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- 07 Jan 2002
- What Do You Think?
Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?
observed, "Chat rooms and corporate message boards have had a much more profound change on the privacy of business organizations than the tragic events of 9/11." There is almost a tone of resignation in the responses. For... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
6 Discoveries I Made About HBS
pull together financial and political support to open a new kind of charter high school in California, and HBS was very generous. From grants to covering plane tickets, to Independent Project (IP) credit for designing the school, they... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
long been a focus of my own research." The case outlines the events that led to Morton's consideration of Buffett's offer to buy 63 newspapers from his highly leveraged company, which had experienced a 31 percent decline in revenues over... View Details
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
focus exclusively on estimates of expected payoffs, such as credit ratings, without considering the state of the economy in which default is likely to occur. Such investors are likely to be attracted to securities whose payoffs resemble... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
General is a real-life example of topics that we cover in our finance curriculum such as valuation, financing, and risk management, and it brings together financial strategy and business strategy, a confluence that has long been a focus of my own research." The... View Details
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
mispriced," Coval remarks. "But we didn't have any sense that it would all come crashing down the way it did—we just thought that the mispricing would be corrected gradually." Stafford adds that neither he nor Coval had done much work in the area of... View Details
- 17 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
6 Things to Know About Sustainability at HBS
tall, flowering plants, to small gardens of vegetables and herbs. Green roofs are excellent at reducing and retaining stormwater, reducing the heat island effect, and insulating the buildings. The veggies, herbs, and honey harvested at HBS are showcased at View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
advantage. Most of these retailers allowed consumers to buy on credit. Many, such as Marshall Field's, issued a store charge card to good customers. Charge cards and other possibilities for buying cosmetics on credit were particularly... View Details
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the ‘Flutie Effect’ on College Marketing
Assistant Professor of marketing Doug J. Chung. Oddly, little academic research has been done on the subject. And even some BC administrators would rather credit educational excellence than a gridiron miracle for its popularity among... View Details
- Web
For Guests | Commencement 2025
bell). Bookstore & ATM The Coop (and an ATM) are located on basement floor of Spangler Center. Children Harvard Yard Ceremony For events that require tickets (morning ceremonies in Harvard Yard), only infants and small toddlers who will... View Details
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
with routine traders are essentially zero. Further, opportunistic trades predict future news and events at a firm level, while routine trades do not. Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lcohen/pdffiles/pomalco.pdf Course... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
65. To balance the club’s career skills and networking activities that often take place in the evenings, the Seniors Program engages older alumni through a series of daytime social, educational, and cultural events. “We essentially made the club more senior-friendly,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
goods, let alone political power, and as they are acquiring a share in this economy, they're buying cars and houses, and credit is fueling a lot of the current boom. Many of these participants in the economy just haven't had access to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
questions, we must first ask, "increase (or decrease), measured on what basis?" There are, in fact, two distinct conceptual frameworks through which one can assess the impact of foreign bank entry. One is concerned with measuring the short-run impacts of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
relationship. In this paper we look at this era as economic historians, trying to set events in a longer-term perspective. In some ways China's economic model in the decade 1998-2007 was similar to the one adopted by West Germany and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Luc Sirois
for children with cystic fibrosis that teaches them skills to deal with their daily treatment regimens. The pace is scrappy and the conversation engaging. Since launching in 2012, HH hackathons have been held in major cities around the world, with early-2015 View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
Most of the money is taken from revenues generated by the Working Assets credit card, long-distance telephone, and Internet businesses, whose customers sign on for these services because they support the company's progressive stance and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
natural calamity, according to Kamal Gupta, the invitation is less important. Phil Clark, based on his experience, has concluded that "the sooner the government becomes involved in catastrophic events the better the outcome "... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
risk management on Wall Street and at other major financial centers. The book breaks down the events involved in the 2007–2008 financial collapse, reveals how botched policy responses made a bad situation worse, and focuses on lessons... View Details
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Field Course: Managing Family Wealth: A FIELD Immersion - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Managing Family Wealth: A FIELD Immersion Course Number 1412 Professor Lauren Cohen Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 12 sessions Project “Investment firms of the ultra-wealthy spend as much as 72% of their... View Details