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About IT: IT Planning and Service Delivery Team Profile | Information Technology
functions—service delivery and strategic portfolio planning. On one side, the team drives the tools and processes that empower HBS IT to deliver seamless, high-impact services to the broader HBS community. On the other, they lead the... View Details
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
Life-Cycle Funds Authors:Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract We investigate optimal consumption, asset accumulation and portfolio decisions in a realistically calibrated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
The Internship Search: “Is this just a personal interest, or is there a real professional opportunity here?”
Aaron’s networking conversations with a New York-area PE firm specializing in health and wellness, one of the firm’s portfolio companies, Barry’s Boot Camp, came up. Aaron had long been an enthusiast of the company, participating in its... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 24 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 24, 2008
Bazerman Abstract The optimal moment to address the question of how to improve human decision making has arrived. In recent research, judgment and decision-making scholars have moved beyond the concept of bounded rationality to recognize... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
forthcoming Financial Analysts Journal Optimal Tilts: Combining Persistent Characteristic Portfolios By: Baker, Malcolm, Ryan Taliaferro, and Terry Burnham Abstract—We examine the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Career Coach
Nicola Pugliese
optimally communicating a career narrative and personal brand, through written collateral (resumes, LinkedIn profiles, cover letters), interviewing and networking. Work Experience: Gillette/P&G Ð Global Consumer Product Marketing,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
last five years has been nearly $1 trillion in underperforming investment in the United States alone. Although its central message is that managers need to think more coherently about their project portfolios in order to align them with... View Details
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Creating Brand Value - Course Catalog
brand narratives? Module 3: Brand Management Key questions will include: How should brands be best managed over time for continued growth? How flexible are brands and how can this flexibility be leveraged for growth? What is the optimal... View Details
- 07 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs
influence over the corporate tax strategy. They then reconstructed insider holdings portfolios and built-in capital gains in order to get a precise estimate of their incentives. There were three measures for determining which executives... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira Publication: American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 98 (May 2008): 297-303 Abstract We investigate optimal consumption, asset accumulation and portfolio... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
moving in a similar direction in collaboration with the late Fischer Black. Investors use derivatives to hedge their portfolios against the effects of sudden shifts in the market. Merton's work provides them with a formula for evaluating... View Details
- Career Coach
Jill Huggett
experience enables Jill to fully appreciate the many challenges one faces throughout their career. Jill's coaching style is realistic, practical and applicable. She coaches people to strive for the optimal outcome and persist until... View Details
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- 10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10
menu. We illustrate this result empirically in the context of 401(k) plans, where we show a negative relation between the number of investment choices in a 401(k) plan and the quality of the optimal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ali Evans (MBA 2019)
technology companies. I spend most of my time focused on sourcing, evaluating and executing new investment opportunities in the healthcare technology sector. Additionally, I serve on the board of directors of some of our portfolio... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
of strategy as “the smallest set of choices to optimally guide (or force) other choices.” The paper shows that this definition coincides with the equilibrium outcome of a “strategy formulation game,” in which such strategy endogenously... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
world of property derivatives. Derivatives help investors deal with the cumbersome, expensive, and timely nature of buying and selling real estate. Through synthetic derivative instruments, investors can rebalance portfolios and transport... View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: In the Deal
of all sorts—black, Latino, Muslim,” she says. “We won’t make the returns we want unless our firms and our portfolio companies’ makeup are in line with the world’s makeup.” Good deal: Zylo, an Indianapolis-based company that helps... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
repurchasers to forecast characteristic-related factor returns. For example, we show that large firms underperform following years when issuing firms are large relative to repurchasing firms. While our strongest results are for portfolios... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne