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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
underwriting securities for the railroads, which like other rising industries, would come to depend on a system of credit and financial markets. 21 As the railroads increased so did corruption, which took many forms: absconding with... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
bisphenol (BPA), phthalates, PFAS and other endocrine-disrupting substances. Nano plastics are in rain, the air we breathe, in our food. The average human eats between 3 and 5 grams of plastic a week, equivalent of a credit card a week.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 31 Oct 2013
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Do Measures of Financial Constraints Measure Financial Constraints?
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Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
the 1920s Research Links Site Credits Introduction Financial crises have happened before, and - if history is any guide - they will happen again. One year after the subprime mortgage crisis, this Baker Library Historical Collections... View Details
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Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
of Standard and Poor’s, which provides research and analysis of company stock and bonds. Management Mass Distribution Site Credits Henry Varnum Poor, Poor’s Manual of the Railroads of the United States , New York: H. V. & H. W. Poor,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
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Turning Point: Listen to the Music
Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and came to the United States in 1958 with my parents and my brother because my parents thought it was... View Details
- 30 Jan 2019
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The Life and Role of a CEO
internal and external context, lay out the right course of actions, and interact with internal and external stakeholders to translate strategy into results. One CEO said, “The role of CEO is to define reality and give hope” and “to share View Details
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Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity
could ever accumulate wealth in a segregated economy. Instead, housing segregation, racism, and Jim Crow credit policies created an inescapable, but hard to detect, economic trap for black communities and their banks. Banking on Freedom:... View Details
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Bibliography – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
ID required). Websites The History of AT&T www.corp.att.com/history Hawthorne Works Museum www.morton.edu/museum/index.html BBC Radio 4: Mind Changers, Series 4: The Hawthorne Effect, August 2009 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lv0wx Baker Library | Historical... View Details
- 18 Nov 2022
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What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
companies, US mid-sized companies, international small companies, and international equity. Brown’s teams use revenue instead of market capitalization to define their areas of focus, and search for companies with high long-term growth potential not recognized by the... View Details
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Is AI Coming for Your Job?
AI has fundamentally shifted the nature of Wall Street trading. It determines credit scores for existing and potential customers, screens applicants, assists in hiring, responds in real-time to queries, and suggests new courses of action.... View Details
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
European Sovereign Debt Crisis" (February 2018) with Bo Becker. Elisabeth Kempf : Winner of the 2018 Best Paper Award at the Financial Research Association Annual Conference for “Partisan Professionals: Evidence from Credit Rating... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
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History Matters
today from the Panic of 1907? It demonstrates at least six regularities of financial crises. First, crises tend to afflict vulnerable financial systems. Vulnerability often follows an economic boom, a period of real growth that morphs into excessive optimism and View Details
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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
the Corporate Image Gary Works Photograph Album Resources Research Links Films & TV Bibliography From the Director Site Credits Special Collections Search Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion... View Details
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The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Introduction The Exhibition Photography and Print Advertising Pictorial Publicity Challenge of Color Breaking Down Barriers Dream Realities Route of the Exhibition Research Links Credits Copyright © Presidents and Fellows of Harvard... View Details
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HBS - Key Metrics
electricity from the grid, electricity from our solar panels (solar renewable energy credits [SRECs], which represent the environmental benefit, are sold to the Harvard Utility to meet its state renewable energy requirements), natural gas... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
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The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
guessing a higher-quality rating than the actual quality rating." That would explain why information doesn't "unravel" according to game theory predictions, and why companies don't voluntarily release information even when it is not the worst it could... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Catherine Kuehn Price (MBA 1986) and Malcolm Price (MBA 1987)
Malcolm, who was a practicing attorney in Australia when he decided to shift his focus to business. Now heading the Financial Sponsors Group at Credit Suisse in New York City, he views the case method as “an incredibly powerful way of... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
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In Harmony
bankrupt. After several decades of impressive economic progress, Korea faced the humiliating prospect of seeing its credit rating drop to B2, below investment grade. In a stunning demonstration of national unity, a public gold-collecting... View Details
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Kristin W. Mugford | About
and the Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching. Kristin retired in 2013 as a Managing Director and partner at Bain Capital, one of the world's leading alternative investment firms, after nearly 20 years as a private equity and credit... View Details