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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
Three important events happened at the end of the 1970s. First, there were changes in ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) legislation that allowed pension funds to invest in private equity; second, the growth of the...
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- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
projects with social impact—from cleaning up a river to saving animals—and allowed other users to vote on which projects Pepsi should fund. Or consider DonorsChoose.org, which allows donors to contribute funds directly to low income...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
in their degree of revealed credit constraints. Specifically, we analyze how these Americans spend their income tax refunds, using transaction-level data from a stored-value card product. Cardholders may...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807032 A Note on the Legal and Tax Implications of Founders' Equity Splits Harvard Business School Note 809-110 This note summarizes key legal and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
finance. Wilson then addresses issues central to the present-day political discussion, such as the fairness of US tax policy, the social safety net, health care, and income inequality. Faculty Books...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
on the state of the FinTech industry. Luis serves as the George E. Bates Professor in the Finance Unit and is also Senior Associate Dean for Executive Education at Harvard Business School, where he conducts research on long-term asset allocation, asset pricing, fixed...
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- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
income of the importing country. Because most low-income countries import the bulk of capital goods, our results provide suggestive evidence that capital goods are more expensive in poor countries, consistent with the conventional...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
Asian countries have made spectacular advances. These include post-WWII Japan and more recently Singapore, China, India, South Korea, and Taiwan. Nevertheless most Africans were better off forty years ago than they are today. Average per capita View Details
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
money instrument matures, and there is no [guarantee] that rates will stay the same over time. That is, short-dated fixed income instruments are subject to "reinvestment risk" (or, "interest rate risk"). Over long...
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by Ann Cullen
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created...
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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
told General Medina. He was a CFA with experience in international business, and now he had spent four years in one of the most taxing leadership positions imaginable. But he needed General Medina to support his petition to end active...
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- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
a simple model of populism as the rejection of “disloyal” leaders. We show that adding the assumption that people are worse off when they experience low income as a result of leader betrayal (than when it is the result of bad luck) to a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
management; knowledge of the appropriate skills and tools, such as opportunity analysis, deal-structuring, organization design, and innovation supports; command of relevant specific knowledge, including tax law, corporate governance...
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- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
there'll be a lot of entrepreneurs who'll create these markets. The analogy is in the mutual fund market. Vanguard came along with the 401(k), and John Bogle, the amazing man who created Vanguard, knew that consumers were going to have to shop for retirement View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Bob Ryan (MBA 1970) was born in Detroit, the first in his family to graduate from college. His Dad was a Chrysler factory worker whose schooling ended in fifth grade, his Mom a homemaker. But...
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- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
decision-making is limited. Exploiting exogenous variation in state compulsory schooling laws in both standard and two-sample instrumental variable strategies, we show education increases financial market participation, measured by investment View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
population is increasing faster than any other nation in history, while its birthrate is shrinking. That double whammy is reducing both the workforce to care for the elderly and the tax base to support its universal health insurance...
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Health, Social Assistance
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
these technologies to actually advance workers? I spent two and a half years working on unemployment insurance—in many ways, during the pandemic, a triumph, probably the largest income transfer program in the history of the country stood...
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