Stock Price Informativeness - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

conclusion that follows is that perhaps the dream that Webvan was feeding—living off—will actually be realized by someone like Wal-Mart, managing only the information side of the business and not getting itself entangled in the physical... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

01 Sep 2010
News

Five Honored for Missions Accomplished

billion in assets under management. How did you first become interested in investing? My father had spent time in the Argentine and followed the price of Indian tea shares. As a young boy, it was romantic and exciting to chat with him... View Details

Keywords: awards; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information

30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51569 Building the Agile Enterprise: IT Architecture, Modularity and the Cost of IT Change By: MacCormack, Alan, Robert Lagerstrom, David Dreyfus, and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract—Recent contributions to View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business of Babies

defects to their children, single parents, fertile adopters, and "gender selectors" who want a baby boy (or girl) at any cost. "We're not talking about demand for potato chips," said Spar. "This is the kind of demand that becomes an obsession.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

11 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

paper highlights the benefits that rigorous use of oral history can offer to research on the contemporary business history of emerging markets. Oral history can help fill some of the major information voids arising from the absence of a... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

August 2001
Case

Strategic Capital Management, LLC (C)

By: Mark L. Mitchell, Erik Stafford and Todd Pulvino

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Business Subsidiaries; Internet and the Web; Investment Funds; Price; Performance Efficiency; Capital Markets; Auctions; Investment Return; Equity; Planning; Financial Services Industry

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August 2001
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Strategic Capital Management, LLC (B)

By: Mark L. Mitchell, Erik Stafford and Todd Pulvino

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Business Subsidiaries; Internet and the Web; Investment Funds; Price; Performance Efficiency; Capital Markets; Auctions; Investment Return; Equity; Planning; Financial Services Industry

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18 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation

Climate Adaptation SIP I was taken back, frightened, but also encouraged by: (1) the availability of the majority of the technical solutions needed to make our society more resilient to climate change, but the information asymmetry and... View Details

Profile

Omowale Casselle

of incoming samples from our brand partners (P&G, Unilever, Elizabeth Arden), that our field team keeps our machines running and fully stocked with sample inventory, and that we are able to successfully launch and sustain each new... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products

01 Feb 1997
News

Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution

conversation. What are the major market forces that are transforming the health-care system? First and foremost, it's consumers. They have already revolutionized the retailing and information industries because they are so busy working... View Details

28 Feb 2014
News

The First Five Years: Omowale Casselle (MBA 2009)

of incoming samples from our brand partners (P&G, Unilever, Elizabeth Arden), that our field team keeps our machines running and fully stocked with sample inventory, and that we are able to successfully launch and sustain each new market... View Details

Keywords: General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2006
News

Street Singer

singing it.’” In an interview at her office in midtown Manhattan, Harris, a managing director at Morgan Stanley and an accomplished gospel singer, recounts this story and others with the kind of informal ease you might expect from a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Finance

12 Apr 2012
News

HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups

experience with innovative products they feel good about buying. europe Our ambition is to help farmers become more profitable via a platform that gives them tools and access to information and insights about farming practices, markets,... View Details

Keywords: Bulletin Staff; Alumni New Venture Contest

19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

should do so, while still protecting one of the world's most valuable brands. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511110-PDF-ENG Gold in 2011: Bubble or Safe Haven Asset? Robin Greenwood and Benjamin SteinerHarvard Business School Case 211-095 Case... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2008
News

Reimagining China and India

companies are emerging is so different. It’s not that the raw stock of entrepreneurship is different in either country. But the ways in which Chinese and Indian entrepreneurs — whether they are businesspeople, social or even political... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management; Retail Trade

14 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating a Global Business Code

Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility principles, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, various US Securities and Exchange Commission regulations, and several stock exchange listing rules, as well as the company codes of 14 top global firms.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 20, 2007

Working PapersIncorporating Price and Inventory Endogeneity in Firm-Level Sales Forecasting Authors:Saravanan Kesavan, Vishal Gaur, and Ananth Raman Abstract As numerous papers have argued, sales, inventory, and gross margin for a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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HBS - From The Dean

community. It was also a year when we made significant progress on several important priorities. At a moment when AI took center stage with the advent of ChatGPT, our own digital transformation—exploring how we can leverage data and View Details

21 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 21, 2009

Abstract People routinely engage in dishonest acts without feeling guilty about their behavior. When and why does this occur? Across three studies, people justified their dishonest deeds through moral disengagement and exhibited motivated forgetting of View Details