Trade Credits - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Mar 2016
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On Credit

Illustration by Eduardo Recife The large tome looks its age, which is roughly 160 years old. Bound in leather, an average page, of which there are about 800 in the volume, includes almost 100 eye-blurring lines of pen-and-ink script. It’s one of 2,522 volumes of View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2023
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Buy Big, Sell Small

cofounder of ApnaKlub, a wholesale digital platform that helps kirana owners aggregate their buying power and access credit tools and other services. “These are micro businesses that run on tight margins. If shopkeepers run out of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; retail; supply chain management; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Retail Trade; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2024
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

force for good in society—a belief that is core to our company’s values. In Guyana, we’re partnering with the Mt. Sinai Health System and the Guyanese government to modernize the country’s health care system, and we also have made one of the largest private-sector... View Details

25 Feb 2020
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Task Force

Tom Eisenmann; in it, she compared mobile money use in African countries with Latin America’s much slower adoption and discovered that while 85 percent of Mexico’s population owned a smartphone, only 30 percent had a bank account and 10 percent a View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; gig economy; Retail Trade

01 Oct 1997
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Brice Cutrer Jones

eight years, in addition to ranking either first or second in popularity of all wines of any variety and origin. Jones credits his success to luck (white wine came into vogue just as he was harvesting his first crops); to the support of... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Plastic Bank, a global network of micro-recycling markets that empower the poor to transcend poverty by getting paid to collect plastic waste in their communities. The Plastic Bank is an ecosystem that provides an opportunity for the world to collect and View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jan 2013
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André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973

enabled Jakurski and his colleagues to expand into a full range of financial services, including trading and investment banking. In 1991, when the Brazilian stock market opened up to foreign investment, Jakurski invested heavily in... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Oct 1997
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Terence P. Stewart

materialize," says Stewart. "As a trade lawyer, I see missed opportunities for American firms caused by the West's failure to set up lines of credit to deserving enterprises and by the unimaginative approach... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2009
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Faculty Books

economy to foreign trade and investment not result in sustained economic growth? Why has electoral democracy not produced the rule of law? The answers to these questions lie in the ways in which Mexico’s long history with authoritarian... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2024
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and created a new profit... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Meyers

01 Mar 2011
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The Check Is in the Mail

Credit due: Trade cards ca. 1870 (top) showed that everything from sewing machines to harvesters could be purchased on installment; the dangers of extending credit instead of... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

from the 1950s to 1960s (an era that Light identifies as the "first burst" of success for the mutual fund). During those years, Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. (MBA '25) led the Massachusetts Investors Trust, the Boston firm credited with... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2018
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Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?

them to downsize and slash jobs. “It was a commodity price down cycle across almost all metals. We were obviously expecting a large negative impact,” recalls Chernilovskiy, then an asset manager at Kazakhstani zinc-producer Kazzinc, a subsidiary of Swiss commodity... View Details

Keywords: Nicole Torres

01 Dec 2008
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Seth Klarman

earning Klarman entry into the Alpha magazine Hedge Fund Hall of Fame. The firm has grown from 3 to 100 employees. A consummate team player, Klarman rarely uses his private office, choosing instead to sit at the trading desk where he... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Dec 1998
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Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All

phone bills at home. Major organizations will be essentially ready. I do expect a period of transition and inconvenience such as we are now experiencing at times with credit cards. And government agencies must work to catch up if they are... View Details

01 Dec 2004
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A Case of Achievement

Enterprises, an international trade consulting and investment firm, Franklin has worked in government with five U.S. presidents, including service as secretary of commerce in the administration of President George H.W. Bush. A.G. Lafley... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

25 Mar 2008
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Whistling Past the Graveyard

power have been virtually stagnant for decades. Two incomes are required where one used to suffice. Jobs and entire industries have gone overseas. The trade deficit has grown enormously. Tax codes have become skewed to the very wealthy.... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

23 May 2018
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John A. Paulson, MBA 1980

1984 Joins Bear Stearns, M&A Managing Director 1988 Named Partner, Gruss Partners 1994 Launches Paulson & Co. 2007 Makes what many call the “greatest trade ever” on subprime mortgage market 2012 Contributes historic donation to Central... View Details