Public Market Investing - Publications - Faculty & Research

Jul 2012
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A Better Way to Tax U.S. Businesses

The U.S. corporate tax code is broken. High rates and perverse incentives drive capital away from the corporate sector and toward other uses and countries. This is bad news for U.S. workers, because corporations aren't making investments... View Details

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William Donaldson | Baker Library

Exchange, and later helped overturn regulations so DLJ could be the first investment bank to go public on the NYSE. He went on to cofound Yale’s School of Management and to head the NYSE. Among other... View Details

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Rob Zeaske Archives | Social Enterprise

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Lia Parker-Belfer Archives | Social Enterprise

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01 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 1

Publications August 2013 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India By: Bhalotra, Sonia, Guilhem Cassan, Irma Clots-Figueras, and Lakshmi Iyer... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2015
News

Case Study: Golden Ticket

propositions to a new customer base. —Cindy Park (PLDA 12, 2013) Stay with the current target market and own it—don’t be distracted by other rabbits to chase. —Peter Anderson (MBA 1981) According to the California Department of Education,... View Details

01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates

take action to speed up economic growth and improve the standard of living by providing a stable and effective legal environment for business operations; equal opportunities for the public and private sectors; View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

15 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

A New Model for Business: The Museum

along with companies like Apple, Facebook, and Progressive Insurance, is a leading example of firms that are thinking about customers in a new way—much like how a museum curator orchestrates the experience of patrons. Weaver, an assistant professor in the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Timothy C. Draper | Baker Library

Timothy C. Draper MBA 1984, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) Play Video duration: 19:13 Timothy C. Draper, HBS 1984. Interview conducted in December 2010 Timothy C. Draper, HBS 1984, started his career with a brief stint with Alex, Brown & Sons, the first View Details

01 Mar 2008
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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

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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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

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

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01 Mar 2016
News

Feedback

December 2015 Deconstructing Draper Re: Golden State of Mind I admire Tim Draper (MBA 1984) for his sustained interest in rebooting public education in California. Too few HBS alums are engaged with public... View Details

25 May 2016
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A Focus on Sustainability

Carl Ferenbach (MBA 1972) Carl Ferenbach (MBA 1972), who enjoyed a remarkably successful career in the investment business, has spent much of the last decade focused on his passion for the environment. Channeling his energy, intelligence,... View Details

28 Jun 2016
First Look

June 28, 2016

Abstract—Several CEOs are receiving significant media attention for taking public positions on controversial social and environmental issues largely unrelated to their core business, ranging from LGBT rights to race relations to gender... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Ben Steiner

greenhouse-gas emissions by fifty percent,” Ben says. Some of the proposal’s ideas have already been implemented, such as installing no-flush urinals in all new construction. Two college internships consolidated Ben’s attraction to business and View Details

01 Jan 2007
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Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981

to make what she now regards as one of the most important decisions of her career. "Because of our margin decline in the aftermath of the bubble bursting, we couldn't invest in both the Visor and the Treo. Despite the fact that we had a... View Details

09 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!

was what this free product would do to print revenues. Third, experiments and innovation require time and, by definition, a tolerance for failure. Trouble is, quarterly reporting pressures by public markets... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Journalism & News; Publishing

01 Mar 2005
News

Women Entrepreneurs Share Insights at WSA Conference

venture capital. Two years later, she sold the firm, Rubric, Inc., for $366 million. Securing the venture-capital investment was a major challenge, she told a capacity crowd gathered for the fourteenth annual Dynamic Women in Business... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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