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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
short-term investors: A market of buy-and-hold investors wouldn't be very useful. However, a market composed of mostly short-termers presents its own problems, and today they have too much impact on the market. The more influence short-term View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
2021, the percentage of those who contributed skyrocketed 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... View Details
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
of their harvest or the ability to move their product beyond Africa to be marketed and sold. The result? They take what they could get from the traders who showed up in the village with trucks from time to time. It is a problem Akuete and... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
Carson. He also found inspiration in a case study on Doug Rauch, former president of Trader Joe’s, who created a nonprofit grocery store model. “I had been working 25 years,” Carson says, “and Harvard gave me a whole lot of different... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Supporting the School as a Student and Young Alumna
experience on to others.” Iyer’s route to the entertainment industry was circuitous. After graduating from Yale as an applied mathematics major, she worked for four years as a synthetics trader at Goldman Sachs, then decided to pursue an... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
University of Illinois, earned an MBA at the University of Chicago, and after working as a banker in the Midwest, joined Goldman, Sachs & Co. as a bond trader in 1975. Rising through the ranks, he became the firm's chairman and CEO in... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
While Enron made the headlines, Mills says, these other actors were culpable as well. The title of Mills' book derives from a comment made by former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt regarding the actions of teenager Jonathan Lebed who broke federal regulations as a day View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- Web
Chinese Competition and Emerging Technologies - 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
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
right, you’ll be seeing our products on the shelves at Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s. More importantly,” he says, “we’ll be empowering African farmers and opening paths that will help others succeed for years to come.” STUDENTS READY TO... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
Alvaro Dominguez Alvaro Dominguez In early 2018, a New York startup called Roomi opened itself up to the type of investors known by Wall Street traders as “mom-and-pop investors,” although an IPO was nowhere in sight. The company, which... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
markets, if a trader wants to purchase a bundle of shares, the market should tell the trader how much to pay. “We should think about how we can design interactions to achieve system-wide goals in social... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- Web
Digital Exhibits | Baker Library
records of their experiences. The exhibit provides insight into momentous events as well as the day-to-day activities of American traders in the treaty ports. The Art of American Advertising, 1865-1910 A burgeoning advertising industry in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
morning, then spent the rest of the day getting some exercise and catching up on Only Murders in the Building. For her part, Carbonell took a Pilates class and did some grocery shopping. (“Not having to go to Trader Joe’s on a weekend is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
well-stocked shelves, especially in the larger stores. I suggest trying to add Trader Joe’s: great locations in affluent zip codes, more value-oriented, and lower price points, but still very focused on healthy foods, so a good fit with... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
year, but no one is encouraging their work.” Having been a trader and investment adviser, and the head of a major auction house, he knew that business could provide the solution. “I thought I should create an art market rather than... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
minute—and the decision of whether to ride it out and hope for a recovery or to blink and 'puke their position' (pardon the phrase but it's how actual traders describe it)—to be an extremely harrowing experience," says professor... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
streamlining the flow of data. When Ranadivé arrived at Goldman Sachs, his first potential client, he was astounded by the complicated assortment of monitors, cable, and wire surrounding each trader — the mix even included strategically... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
in the midtown Manhattan headquarters of Halcyon/Alan B. Slifka Management Company. In discussing the success of his investment firm, he points out that his traders are not only innovative and individualistic but also cooperative. When... View Details
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
traders to buy the stock of the target company before the 13D is filed, which is when the information is released to all market participants,” the authors explain in the paper. Sure enough, in the 10 days preceding a 13D filing, a... View Details