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Dilan Gomih

Working three-and-a-half years in foreign exchange for Merrill Lynch gave Dilan Gomih a special kind of confidence. “It's a high-pressure, risky environment; every mistake has consequences," she says. “If you can make it on the View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Entertainment/Media

04 Sep 2019
News

From Retail to Real Estate

(Drake Real Estate Partners LLC) (Drake Real Estate Partners LLC) When Nicolas Ibañez’s (MBA 2011) grandfather opened the doors of a grocery store in the 1950s, it was Chile’s first supermarket and an immediate success. Over time the... View Details

01 Nov 2019
What Do You Think?

Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?

solution is to restrict the use of noncompete clauses, not to ban them entirely.” An outright ban, he wrote, would “lead to significant unintended consequences, particularly at a time when the protection of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Tethys | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

restorations of the mosaic. This Roman work of art from more than a millennium and a half ago has much to teach us about Mediterranean culture and global trade in the ancient... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani

do already in modern portfolio theory." Modigliani doesn't attribute the market's rise entirely to technology stocks. "Technology is a big part of it -- technology-related stocks are now about 30 percent of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

these narratives A common feature of all resilient businesses we interviewed is that they proactively sought information from a variety of sources, including suppliers, trade... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

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Openings - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

instructor should consider presence and delivery in the opening: Voice Speak slowly and project Modulate tone and speed Movement Standing in a fixed spot (e.g. in front of the doc cam) can help focus student attention Using dynamic body... View Details

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Options: Basics for finding price data

An option is a financial derivative contract that essentially bestows the right to buy (call) or sell (put) a given security at a specified price (the strike or exercise price) at (or before) a specified date (the expiration date). For example, on January 14, 2014, the... View Details

2024
Article

Half the Firms, Double the Profits: Public Firms' Transformation, 1996–2022

By: Mark J. Roe and Charles C.Y. Wang

The number of public firms in the United States has halved since the beginning of the twenty-first century, causing consternation among corporate and securities law regulators. The dominant explanations, often advanced by Securities and Exchange commissioners when... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Law; Securities Regulation; Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Concentration Levels; Antitrust; Initial Public Offering; Public Ownership; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Mergers and Acquisitions; Monopoly; United States

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Data Privacy Statement (MENA) - Global

Middle East & North Africa Dubai, Istanbul, Tel Aviv Data Privacy Statement Pursuant to Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data of Turkey (hereinafter “Law”) entered into force on April 7, 2016 after... View Details

26 Oct 2018
Blog Post

Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

“Fitness is your hobby. Finance is your career.” - Words so false that they changed my life. Finance After graduating from Yale University, I joined the fast-paced world of Foreign Exchange (FX) at a large US-based investment bank in New... View Details

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Forum - U.S. Competitiveness

profit for the company. Started 24 Jun 2014 Shattering the Myths About U.S. Trade Policy Forum started by Robert Z. Lawrence and Lawrence Edwards The United States economy has to grow faster than its long-run potential to absorb its high... View Details

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

billion in seven trading days. One business columnist had proposed the creation of a federal Digital Protection Agency, whose job would be to “clean up toxic data spills, educate the public, and calibrate... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance

statistics identified friends and family, savings banks, and building & loan societies as the three largest sources of mortgage lending. Trade journals, like this report of... View Details

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Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

well have been stifled or ignored by a jaded trade press corps, used to handouts from established giant firms," Land biographer Victor McElheny argues. "Instead, instant photography was unveiled at a scientific conference as a technical... View Details

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

2026 J 3.0 Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy Vincent Pons Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Managing International Trade and Investment Meg Rithmire Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 RoGME: Role of Government in... View Details

13 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

When Rory M. McDonald was working on his PhD at Stanford University in 2007, it was the heyday of the lean startup in Silicon Valley. “It seemed like pretty much every week there was some new market category being touted as the next big... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail

30 May 2018
What Do You Think?

Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?

Summing Up Does IP Ownership Belong in International Trade Deals? Intellectual property (IP) regulation remains an active issue in trade negotiations between the China and the United States. The most... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

18 Dec 2019
Book

6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

means, including Machiavellian ones, if necessary, to bring together people with conflicting goals and spur them into action. When the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry tried to restrict Honda... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Jun 2024
News

Firm Foundation

Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a third-generation farmer in Manhattan,... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; private equity; Warren Buffett; career path; investment strategy; family business; Finance

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