Stock Market Expectations - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers

By now, it’s an expected right-of-passage. As you enter credit card information for an online purchase, up pops two familiar words: “Privacy Notice.” Does seeing those words make you more confident about the transaction, knowing that the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

12 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?

designed to fit with the strategy. Q: What were some of the other most intriguing results from the survey? Did any of these results surprise you? A: Perhaps the most surprising result was that the U.S. does not have smaller headquarters than European firms—indeed the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules

regulation wanted—a level playing field of information for all market participants--no sophisticated investor would want to spend much time having these meetings. Place yourself in the position of a hedge fund manager. Why would you spend... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

11 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

consumption Euler equation, commonly assumed in New Keynesian models. Estimating the model separately for 1979–2001 and 2001–2011 explains why the exposure of U.S. Treasury bonds to the stock market changed... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Radical Design, Radical Results

that design innovation often involves a high degree of uncertainty in terms of market success. "It's very hard to understand what people want," he says. "If I make a car that can brake in 10 yards instead of 50, that's a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

02 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Need a Say on Pay

perks and forms of compensation, such as stock option grants. "My sense is that the Obama administration fundamentally believes in the power of markets combined with good government supervision,"... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

01 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 1

the primary objective for financial reporting standards will result in a GAAP that is unlikely to adequately serve stakeholders' needs. The theory allows us to compare and contrast extant GAAP, as observed in a regulated setting, with GAAP that might arise endogenously... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1999
News

From the Editors

briefly when Bates left in 1928, and former newspaper correspondent John Hunter Sedgwick (MBA '22), who began his ten-year assignment in 1929. In the first of his trademark editorials on world events, Sedgwick commented on the recent View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

25 Oct 2016
First Look

October 25, 2016

analysts, to consumers—need to know about how new products and services are expected to perform in the marketplace. The book develops a compelling framework that connects the rich academic knowledge on innovation diffusion with that on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Nov 2008
What Do You Think?

How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?

over-involvement (of) customers have led to bitter intellectual property right disputes customers simultaneously trying to drive the product in two (or more) very separate market directions (or) feature creep that literally prevents... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

January 2011
Supplement

Matrix Capital Management (B)

By: Malcolm P. Baker and David Lane

Ben Balbale, a partner at hedge fund Matrix Capital, must decide whether to exit their investment in Rovi Corporation, a company with a diverse portfolio of patents used primarily for digital interactive guides. Rovi's shares are up over 50% from the time Balbale... View Details

Keywords: Public Ownership; Cash Flow; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Investment Funds; Financial Strategy; Valuation; Partners and Partnerships; Markets; Performance Efficiency; Patents; Stock Shares; Decisions; Financial Services Industry

Citation

Purchase

30 Aug 2016
First Look

August 30, 2016

forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field Experiment By: Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—We conduct a field experiment in which we vary the sales force compensation scheme... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Aug 2001
News

George C. Lodge

to HBS to complete his first book, Spearheads of Democracy: Labor in the Developing Countries. He didn't have a graduate degree and never expected to become a professor. But in a remarkable HBS career that has spanned four decades and... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Stanley F. Teele; Ezra F. Vogel; John W. Rosenblum

29 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019

Our most popular stories are those that help readers become better managers and outstanding leaders. Here are our most-read stories and faculty research papers in 2019. Tell us in the comment section below what you thought were the most interesting business trends of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Jul 2011
News

China Boot Camp

Accounting and Management Unit, Srinivasan says that his research received an immediate boost from the trip. “I have a couple of projects on securities markets and financial reporting in China that have come into sharper focus since the... View Details

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

01 Apr 1998
News

World Class Learning

reject." To avoid generating only "a grossly ethnocentric set of values," continues Salter, explorations of performance hypotheses require a diverse student body. "We also need to be alert to the fact that different cultures place different View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Oct 2001
News

A Janus-Faced Reflection

each of its October issues of the recent past, the Bulletin has run a short piece subtitled, approximately, "A Classmate's Reflections on the Occasion of the 25th Reunion." By now it's almost as if a genre has been created, with attendant View Details

Keywords: Walter Kiechel; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

pocketbooks. Since then, as the stock market roller coaster has shown, the rhetoric has only ratcheted upwards. On April 5, the president threatened tariffs on an additional $100 billion in Chinese goods.... View Details

Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications

05 Sep 2000
What Do You Think?

Whither the Information Economy?

made possible by a shifting "mix" featuring less product-centered and more information-centered economic activity. Skyrocketing price-earnings ratios of information-rich corporations are a natural result of this. Growing ratios of market-to-book value that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Dec 2016
News

Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff

Exxon oil refinery and designed chemical plants for Chevron. “I had practical experience in the energy field, but as an engineer, I focused entirely on the quantitative,” explains Wulff. His wife, Louise, suggested he take business courses at night. He did well, and... View Details

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