Jealousy Of Trade - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

to the underlying belief structure. Kusin uses a broad range of analytic tools enhanced and supplemented by 20 years of data collection, polling, and anecdotes from the highest level View Details

11 Apr 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

spend years burning through venture capital while they figured out their strategy. These are the days of the lean startup. "Most startups fail not because they can't build the product they set out to build, but because they build the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

change on the competitive landscape. Highlights Absolute Advantage - Static of Production Frontier Water and Food Show Hide Details Concepts Trade Cross Border Investment Immigration Energy and... 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

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

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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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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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

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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

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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

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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

31 Jan 2014
News

Body, Heal Thyself

says, that big seat as bioMérieux CEO at the age of 33. Now just 41, this man, who says he never wants to regret a thing, who was recruited to lead giant companies being traded on NASDAQ and NYSE, and who is... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; biotech; Health, Social Assistance; Scientific Research and Development Services

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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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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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

01 Jun 2024
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Firm Foundation

took a chance and sent him a letter asking for a job. It was 2009, and she was just 24, but she’d made an impression. Buffett hired her for the summer, then created a full-time position for her shortly thereafter. While at Berkshire, Britt Cool was chair View Details

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

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

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly

average price to bring a new high-risk medical device to market. That extra cost can dampen the ability of companies to pursue new innovations. Indeed, Stern found that small firms (defined as non-publicly View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Technology

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