Stock Price Informativeness - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Aug 2013
What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

makes us miss options; (2) the "confirmation bias" that leads us to give undue credence to information confirming a decision while ignoring other information; (3) the injection of "short-term emotion" into the decision... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

October 2000 (Revised April 2001)
Case

Cost of Capital at Ameritrade

By: Mark L. Mitchell and Erik Stafford

Ameritrade Holding Corp. is planning large marketing and technology investments to improve the company's competitive position in deep-discount brokerage by taking advantage of emerging economies of scale. In order to evaluate whether the strategy would generate... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Asset Pricing; Cash Flow; Cost of Capital; Investment; Marketing; Mathematical Methods; Competition; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Financial Services Industry

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Educators

Purchase

30 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 30

https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?c=25120&i=25122&cs=0b17ff7f3d16c64e4a6b72b71b876054 2013 pub Information and Subsidies: Complements or Substitutes? By: Ashraf, Nava, B. Kelsey Jack, and Emir Kamenica... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

15 Nov 2018
Book

Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness

13 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 13

and Competitive Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu Abstract We study sponsor-based business model innovations where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than setting View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

the ad and be taken to a Web site where she can learn more about the product and purchase it. The entire process—from ad to purchase—might take less than five minutes. In addition to streamlining the flow of information and transactions,... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

other policies to change relative prices can provide a countervailing force by subsidizing exports. But they increase the costs of imports, hurting both domestic consumption and export-oriented industries with high import content. More... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

21 May 2015
Blog Post

3 Ways to Fund Your HBS MBA

admitted students to submit their financial information. The financial aid office uses this information to assess each student’s unique situation and then offers fellowship grants to those with a demonstrated need to offset the cost of... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

events. However, you may visit the HBS Online Business Insights Blog and HBS Online Facebook page for information about upcoming conferences and webinars featuring faculty, or join the HBS Online Community to build your network and... View Details

12 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Pay Workers More So They Steal Less

offering wages higher than the local competition experienced both increased productivity and lower turnover, but did not address the issue of employee theft. Employee theft comes with a huge price tag for US businesses, accounting for up... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail

17 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers

Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details

Keywords: by Jose Alvarez and Len Schlesinger; Retail

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

77 percent of its profits from outside North America. But Goizueta's strategy soon ran into trouble, due in large part to the Asian currency crisis. By the end of 1999, when Douglas Daft took the reins, earnings had slumped, and Coke's View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

06 Feb 2013
What Do You Think?

Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

person checking my groceries that the company appeared to be doing well, noting that it had just reported significantly better earnings than expected. The checker beamed, commenting that the stock price had... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

exceeding. But the price for his little white lie was extremely high: The company based its demand planning on his sales forecast and consequently ran out of its core product in one of its largest markets at the height of the holiday... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

31 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

and Active Labor Act of 1986 requires all emergency departments to address critical health needs regardless of the patient’s ability to pay. This informal coverage, the researchers write, is “disorganized, stressful, low quality, and... View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

example of sales-related hyperbole, Cespedes points to the dire predictions that online buying will eventually cause the real-life “death of a salesman.” While online information sources affect selling, retail sales through ecommerce... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

06 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

Remember the old saying: "It is not the size of the dog in the fight. It is the size of the fight in the dog." Gauging asymmetries is so essential to predicting outcomes because the availability of information about a threat or... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

21 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms

are familiar with.” And it’s a model she believes could also transform the coffee industry and other commodity supply chains. “The economics of coffee are some of the most challenging out there,” explains Nyamumbo, who herself grew up on a Kenyan coffee farm. The View Details

28 Jun 2022
Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Celebration Dean Srikant Datar: Welcome Address Video Recording + More Info – Less Info Hear an update on the Dean’s key priorities, which will strengthen and accelerate the School’s impact in the world. Faculty Presentations Can Evidence-Based View Details

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