Public Market Investing - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works

makes huge investments to acquire, develop, and market concepts with strong hit potential, and then banks on the sales of those titles to make up for the middling performance of their other content. Today's... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation

06 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Winners and Losers at the Olympics

Speaking of Beijing, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have recently garnered some negative headlines for concessions they made to do business in China. As companies plan their marketing campaigns for the Summer Olympics there, what do... View Details

Keywords: Re: Stephen A. Greyser; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports

May 2008
Teaching Note

Warburg Pincus and emgs: The IPO Decision (TN) (A) and (B)

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

Teaching Note for [807092] and [808046]. View Details

Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Decision Making; Investment Banking; Financial Services Industry

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01 Sep 2014
News

All For One

leadership. The writing team also added business executive Kent Lineback, whose executive experience included roles at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Harvard Business School Publishing before he turned to executive coaching... View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding; faculty; research; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services

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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library

mid-19th century, the family partnership evolved from a general store to the fourth-largest investment banking house in the country. Photography and Corporate Public Relations: The Case of U.S. Steel, 1930 -... View Details

01 Jan 2009
News

Robert F. Greenhill, MBA 1962

financial advisory services. The firm, which has grown at a steady but significant pace, went public in 2004 and recently expanded operations into the insurance, financial services, and industrial markets. Today, Greenhill & Co. has 10... View Details

Career Coach

Phillip Andrews

CPD team, Phillip spent two years in the HBS Global Research Group where he wrote more than 20 published case studies. Prior to HBS, he worked in legal and policy capacities in both the public and private sector. Work Experience: National... View Details

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17 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 17

Publications September 2013 Management Science Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India By: Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton Abstract—This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?

they must be specific to the strategy of the business. Company scores on these metrics may be benchmarked against direct competitors and/or outstanding companies in other industries. Second, CEOs must ensure an adequate pipeline of new product and View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

20 Jun 2016
News

Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues

the public and private sectors. Before founding these firms, Gandhi was head of the institutional strategy area for Morgan Stanley and then vice chairman of investment banking and global head of the... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Jun 2023
News

The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope

tightrope on which Apple found itself: It wants to promote a sense of privacy among its users, but that runs into some of the claims that the government is making against them with regard to public safety. I don’t think I would’ve... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities

Career Coach

Craig Husa

As the founder or CEO, Craig (HBS ’90, USNA ’83) has grown and sold four technology-enabled companies to leading public companies. He attributes most of his success (the rest is luck) to building and leading high performing teams who can... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Markets; Emerging Markets; Emerging Markets; Emerging Markets; Emerging Markets; Emerging Markets; Emerging Markets; Emerging Markets; Emerging Markets; Emerging Markets; Emerging Markets; Emerging Markets

28 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 28

October 2014 Review of Financial Studies Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle? By: Asker, John, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Alexander Ljungqvist Abstract—We investigate whether short-termism... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2010
News

Alumni Books

market capitalization. The book examines how misguided investment and acquisition strategies have created the paradox that, in media, the faster revenues grow, the worse their stocks perform. The Elements of... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Working Paper

Decoding Inside Information

By: Lauren Cohen, Christopher Malloy and Lukasz Pomorski

Using a simple empirical strategy, we decode the information in insider trades. Exploiting the fact that insiders trade for a variety of reasons, we show that there is predictable, identifiable "routine" insider trading that is not informative for the future of firms.... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Stocks; Financial Markets; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Market Transactions

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Resources for Harvard Economics Students

annuities), stocks and 529 plans. LSEG Workspace Features market quotes, earnings estimates, financial fundamentals, press releases, transaction data, corporate filings, ownership profiles and research. Note that analyst reports from... View Details

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The Green Industrial Strategy Project | Institute for Business in Global Society

sectors. The goal is to identify private and public sector solutions to the three core problems of the clean energy transition. Incumbents versus startups Both incumbent firms and startups are investing in... View Details

01 Dec 2005
News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

took in $2.8 billion in new investments during the first six months of this year. The new, public nature of the commercial real estate market thrives on information, once a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

back to top F Course Title Area Term Quarter Credits Kris Ferreira Supply Chain Management Technology & Operations Management Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Sara Fleiss Field Course: Public Markets View Details