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upright poles topped by signs, with some chairs at their bases. During the extraordinary “bull” market of the 1920s, the New York Stock Exchange began reassessing its capacity to handle ever increasing amounts View Details

August 2018
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Christine Lagarde

By: Julie Battilana, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Vanessa Ampelas and Noemie Assenat

For a modular presentation of the same material, please see “Christine Lagarde (A): A French Prime Minister Calls” (HBS No. 419-017), “Christine Lagarde (B): Being a Public Servant” (HBS No. 419-018), and “Christine Lagarde (C): Managing the IMF” (HBS No. 419-019).... View Details

Keywords: Change; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Leadership; Gender; Leading Change

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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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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

19 Sep 2016
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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

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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07 Sep 2006
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Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios

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

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

07 Jul 2003
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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

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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

29 Jul 2022
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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

06 Oct 2003
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The Problem with Hedge Funds

more volatile; there are spikes of trading on any news. It is important for investors to realize that the stock markets in the first years of the 21st century are not just... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

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

06 Jun 2005
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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

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Having grown up in a developing country, Professor Sikochi’s research focus is driven by a desire to understand how capital flows to firms and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal to help build capital markets in the developing economies. To this end, he conducts... View Details

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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

The 20th Century Zeitgeist The 20th Century Zeitgeist Great Leadership is not a singular concept. On the contrary, it is a function of the circumstances in which businesses and their top executives operate. The opportunities available to... View Details

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Morgan Hall | About

United States Steel Corporation, the world’s first billion-dollar company. At various times Morgan controlled 70 percent of the country’s steel industry, one-fifth of all corporations View Details

28 Feb 2023
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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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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Magazine Work of Art Trading private equity for the arts, Jason Price is incubating a world-class art center in New Haven, Connecticut—and developing an impact model fo... Re: Jason Price (MBA 2003); Omar... View Details

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