Market Timing - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jul 2009
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

learning assumed that markets and people behave rationally vs. irrationally? Is it time to place more emphasis on educating students to manage in a world of irrational behavior? What do you think? To read... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional

Though the Internet has woven itself into most aspects of life, few fields have adopted it more actively, and at times controversially, than health care. What new business models in health care, based on the Internet, are rising to the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

17 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete

holds true in most health care service markets in the United States: You should think about what market position you occupy, how it is differentiated from others’, and whether you are fulfilling the needs of... View Details

Keywords: by Alumni Bulletin Staff; Health

01 Mar 2019
News

INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling

Companies. “Blitzscaling” is a set of techniques to scale up in a massive and urgent manner. Why is speed so critical? The key insight for blitzscaling is that there is a time when the best way to win is to prioritize speed over... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Oct 1998
News

Putting on the Wheels

current post heading international operations, which he now runs from Detroit after several years of doing so from GM's Zurich offices. As a GM "lifer," Hughes has witnessed strikes and harmony, lean years and boom times in the... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

16 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist

nearly sinking CNET by diverting essential resources into Snap!, "Know your limits. Only enter markets where you have a strong competitive advantage. Don't ever risk your core, unless you have to." "Singularity of... View Details

Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak

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(2) highlight some of the challenges and opportunities faced by businesses trying to bring innovation to market in Japan, including entrepreneurs and VCs, (3) discuss how some emerging business models and View Details

16 May 2016
HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

a long time to build up a culture of integrity for any inspection service,” Quelch says. Plus in China, some suspect that foreign brands are at times unfairly targeted, accused of food safety violations that... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

Web

Advocating for Best Practices on Tech Boards - Blog: RGE Report

Tech Boards Tamara Lytle Author tag Board Diversity Cheryl Beninga waved her cell phone to sum up the impact she’s had as a board member and investor in the technology world. The GPS on that phone? She helped make that possible. The gaming? Check. The Bluetooth? That... View Details

04 Dec 2014
News

Hacking Health Care

lifelong idealism and drive to improve world. Sirois recalls his time at HBS as providing the spark necessary to direct his energies in the early days of the emerging digital superhighway. “Technology was enabling a new world. It didn’t... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

12 Mar 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist

portions of its profits in the business—through research and development, market expansion, capital expenditures, and most importantly (and often forgotten) development of talented people and leaders. This virtuous circle creates value... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Banking

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?

The health insurance system in the United States is broken, and business is paying the price. Employers' insurance premiums reached an estimated $450 billion in 2000, and then shot up again, at three times the rate of inflation, in 2001.... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

production requires massive capital investment," Esty says. And as natural resources are tapped out in developed countries, it becomes necessary to explore geographic areas that may not have an established track record in a particular industry. For this reason,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

15 May 2019
Research Event

The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History

impact of global capitalism has focused on the West. The capitalism which is now under so much criticism is American capitalism, or more specifically a form of American capitalism which became dominant from the 1980s. The School’s extensive Creating Emerging View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Education

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

companies. The partners were allowed to spend up to $2 million at any one time without getting permission from the corporation. For larger expenditures, they were required to obtain permission from XTV's governing board, which consisted... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

08 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records

favor of the client, criminal cases in which advisors were found guilty, and any firing for cause. The findings are contained in the forthcoming paper The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct, scheduled to be published in the Journal... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

01 Dec 1996
News

Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business

paying attention to complements is a necessity. Without key complements, the market may never take off. In established markets, attending to complements has less dramatic but still valuable results. Here, complements most likely exist,... View Details

25 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

taxes on individual inventors and firms (the micro level) and on states over time (the macro level). We propose several identification strategies, all of which yield consistent results: i) OLS with fixed effects, including inventor and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

28 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

Adelphia the 11th largest bankruptcy case in history, and the third—after WorldCom and Enron—among those triggered by fraud. Set in 2005, when Adelphia is contemplating several options to emerge from bankruptcy, including a $17.6 billion cash-and-stock offer from View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 1999
News

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

in the capital markets was all but unheard of; Wall Street remained an exclusive investment preserve (some would say playground) for America's financial elite. But by making the ownership of securities easy and affordable for people of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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