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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
find that central bank QE1 MBS purchases substantially increased refinancing activity, reduced interest payments for refinancing households, led to a boom in equity extraction, and increased aggregate consumption. Also, the transmission... View Details
- January 15, 2019
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Is Your Company's Strategy Aligned with Your Ownership Model?
By: Josh Baron
The legacy of Vanguard founder John Bogle has brought attention to the transformative influence of ownership structures within the business world. Bogle's revolutionary insight into the limitations of active fund management led to the widespread adoption of index... View Details
Keywords: Ownership Type; Business Strategy; Organizational Structure; Strength and Weakness; Competitive Advantage
Baron, Josh. "Is Your Company's Strategy Aligned with Your Ownership Model?" Harvard Business Review (website) (January 15, 2019).
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A New Vision – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
the then-dominant paradigm of scientific management had led managers to believe. The social system, which defined a worker’s relation to her work and to her companions, was not the product of rational engineering but of actual,... View Details
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
12:30 pm Melissa Renn , Collections Manager, HBS Art and Artifacts Collection + More Info – Less Info Led by Melissa Renn, Collections Manager of the HBS Art and Artifacts Collection, this tour will feature highlights of contemporary art... View Details
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The New CEO Workshop - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
sessions are extremely interactive, tailored for each new group of participants, and designed to invite in-depth sharing of personal experiences and active participation by faculty. Course overview About the Course Faculty The sessions are View Details
- 18 Jul 2023
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The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
What inspired you to launch Forby Entertainment Partners? I started working on film and TV shoots in New York City during college. My first boss, an executive producer, recommended Edward Jay Epstein’s book, The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
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HBS - The year in Review
from the successful implementation of several enterprise technology solutions—including Canvas, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Zoom—as well as ongoing IT operational improvements. Most recently, as deputy CIO, she led the development and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
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Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
“The more the technology grows, the more the market grows,” Norrington says. Investors seem to agree. In 2012, the public company went private in a $1.6 billion acquisition led by private equity firm Permira Advisors LLC; in 2022,... View Details
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Mid-US - Global
Houston metro regions. Faculty and guest speakers led energizing sessions on leadership, strategy, systems thinking, and power and influence, among others. The group will continue to work together through virtual sessions and mentorship... View Details
Amy W. Schulman
Amy W. Schulman is an accomplished business leader, widely recognized for growing and stabilizing global businesses, commitment to people, strategic judgment, and efforts to advance women and promote inclusive workplace cultures.
Ms. Schulman joined Harvard... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
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A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
either going to or coming from jail. We were all part of an in-and-out-of-jail cycle,” Miller recalls. “I couldn’t understand why Blacks did not have access to better education and jobs that led to upward mobility. I wondered who put us... View Details
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Unilever—A Case Study
1950s, Unilever manufactured convenience foods, such as frozen foods and soup, ice cream, meat products, and tea and other drinks. It manufactured personal care products, including toothpaste, shampoo, hairsprays, and deodorants. The oils and fats business also View Details
- 05 May 2011
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How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless
crime, Iyer acknowledges there is no way to directly support a hypothesis of increased reporting of crimes. However, the paper presents several pieces of suggestive evidence that point in that direction. Initial Results Confirmed The initial results of their work View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
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Spangler Center | About
daughters, Anna Spangler Nelson (MBA 1988) and Abigail Riggs Spangler. Dick Spangler was a successful entrepreneur in several industries, including construction, hospitality, and banking. In the early 1980s, he led the merger of Bank of... View Details
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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
shows how capitalism itself can be the best route to real solutions to many social problems. Michael Porter also led the development of the conceptual framework underlying the Social Progress Index,... View Details
- 24 Mar 2009
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Securing Jobs or the New Protectionism? Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 01 Nov 2006
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Male Circumcision and AIDS: The Macroeconomic Impact of a Health Crisis
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Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis
By: Laura Alfaro
In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the... View Details
- 2024
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LASH Risk and Interest Rates
By: Laura Alfaro, Saleem Bahaj, Robert Czech, Jonathan Hazell and Ioana Neamtu
We introduce a framework to understand and quantify a form of liquidity risk that we dub Liquidity After Solvency Hedging or “LASH” risk. Financial institutions take LASH risk when they hedge against losses, using strategies that lead to liquidity needs when the value... View Details
Keywords: Liquidity; Monetary Policy; Non-bank Intermediaries; Hedging; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment Funds; Financial Condition; Interest Rates
Alfaro, Laura, Saleem Bahaj, Robert Czech, Jonathan Hazell, and Ioana Neamtu. "LASH Risk and Interest Rates." Bank of England Staff Working Papers, No. 1,073, May 2024.
- April 2019
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Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis
By: Laura Alfaro, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor and Paola Conconi
In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the... View Details
Keywords: Global Value Chains; Sequential Production; Incomplete Contracts; Demand and Consumers; Customer Value and Value Chain; Globalization
Alfaro, Laura, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, and Paola Conconi. "Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis." Journal of Political Economy 127, no. 2 (April 2019): 508–559. (See Online Appendix. Replications files available here. Also NBER Working Paper 21582.)