Stock Market Participation - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Jun 2018
Blog Post

The Internship Search: “Is this just a personal interest, or is there a real professional opportunity here?”

Aaron’s networking conversations with a New York-area PE firm specializing in health and wellness, one of the firm’s portfolio companies, Barry’s Boot Camp, came up. Aaron had long been an enthusiast of the company, participating in its... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

13 May 2021
Blog Post

HBS Got Talent

Weinzierl and Christina Wallace, professional actor/singer Tiffany Mellard (from the cast of Hamilton!), and world-champion swimmer Katie Ledecky. Our host, Weston Ruths (MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences 2022), expertly emceed the event and corralled our judges. On the... View Details

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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online

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 fast-growing midsize organization,... View Details

23 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

Working PapersIf You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? The Effects of Education, Financial Literacy and Cognitive Ability on Financial Market Participation Authors:Shawn A. Cole and Gauri Kartini Shastry... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

uncertainty, and macroeconomic shocks affect the risk properties of U.S. Treasury bonds? The exposure of U.S. Treasury bonds to the stock market has moved considerably over time. While it was slightly... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Feb 2000
News

Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

contribution health care by employers will result in a more cost-effective and efficient system. Participants submitted papers that were read in advance of the conference. These papers will be edited by Herzlinger and published later this... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Making the Case for Maine: HBS Club and State's CEO Discuss Business Issues

guests, participants addressed both the positive and the negative factors that business encounters in a state best known by the nickname inscribed on its license plates: "Vacationland." "The whole discussion was predicated on a very... View Details

Keywords: Janine Brunell Looker

11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

market transactions. Theoretical predictions of a model of household division and land transactions are successfully tested using household panel data from West Bengal spanning 1967-2004. The tenancy reform lowered inequality through its... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2020
News

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

15 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction

skepticism, are beginning to overdose. The bust likes to think of itself as a radical departure from the boom, but it has in common with it one big thing: a mob mentality.” Likewise, the economist Charles Kindleberger, in his seminal 1978 book on the history of View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology

13 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?

describe it, has worked well for certain things in the industry, but not so well for others. What are some of the attributes of the anatomy and how has it contributed to performance shortfall? A: Let's take one: the market for know-how. I... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology

14 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

accountability of financial reporting practice in the broader capital market system, he explains. "We can use some of the insights of these 30 years of research to study this much broader, much more difficult subject, which is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities

09 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements

which were more likely to be targeted by Fox News, and firms whose public image had more impact on their stock prices, the researchers determined that the Democratic-leaning firms located in areas where FNC was available did seem to delay... View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting

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Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online

informative and applicable to the real challenges of being a leader. I loved the frameworks and the case study model of the course, and I thought the course was very manageable on top of a full-time job." Abby Katz Senior Marketing... View Details

01 Feb 1997
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Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar

Global Financial System: A Functional Perspective, which analyzes the world's financial institutions, Professor Merton addressed seminar participants - including HBS faculty, research associates, and students - on behalf of the School's... View Details

Keywords: Elizabeth McNair

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

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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

01 Feb 1998
News

Short Takes

universal participation later on," notes Austin. "Over 60 percent of the recent graduates in the 25Ð 29 age group are involved with nonprofits; toward the other end of the career - ages 55 and above - almost 90 percent are involved, and... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

04 Dec 2014
News

Hacking Health Care

new era,” he says. Sirois credits former professors Jeffrey F. Rayport (Managing in Cyberspace) and Howard H. Stevenson (Entrepreneurial Finance) with jump-starting his thinking. “It was like an epiphany,” he says. “There were lessons on learning how to leverage the... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Dec 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

author Bob Leppo an edge in stock market investing, commodity futures, and the wild world of venture capital. Part memoir, part tale of discovery and rebirth, The Speculator’s Mosaic is a no-nonsense guide... View Details

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