Market Timing - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”

parks his Fiesta next to the independent venture capitalists' Ferraris, the temptation to go elsewhere becomes too great." In other words, companies who create internal venture teams to fuel their research and development must not cheap out when it comes View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

01 Sep 2003
News

Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives

2003, adding these areas to the growing list of research centers in key regions — including Latin America, Silicon Valley, and the Asia-Pacific — where we are building relationships that support and facilitate faculty research and course development. From the View Details

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

23 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

banking and would result in the 10th-largest bank in the world. Discusses the main sources of value creation from international expansion and acquisitions in the commercial banking industry. Also, highlights the barriers to integration within the single View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Publishing Christianity today is a confused play of charlatans, people enamored of untruths, half-truths, and often evil. It is about time we redefined our faith, a faith that is now more about who we are in the View Details

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

he was facing not only substantial organizational crises but a deep-seated cultural challenge as well. Marietta had the pedigree of an outside expert, with a master’s and a doctorate of education from Harvard along with his MBA. At HBS, Marietta spent much of his View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

13 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably

investments. At Grolsch and many other sites, we consistently heard that times of crisis can also be times of transition and opportunity because spikes in energy prices can improve the business cases for... View Details

25 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 25

are not compartmentalized; rather a loss in one currency may impact trading in another. We also show that while the impact of a loss on subsequent trading decisions does linger, the affect declines sharply after a losing position is closed. The Impact of Web 2.0 on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

05 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

so that it would act in the national interest. Exporting began to be seen as a route to development, and foreign firms offered both the technology and access to markets that might make exports possible. Many state-owned firms—some of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities

01 Dec 2015
News

Golden State of Mind

pedigree, becoming a VC wasn’t the original plan. Instead, Tim Draper wanted to be an entrepreneur. He had some good ideas, he says, which ran the gamut from digitizing music (back in the early 1980s) to a new global stock market to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

28 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

revolutionary functionality. We explore a second entry path that does not rely upon Schumpeterian innovation: platform envelopment. Through envelopment, a provider in one platform market can enter another platform market, combining its... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

Ratcheting, Competition, and the Diffusion of Technological Change: The Case of Televisions Under an Energy Efficiency Program By: Amano, Tomomichi, and Hiroshi Ohashi Abstract—In differentiated goods markets with societal implications,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

Web

Day in IFC: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017), Africa - MBA

to other helpful contacts, and so on, until our time was up and it became our turn to educate our contacts by presenting our findings. In-between meetings we carved out time for cultural experiences starting... View Details

01 Mar 2010
News

Sole Mates

There are few cultural attractions; Monrovia has only one movie theater, and it’s overrun by cats. But the beach is very nice. Anyway, I’m always working. I don’t have much time for diversion. COMTE: Close to Miami, a piece of France in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

01 Dec 2012
News

The Accidental Pioneers

would be mostly men and a few women." She was right. Sherwood was one of eight women out of a class of 668 to be admitted for the first time to the two-year MBA Program, a fact that didn't sink in until the women saw one another amid a... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

24 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

The team studied trends in outstanding credit, stock market values, and home prices from 1950 to 2016 for 42 countries. They found the potential for a financial crisis was highest in years when both stock prices and non-financial business... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

Profile

Andres Sarmiento

problems. But it was during this time of crisis that I learned that the best leaders are those that can lead in tough times. Inspired by this experience I decided to challenge myself with an experience that would develop my skills and... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology; Services

14 Jul 2015
Blog Post

On the Road: Zurich, Warsaw, and Istanbul

While the Admissions team always hosts information sessions on campus throughout the year, we also travel around the globe to meet prospective students and spread the word about HBS. Summer is a particularly busy time for us, so be sure... View Details

01 Sep 2015
News

Faculty Q&A: The Working World

as pursuits like marketing or law. RELATED HBSP Entrepreneurship Reading: Launching Global Ventures Immigration is such a hot-button topic in politics. Do you hold out any hope that your research can provide a more balanced perspective? I... View Details