Stock Market Participation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2007
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A View from the Top

company in 1979, Mixon had only $10,000 of the $7.8 million asking price. But he managed to raise the rest and led the company to annual revenues of $1.5 billion (those early investors have seen Invacare’s stock grow from 2¢ to $25 a... View Details

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

25 Aug 2014
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Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992

fanatical,” he recalls. “All I thought about was enabling young people to go from poverty to a professional career in one year.” Upon graduation, he moved to London, the hometown of his new wife, Kate, where he ran marketing for a... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

26 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 26

find that GPs are associated with higher expected acquisition premiums and that this association is at least partly due to the effect of GPs on executive incentives. However, we also find that firms that adopt GPs experience negative abnormal View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024

group delivered 171 programs—including 133 residential programs, 25 hybrid programs, and 13 virtual programs—that attracted 12,385 participants from around the world. More than 7,200 Executive Education students View Details

28 Nov 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?

agrees, of course. Comparing the simplicity of (especially short-term) responses to the complexity of the pay-for-performance challenge, Ravindra Edirisoorlya went so far as to say that "Current P4P model(s) may lead to another economic bubble and another strong... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit

Depression. As 2,000 alumni convened on campus Monday, October 13, the U.S. stock market soared to its biggest one-day numerical gain since 1933, following on the heels of an 18 percent decline the previous... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

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Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the Marketing track. Introduction to Creating Brand Value ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Creating Brand Value $1,850 Next 6-week session starts September... View Details

20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20

Working PapersGray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing (revised) Authors:Romana Autrey and Francesco Bova Abstract Gray markets arise when a manufacturer's products are sold outside of its... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

University of Illinois, Netscape became embroiled in a messy intellectual-property dispute. Despite these challenges, on its first day of trading, Netscape soared to a market capitalization of $2.1 billion. Why did Andreessen and Clark... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner

01 Sep 2020
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Building a Strong and Prosperous Society

government is. We need that $2 trillion stimulus package, but we also need, and do not have, a viable safety net. A strong democratically elected, transparent, and responsive government is vital to free-market capitalism because it not only provides the public goods on... View Details

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Innovation and Renovation: Optimizing Product Line Architecture - Course Catalog

“renovation”—keeping an offering’s essence intact while re-energizing it for greater impact—we will ask ourselves how to: Assess the quality of an innovation. Develop a framework to assess whether a new product or service will truly connect with consumers and... View Details

15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008

Synchronicity and Firm Interlocks in an Emerging Market Authors:Tarun Khanna and Catherine Thomas Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Stock price synchronicity has been... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities

12 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors

that the Chinese wall was no protection at all for the independence of the analysts. Trying to sell IPOs, analysts gave glowing recommendations to firms which collapsed within months. Trying to support the stocks of firms previously sold... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

01 Apr 1997
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Manager's Notebook

customer information. But now, conveniences such as Web browsers and "smart cards" (which today are used to store electronic money in several European markets and, in the future, could record an individual's daily transaction information)... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4

rationalized step processes vs. open platform systems. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52466 Firm Selection and Corporate Cash Holdings By: Begenau, Juliane, and Berardino Palazzo Abstract—Among View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Mar 2018
News

Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams

AwesomenessTV was sold to NBCUniversal, the timing was right. “I was wearing many hats at the studio — from business development to finance to marketing and operations. I learned a lot on the job, but thought an HBS education would... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Alumni Are Integral to HBS

feel like I have a little bit of a different perspective going back to my work life.” “I feel like I have a little bit of a different perspective going back to my work life.” —Amy Lang, The Boardroom participant 400+ Alumni View Details

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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online

within your organization Who Will Benefit Innovative Leaders and Intrapreneurs High-Potential, Mid-Level Managers Experienced Team Leaders Drive innovation within companies of all stages and sizes—whether an established market leader, a... View Details

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Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog

Students will learn how leadership teams address the challenges and opportunities ventures face after achieving product-market fit – and how to activate and manage exponential growth. The course reflects the recent shift in market... View Details

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