Market Timing - Publications - Faculty & Research

April 2010 (Revised October 2010)
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Vale: Global Expansion in the Challenging World of Mining

By: Tarun Khanna, Aldo Musacchio and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho

In 2009 the management of Vale, a Brazilian diversified mining company and the largest iron ore producer in the world, was under pressure from at least two fronts. First, the emergence of China as the most important consumer of iron ore in the last few years had... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Investment; Global Strategy; Risk Management; Market Entry and Exit; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy; Mining Industry; Brazil

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21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More

everything from working out at the gym to turning off the lights at home. Yet, despite the brainpower devoted to devising creative rewards and fine-tuning offerings, employees don’t always buy in. “All this money and time and smart people... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

29 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites

before and other researchers didn't know. In about 29 percent of the cases, the press is way out there before the SEC. And in some cases, people just ignore early warnings. Everybody says, "Where was the press?" It was just amazing to me to see how many View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News; Publishing

12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

Clinic’s warfarin anticoagulation clinic. The study measured the personnel and supplies costs to monitor and manage anticoagulation therapy for 5,526 patients. Results: The cost of warfarin management for patients who display unstable International Normalized Ratio... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 Sep 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Branding Yoga

Harvard Business School Professor Rohit Deshpandé often asks his marketing students a show-stopping question: Is everything brandable—and should everything be brandable? So when he read a November 2010 New York View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

Entrepreneurs Product Managers, Developers, and Marketers Develop an innovation mindset and toolkit you can use to guide your team or organization’s strategy. "This course is excellent for executives and managers who constantly grapple... View Details

05 Apr 2016
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April 5, 2016

earnings from uncertain to more certain times. We document that firms report more negative discretionary accruals when financial markets are less certain about their future prospects. Stock-price responses to earnings surprises are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

13 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

When Rory M. McDonald was working on his PhD at Stanford University in 2007, it was the heyday of the lean startup in Silicon Valley. “It seemed like pretty much every week there was some new market category being touted as the next big... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail

26 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Where is Home for the Global Firm?

you share these ideas? A: Of course, once you write something like this, you come to see many things through these lenses. As reported in the Financial Times in October, several UK firms including Shire Pharmaceuticals and WPP Group have... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Mar 2015
HBS Case

Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

then. Today, as entertainment becomes increasingly digital and spare time is in ever-shorter supply, art museums and cultural institutions have been put in a bind. Do they stick to their tried-and-true format and cater to loyal devotees... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

Choosing Between RE Investment Types Featured Exercises Identify phases of the real estate market Prepare for a real estate negotiation Conduct valuation analysis Classify real estate products based on their diversification potential 6-7... View Details

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

next? Key Themes: As a public pension plan, CalSTRS operates in the context of a complex array of stakeholders, who from time to time push for divestment or other values-driven investment decisions. And yet,... View Details

01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1

faced a crowded market filled with fierce competition. As he walked back to the office, he reflected on the time it was taking to establish the Dongfeng brand. Would his business unit grow strong enough in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jan 2014
News

To Spot Financial Trouble Early, Use Three Circles: A conversation with Blythe McGarvie of Harvard Business School

30 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators

fraudulent fund, even though many suspected something was strange, since the low-risk fund had defied reality by dramatically outperforming the stock market several years in a row. “We were all aware of this hedge fund that had had great... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Historical Data & Sources - Business History

Palgrave-MacMillan, 2007 Download Data Set in Excel Rise and Fall of Communism Map of Communism Download Data Set in Excel Rise and Fall of Imperialism A.N. Porter, Atlas of British Overseas Expansion . Simon & Schuster, 1991 Geoffrey Barradough, The View Details

08 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?

revenues (from Nielsen), and pageviews and time spent on web pages (from Alexa Internet). Within their sample, average print circulation decreased from 275,594 in March 2008 to 106,525 in September 2017, while the average print... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Journalism & News; Media & Broadcasting

04 Sep 2017
Blog Post

HBS Startup Bootcamp and Founders Unfiltered

on data while exploring market fit. Faculty presented central themes of renowned HBS courses like Founders’ Journey and Entrepreneurial Finance. Industry experts offered their insights on how to effectively manage public relations, what... View Details

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

– Less Info Our research on the market for CEOs among larger US companies purchased by private equity firms finds that almost 75% of the new CEOs are external hires. The median buyout in our sample earned 2.5 View Details

30 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 30

PublicationsEmotion-induced Engagement in Internet Video Ads Authors:Thales S. Teixeira, Michel Wedel, and Rik Pieters Publication:Journal of Marketing Research (forthcoming) Abstract This study shows how advertisers can leverage... View Details