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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
- 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
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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
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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
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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
Roe, Mark J., and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Half the Firms, Double the Profits: Public Firms' Transformation, 1996–2022." Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting 8, no. 2 (2024): 211–264.
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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
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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
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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
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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
- 30 May 2018
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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
- 18 Dec 2019
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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
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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