Public Market Investing - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

31 Mar 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Expected Stock Returns Worldwide: A Log-Linear Present-Value Approach

Keywords: by Akash Chattopadhyay, Matthew R. Lyle, and Charles C.Y. Wang; Financial Services; Accounting

01 Mar 2010
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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

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

structure, value, and finance large, "Greenfield" projects. He also has created the Project Finance Portal. Perhaps fittingly, his HBS office is just a few miles down the road from one of the most expensive public works project... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

Technology & Operations Management Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Sara Fleiss Field Course: Public Markets Investing Seminar Finance Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 C. Fritz Foley Corporate Finance:... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Seth Klarman

Klarman Illustration by David Cowles While other money managers scrambled to survive the financial market meltdown, value investor extraordinaire Seth Klarman (MBA ’82), president of The Baupost Group in Boston, cautiously pursued buying... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Dec 2002
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Mary Callahan Erdoes

with almost every market — public and private equities, fixed income, real estate — going up everywhere in the world, investors became overly confident and not in tune with how much risk they were embedding... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Club Government & Public Policy Club Greater China Club H HBS Show Health & Wellness Club Health Care Club Heard on the Street Hospitality & Travel Club I Impact Investing Club Infrastructure Club View Details

17 Nov 2020
In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

around promises to be different. Public health measures needed to curb the spread of COVID-19 have pummeled local retailers reliant on foot traffic. Revenues are down across the board. In the face of these challenges, small businesses... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail

March 2007 (Revised March 2008)
Case

The Nikkei 225 Reconstitution

By: Robin Greenwood

Taka Haneda, a proprietary trader at the Tokyo office of Goldman Sachs, has just learned that the Nikkei 225 will undergo a significant redefinition over the coming week. He faces several billion dollars of customer orders, as well as the opportunity to commit the... View Details

Keywords: Financial Liquidity; Stocks; Investment Return; Price; Market Transactions; Financial Services Industry; Tokyo

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30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2016
News

Imagine an Economy Without Wall Street

Photography by Bryce Vickmark In a recent opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, HBS Dean Nitin Nohria made a strong statement in defense of Wall Street and the financial system. Recalling his youth in India, Nohria related the story of his father, a successful... View Details

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

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

Xerox's accumulated knowledge in this area into a marketable product. Xerox's accumulated knowledge—as well as XTV's aggressive funding of the firm during the Gulf War period, when the willingness of both independent venture capitalists... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

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Amelia Angella Archives | Social Enterprise

Filter Results: (2) Submit Author Types Alumni HBS Staff SE Practitioners SEI Faculty SEI Team Students Topics Alumni for Impact Alumni Programs Arts Business for Social Impact Business School Executive Education Faculty Research Future of Work HBS Students Impact... View Details

01 Jun 2007
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Faculty Research Online

Program for Leadership Development, discuss the fine points of leadership development. Visit http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5512.html. What’s Behind the Private-Equity Boom? More than $200 billion worth of private-equity deals were agreed to in 2006. Are View Details

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

27 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere

who borrowed a little money to invest in a little land. The average size of a coffee plantation in the Soconusco averaged about 300 hectares, compared with an average of 1,000 hectares in other parts of Latin America. But some coffee... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Agriculture & Agribusiness

06 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?

In trying to secure financial backing for a new product, independent innovators generally face the question of how much to invest in development before showing it around. Should they create, say, a working prototype (and maybe even... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Motion Pictures & Video; Entertainment & Recreation; Banking

March 1995 (Revised December 1995)
Case

Dividend Policy at FPL Group, Inc. (A)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Craig F Schreiber

A Wall Street analyst has just learned that FPL (the holding company for Florida's largest electric utility) may cut its dividend in several days despite a 47-year streak of consecutive dividend increases. In response to the deregulation of the electric utility... View Details

Keywords: Investment Return; Corporate Strategy; Policy; Competitive Strategy; Financial Strategy; Fluctuation; Energy Sources; Emerging Markets; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Florida

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18 Jul 2005
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Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

focused on the issue, corporations are turning the tax function into a profit center, says Desai, an expert on international corporate and public finance. In this e-mail interview, he discusses new ways businesses are looking to shrink... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

January 2022
Background Note

The Florange Law: Encouraging Long-Termism in Equity Markets?

By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Tonia Labruyere

This note provides background information on a French law (“the Florange law”) passed in 2014 that the French government said would encourage long-term shareholdings. The note describes the law, what led to it, the reactions it evoked, and similar initiatives in other... View Details