Market Timing - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2017
News

Case Study: Something New

attach the word ‘bridal,’ it makes it cost 5 to 10 times more,” says Leslie Voorhees (MBA 2015), who founded Anomalie with her now husband, Calley Means (MBA 2015). “It’s offensive to a woman who understands how things are manufactured.”... View Details

Keywords: April White

18 Mar 2014
News

The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain

identify you by your purchase patterns and assemble a profile. Wanamaker was simply living in the wrong century. But it's also a time when the NSA's eavesdropping has many worrying that, on some levels, Big Data is really Big Brother.... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

20 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 20

Working PapersGray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing (revised) Authors:Romana Autrey and Francesco Bova Abstract Gray markets arise when a manufacturer's products are sold outside of its... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2003
News

Alumni Bookshelf

How to Grow When Markets Don't by Adrian Slywotzky (MBA '80) and Richard Wise (Warner Books) Slywotzky brings his expertise in global strategy consulting to his sixth book, which examines the difficulties of sustainable growth and offers... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

The challenges Big Data pose for managers include "identifying which data are relevant" (Subrata Chakraborty) and "seeing through the woods to know what to use and what not" (Pieter J de Beer). Scott Waller expressed the fear that "the age of Big Data seems to be... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

01 Sep 2012
News

A Silent Workplace Crisis

thirties, restructuring the marketing organization for a large regional bank, and my husband, Ray Benvenuti (MBA 1986), and I had two children under seven. At that time, I had no inkling of what would be required to juggle the needs of... View Details

Keywords: Janet Simpson Benvenuti; caregiving; aging; Nursing and Residential Care Facilities; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2011
News

MBA 101: HBS Commencements Pass the Century Mark

A Time To Celebrate: As with every year, Class Day and Commencement were filled with many memorable moments. Among the general scenes of pomp and pageantry were (middle) the faculty recipients of the Class of 2011’s awards for excellence... View Details

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

01 Mar 2015
News

Fıelds of Gold

and climate of bordering Iran, is capable of producing saffron that bests the benchmark in color, taste, and aroma, says the cofounder of the new social enterprise company Earth2Globe. The still-small 1,700 acres of Afghanistan’s saffron flower fields are cultivated... View Details

Keywords: April White; Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry; Agriculture

01 Sep 2010
News

Alumni Books

times give solid companies and strong managers the chance to seize market share. Fox explains how the savvy few who rise to the top stay focused and alert, get new market... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

The Fab Four

competitor acquired the company’s technology and Novak-ovich was back at HBS, this time as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR). “My primary charter was to help students who were interested in starting businesses upon graduation,” says... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2004
News

Charlie Rose Interviews Goldman CEO Paulson

him on Goldman’s recently published first quarter results. “The economy feels better than it did a year ago,” replied Paulson with caution. “Things have turned, but our business is lumpy. You can’t extrapolate too much from the last quarter.” Of the View Details

Keywords: Goldman Sachs; Finance

10 Nov 2008
What Do You Think?

How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?

over-involvement (of) customers have led to bitter intellectual property right disputes customers simultaneously trying to drive the product in two (or more) very separate market directions (or) feature creep that literally prevents... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Dec 2018
News

Case Study: Your Data, Your Health

otherwise take a decade to diagnose. But NextGen Jane is building more diseases into the pipelines. “There are so many understudied areas in women’s health we could explore,” Tariyal says. Illustration by Marcos Chin The Question: “The first test I bring to View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

30 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.

regulators should pursue to meet these ends, and ultimately achieve a more efficient market in small business lending. Doing so will help small businesses focus more of their time doing what they do best:... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

capital markets, it’s perhaps simply a good time to celebrate the success story that it is the US economy and US capital markets and to reflect on what it took to get to this point in our history. For... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

Career Coach

Michelle Antonio

Wharton School, both as Director of MBA Career Management and the industry advisor covering the Consulting and Public Interest sectors, 4 years as an MBA Recruiting Director at Deloitte Consulting, and time as a strategy consultant at... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products; Education; Government

06 Oct 2003
What Do You Think?

Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?

spending your time on disruptive innovations!" M. P. Singh, a manager in the public sector, suggests, "Expecting corporate culture to tolerate or encourage radical change or innovation is like expecting a country to encourage... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

a platform-based market socially efficient? We analyze a dynamic model where an entrant with superior quality competes with an incumbent platform, and examine long-run market outcomes. We find that the... View Details