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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade
of the China Trade Introduction Doing Business with China Augustine Heard & Co. The Canton Trade Commodities & Currencies Treaty Ports & Compradors Clippers & Steamships Exploring Trade Links Chinese Competition Expatriate Traders... View Details
- 18 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?
purchases, but there are fewer items that fit within the permissible categorization of 'necessary' in the first place," they write. To illustrate, take the case of the gift card experiment. Participants were shown two gift cards that would be given away: a $100... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877
of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877 Introduction Doing Business with China Augustine Heard & Co. The Canton Trade Commodities & Currencies Treaty Ports & Compradors Clippers & Steamships Exploring Trade Links Chinese Competition... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
cultural agents. Slave traders and New York financiers, Boston merchants, and Pittsburgh industrialists feature prominently in many of these accounts. These accounts not only bring diverse actors into the narrative, they do so to quite... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 25 May 2011
- HBS Case
QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off
group of retailers is challenging this notion of an industry built on the backs of crummy jobs, very prosperous companies that include Costco, Mercadona, Trader Joe's, and QuikTrip. What do they know that their competitors don't? In a new... View Details
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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade
of the China Trade Introduction Doing Business with China Augustine Heard & Co. The Canton Trade Commodities & Currencies Treaty Ports & Compradors Clippers & Steamships Exploring Trade Links Chinese Competition Expatriate Traders... View Details
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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
a summer intern in 1966, became a senior trader under Lew Glucksman, and then a partner in 1978. Known as a driven company man and nicknamed “the Gorilla” for his intensity, Fuld doubled the size of the organization. The attack on the... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
interested in playing can join the simulation. New HSX traders receive "Hollywood dollars" and can increase the value of their portfolio by, among other things, strategically trading "MovieStocks." The prices of those... View Details
- 30 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators
fraudulent fund, even though many suspected something was strange, since the low-risk fund had defied reality by dramatically outperforming the stock market several years in a row. “We were all aware of this hedge fund that had had great returns for 20 years,” recalled... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting
created problems of information that threatened to derail traditional credit practices. The key problem was one of distance. When traders did business primarily with family and neighbors, they could rely on personal knowledge when... View Details
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
uses examples and stories from dozens of high-performing managers and entrepreneurs. Is there one person, one quote, that you think most brilliantly captures the spirit of Think Outside the Building? Kanter: Doug Rauch, former president of View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni
been reached, so it is a good alternative to the H-1B. Dependents of H-1B1 visa holders, classified as H-4, are not eligible to work in the United States in H-4 status. + – E-1 Treaty Trader / E-2 Treaty Investor These visa categories are... View Details
- 21 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms
to 25 percent. The company also matches the gratuities; the total has been rising steadily since Trader Joe’s began stocking the product in its 200 California stores in 2021, and Nyamumbo expects it to grow significantly following the... View Details
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Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business - A Chronicle of the China Trade
of the China Trade Introduction Doing Business with China Augustine Heard & Co. The Canton Trade Commodities & Currencies Treaty Ports & Compradors Clippers & Steamships Exploring Trade Links Chinese Competition Expatriate Traders... View Details
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
deepened during the early 1990s, after he moved his family to New York from Provo, Utah for a big job with Morgan Stanley. One day he found himself sitting on a bench, immobilized: he worried whether he could aptly advise the CEO, whether he could get View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
retailers such as Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, and Kroger, and on the menu in upscale restaurants as a sweetener in everything from cocktails to main courses. After focusing on details for several years, Turner hints he is once again... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan
And they can immediately call up the producers and say, 'Listen, you're under water here.'" Lest students think the collateral model is totally risk-free, the authors of the case included an extreme cautionary tale—the so-called Salad Oil Swindle of 1963, in which... View Details
- 20 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle
and both were rated above Trader Joe’s. “Whole Foods may be the more luxurious experience, but Peapod signals your time is so valuable you can’t afford to waste it,” says Keinan. In another study, a woman wearing a Bluetooth headset was... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM
gap. Why did you decide to pursue an MBA given your STEM background? At Citi my job was mostly to help make applications for whatever our traders needed. While I enjoyed developing technology, I also wanted to learn more about, and... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner
mothers to achieve. Dlodlo grew up in Cameroon, where her ethnic group, the Bamiléké, are known as traders and businesspeople. Her mother was a bank executive; her father, a civil servant with a passion for real estate. The latter built a... View Details