Capital Asset Pricing - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Apr 2017
News

Fellowship Fuels a Passion for a Career in Aviation

Norm Liu (MBA 1982) (photo by Susan Young) Norm Liu (MBA 1982) (photo by Susan Young) DONOR: Norman C.T. Liu (MBA 1982) Fellowship; N.C.T. Liu Family Fellowship In explaining what prompted him to establish fellowships at HBS, Norm Liu (MBA 1982), the retired CEO of GE... View Details

03 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 3

supply chain system. When commodity prices became more volatile in 2007 and 2008, executives at Domino's changed the way they worked with suppliers and franchisees to manage costs and risks and better leverage the View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Feb 2020
News

Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change

federal policy would really be helpful to create a uniform landscape for the capital markets and the technologies to respond to.” Matt Sonnesyn (HKS 2002) and VP of infrastructure, energy and environment at the Business Roundtable—which... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy

06 Nov 2012
Op-Ed

Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities

The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

09 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

the ideas in High Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage. Says Beer, "CEOs of HCHP companies think very differently about their employees. They see them as an asset and care about... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Nov 2015
News

Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans

for compact discs, with section mates Bill Heye and Paresh Shah. “We were the CD tower guys. We produced thousands of them, selling the first ones for $199 at City Schemes and Brookstone. Then everyone got in the game, and retail pricing... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

29 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

consider potential partnerships with, say, Apple Wallet. Price setting. At Uber, a team of economists work on how to design and fine-tune its surge pricing system, which changes fares in real time and... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education

04 Nov 2016
News

The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

existing strengths and capitalize on those,” advises Duch, who is currently applying that strategy to the challenge of helping rural farmers in Haiti sell their produce directly on world markets. Since joining the World Bank in 2013, Duch... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Reflecting on the Value of an MBA

You get a lot of good advice at HBS. I’ve kept pretty much every single sheet of paper I’ve received while I’ve been here, trying to retain it for later. One sticks with me now as I head back into the world of work. On the last day of my Venture View Details

15 Dec 2024
News

After Ozempic

Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Pete Ryan; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

23 Jan 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

transformation strategies that can be executed in the capital market. Over the period 1960–2016, we find that (1) unlevered bank assets underperform passive portfolios of maturity-matched U.S. Treasury... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

competitors under a framework the authors term TIPS, for technology, inventory, people, and space (size, location, and ambiance). These are the four major assets that retailers must use effectively and efficiently to create a compelling... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

08 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by the price of oil. The correlation is negative, suggesting that more reliance on luck is correlated with less individualism. We provide three short models that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 1

intermediary organizations. To test our theory, we examine every relationship between entrepreneurial firms and their venture capital investors in the minimally invasive surgical segment of the medical device industry over a 22-year... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

matter where and at what price the money to fund an entrepreneurial venture comes from? The answer, it turns out, is that it does matter—a fact that policymakers may benefit from understanding as they look at ways to generate more... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2020
News

New News

fine, but many of them also haven’t studied the region. When I look at some of the articles being published by major news outlets, you can tell they didn’t have an editor who really understood the issues. We’re creating the human capital... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneuship; digital media; startups; news; business models; young alumni; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

02 Dec 2018
News

An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities

renewables (wind and solar), nuclear power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and plant-based proteins (“fake meat”). Adaptation technologies, like flood defense and asset protection, also offer potential investment opportunities.... View Details

Keywords: Allison Webster; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

13 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

to then cover their positions once asset prices start recovering. Predation leads to profits of about 25 basis points over ten days and increases the liquidation costs for the distressed fund by 40%. These... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

23 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

patients, and 12% of total Medicare spending are associated with physician beliefs unsupported by clinical evidence. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49218 Stock Price Synchronicity and Material... View Details