market timing - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Oct 2022
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Lebanon Alumni Host US Ambassador for Dinner and Discussion

opportunity to chat face-to-face with the faculty guests. “We have always had a social gathering for GNN, but this is the first time we're having HBS faculty attend— and the first time we are having a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

17 Jul 2020
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Support System

of their harvest or the ability to move their product beyond Africa to be marketed and sold. The result? They take what they could get from the traders who showed up in the village with trucks from time to... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

30 Jan 2009
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What’s It Worth to You?

How much is a CEO worth? What is appropriate compensation for the leader of a large and complex organization? One frequent reply has been “Let the market decide.” The “market” apparently decided that Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld was... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Jun 1996
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Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course

rooted in the popular MBA elective, The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: The United States, an offering designed in the 1980s by HBS professors Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., and Richard S. Tedlow. To expand this course into the global arena while compressing it into a... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jan 2003
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Greylock

with them regularly-originally eleven times a year-to make sure there were no surprises, either good or bad." In a matter of months, Elfers brought five prominent families into the fold, including inventor and financier Sherman Fairchild... View Details

01 Jun 2008
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Immersion Program Digs Deep

see what was behind all the newspaper stories.” Post-HBS, Vitkauskas will work as a vice president in the London office of Summit Partners and focus on the markets of Central and Eastern Europe. “The immersion was an amazing way to get... View Details

Keywords: immersion; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Oct 2000
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Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance

fulfilling Corti's dream of piloting a plane around the globe. "Flying always seems miraculous to me -- it's a triumph of man over nature," says Corti, who at the time of the trip was chief administrative officer at Nestlé USA, based in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2006
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Job One: Alumni Engagement

Cooper I am often asked, “What does the Alumni Board do?” HBS professor Mal Salter, senior associate dean for External Relations, describes us as a “working board.” Our forty-plus members — past and present volunteers and active alumni from around the globe — meet in... View Details

Keywords: Peter Cooper

28 Mar 2016
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Drawing Connections Between Business and Art

was fresh and contemporary when it was created, and was available cheaply. There may be only one or two pieces among a million that will endure for centuries. However, if there is no market for these million paintings now, there is no... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

15 Nov 2024
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Driving Change

immediately following one of the most unusual election seasons in US history: “The opportunity to gather with an amazing cohort of peers and leaders, to listen to others with curiosity and humility, to test assumptions and deepen understanding—there is no better View Details

01 Dec 2007
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How Business Schools Lost Their Way

management itself, the times seem ripe for reopening the question of what exactly this institution is for, what functions we as a society want it to perform, and how well it is performing them. Great Depression Rekindles the Drive for... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

17 Apr 2019
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Give It to Me Straight

relatively early on in your career. How did your time at Google and then Apple sharpen your thesis? Kim: It took me a long time to make sense of that experience and to make sense of it in a way that other... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jan 2003
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James E. Burke, MBA 1949

killed. Industry analysts and advertising experts told us that Tylenol was finished." As several HBS case studies point out, Tylenol was the country's best-selling over-the-counter pain reliever at the time of the poisonings, with 35... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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The Camel and the Unicorn

painted a two by two matrix, you might put Silicon Valley on the top right. Incredibly developed startup ecosystem and one of the most developed markets in the world, the US, and there's a couple other ecosystems you might put up there,... View Details

04 Sep 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

and Forever by Greg Hadley (OPM 5, 1981) Self Published Since we can only influence the current moment, now is the time to adjust our attitude, mood and connection to those around us. Hadley brings us a book of thoughts and poems for... View Details

01 Jun 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

(MBA 1965) (Springer) This book focuses on how to lead transformative and strategic change in the healthcare industry in times of great uncertainty. It provides new tools, processes, examples, and case studies offering an effective... View Details

21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

iStock MESSAGE FROM DEAN SRIKANT DATAR On February 27, Dean Srikant Datar sent a message to the HBS community regarding the invasion of Ukraine, noting the resources available to those looking to offer support and highlighting learning opportunities available at HBS.... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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Redefining Success: Women & Work.

package and used her time to get involved in various volunteer and charity activities while remaining active in her industry. After teaching a course at the annual cable television marketing convention, she... View Details