financial markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Sep 2021
News

Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity

graduate school, how does the fear of incurring a large amount of debt keep individuals from applying to HBS? Chad Losee: We did a market research study in 2019 to understand what prevents qualified potential students from applying. View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Nov 2024
In Practice

Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times

stations,” the Journal reported. “Doing a layoff for the right reason is not just smart strategically, it’s smart organizationally.” Two months earlier, in July, Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi published a note in the financial software firm’s... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

Student-Profile

Yueran Ma

growing up also had a major influence on my interests in finance. I travelled with my family in China, and everywhere I saw firms and entrepreneurs struggling to raise funding as the financial system was riddled with frictions and... View Details

Fast Answer

Mortgages: data

Where can I find data on mortgages (rates, originations, sub-prime)? Federal Housing Finance Agency: data on current and historical average mortgage rates. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: data from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act.... View Details

Profile

Carlos Coto

always been a dream of mine to attend an Ivy League school. When I was applying for college, it wasn't financially possible. Now it was." Carlos came to HBS with his wife, Julia, whom he married in June 2008. They live off-campus in... View Details

16 Feb 2017
News

Saudi Stock Exchange Picks First Female Chair

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

June 2007 (Revised January 2008)
Case

The Vanguard Group, Inc. in 2006 and Target Retirement Funds

By: Luis M. Viceira

The Vanguard Group is one of the largest asset managers in the U.S., with over $1 trillion in assets, ninety percent of which are mutual fund assets, and more than 12,000 employees at year-end 2006. Vanguard has built a strong reputation as the manager of reference for... View Details

Keywords: Asset Management; Investment Funds; Personal Finance; Brands and Branding; Retirement; Trust; Financial Services Industry; United States

Citation

Educators

Purchase

Fast Answer

Betas

How do I find current betas for companies? Historical? Industry Beta? Current BETA: Bloomberg Current and historical financial information on individual equities, stock market indices, fixed-income... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us

business by focusing on the small- and mid-sized market across all industries. The question is how to get there. Slang.ai is currently serving clients in three verticals (restaurants and hospitality, ecommerce, and brick-and-mortar retail... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

March 2014
Article

Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence

By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina

Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit supply and the evolution of the business cycle. Yet fluctuations in bank-loan supply have been hard to quantify in the time series. While loan issuance falls in recessions, it is not clear if this is due to... View Details

Keywords: Business Cycles; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Banks and Banking; Bonds; Financial Markets; Financing and Loans; Banking Industry

Citation

SSRN

Find at Harvard

Profile

Ed Rogers

conception to execution, I was surprised by the extent to which we could apply concepts we touched on in various RC classes. For instance, in our Marketing and Strategy courses, we talked a lot about how you need to position your... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Financial Services

29 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

contrast, we don’t find evidence of a secular shift in the cross-country correlations of stock market volatility shocks, which have remained fairly low through time except during the financial crisis of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2017
News

Research Brief: Profit with Purpose—and Middle Management

purpose can propel an organization’s accounting and stock market performance. According to a recent working paper coauthored by Associate Professor George Serafeim and Claudine Madras Gartenberg (MBA 2006, DBA 2011), the finding upends... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

01 Jan 2007
News

Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968

into one of the world's largest advertising and marketing services organizations. With revenues of around $12 billion, it comprises some of the most famous firms in advertising, marketing, and public relations. He is now positioning WPP... View Details

Frank T. Cary

Following the legacies of Watson Sr. and Watson Jr., who ran IBM for almost 60 years, was no easy feat, but Cary more than proved his mettle. Under his direction, IBM expanded into new markets outside its traditional mainframe business... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

28 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

Badaracco says. Furthermore, the "new invisible hand" of the markets is even more intense than the old one due to rapid global dissemination of information. Badaracco's vision suggests it's more difficult to be a responsible leader today... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Jan 2016
News

Helping Property Owners Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

HBS, around everything that matters. So we’re talking about marketing strategy, human resources, financial strategy, operations of a business, technology strategy—so all of that has been very valuable and... View Details

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Professors Introduce Valuation Software

financial data to perform accounting analysis, ratio analysis, forecasted financials, and valuation. It also provides benchmarking for comparable firms. It was created by Harvard Business School faculty Krishna Palepu and Paul Healy, in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2002
News

Sam Hayes

market is still the most efficient in the world,” he says. “Over the longer term, one can buy and hold investments and be confident that price disparities will smooth out with time and be reflective of real value.” The author and coauthor... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

22 Aug 2020
News

Bluemercury’s Marla Beck on How Covid-19 Is Changing the Beauty Business

“We’ve taken so many good things from them,” Beck tells the podcast. “They have technology infrastructure that we don’t have. They have incredible financial infrastructure. We’ve piggybacked onto some of their relationships with digital... View Details

Publications