Public Market Investing - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry

clients guard against spreading themselves too thin? A: Given all these new forms there is more ad clutter than ever, and marketers are trying to bypass it. Companies are getting more sophisticated about what they're View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing

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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
News

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

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

17 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

the right balance between the private benefits of integrated markets and the public value of civic engagement, evidence on the size of the positive spillovers from local media is needed. To date, such... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2014
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Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over

For marketers, how big is the World Cup? Its power can't be overstated. Some 3 billion people will watch the tournament, and marketers will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to engage their attention. FIFA, the governing body of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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Courses by Title - Course Catalog

Field Course: Managing Family Wealth: A FIELD Immersion Finance, Entrepreneurial Management Lauren Cohen Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems Finance, Entrepreneurial Management, General Management John Dionne Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0... View Details

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 Dec 2000
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Vivek Ranadivé

over the previous year. The company, which employs about one thousand workers worldwide, went public in July 1999; an article that appeared last February in Red Herring's online edition (www.redherring.com) noted that TIBCO's stock had... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods

Ickis (MBA 1971, DBA 1978) REISNER: One of the hottest areas of investment growth is in cross-border shipping, but there are two core problems: In an age of terrorism, customs are commercial constraints and also valuable View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

04 May 2016
What Do You Think?

What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?

control over brands is explicitly ceded to the public for marketing purposes. As I write this, the Binghamton, New York minor league professional baseball team is thought to be on its way to being named the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising

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

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

01 Mar 2010
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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

November 2017
Case

The 'Wonder Drug' That Killed Babies

By: Joshua Lev Krieger, Tom Nicholas and Matthew Preble

In the early 1960s, a popular drug taken by patients worldwide for a range of maladies was found to cause severe birth defects and other health problems in babies born to mothers who had taken it during a certain stage of fetal development. As many as 10,000 children... View Details

Keywords: Regulation; Business and Government Relations; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Product Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business History; Health; Government Legislation; Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States; United Kingdom; Australia; Germany; Europe

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01 Dec 2005
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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

30 Jan 2019
What Do You Think?

Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?

was to focus on a particular market segment.) Roger Hallowell, in a doctoral dissertation submitted some years later, took issue with that notion based on his observation of a small number of incredibly successful service organizations.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation; 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

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

than building the whole route with public funds—rather than pencil in a prohibitively high toll. This successful project reduces congestion in the capital, facilitates business investment in the region, and... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

01 Mar 2008
News

Lessons from Private Equity

GADIESH: To reap private equity returns, act more like a private equity manager COURTESY OF BAIN & CO A recent Harvard Business Review article headlined “If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business” gave many leaders of public companies a... View Details

Keywords: 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

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