Stock Market Participation - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

whereas the contemporaneous marginal effect is higher for generalists. The paper also provides a key methodological insight to the marketing and economics literature. In the Nerlove-Arrow framework, moment conditions that are typically... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 Feb 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Students Reflect on COP28

the end, we were granted the opportunity to pitch live at COP as one of the finalists of the IRENA NewGen Accelerator Program. I also spoke on a panel about women’s entrepreneurship and participated in another pitching event organized by... View Details

19 Mar 2015
News

Walter Salmon Remembered

first became interested in marketing and retailing while in college, working part-time at Bloomingdale’s and then in a New York buying office for a large group of department stores. After earning an MBA (1954) and DBA (1960) at HBS, he... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

encouraged them to take risks. Bill Sahlman: Also, when we graduated from HBS, the economy was in recession, inflation and interest rates were high, productivity growth was low, and the stock market was in... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

15 Feb 2022
News

Charlotte Club Hosts Webinar to Mark 100 Years of the Case Method

developed our courses,” said Bower. “The field of marketing developed around case writing in retail and consumer goods companies. The field of management accounting developed from cases on the use of numbers for managers to use for... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

29 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future

or "shepherds," rather than micro-managers of the creative process. How the market interacts with creativity and the impact of this interaction on creativity in organizations. The relationship between creativity and... View Details

Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire

10 May 2022
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

pond: “The great thing about working in finance in India was the opportunity to influence the evolution of the country’s financial institutions and regulatory structures. Very early on, I was part of the group that helped set up a second, more modern View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

Kash Rangan

performance, and even go beyond and recall cases, frameworks, and solution approaches. It is quite a different approach to participating in the sector. In a way they become the catalysts for internal change. Many alumni get involved with... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

22 Feb 2022
News

Launch Codes

quarter-century of HBS startups? To celebrate the New Venture Competition’s 25th anniversary, we asked some past participants about the hardest lesson they’ve learned as an entrepreneur—and what it looked like to learn it. The 2022 finale... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Alvaro Dominguez

25 Aug 2022
News

The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto

But they are riskier than the stock market, so cryptocurrency markets are dominated by speculators or traders. Another constituent is the long-term investors, who take a long-horizon macro view on these... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition

include Mark Pincus (HBS ’93) of Zynga and Jeremy Stoppelman (HBS ’05) of Yelp. This year’s New Venture Competition may yield the famous names of the future. The following represents a sampling of past participants who executed their... View Details

06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

larger class of financial and managerial consultants who sought to refine business decision-making through the introduction of statistical data and scientific analysis. The failure of most forecasting agencies to predict the stock View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Dec 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?

they too often are based on the wrong things, what he calls the "noise" (short-term stock market action) rather than the "signal" embedded in the noise (long-term secular trends in the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

painted image of a fully stocked refrigerator. Apagya’s works are both a contemplation of contemporary consumer culture and a reflection on the relationship between art and artifice, dreams and reality. RADCLIFFE BAILEY (American, born... View Details

18 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

forthcoming Academy of Management Journal Ideological Misfit? Political Affiliation and Employee Departure in the Private-Equity Industry By: Bermiss, Y. Sekou, and Rory McDonald Abstract—Though organizations are increasingly active View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Feb 2019
Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition

primarily focus on TPG’s middle market buyout and growth equity investments, which are made out of TPG Growth and The Rise Fund, a double–bottom line impact fund that was launched in 2016.” Gandhi: “I am a music producer and drummer whose... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

17 Jan 2025
News

Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff

in Dallas, and I had some really capable marketing guys and gals, and they came up with this idea, well, let's offer everybody who comes to the airport $1 on the first day for the ticket, and we'll go up from there to $30. And the airport... View Details

01 Mar 2006
News

The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could

as a Baker Scholar, in his spare time Rogers honed a system for trading over-the-counter stocks and left HBS with his bills paid and $50,000 in the bank. Eager to return to the Bay Area where he grew up, Rogers accepted a job offer from... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

17 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

two-sided platforms and indirect network effects to develop an explanation why markets with two-sided platforms are often characterized by incompatibility with one dominant player who may subsidize access to one side of the market. We... View Details