Occupy Wall Street - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2001
News

"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work

far-reaching study included a detailed account of the daily activities of five women factory workers over a period of nine years. However, Bouricius has also uncovered some notable surprises, including records of two women who worked on View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Professor Elton Mayo; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Sep 2020
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020

the Pros aims be a truly accessible, easy-to-understand resource available to help them. Using real-world examples and actual Wall Street models used by the pros, the authors teach you how to pick stocks in... View Details

01 Mar 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015

tantalizing glimpses of HBS, the 1980s Wall Street market rally, temporary insanity, and true love. The Cathedral Builder: A Biography of J. Irwin Miller by Charles E. Miller Rentschler (MBA 1964)... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

Wall Street Journal, the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, and the Chicago Tribune. Some forecasters packaged snippets of their forecasts to be sold through news syndicates and to appear in daily... View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

01 Dec 2002
News

What You Know Depends on Where You Go

and Palepu's research, however, showed that conglomerate-owned firms in these markets often outperformed comparable stand-alones. “These business groups appear to Wall Street as anachronisms, but in the... View Details

01 Mar 2008
News

Avoiding a Succession Crisis

succession” is just waiting to happen. — HBS professor Joseph L. Bower is author of The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders Are the Key to Succession Planning (HBS Press, 2007). Reprinted from The Wall Street... View Details

Keywords: Joseph L. Bower; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Jun 2010
News

Alumni Books

by Gabriel Wisdom (OPM 26, 1998) (Wiley) Wisdom shows how to capitalize on value plays where the fundamentals are strong but the “general wisdom” about the security has turned negative. Most promising are the stocks Wall View Details

Keywords: mathematics; statistics; Finance

01 Jun 2009
News

Too Big To Fail

government is the problem.” Thereafter, regulatory minimalism and a “market knows best” mindset took hold in Washington and on Wall Street and dominated decision-making for nearly three decades. Lawmakers... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

18 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry

create a viable business out of any toughtech idea. In a way, that was a catalyst for me to think about what was going on outside the walls of the corporate environment I occupied. Coming from the oil and gas space, it's easy to get... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

the Wall Street Journal that laid out his cybersecurity plans, President Obama noted the cultural challenge: “We’ll do more—including offering scholarships and forgiving student loans—to recruit the best... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

01 Mar 2014
News

Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

and interviews with 91 American media members, this book discusses journalistic values in the digital age, taking a hard look at the ethical challenges of the job while offering hope for the ways journalism can make a difference in society and further American... View Details

02 Dec 2015
What Do You Think?

What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?

was the gist of several comments. Observing that the desire to make fortunes is a powerful motivator, Paul wrote that "perhaps when Wall Street has more examples of innovative women, then there will be... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Feb 2006
What Do You Think?

Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?

penny is an old one. But in recent years the practice has become so enshrined in the culture of Wall Street that the men and women running public companies often think of little else. They become preoccupied... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

30 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?

There's a lot of worry afoot whenever companies merge. Wall Street worries about the stock price. Employees worry about potential job cuts. And consumers worry about the fate of their favorite products:... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

01 Sep 2013
News

Who Are We?

Execution and Quantitative Trading Analytics, Bloomberg Marie Konstance 10,685 alumni work in finance 67 alumni have Wall Street office addresses Tracing the career of Marie Konstance (MBA 1982) offers a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

Profile

Michael R. Bloomberg

chose Salomon. He was smart, ambitious and energized by the hyper-intense Wall Street environment. Becoming an entrepreneur was not yet on his radar screen. At Salomon, he quickly rose through the ranks and... View Details

06 Nov 2017
Research Event

Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?

late architect Cedric Price, who bottom-lined thousands of years of urban history into a breakfast order. The ancient city was a hard-boiled egg, surrounded and protected by a wall. Next came the fried egg, representing the city of the 18th and 19th centuries; with no... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Jan 2021
What Do You Think?

How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?

you think? Share your insights in the comments below. References:Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald, Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People (New York: Delacorte Press, 2013). Jennifer Maloney and Lauren Weber, "Coke’s Elusive Goal: Boosting Its Black... View Details