy never was all that different from the old. In the ancient, heady days of the Internet boom, it became fashionable to declare that the physical View Details

Keywords: by Debora L. Spar

01 Dec 2020
News

The Complete Package

time zones. It really is a big family. We bonded over the three years of learning.” Her nickname: “Big sister,” because she is a mentor for other entrepreneurs. Her mentors: “In the past, you always looked up to the older, experienced... View Details

Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; sustainability; packaging; leadership; women; Manufacturing

04 Aug 2015
Blog Post

What’s it Like to be an HBS Partner?

celebrate us in this way. It was an indication of the type of support network there is at HBS. It took almost no time at all for our section to form very deep bonds that I know will last a lifetime. We went from acquaintances to being a... View Details

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

risk, no competitors, and no political uncertainty around election outcomes, regime change, or expropriation. Historically, all of these factors have been favorable in the United States and that’s why the municipal bond market is so... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

March 2021 (Revised April 2021)
Case

Making Impact Investing Markets: IFC (A)

By: Shawn A. Cole, John Masko and T. Robert Zochowski

In 2017, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) faced the first big investment decision in its new Scaling Solar project. Founded in 1956, IFC was an international investment body with national governments as shareholders, whose mission was to promote economic... View Details

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31 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest

financial crisis, for example, the Federal Reserve orchestrated multiple rounds of QE. In the initial round, QE1, the Fed bought $1.25 trillion in mortgage-backed securities and $300 billion in Treasury bonds. During QE2, the Fed purchased almost $900 billion in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Apr 2021
News

Real Talk

guys—I mean big, rugby-playing, Afrikaner boys—break down in tears at times, sharing their stories. It was often pain that they had bottled up from past experiences, and it was amazing,” he reflects. “When they were able to do that and allowed themselves to be... View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work

far-reaching study included a detailed account of the daily activities of five women factory workers over a period of nine years. However, Bouricius has also uncovered some notable surprises, including records of two women who worked on Wall Street in View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Professor Elton Mayo; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

30 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 30

business and financial challenges at the 171-year old UK travel services company. The company has lost almost £600 million in the last three quarters, has seen its stock price fall from 230 pence to a low of 8.8 pence in the past two years, and had seen its View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Mar 2023
News

Carbon's Second Act

of kind of chemically bonding hydrogen and moving hydrogen in a safer and much more affordable way than moving hydrogen around as an explosive compressed gas, and therefore kind of enable green hydrogen as a fuel and as a feedstock for... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

Alumni Books Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk by Gary Antonacci (MBA 1978) (McGraw-Hill) Antonacci explains his investing method, which combines U.S. stock, non-U.S. stock, and aggregate View Details

12 Jan 2016
First Look

January 12, 2016

theoretical and practical implications and suggest future directions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50313 Forward Guidance in the Yield Curve: Short Rates versus Bond Supply By: Greenwood, Robin, Samuel... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

25 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People

would choose only participants who don’t know each other, but that would be nearly impossible in some industries. Plus, deep relationships provide their own benefits, just not if you want to learn new skills. “Leaders must strike a balance between forming close View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

29 Jun 2016
News

Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story

subservient to the needs of the story. “I saw Wolf of Wall Street,” says coproducer Linda Zwack Munger (MBA 1982), a former senior vice president in Lehman Brothers’ mortgage bond department. “It’s so unrealistic.” In addition to not... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; photography by Chris Taggart; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

21 Sep 2016
Blog Post

How HBS Changed My Life

unshakable bond that time apart had not weakened, but strengthened. It was during that reunion that I knew I had made friends for life; it was during that reunion I knew that I could call on any of these folks for help and they would help... View Details

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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
News

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

31 Oct 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers

inequity inevitable. For example, an often-cited research finding is that woman can be viewed as competent or as likeable–but not both. True or not, believing it increases FOSO, as competent women face pressures, depending on their life and career stage: The beer after... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

25 Aug 2022
News

Case Study: Sound Check

provide good information. Sites have to provide robust online experiences if they want to create strong bonds and real relationships with their customers, he adds. The Question: So far LS has signed on mid-size businesses that generate... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2018
News

Disrupting India’s Dental Market

“That’s when they have a real conversation with the patient,” says Singh—offering a better opportunity for bonding than when the dentist is hovering over a patient during an exam. In 2012, after raising another $8 million from investors,... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

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