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  • 01 Jan 2013
  • News

André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973

enabled Jakurski and his colleagues to expand into a full range of financial services, including trading and investment banking. In 1991, when the Brazilian stock market opened up to foreign investment, Jakurski invested heavily in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

2012. The projections appeared contrary to Hayman Capital's views on Japan, where the fund had built a bearish position. Japan had the world's highest debt burden, whether expressed as a percentage of GDP or government revenue. Guided by... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

period following graduation. The cumulative amount of post-graduation career exploration funds that an HBS graduate may receive in their lifetime from all HBS and Harvard University sources is capped at $150,000 USD. In each year that a... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 20 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 20, 2015

of the variation in industry imports from China and changes in federal spending) and two supply-side ones (TFP shocks and variation in knowledge/ideas coming from foreign patenting). In each case, we find substantial propagation of these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

concern took its place as the fourth-largest investment bank in the country. [13] Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb & Co. expanded its global financial markets, opening offices in Europe and Asia and serving in a financial advisory capacity in U.S. and View Details
  • 27 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 27

is, as more jurisdictions with economic ties to a given country adopt IFRS, perceived benefits from lowering transactions costs to foreign financial-statement users come to outweigh institutional differences (e.g., auditing technology)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

"For instance, if you invested in an Islamic mutual fund, among those industries which would be barred from representation as funds would be the gambling industry. But gambling also relates to futures; it relates to currency hedging;... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

on bond risks. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2332106 Opting Out of Good Governance By: Foley, C. Fritz, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Jonathan Greenstein, and Eric Zwick Abstract—Cross-listing on a U.S. exchange does not bond View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) , President & CEO, World Wildlife Fund Debora L. Spar (PMD 62, 1991) , Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society; Board Director,... View Details
  • 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

U.S.-born parents, while the second includes mostly older, separated women with some college education, a relatively higher share of whom are foreign born and have foreign-born parents. Our results demonstrate the presence of additional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade

“Acting as a middleman between two worlds, [the comprador] played a strategically important role in modern China’s economic growth, social change, and general acculturation,” historian Yen- P’ing Hao writes. 24 Over time compradors also became investors in the View Details
  • 25 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

deficit spending send the signal that demand will increase, and thus both aim to break the cycle of negative expectations about the economy. Q: What's a good way to think about foreign direct investment in the United States? Are we... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

came to serve as a major source of short-term financing. In 1958, the investment house launched the One William Street Fund, a mutual fund of diversified holdings funded by shareholders. Expanding their... View Details
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

Leading at State

Department of State. These students represented the first cohort of the Secretary’s Leadership Seminar, a six-month, custom Executive Education offering for mid-career foreign and civil service employees. The idea for the program—and the... View Details
Keywords: leadership; international relations; politics; Executive Education
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Dillon House | About

finance, government, diplomacy, economics, and art. A 1931 magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, he was a member of the New York Stock Exchange from 1931 until 1936, when he became a director, and subsequently president, of the United States and View Details
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

Author:Sophus A. Reinert Publication:Harvard University Press, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=31289 The Return Experience of Hedge Fund Investors Authors:Ilia... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2024
  • News

In Harmony

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park
  • 26 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India

philanthropic capital to de-risk private investments. The response emphasizes investing philanthropic funds in systemic changes, acknowledging the pragmatic but imperfect nature of this approach for ecosystem building. FDI Incentives: To... View Details
  • 02 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

banks use their global balance sheets to respond to local monetary policy. However, sources and uses of funds are often denominated in different currencies. This leads to a foreign exchange (FX) exposure... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel