Market Timing - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Feb 2014
News

The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)

friends and family complain about the options for buying lingerie in the United States. I found that there was a huge opportunity to disrupt the intimate apparel space. People are so tired of high prices and slow fashion from Victoria's Secret, and I knew we could... View Details

Keywords: online shopping; fashion; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2004
News

Whit Sears (MBA 1959)

wat. Although built around a temple and housing a contingent of monks, each wat also serves as a social and community center and frequently hosts market days and carnivals. It’s hard to convey the pervasive role of monks in Thai society.... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Mar 2013
News

Commitment to Leadership

School's first program with a major e-learning component and to train one-on-one coaches to support a more individualized approach to learning. In my own research and writing, I am currently working on two topics: what it takes to lead and manage talent in emerging... View Details

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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2019

This variation exists because the dollar amount of the distribution for the next fiscal year is determined well in advance of the start of the fiscal year and prior to knowing the market value at the end of it. This practice is followed... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Promise & Perils

officials show no signs of changing course and backing away from further market reforms. But external criticism of the country’s uneven progress in implementing the trade agreement has grown stronger in recent months. U.S. manufacturers... View Details

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

01 Dec 1996
News

An Entrepreneurial Journey

Steven B. Belkin (MBA '71) began his highly successful travel and financial services marketing enterprise, Trans National Group, a few years out of HBS. G. Peter Bidstrup (MBA '59) started to put together the Doubletree Hotel chain in the... View Details

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Europe

in the world is crazy." It's evident in labor markets, where the case of India and the software industry is just one example of how incredibly active things are right now. "Of course, the idea market is what scares us all,"... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

05 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Building Bridges Between Education and Business

specific aspects of a company. It's much easier to get a business to open up about its marketing or logistics work, he said, when it doesn't feel compelled to show its overall corporate strategy. Another group's representative added that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1996
News

Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World

turn triggers the adrenal gland and floods the conscious brain with chemicals. By the time the information reaches the thinking part of the brain, the cortex has been tainted by the prior emotional response. Thus, messages of emotional... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2014
News

Ask the Expert: A Fair Share

So if fewer and fewer people are buying insurance policies, what are insurers going to do with their business? They should look at this as a changing market and realize that if they get in now, they could have a commanding mindshare of... View Details

01 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 1

by managers facing intertemporal decisions. We assess the association between different types of performance measures and the time horizon of business unit managers who have profit responsibility. Our results, based on a sample of 105... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

are certain concentrated times that favor each one. Entrepreneurs are the dominant leadership archetype in the early start-up phase of an industry, especially as different players try to establish a viable business model. This was the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

03 Apr 2006
What Do You Think?

Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?

that globalization has led corporations to outsource too much of their work and, more important, their intellectual capital. This has created a worldwide level of interdependency that increasingly threatens to disrupt supply lines and View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Scrapbooks & Collectibles- The Art of American Advertising

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections Visual Resources More Exhibits Exhibition Gallery Research Links Site Credits The Art of American Advertising: Scrapbooks & Collectibles National Markets Advertising Products Trade... View Details

10 Mar 2021
News

Vision: A Unicorn Evolves

product sped up the process of creating and following up on sales pitches, which resulted in 10 times more meetings for GroupTalent’s two sales reps, Medina says. But the influx of interest overwhelmed the small startup, and they were... View Details

Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; technology; startups; leadership

01 Dec 2019
News

What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

it happen in practice. That’s on the private market side. On the public side, the question is how you can influence the behavior of a company to reflect your values, or protect the long-term value of your investment—or both—while only... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

22 Feb 2019
News

Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders

assigned a product or service to turn into a business, and then the rest was up to them. That included raising money to start the business, creating a marketing plan, and developing some of the company’s operations, like banking, sales... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods

an exciting time for opportunity in the logistics industry. “It’s going to raise a lot of questions, none of which are without consequence for the Postal Service,” he says. Through his consulting practice and now as director and strategic... View Details