Creating Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 29

Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—Survey evidence suggests that many investors form beliefs about future... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 May 2006
Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

work also provides insights into how firms can create employment contracts that are in step with company goals. This e-mail interview is based on two working papers by Autrey and colleagues Shane Dikolli and D. Paul Newman: "Career... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

organization strategy to enable the different functions to work together to bring products to market more quickly. As Ludwig grappled with a way to jumpstart change at DIS, he began to suspect that people throughout the unit were talking... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader

23 May 2018
News

John A. Paulson, MBA 1980

1984 Joins Bear Stearns, M&A Managing Director 1988 Named Partner, Gruss Partners 1994 Launches Paulson & Co. 2007 Makes what many call the “greatest trade ever” on subprime mortgage market 2012 Contributes historic donation to Central... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

22 Oct 2018
News

Capital Murder

formative. “As is the cliché with most teenagers, I was dying to get out of my hometown,” he says. “For me, Washington was that break. It was the most eye-opening, confidence-building experience of my life up until that point.” Now based in Tokyo with his wife and two... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

23 May 2011
Op-Ed

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

assumption that investors who take an interest in ESG data are more likely to integrate that data in their investment decisions. We created an index ranking based on the number of hits controlled for the total stock View Details

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim

Leslie Wexner

Victoria’s Secret and turning them into profitable enterprises. In his companies, Wexner has created one of the leading specialty fashion enterprises, serving every market from contemporary women’s wear and... View Details

Keywords: Retail

01 Dec 2017
News

The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job

coworkers, Eckert says. Created for small businesses rather than the automotive industry—which makes up 70 percent of the US industrial robot market—Rethink’s bots do the boring, monotonous stuff. Humans get more interesting jobs: the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Apr 1998
News

Short Takes

values of their managers and the organizational culture they create. In their working paper, "Chinese Corporate Culture, Market Orientation, Innovation, and Firm Performance," HBS professor Rohit DeshpandŽ and John U. Farley, a professor... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey

12 Apr 2012
News

HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups

children in real-life situations as they learn experientially through play in familiar environments using a mobile device. canada PIXIE is a website that connects passionate, small product companies, designers, and artisans with their core View Details

Keywords: Bulletin Staff; Alumni New Venture Contest

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

Measurement & Control Systems for Implementing Strategy, published by Prentice Hall. Q: What's the context for the development of this book? Simons: My colleagues and I in the School's Accounting and Control Unit have spent a lot of time View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

Web

Improving the Local & Regional Business Environment - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases CSV Explained CSV Explained The Three Levels of CSV Adding a Social Dimension to... View Details

18 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

Tips to Reinvent the Department Store

further away from vendor control by introducing their own private-label brands where possible. "We're very private-label focused," at Sears, Petsch said. Lately, the company has been trying to consolidate some of its many private-label brands to View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Retail

05 Apr 2004
What Do You Think?

Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?

terms of value created for customers, employees, and shareholders? If the latter, is it the natural result of a system of incentives geared to short-term financial rather than longer-term business benefits? And what does it say about the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 Jan 2023
News

Turning Up the Volume

Goldman turned to Lex Suvanto (MBA 1999) for help. As CEO of a strategic communications unit within Edelman, the world’s largest public relations and marketing firm, Suvanto had teams and skills at hand that could support the kind of... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Jun 2003
News

South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs

A strong commitment to community service is a given for most HBS clubs — the challenge lies in determining the most efficient means of leveraging the skills and interests of club members to create change. New York, Boston, San Francisco,... View Details

Keywords: Alumni groups; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

07 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

variables are you tracking? How are you creating accountability for performance on those variables? (4) What strategic boundaries have you set? Does everyone know what actions are off-limits? (5) How are you generating creative tension?... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Sidney W. Winslow

With the insight he gained while working in his father’s shoe factory, Winslow started his first shoe machine company in 1893, producing leather-buffing machines. With the profits from this business, Winslow combined resources with Gordon McKay and the Goodyear Company... View Details

Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

Alfred N. Steele

grow out of its “poor man’s cola” image, and created a vending machine business for Pepsi. All of these changes allowed Pepsi to gain a great deal of market share, predominantly at the expense of Coca-Cola,... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

Lore Harp

Working from her suburban kitchen, Harp built a $35 million business in less than five years by creating personal computer systems for the small business market. Her marketing savvy and strong ability to... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

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