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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
headlines and rack up revenues in the billions, a number of smaller U.S. companies — some publicly traded, others privately owned — refuse to be overshadowed. However modest their comparative size, their market share still reaches into... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
2000s, a period during which Treasury bonds enabled investors to hedge macroeconomic risks. This paper develops a New Keynesian macroeconomic model with habit formation preferences that prices both bonds and stocks. The model attributes... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
however, Lopez is pleased. "We didn't want to quadruple the stock price on the first day," he says. "When that happens, it means the company left a lot of money on the table. We priced it at $18. The View Details
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
microfinance banks join forces to face the new challenges of globalization, competition, and politics while common shareholder ACCÍON investments considers its options. From an initial project to share costs in the revamping of their IT... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
all a matter of trust. How do I know I can trust you?" At first, you think he's questioning your honesty. Then you decide to treat it as a request for further information. You pull your price list out of your briefcase and set it in... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts
billion--but analysts have been disappointed by a share price in the mid-teens. Are RLBOs really the risky, under-performing investment that is claimed? In fact, says Harvard Business School Professor Josh... View Details
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
art was redefined as a new product category—modern Indian art—by a variety of participants including artists, academics, commercial auction houses, and critics. And as Western museums and collectors began to take notice, prices for pieces... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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, with an average drop in View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
begun offering an uncoated bubble wrap that threatened to take market share away from Sealed Air. Should the company abandon its exclusive commitment to coated bubbles in order to fend off this challenge? Says Robert Dolan, the author of... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
study they asked, what is the effect of mandatory sustainability reporting on management practices across the world? Read the paper: http://bsr.london.edu/lbs-article/611/index.html Mutual Fund Trading Pressure: Firm-Level Stock Price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
P&G recently reported the strongest earnings in its long history, and its stock price has doubled since 2000. Key ingredients in the company's resurgence include innovation, micromarketing, and an emphasis on nurturing talent. Notes... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
the technology bubble to examine the hypothesis that inexperienced investors play a role in the formation of asset price bubbles. Using age as a proxy for managers' investment experience, we find that around the peak of the technology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
She·sesh·un (noun) Ly·ing flat (verb) Post·cook·ie (adj.) Bi·o·rev·o·loo·shun (noun) Dig·i·tul no·mad (noun) Di·ver·si·ty wa·shing (verb) Meem Stock (noun) When the price of supposedly “dull” stocks like BlackBerry and GameStop hit the... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
extreme politicking from the legacy energy, transportation, farming, and environmental lobbies. "It's time for politicians, regulators, and voters to give markets—and the price signals that they send to producers, consumers, and... View Details
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Strategy and Technology - Course Catalog
attributes, which make their products increasingly valuable if more consumers buy their product or if more complements become available. What are the implications for market tipping, pricing and growth strategies? Multisided Platforms... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
a "warehouse club" store. Although it didn't have the item he wanted, Stemberg was struck by the store's low prices on office products. "I began thinking," he recalls, "why not start up a kind of Toys 'R' Us for office supplies?" Thanks... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
November 28, 2016 Harvard Business Review One Obstacle to Curing Cancer: Patient Data Isn’t Shared By: Hamermesh, Richard G., and Kathy Giusti Abstract—Precision Medicine requires large datasets to identify the mutations that lead to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Robin S. Lee Publication:Journal of Economics and Management Strategy (forthcoming) Abstract We analyze platform competition for content in the presence of strategic interactions between content distributors and content providers. We provide a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Baker Bell Dedication Rings in HBS Centennial
antireligious Stalinist regime. The Moscow City Council priced them as scrap metal, and Crane donated the set to Harvard University. Seventeen were hung in the tower of Lowell House, a Harvard undergraduate residence. One came to HBS,... View Details