Market Liberalization - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem

do no more than palliate public outrage. What we need is a much more comprehensive look at the recent scandals so that we can begin to figure out what the real issues are. As a start, let's consider one of corporate America's biggest villains: Enron. Certainly the... View Details

Keywords: by William Sahlman

29 Jan 2025
Blog Post

Finding Professional Purpose: Building an Impactful Career that Reflects your Values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)

Learn about the career resources available to HBS alumni through HBS Career & Professional Development When I started my journey at Harvard Business School, I was eager to broaden my business knowledge and strengthen my skills, particularly in View Details

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Nicolas Weninger | MBA

operational and market constraints in mind. Because of this, I came to see engineering as a fundamentally a liberal arts subject: one needs to combine both the technical understanding of science and systems... View Details

29 Jan 2025
Blog Post

Finding professional purpose: Building an impactful career that reflects your values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)

When I started my journey at Harvard Business School, I was eager to broaden my business knowledge and strengthen my skills, particularly in marketing and branding. Coming from a liberal arts undergraduate... View Details

29 May 2017
Blog Post

The Diverse Community at HBS

Before I came to HBS, I worked at Disney in a consumer insights role with the Corporate Brand Development and Studio Marketing teams. Tracking evolving consumer behaviors in entertainment was part of my job and I was fascinated by the... View Details

22 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2197876 Expectations of Returns and Expected Returns Authors:Greenwood, Robin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract We analyze time-series of investor expectations of future stock market returns from five data sources... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

stake in a number of portfolio companies at Fair Market Value. As they conside whether to exercise their option to purchase Bain Capital's stake in Artisan Entertainment, the company has an extremely successful launch of "The Blair... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2010
News

Admit It: You’re in Denial

marketing produced the legendary Model T, which put America on wheels and made Ford a business titan. More than 15 million Model T autos were sold in the two decades after its introduction in 1908. But something happened. By 1927, Model T... View Details

Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Management

19 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

without having their economies fall apart. On average, such countries don't do nearly as well as liberal democracies; but there's still a mystery in that they're not doing as badly as the economists and political scientists would have... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

12 May 2016
News

Food Rescue Is on a Mission

Success began with vegetable lentil soup. Ian Carson (OPM 42, 2012) was fresh off volunteering in Australian politics as state president of the Liberal Party in Victoria when he was inspired to take action about food waste and hunger. He... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India

have made goods more attainable and enticing to a larger portion of the population. At the same time, trade liberalization and more sophisticated manufacturing techniques create goods that are less expensive and higher quality. A panel... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products; Retail

01 Dec 2008
News

Summit Sound Bites

more than we earn. It’s very simple.” —James Wolfensohn (MBA ’59), Chairman, Wolfensohn & Company, LLC “The real strength of America is not its technical schools. What we don’t have in India, and what the world doesn’t understand the importance of, is the View Details

13 Feb 2020
News

Not Throwing Away My Shot

many ways determines my ability to be a successful entrepreneur. And then the third piece: talent, community, your business model. I'm going to bring a novel combination to market and I'm going to disrupt an economic flow. That defines my... View Details

23 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 23

psychology and ethical decision making. Read the paper: http://www.francescagino.com/uploads/4/7/4/7/4747506/caruso_gino_cognition_2011.pdf The Design of Online Advertising Markets Author: Benjamin G. Edelman Publication: In The Handbook... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

Last year, Harvard Business School professor Ranjay Gulati met with the marketing department of a large American corporation and posed a seemingly simple question: What do marketing people actually do?... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2009
News

Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

under the bridge — ancient history, like the history of imperial China. Markets have short memories. Many young traders today did not even experience the Asian crisis of 1997–1998. Those who went into finance after 2000 lived through... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

15 May 2019
Research Event

The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History

scholarly–and other–critiques of capitalism and big business resort to stereotypes and generalizations, sweeping the good, the bad, and the ugly into an amorphous single entity. Engaging seriously with the past can be liberating and... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Education

01 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

quickly as it began. "The offshoring of activities is predicated on a huge number of non-obvious, sensitive policy choices," Rivkin says, citing India's economic liberalization efforts of the early 1990s and the Chinese government's... View Details