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- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
How long can the real estate boom last? No one knows the answer, but this is the most exciting time in real estate during my almost thirty years in the business. The world is awash with liquidity, and real estate is capturing much of it for three reasons. First,... View Details
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
place in the private sector, the owners would probably hold the stock until the company was in robust health. The realized price on the stock would then in all likelihood be... View Details
- 23 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?
would be perceived as a good thing, showing that independent directors are doing their jobs protecting the interests of shareholders. In fact, Ma and Khanna found the opposite. The stock market punished firms where dissent was evident,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Nov 2013
- News
No Bologna, Please
into Panera," he told the HBS Alumni Bulletin in 2004. "As we went through a year-and-a-half of divestitures, our stock sank to a split-adjusted $3 a share. Those were not happy times." Today, Panera's share View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53530 forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Asset Price Dynamics in Partially Segmented Markets By: Greenwood, Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Gordon Y. Liao Abstract—We develop a model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
may inhibit shorter lead times. A so-called "safety stock effect" can be observed when a lower risk of stocking out under short lead times induces the downstream party to alter its order quantity.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
and the United States: Dr. Werner G. Seifert, chairman of Deutsche Borse (the German Stock Exchange) and an architect of the planned merger between his Frankfurt-based organization and the London Stock... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
both the movement of capital markets and gains in the price of competitors’ stock can provide executives with unearned windfalls for uncompetitive performance and promote unwarranted overconfidence. Awarding... View Details
- Fast Answer
Corporate Strategy Course - Project Resources
expansions and strategies; labor/management actions; stock exchanges, ticker symbols, and industries; and principal subsidiaries, divisions, operating units, and competitors. Information is sourced from publicly accessible data as well as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
online stock trading and online auctions are the few places in e-commerce that approximate "wow" today. Noting that 30 percent of all securities trading is done by individual investors online, Walker said that the Web has turned the... View Details
- 26 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
How to Approach Your Equity Compensation
Not all equity is created equally. Most commonly, employees will be offered Incentive Stock Options (ISOs), Non-Qualified Stock Options (NSOs), or Restricted Stock Units... View Details
- 02 Sep 2010
- What Do You Think?
How Transparent Should Boards Be?
Gogula put it, "While protecting the short term interests of shareholders and avoiding a depression of stock prices may be a tempting recourse for a Board member to take, long-term shareholder interest... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
case asks students to evaluate the pricing of preferred stock relative to common stock at this time. As the case takes place during a period of considerable uncertainty in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
investigate whether stocks in the euro area have moved from a regime in which national stock markets were priced with discount rates that were predominantly country specific,... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Missing the Wave in Ship Transport
investors succeed in volatile, cyclical markets as far ranging as real estate, high technology, and truck transport. In Waves in Ship Prices and Investment, a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, Professor Robin Greenwood... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
unprofitable, non-dividend-paying, extreme growth, and distressed stocks earn relatively higher subsequent returns. When sentiment is high, the aforementioned categories of stocks earn relatively lower... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
matter if they come from pure-play online retailers or omnichannel retailers, suck volume out of a store and often lead to more intense price competition. For reasons we'll cover later in this book, neither buy-online-pick-up-in-store nor... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Research Brief: Lost in Translation
intraday trading volumes and more modest price movements in stocks compared with calls led by more fluent speakers. “Executives typically speak English quite well when they’ve had time to prepare and... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
view of the bubble phenomenon in markets suggests a question for further consideration. Is "collateral" damage from tech bubbles inevitable, necessary, and useful? What do you think? Original Article The recent purchase of WhatsApp by Facebook for a reported... View Details
- 02 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents
increased for consumers, and there were more jobs lost in those sectors suffering from higher steel prices than steel jobs created. After Trump’s announcement, the Dow Jones industrial average greeted the news with a drop of more than 1.5... View Details