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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
to the underlying belief structure. Kusin uses a broad range of analytic tools enhanced and supplemented by 20 years of data collection, polling, and anecdotes from the highest level of access to deconstruct what actually exists. The Compound Code: An Expert Guide to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Home Base
Take stock of the impressions you’ve gotten about working parenthood, and then step back and ask, What’s going to work for me? Define this for yourself.” Daily routine: A good long walk. “I’m not trying to outpace anybody. I don’t count... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
and chips chain, figuring that if I could grow earnings of 50 percent compounded with a donut shop chain, just imagine what I could do with several other franchise businesses. Bad idea. It did not work and earnings stagnated. Stock price... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
bookstore; small, privately owned shops were the predominant model for bookselling throughout the United States in the early 1970s. That was the original model for Borders, which also opened in 1971 with a small stock of used books in a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
many stocks in a lot of countries and weighting the countries more or less equally. It's simply too difficult to predict which market's going to be down 67 percent and which one's going to be up 102 percent in any given year.” Biggest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
on practical economic grounds. You want a strong economy, a strong country, and, if you’re anything like me, a strong stock market. Well, note first that stocks do better under Democratic administrations... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
ethos of concentrated ownership—the business group over the individual stock owner. After the "Licence Raj," the period of tight government control of the private sector that ended in 1991, corporate families could finally stretch... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
Combining action and analysis, they are a formidable crime-fighting duo. In Pale Gray for Guilt (1968), Meyer carries out an intricate con to trick a wealthy bad guy into stock market losses that will benefit a widow whose struggling... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
his work. A paper he’d written, using game theory to explore the liberalization of telecoms, was the ticket to his first job at Metropolitan Fiber Systems; an early project involved analyzing the best stock exchange for the company to go... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
that ESG factors, including management of carbon emissions, will create value for startups in the long-run. There are some tailwinds in this mission, such as from April 2022, Japan’s Financial Services Agency will require public companies listed in the “prime” segment... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
presentations, office hours with mentors, networking sessions, company tours, and workshops. In return, NeuroLaunch receives stock in the companies it assists. The culmination is a “demo day,” when its portfolio companies join other... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
departing executives soon become common practice. 1990 To better align executive pay with shareholder returns, academics — led by HBS professor Michael Jensen — and activists urge greater use of stock options. During the bull market years... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Underwater Options May Not Sink Incentives
During the bull market of the 1990s, stock grants and options formed increasingly large components of executive compensation. Now, however, with many options "underwater" as share values have declined well below the strike price, boards... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Hot Tip
and modernizing its capital markets. Prospects are intriguing: Last year, of Africa’s twenty stock markets, the indexes of Kenya and Uganda performed in the top ten globally, with Ghana’s stock market... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?
No wonder the economy is slow to recover. At the end of 2013, industrial firms listed on the US stock markets held an astounding $1.6 trillion in cash reserves—that’s 12 percent more than a year earlier. And those were just the public... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Innovation as Antidote
Illustration by Andrea Manzati You'll see a theme emerge in this issue's stories on health care: The industry has a number of deep-seated challenges that it is just beginning to face. It's a pen-and-paper operation in a digital world. It struggles with inefficiency... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
business owners in need of strategic planning and competitive analysis. When the team pitched the HourlyNerd model to classmates at FIELD 3’s simulated stock market, which allows peer “investors” to evaluate the business plans, the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
In a year like no other, it makes sense that a handful of new words would pop up—and familiar terms would find a different spin and resonance. We asked HBS alumni and faculty to give their take on a few that will continue to make some noise in the year to come. Meem... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
"...But the good news is your old Enron stock has become a high-priced collectible." © 2008 www.cartoonstock.com Nearly seven years after its collapse, Enron continues to fascinate those interested in corporate leadership and governance.... View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
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Predicting Financial Market Bubbles and Crises in Real-time
Laureate Eugene Fama that stock markets do not exhibit price bubbles. Greenwood and his colleagues used stock return data gathered from a variety of US industries and a gamut of international View Details