Stock Market Expectations - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

continued in the 1960s, fueled by a booming stock market and corporate strategies that were heavily geared toward growth and diversification. In a classic 1960 article, "Marketing Myopia," Theodore... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

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Lessons from the 2025 Race, Gender & Equity at Work Symposium - Blog: RGE Report

transformative hope? How to foster transformative hope Ground your knowledge in the context of the changes you seek. This means considering the biases of your own education and inquiry, especially when working outside of the Eurocentric enclosures of the academy. View Details

19 Mar 2015
News

Walter Salmon Remembered

HBS professors of whom I still have fond memories. Robert Willig (MBA 1963) Walter Salmon was the kindest man on the faculty when I was there. He is my fondest memory of the school. Charles E. Smith (MBA 1961) Marketing was not my chosen... View Details

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

01 Jun 2004
News

An Ethical Fitness Quiz for Negotiators

down to craft a deal or settle a dispute,” says Wheeler. “Your character is one thing you shouldn’t make up as you go along.” Wheeler presents three cases that test ethical negotiating behavior. The “steal deal” scenario involves an elderly couple offering their house... View Details

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

09 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

The Manager in Red Sneakers

confidence in their dressed-down rejection of the traditional pricey business suit and tie. It happens in academia, too. Anat Keinan, assistant professor of marketing at Harvard Business School, and Silvia Bellezza, a doctoral candidate... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

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SPACE: Space, Public and Commercial Economics - Course Catalog

one’s own vision for space and be able to explain why it is worth pursuing. Course Outline Part One: Establish the Market Class session 1: The Inflection Point: Crisis into Opportunity Summary: A new era in how humans interact with space... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution

rate is 16 percent) and is paying its employees 30 percent to 40 percent above the average Jordanian wage rate in similar fields. Furthermore, the venture has the potential to open up markets to both sides that have hitherto been... View Details

Keywords: Michael Porter, Yagil Weinberg, and Noreena Hertz

06 May 2022
Blog Post

Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup

(planting trees where there were no trees previously) all play a role in taking in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But, it can be a challenge to efficiently and accurately measure how much carbon stock is stored in a forest. The... View Details

01 Jun 2025
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2025

in management consulting for 18 months, which was a mistake. I asked my classmates how they were getting on, and the people working in the stock market were having much more fun than anyone else.” What... View Details

Keywords: leadership; Alumni Achievement Awards

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Shawn Tuli

lot of direct exposure to cultural and employment decisions, on which markets to enter, which assets to manage.” Yet even as real estate remained Shawn’s passion, “I wanted to broaden my experience, and have contact with people in... View Details

17 Aug 2011
News

Breath of Life

bioreactor had been used to seed a patient’s stem cells onto a donor trachea, so treatment was limited by the supply of donor organs. Now we know the bioreactor can seed a patient’s cells onto a manmade scaffold so patients will not have to wait for a suitable donor.”... View Details

Keywords: stem cell research; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Apr 1998
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Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO

marketing specialist with an engineering background, DiCamillo immediately set about restructuring Polaroid, filling key positions with new people, "refreshing the brand," as he puts it, and instituting cost-cutting measures to stem a... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

02 Jul 2001
What Do You Think?

Built to Last or Bought to Sell?

assumption that continuity is more desirable. The problem apparently has much to do with the narrow definition of success, the ability to outperform the stock market that the authors use as the primary... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator I n 1960, ARD invested $3.6 million in 18 companies and, by 1961, the firm became the first venture capital firm with shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In the article "Scientific... View Details

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Michael O. Braimah

"I've had to relearn the concept of leadership," Michael says, of his experience thus far. "Before, I saw it as being at the front: the leader makes decisions and expects everyone to conform. HBS has exposed me to... View Details

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

European market with the introduction of the Euro.— Vincent Dessain With the support of the ERC, the geographic distribution of European cases is shifting to the continent with a wide spread of countries represented including France,... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

15 Nov 2016
First Look

November 15, 2016

employee departure rates in stores where the manager is likely to be more informed than headquarters (e.g., in stores that are far from headquarters or that serve repeat customers). Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50576 The View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews

ratings to convey information of product or service quality. But don't expect Yelp to change its review system any time soon. "I've talked to Yelp and other review companies," Luca says. "Yelp isn't necessarily interested in changing the... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Food & Beverage

20 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 20

a year after he has been in office. It also gives an overview of Japan's earlier economic performance, focusing primarily on the period after it suffered a stock market and real estate crash in 1989-1992.... View Details