stock market - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2009
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Of Value and Values

Generation manages to do the appropriate level of due diligence in emerging markets that lack transparency. Another wondered how Generation’s practice of sometimes holding investments for only a short time meshed with its commitment to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

25 Aug 2014
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Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999

figure out how to find care for my family.” That contradiction was not lost on the budding entrepreneur. Marcelo’s family emergency shed light on a market need that she wanted to fill. After a stint at TheLadders, she accepted a position... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

28 Feb 2014
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The First Five Years: Omowale Casselle (MBA 2009)

of incoming samples from our brand partners (P&G, Unilever, Elizabeth Arden), that our field team keeps our machines running and fully stocked with sample inventory, and that we are able to successfully launch and sustain each new View Details

Keywords: General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook

cofounder of Intuit, the world leader in software for personal and small business finance. After studying economics and math at the University of Southern California and earning his MBA, he learned the ropes of product marketing at... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2014
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Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds

proposal. At the end of FIELD 3, the team—which was by then armed with a better understanding of both sides of the market and how to engage business owners—pitched HourlyNerd again. This time, the mock stock... View Details

Keywords: April White

29 Apr 2025
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Challenge Accepted

margin, those working in the stock market were having much more fun than anyone else,” he says. Grantham cofounded Batterymarch Financial Management in 1969 and in 1977, GMO, where he continues to serve as... View Details

Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience

16 Sep 2015
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Built for Speed

Arizona, give their CEO updates on their respective projects via video chat. There are more than a dozen reports, covering everything from marketing to engineering to HR. Some are brief, some—a disagreement over a potential... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2009
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Just Keep Our Money

risky, stock market gyrations were so extreme, or money-market funds started “breaking the buck.” By helping Americans put some of their refunds aside in convenient, inflation-indexed savings bonds, the... View Details

Keywords: Peter Tufano; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Jan 2008
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Meg Whitman, MBA 1979

courageous, strategic, fast, and right.” CURRENT READING Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush, by Robert Draper “Today, eBay does more than double the trading volume of the New York Stock Exchange. And eBay does it 24/7.” Meg... View Details

17 Jan 2025
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Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff

in Dallas, and I had some really capable marketing guys and gals, and they came up with this idea, well, let's offer everybody who comes to the airport $1 on the first day for the ticket, and we'll go up from there to $30. And the airport... View Details

01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could

as a Baker Scholar, in his spare time Rogers honed a system for trading over-the-counter stocks and left HBS with his bills paid and $50,000 in the bank. Eager to return to the Bay Area where he grew up, Rogers accepted a job offer from... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2010
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Alumni Books

how companies use innovative business models to achieve transformational growth by fulfilling customer needs in current markets; serving new customers and creating new markets; and responding to shifts in market demand, government policy,... View Details

Keywords: mathematics; statistics; Finance

01 Dec 1999
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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

16 May 2018
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ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup

Alumni Runner-up prize with Magma Trading, a stock market for block-size trades that he calls “the Costco of trading.” Benoit Dupont (PLDA 20, 2016) (Europe region) took the $5,000 Crowd Favorite prize with... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Apr 1997
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HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues

January 31 to February 1. Before a Burden Hall audience of some nine hundred students, business leaders, and academics, keynote speaker Dr. Edgar Cheng, chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, voiced optimism for the British colony's... View Details

01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters

Indian stock market was booming, and investors had grown accustomed to outsized returns. Then the bottom fell out. The financial crisis spawned in the United States reverberated around the globe during the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Mar 2008
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Reimagining China and India

is behaving in predictable ways once you understand their circumstances and historical context. Do multinationals treat India and China largely as sales opportunities? Yes. I think most multinationals traditionally have gone to these countries seeing them as big View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2002
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Mary Callahan Erdoes

for her analytical skills and sound judgment, Erdoes is particularly sought out for her expertise in assessing complicated financial instruments, such as derivatives. The Chicago native and Georgetown University graduate says that during the current View Details