Investment Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

also not “vetted.” Thoughtful policies get reviewed, debated, discussed and revised. Instead, the President hurriedly picked a bunch of countries and tried to make a political statement without considering all of the ramifications. This ready, shoot, and then aim View Details

Keywords: by Staff

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

investment banking--give their points of view. Joseph Bower, Baker Foundation Professor The GM IPO represents the beginning of the end of a remarkable piece of intervention by the Obama administration. The government's involvement in the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

15 Nov 2024
News

Driving Change

Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details

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Policy - Business & Environment

2019 survey by Yale and George Mason University: 87 % of people surveyed supported investments in renewable energy (infrastructure and research) 82 % supported regulating GHG emissions (requiring companies to limit their pollution) 72 %... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Promise & Perils

costs, transforming the country over the past decade into the world’s workshop. In 2003, China ranked as the world’s major recipient of foreign investment — nearly $53 billion. It is on pace this year to attract even more. Long-term... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

25 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

excess returns on high yield and investment grade bonds are low and often significantly negative. The degree of predictability is large in both economic and statistical terms, with univariate R2 statistics as high as 30% at a 3-year... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2019
News

INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling

Bhartia and Raamin Mostaghimi (both MBA 2014). The book gives early readers insight into how to add value and avoid checked luggage, plus lessons on the language they’ll need to manage up: When a partner asks for 15 hours of work in the next hour, for example, “P is... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Apr 1996
News

Technology for Learning's Sake

strengths. "The work we are doing in technology right now is intended to open up a host of opportunities," explains Dean Clark. "Yes, we are making an extraordinary investment in hardware and software, but the real success of our endeavor... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

01 Jun 2016
News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

the threat, with analysts predicting it will grow to $170 billion by 2020. (In his proposed fiscal 2017 budget, President Obama requested a $5 billion increase in federal cybersecurity spending, up to $19 billion annually.) Money is one thing, View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

21 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

more than $150 million in assets to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Such registration will subject these managers to regular reporting and inspections by the SEC, although these managers can continue to pursue any View Details

Keywords: by Staff

04 Sep 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

that the choice women make to leave and re-enter the workforce is just one of many gender-related issues that has long needed understanding. Though it's not unique to executives, it is a particularly compelling subject for MBA women who have made heavy View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2011
News

Coming Full Circle

doctoral degree. “It was made clear that choosing academia requires a great deal of perseverance,” she comments. “It’s a long and difficult transition from being a consumer to a producer of knowledge, but it’s also stimulating and entrepreneurial. You work the same... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About

that the strategies that made you successful in the past won’t guarantee success in the future. You do it by creating an organization that’s hungry to learn, that invests in innovation to find new answers to... View Details

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

without their consent. Yet, sometimes honesty does hurt and bad guys do win. Thus, the fact that creative managers can often come up with strategies that are fair to non-shareholder constituencies while still maximizing shareholder value... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

21 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: December 21

article reviews recent research conducted by the authors that finds that intellectual property rights reform increases technology transfers, foreign direct investment inflows, and industrial development. It also places the findings of... View Details

27 Oct 2017
News

The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received

is really to simplify everything. One of my bosses founded probably one of the most successful investment companies in the world based in China, growing from $30 million in assets to $25 billion in 11 years largely through organic... View Details

24 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works

logistical challenges. Meanwhile, McMillon took the bold step in mid-March of paying $550 million in one-time bonuses to hourly employees to reward them for keeping shelves stocked in a time of unprecedented demand. Brian Cornell, CEO of Target, View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health

01 Oct 1996
News

Lasting Impressions

how each of them had a great influence on the way my thinking has been applied in my chosen field." "C. Roland Christensen had the greatest impact on me," notes Feeley. "He got me focused on strategy and policy issues. I've spent all of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

12 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

differences, proposes a sequence of stratagems that may enable entrepreneurs to alter strategy while portraying faithfulness to enduring aims. Our theoretical framework posits that for ventures, reorientation without penalty may depend on... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

27 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

they overcame huge obstacles to execute their strategies in industries as diverse as renewable energy, organic food, natural beauty, eco-tourism, recycling, architecture, and finance. The pioneering efforts to build certification schemes... View Details