Stock Market Participation - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21

Moreover, there is something resembling "intelligent design" in finance, whereby regulators and legislators act in a quasidivine capacity, putting dinosaurs on life support. The danger is that such interventions in the natural processes of the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Working Life INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea of Instant Photography Research and Development, Project Code SX-70 Introducing One-Step Photography TAKING THE PRODUCT TO MARKET Impact of the New Medium Medium of Artistic Expression A NOBLE... View Details

06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

recommendations for stocks with larger market capitalizations and lower return volatility than their sell-side peers, consistent with their facing fewer conflicts of interest and having a preference for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 27

contribution is positively associated with proxies for quality of accruals and governance. Next, we investigate the implications of accruals' predictive value for accrual-based market anomalies. We find that portfolios formed on View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

March 2023 (Revised March 2024)
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The Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy: Settling the Opioid Crisis

By: Kristin Mugford, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Susan Pinckney

How to get to a fair outcome for claimants in the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy given its significant role in the U.S. opioid crisis. View Details

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25 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

business of politics as they would study any company or sector, looking at structural components such as competitors, customers, channels to reach customers, suppliers, and the threat of new entrants into the market using the “five-forces... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing

platform might be too good to be true. The company was crowdsourcing creative work, inviting people to both pitch ideas and create marketing videos — and promising to pay anywhere from a few hundred for the best concepts to several... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Apr 2000
News

Deep in the Heart of Texas

Social events are also planned that are specifically geared toward those who have been out of HBS for five years or less. "Overall, we have a 30 percent participation rate, out of ap-proximately one thousand alumni in the area," says... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

01 Oct 1999
News

Four Promoted to Full Professor

activity in Europe and Asia and how managers can use restructuring techniques to help the stock market more accurately value their companies. Gilson, who was previously on the finance faculty at the... View Details

01 Mar 2005
News

South Africa Explorer

with the naked eye. This was the experience shared by the thirty people who participated in the HBS alumni travel program in January. “South Africa Explorer,” a thirteen-day trip that originated in Johannesburg and concluded in Cape Town,... View Details

Keywords: Christine Sullivan; Hospitality

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A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

sense of having as their common purpose learning new things and applying that knowledge for public welfare. . . . Each individual will be a member of a group small enough so that he feels a full participant in the purpose and activity of... View Details

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Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog

equity and buyouts, also touching on closely related investing strategies such as distress and private debt. Students will examine a wide variety of investment settings: from lower middle market companies to mega-cap, from the United... View Details

05 Mar 2014
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When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?

couple of weeks, our host shot back, "A couple of weeks! Put something down on a sheet of paper and give to me before you leave today." We received the money in early June, just as the entire high-tech bubble was popping, pulling much of the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Publishing; Retail

09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

supplement: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208125 China's Financial Markets: 2007 Harvard Business School Note 208-147 Provides an overview of capital markets in mainland China in 2007,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Paul Luning

No stranger to entrepreneurship, Paul Luning launched one Internet startup in high school and helped grow two more while at Rice: an online marketing firm and a wireless hardware company. But a semester in Australia broadened Paul's... View Details

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Judging | New Venture Competition

It will provide feedback to participants and narrow the pool of contestants to a group of semi-finalists. Semi-Final & Final Round These two rounds are based on the executive summary and live presentation to a mix of philanthropists,... View Details

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Approaching Business with an Artistic Eye - Global Activities 2020

dress. Companies don’t create specific fashions for the region, so women who wear modest clothing struggle to find styles they like and often end up with very bland choices.” Yazan Halwani MBA 2020 The courses Halwani took at HBS and his View Details

17 Sep 2020
News

HBS Goes Back To School

community,” says Andrew Falzone, director of campus and food services. AUGUST 6 This chronicle of the HBS’s Re-entry Pilot Day by Marketing and Communications writer Shona Simkin offers an inside look at how the School has instituted... View Details

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

income remained relatively stable, about 3 to 1. Over the last 20 years, however, the financial markets that financed the housing system in the United States changed remarkably. Local markets once dominated... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

01 Mar 2009
News

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

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