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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland where she spoke about the role of confidence in women's economic empowerment. In 2012 and 2013, she partnered with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to study a decade of gender in the C-suite—researching how women fared...
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- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Harvard Business School Note 706-044 Describes the emergence of several kinds of efforts to assure the safety of foreign investment in emerging markets: international arbitration, expanded official political risk insurance, credit from...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
as a Baker Scholar, in his spare time Rogers honed a system for trading over-the-counter stocks and left HBS with his bills paid and $50,000 in the bank. Eager to return to the Bay Area where he grew up, Rogers accepted a job offer from...
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- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
effectively within the newly merged entities. No PDF is available at this time. Reputation and Competition: Evidence from the Credit Rating Industry Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Abstract Fair and accurate View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
bucked the odds, winning the company accolades in the press, shelf space at major (and minor) retailers, and the Game of the Year awards at the American International Toy Fair, the industry’s annual trade show, in 2001 and 2002. Like...
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- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
make more money.” The data back up that philosophy. A 2016 survey of publicly traded companies from the Peterson Institute for International Economics found that the presence of more women in top positions of corporate management...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
believe investing in women-led companies will make more money.” The data back up that philosophy. A 2016 survey of publicly traded companies from the Peterson Institute for International Economics found that the presence of more women in...
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- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
associated with taxing foreign-source income. Examples are given of the practical after-tax effects of the major alternatives. Foreign tax credit and "tax haven" based business activities receive special attention. Provides an...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
graduated from the School in 1926. We understand that he has been an active member of the Harvard Club of Tokio [sic] and observe that his alumni dues are paid through October, 1942! War Notes Winter 1955 Married college sweetheart and went with Commercial View Details
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Nancy O. Perry
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
(from the case); analyzing preliminary estimated costs per building trade (from the discussion questions); playing the multiparty real time competitive bid simulation to receive and process market costs; and debriefing on which bids...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
financial crisis of 2008 laid bare the hidden network of relationships in corporate governance: who owes what to whom, who will stand by whom in times of crisis, what governs the provision of credit when no one seems to have credit. This...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
financial institution, but our clients were the heads of equity, the heads of sell-side research, sales and trading in investment banks. So, you have this career, which I really enjoyed. There were a couple of transitional points with the...
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- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
experiments to test theoretical predictions of why adoption may be low. Insurance purchase is sensitive to price, with an estimated extensive price elasticity of demand between -0.66 and -0.88. Credit constraints, identified through the...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
was publisher of the Washington Post during the Watergate investigation. Coming hard upon the heels of her decision to brave the wrath of the Nixon administration and publish a series of articles based on the Pentagon Papers, Graham had earned quite a lot of moral...
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FY19 Baker Library Annual Report
A History, 1850–2008 examines the story of one of the country’s longest-running investment banks, its reach into nearly every sector of the American economy, and the impact of the firm’s collapse. Global Outreach Utilizing the R.G. Dun & Company View Details
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
shocks, i.e., they must buy or sell at the same time. Two assets are "co-fragile" if their owners have correlated trading needs, even if the holdings of these owners do not directly overlap. We formalize this idea and apply it...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
PublicationsFinancial Development, Fixed Costs and International Trade Authors:Bo Becker, David Greenberg, and Jinzhu Chen Publication:Review of Corporate Finance Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Exporting firms face significant up-front...
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
scale has ever been attempted. Moreover, the plan has numerous question marks over how it would work. How would financial institutions get taxed? Would pass-through entities have their current treatment? Most importantly, it’s not clear it would pass muster with the...
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
many high-growth businesses in China, Gome has only moderate financing needs. Its charismatic and ambitious chairman Wong Kwongyu has built an expansive retail network in China and successfully used trade View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
industry sectors. At the holding-company level, the four largest organizations account for only about a quarter of the industry's total revenue, a share that changed little over the period 2002-2008, but one that is approximately half of estimates frequently cited in...
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Martha Lagace