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- August 2015 (Revised July 2017)
- Technical Note
Hotel Industry
By: Arthur I. Segel, Daniel Woodbury and Michael Horowitz
This note teaches the critical elements to understand the fundamentals of hotel investing, ownership, and management. It outlines the basics of hotel segmentation, operations, ownership, management, and valuation. The changing impact of technology is also addressed. View Details
Segel, Arthur I., Daniel Woodbury, and Michael Horowitz. "Hotel Industry." Harvard Business School Technical Note 216-012, August 2015. (Revised July 2017.)
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
investment of the right kind, in the right way, it would produce outstanding results, favorable publicity, and competitive advantage.” America is involved in several projects, including studying the progress of African-American View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
MBA courses on Investment Management and Capital Markets. Later in the decade, he took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of investment and financial policies for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
graduated from Palo Alto High School and Stanford—but he helped shepherd in a new era. Considered one of the founding fathers of Silicon Valley, he founded Draper and Johnson in 1962 , with his friend Bill Draper (MBA 1954), and Asset View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices
- 2011
- Chapter
Asset Allocation by Institutional Investors after the Recent Financial Crisis
By: Robert C. Pozen, Betsy Palmer and Natalie Shapiro
Pozen, Robert C., Betsy Palmer, and Natalie Shapiro. "Asset Allocation by Institutional Investors after the Recent Financial Crisis." In Growing Old: Paying for Retirement and Institutional Money Management after the Financial Crisis, edited by Y. Fuchita, R. Herring, and R. Litan. Brookings Institution Press, 2011.
- January – February 2011
- Article
Benchmarks as Limits to Arbitrage: Understanding the Low-Volatility Anomaly
By: Malcolm Baker, Brendan Bradley and Jeffrey Wurgler
Contrary to basic finance principles, high-beta and high-volatility stocks have long underperformed low-beta and low-volatility stocks. This anomaly may be partly explained by the fact that the typical institutional investor's mandate to beat a fixed benchmark... View Details
Keywords: Volatility; Stocks; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Risk Management; Performance Expectations
Baker, Malcolm, Brendan Bradley, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "Benchmarks as Limits to Arbitrage: Understanding the Low-Volatility Anomaly." Financial Analysts Journal 67, no. 1 (January–February 2011).
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
Hence, the call criteria used in sales directly impact which projects the firm invests in. Yet, how many in the C-suite understand how compensation, deployment, and other core sales management practices... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
much of her first post-HBS year managing the pilot. Resolving Crisis Situations Mendu and other members of the partnership developed a three-part initiative informed by the best practices they gathered from local stakeholders and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Student-Profile
Elliot Tobin
football.” After earning his bachelor’s degree in economics, management from MIT and a master’s in applied economics and data science from Boston College, the Minnesota transplant is currently balancing his HBS research in accounting and... View Details
- December 2007 (Revised April 2009)
- Teaching Note
Adams Capital Management: Fund IV (TN)
By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer In the early 1990s, Geeta Aiyer (MBA 1985) was an analyst and portfolio manager at the United States Trust Company of Boston. Among her investments was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Remembering John Whitehead (MBA 1947)
John C. Whitehead (MBA 1947)—business leader, community collaborator, prominent philanthropist, education visionary—died February 7 at age 92. During a lauded career, Whitehead guided Goldman Sachs to the forefront of investment banking;... View Details
- Profile
Patrick Connolly
bear-has further confirmed and clarified this for me. I truly could not have asked for a better platform from which to embark on my new career. How has HBS prepared you for your summer internship? In short, very well. This summer, I'm working in View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
buildings, this emphasis on science will affect HBS. The unique challenges of managing and leading science-based businesses — certain to be a driver of this century’s new economy — demand new management... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Harvard’s Alumni Impact
Keywords: Harvard; alumni; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
- December 2009
- Article
Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk and Asset Returns
By: Christopher J. Malloy, Tobias J. Moskowitz and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen
We provide new evidence on the success of long-run risks in asset pricing by focusing on the risks borne by stockholders. Exploiting micro-level household consumption data, we show that long-run stockholder consumption risk better captures cross-sectional variation in... View Details
Malloy, Christopher J., Tobias J. Moskowitz, and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen. "Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk and Asset Returns." Journal of Finance 64, no. 6 (December 2009): 2427–2480. (Finalist for the 2010 Smith Breeden Prize for the best paper in the Journal of Finance.)
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
With online crowd votes from more than 1,200 alumni and MBA students, the winners of the 2014 alumni New Venture Competition have been crowned. Winner of the crowd-voted Most Innovative and Greatest Impact categories is York Street Partners, a boutique View Details
- 11 Jun 2013
- News
A Rising Star Emerges at Berkshire
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
example, he argues, fashion industry competitors could agree among themselves to collectively manage resources to reduce the water pollution caused by their manufacturing processes. The beef industry could agree to collaborate on... View Details