Stock Market Participation - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18

is constrained. We assess these predictions by examining how the 1996 repeal of certificate-of-need (CON) legislation in Pennsylvania affected the market for cardiac surgery in the state. We show that entry led to a redistribution of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 22

potential impact of policies to manage systemic risk. Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences Author:Hanna W. Halaburda Publication:Games and Economic Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

stimulative enough—and they were worried about their reelection prospects. Now you've got a world capital market that is acutely sensitive about what the Fed does. One thing underreported in the media is that when the Fed flooded the US... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

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Sheila Lirio Marcelo

raised more than $110 million in private venture funding, Care.com used its cash on marketing and acquired four companies in an effort to expand and grow, prior to going public in January 2014. The challenges are many for the tireless... View Details

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Deborah A. Farrington

back in the 1960s. “Growing up, I had an exposure to Wall Street, which I found really fascinating,” Farrington recalled. “I went onto the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange when I was about ten. It was about... View Details

26 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 26

Development Elective, an innovative offering within the leadership curriculum of an international MBA, which gives participants the opportunity to work with a psychotherapist during the course. Our findings suggest that the interplay... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2011
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The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

the most fertile area for business research in the next decade. By more deeply understanding human cognition, emotion, motivation, and behavior, managers could tailor products and services to unmet and previously unrecognized needs with exquisite accuracy. They could... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Jun 2014
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Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues

comes from never-ending, short-term pressures of the stock market. An even greater factor is the global nature of competition today, which pits American organizations directly against counterparts in Asia, where work days are long and... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

01 Oct 1999
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The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change

globalization of markets and competition changed American business forever. Twenty years out, over one-third of the class had been fired or laid off at least once. Fundamental practices that worked for most of the century - large staff... View Details

Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer

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“The Industrial Photography and the Steel Company Archive of Puerto de Sagunto: Representation, Power and Identity (1944–1976).” Revisita Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas 149 (January–March 2015): 65–84. Sentner, Richard F. View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions - Alumni

a couple of members who do not consistently participate can derail or lessen the experience for the entire group. Commitment truly is the magic to making a Circle work. * Invitations to join (or renew) are sent once a year during the... View Details

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Rachel Silverstein

to wear a lot of different hats – when you're lean, it's all hands on deck. I got involved in opening a new market launching a digital app launching a meal plan subscription product wholesale testing many different operational and... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Retail/Hospitality; CPG

17 Feb 2011
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Field Report: Rwanda

Dr. Nyagahene, wife of Eugene Nyagahene. Photos courtesy Colin Barry. Last month, some 500 students fanned out around the globe to participate in 13 IXPs offered during January break. First-year student Colin Barry was in Rwanda, where... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

17 Aug 2011
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Breath of Life

Green: Participating in the stem-cell revolution. Courtesy David Green It was the kind of medical miracle that experts say will one day be commonplace. In June, an artificial trachea (windpipe), infused with a tracheal cancer patient’s... View Details

Keywords: stem cell research; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

31 Oct 2004
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The New CEO’s Wrong Message

we have found seven surprises to be the most common. [Editor's note: The following passage describes Surprise Two: "Giving Orders is Very Costly." For a complete list of the seven surprises, see sidebar. The authors gleaned these lessons from View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

09 Oct 2019
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For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm

boot camp, asking participants to break into pairs and have a conversation about the Indian wedding industry. “Everyone in India has experience with the wedding industry,” Koning says. “It’s a giant market... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Venus Miller

In high school, Venus Miller got the marketing bug in a big way. Recruited into DECA/Delta Epsilon Chi, an international organization that promotes marketing and business education among high school and... View Details

01 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

brought home to many students that offshoring could affect them personally." Nearly 900 members of the MBA Class of 2009 participated in the exercise, with students divided into learning teams of five or six individuals. The exercise was... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

15 May 2019
Research Event

The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History

Lalocracio In thinking about the current contested state of global capitalism, and what to do about it, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Seeking the Unconventional in Forging Histories of Capitalism, which... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Education

28 May 2013
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First Look: May 28

to corrupt behavior. Working Papers Carry Trade, Reserve Accumulation, and Exchange-Rate Regimes By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—Carry-trade activity and foreign participation in local-currency-bond View Details