Market Timing - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities

technical expertise, said Kapoor. A sense of timing and a good marketing instinct are two qualities at a premium in today's market. "It's not about specialization," said Reiss. "It's about... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Hanna; Financial Services

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

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

everything—was reportedly in conversations to buy some of those storefronts—possibly its first real beach-head in the brick-and-mortar world. As harbingers of the future of retail, these events certainly caught the attention of Harvard Business School View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

01 Dec 2005
News

Back to School

for two years, until Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. “I had my first baby by then, so it was time to go,” says Whitney. After a short stint in Paris, the family returned to Massachusetts, where another son was born. In 1993, Whitney went... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

18 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 18

investing more time and marketing budget on managing the quantity, quality, and location of online reviews, with particular attention paid to TripAdvisor. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue

one time we didn't have markets for fish in the sea or trees in the woods: there were few of us and many of them, and it didn't matter which of us owned them. That's not true anymore, so we have View Details

Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt; Energy; Utilities

Fast Answer

Intraday quotes

Where do I find intraday quotes for various types of securities? In Bloomberg: For Equities: Type the stock's ticker symbol then hit EQUITY, type QR and hit GO . You can change the date and the time interval. For Indices: Type the... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

New Face at Facebook

“It was the shot heard ’round Silicon Valley: Internet upstart Facebook, Inc. raided search giant Google, Inc. for a No. 2 executive it hoped would turn the social-networking Web site into a major moneymaker,” declared the Los Angeles View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Mar 2015
News

Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed

market “slack” and the absence of any significant increase in wage pressures, suggesting that inflation will remain well contained for the near term. The Fed spends a good deal of time watching inflation... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance

Leading with the Long View

had a couple of friends in the class, so I decided to take it. I didn’t know there was this business history niche at HBS, and it ended up being an awesome class. The cases we discussed were international and covered a longer time horizon... View Details

26 Feb 2018
News

Teaching Farmers New Tricks of the Trade

overwhelmed by the market complexities of what's happening with different crop prices, what they should be selling, who they should be selling to, how and when they should sell. Those are all things that we can help with tremendously. “I... View Details

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Curriculum | MBA

Politics and Ethics in Unstable Times One HKS Elective Course Joint Degree Program Seminar taught by HBS faculty Summer Policy-related or international development-related summer internship (recommended) Year 2 Harvard Business School... View Details

10 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

How Numbers Talk to People

transactions. The analyst used the Cox regression model—an approach originally used to determine which patients would die and which would live over certain time periods-of "survival analysis." The analysis discovered that the... View Details

Fast Answer

IFC: LA/Hollywood

href="http://www.library.hbs.edu/Find/Databases/Standard-Poor-s-NetAdvantage" target="_blank">Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
Best for a broad industry overviews. Covers industry trends, forecasts, major players and View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

Undergrads Tackle Business Research

For the first time this summer, HBS is sponsoring a ten-week program for fifteen Harvard undergrads to assist faculty with research projects. The Program for Research in Markets and Organizations (PRIMO)... View Details

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City

businesspeople, we've seen ourselves as helpless" in eradicating seemingly intractable problems like poverty, he said. Though giving money and volunteering time are good things to do, a better solution, he insisted, is to apply View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 1997
News

Short Takes

market so that the venture capitalists can cash out their investments. To have a stock market, you need reliable financial reporting, reputable auditing bodies, and an independent financial press. Creating institutions similar to those we... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

21 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

core activities in any business. Without a good customer acquisition process, you can’t grow.” A professor at Harvard Business School for 11 years, Cespedes left for an equal time to run a firm, where he learned firsthand the importance... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Dec 2012
News

Tidy Minds

In a wide-ranging Q&A in the "Global Manager" column of the New York Times (September 2, 2012), Sir Martin Sorrell (MBA 1968), chief executive of the WPP Group, the world's largest advertising and marketing... View Details

Keywords: Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

28 Mar 2018
News

Fueling the Future

recruiter and marketing director to head of innovation. Today, she runs Fueled for Growth, an innovation consulting company, which assists financial firms with due diligence in the energy and industrials sector and helps companies solve... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

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