Jealousy Of Trade - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

other. On the one hand, licensure and vetting of an asset to be able to trade it in some centralized system—that sounds like a really good thing from a stability and oversight perspective. But at the same... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Technology

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All Functions - Recruiting

Employment Data All Functions Employment Data All Functions All Functions Select a Function to Access Additional Detail Pages: All Functions All Functions Business Development Consulting Finance General Management Marketing Other Strategic Planning Career Data... View Details

July 2022 (Revised September 2022)
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Birla Carbon Egypt: Building Soft Power in a Foreign Country

By: Jeremy Friedman and Malini Sen

Birla Carbon, a flagship business of the nearly $60-billion global conglomerate and India-headquartered Aditya Birla Group (ABG), is one of the world's top manufacturers and suppliers of high-quality carbon black. The largest among its 16 manufacturing plants is Birla... View Details

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01 Mar 2024
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Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater collaboration with businesses. “It’s a transformative shift in... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Aldrich Hall | About

1879 to 1881, then in the US Senate from 1881 to 1911. Aldrich, a notable financier and leader of the Republican Party, was chairman of the National Monetary Commission and the Federal Reserve. A driving... View Details

26 Jan 2022
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Making Peace with Anger

46 employees, and an estimated value of $25 million. Today, Walker & Dunlop is a publicly traded company with a market cap close to $5 billion. While Walker has led massive growth at the company, he realized... View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Ballantyne (MBA 2025) Business Track Crowd Favorite We provide continuous, high-bandwidth access to satellite data through a software-enabled optical communications module and data transfer service, connecting individual satellites in any orbit to a broad network View Details

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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

created its own closed-end investment company, the Lehman Corporation, which traded its own stocks and bonds on the New York Stock Exchange. “The management of someone elses [sic] money is a great... View Details

17 Apr 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Technology Choice and Capacity Portfolios Under Emissions Regulation

Keywords: by David Drake, Paul R. Kleindorfer & Luk N. Van Wassenhove

07 Sep 2006
Working Paper Summaries

Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios

Keywords: by Jakub W. Jurek & Luis M. Viceira

12 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

for well-educated, successful people to work in the public sector. Especially when it comes to the military, the alternative is a risk of increased insularity and a schism between those who serve and those who don’t. Personally, I... View Details

01 Jun 2001
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Richard Pechter: Learning New Lessons

but is part of another world in socioeconomic terms. Having traded in his power lunches for cafeteria duty, Pechter was in for another revelation. “I wasn’t prepared for the leadership View Details

Keywords: Lory Hough; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

06 Jun 2005
What Do You Think?

Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?

is a level playing field a good thing? Take the immediate arguments surrounding U.S. trade with China, for example. Floyd Norris, writing recently in the The New York Times, suggests that steps to encourage China to increase the value... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

counterparts, but a woman in a senior leadership role who switches to a new firm can now expect a salary bump of 25 percent on average, whereas a man making a similar move will see 9 percent more pay, says Paul Healy, the James R.... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

of change. The unprecedented flood of mergers and acquisitions, the advent of the global marketplace, the stock market's dizzying rise, and the capricious fortunes View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

business practitioners in writing, the best bet may be to write articles for industry trade magazines, mainstream business journals, or op-eds for newspapers, all of which are hurting for good content these... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

07 Nov 2022
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Victoria’s Secret Buys Alumni-Founded Adore Me

Today, the Journal notes, Adore Me “has more than 1.2 million customers who purchase its products online through monthly subscriptions and one-time buys.” Victoria’s Secret CEO Martin Waters noted that Adore Me is “significantly further advanced in the way that they... View Details

Keywords: Retail Trade; Retail Trade

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

4+2 = Sustained Business Success

one dimension or another—for instance, Dollar General lost its focus on the values in its culture and, as a result, recently had to restate its earnings. It's much easier to be a tumbler than it is to remain a winner. Our research found that less than 5 percent View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, William Joyce & Bruce Roberson

28 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note

correlated with different pathways to success,” says Fuller, who is also the co-director of HBS’ Managing the Future of Work project. Apprenticeships are rare outside the building View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

Alpha, and the World of Hedge Funds Going to Extremes: Activist Investing at TCI Arbitrage and Global Macro Quantitative Hedge Fund Investing Putting It All Together - Constructing a Hedge Fund Portfolio Featured Exercises Calculate alpha... View Details

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