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- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
interest approved by the board. The idea was to use these mind-numbingly complex entities to manage reported earnings, minimize reported debt, and maintain the company's all-important credit rating and overvalued stock price. Enron also used the off-balance-sheet...
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- 15 Feb 2022
- Book
When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career
orchestra as a soloist just within reach. But suddenly, his performance started to worsen. No amount of practice or specialized training helped. In fact, the harder he raged against his decline, the faster it inevitably came. He took a job teaching music and, to View Details
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by Avery Forman
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Publisher's Link: http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470392509.html How to Catch a Tiger: Understanding Putting Performance on the PGA TOUR Authors:Douglas Fearing, Jason Acimovic, and Stephen C. Graves Publication:Journal of View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
examination of how changes in a firm's performance and position are communicated to key external stakeholders in an effort to retain their confidence, while market conditions worsen, the balance sheet deteriorates, and the firm's credibility is challenged by a...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Allison Hughes
Looking ahead to a career in hedge funds, Hughes is enthusiastic. "Analyzing companies from a qualitative and quantitative perspective is a natural progression from case studies at HBS," she says. She...
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Charlie Hogg
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife...
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Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- Research Summary
Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920
Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details
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Commodities;
Coffee;
Mexico;
Foreign Investment;
Institutions;
Immigration;
Developing Agriculture;
Development;
Export Crop;
Emerging Market;
Property Rights;
Labor History;
History;
Capital Markets;
Business History;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Latin America;
Mexico;
Central America
- Fast Answer
What are the best finance interview prep resources?
in the menu bar. Select Banking & Finance. Titles include Vault Guide to Finance Interviews and Vault Guide to Advanced Finance and Quantitative Interviews Street of Walls - Their training courses cover...
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- 05 Sep 2014
- News
Keeping Education in Check
David Berman (MBA 1991) is a successful hedge fund manager and a regular commentator on CNBC and Bloomberg TV, who has been deemed “the king of the retail jungle” by Fortune. But none of this, he says, would have been possible without the...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
It’s raining in Sarasota. And not a light sprinkle but a proper, Florida drenching, so the outdoor courts at the Pickleball Club’s Lakewood Ranch location are deserted. Inside is a different story. Most of the 12 courts are in play. With four people to a court, all...
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Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023 - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
global hedge fund initially focused on managing his own money. Over the last 15 years, Jakurski and his team have grown the now 80-person firm into one of Brazil's top five independent asset management firms that includes credit and...
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Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
as I've aged, I've become much more interested in building successful enterprises than in making money personally. Another change is that when I was starting out, I didn't clearly grasp the difference between being an owner of something and being an employee. I've...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 24 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions
limited to working at law firms, management consulting firms, investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, venture capital firms, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, the U.S. court system, start-ups and non-profit...
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- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams...
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- 26 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness
Being a young Nigerian female on a highly quantitative desk was already unconventional, but I was also joining the firm with an untraditional background as a liberal arts major with previous experiences in media. Nevertheless, I was still...
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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity
Administration Alexandra (Allie) Feldberg is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Feldberg uses qualitative and quantitative methods to examine...
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- 14 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
LOVE At HBS
apartment, and the other fun experiences we were bound to share as roommates. Although we may not remember everything we’ve learned in class, we’ll always remember the incredible memories we’ve made together at HBS and the love we’ve...
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- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
quantitative strategy, digging into numbers many ignore; others look deeply into industries or countries they are familiar with that many analysts don't understand. Successful investors learn how to put their unique knowledge to work...
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- Profile
Max Seel
ownership of my ideas." HBS became the place to build his business foundation. "Here, you get a taste of everything," says Max. "Marketing, economics, entrepreneurship – the Required Curriculum spans the entire business spectrum." "HBS...
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