Securities Analysis - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)

ballot fraud have erupted and intense focus invested in possible measures to ensure election integrity. States have increasingly enacted voter ID laws as one such deterrent. But we also know that laws aimed at securing the voting process,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

question: The data and analysis in the latest IPCC report amplified the reality that climate change is widespread, rapidly intensifying, and attributable to human activity. It also signaled both a responsibility and a real opportunity to... View Details

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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services

is easiest to use but limited to the features offered by your application or programming language. Most of the applications commonly used for data analysis on the HBSGrid provide some degree of implicit parallelization. The system-wide... View Details

07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

in crises. These survey results form the basis for our analysis and advice below. Do consumers want to hear from brands during a crisis? Yes, they do, but only when that communication is comforting and reassuring to them and provides... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

with beating Microsoft. His battle was futile. He left the company as Novell began a long downward slide. The fighter pilot mentality of several U.S. airlines led to a price war in which billions of dollars were lost. Even in small protected niche markets such as... View Details

Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

Like many business leaders, Donovan Neale-May routinely seeks out information on business innovation and management trends. He reads reports from market analysis firms, white papers from companies in his field, and articles in online... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

segregated white and Black neighborhoods. Analysis by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition indicates that three-quarters of the neighborhoods graded as hazardous 80 years ago are now low- to moderate-income communities, with... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

01 Mar 2004
News

New Horizons for Iraq

Mosul. We supported the infantry soldiers who were securing the smaller towns on the roads leading to Baghdad from Kuwait. I didn’t get to fly, but I was given a leadership role. There was a lot of gratification in knowing that I was able... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs

01 Jun 2016
News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

Your credit card has already been stolen. You just don’t know it yet. Thomas knows it, though. (A 12-year IT security veteran, Thomas requested anonymity to protect the reputation of his employers, which have included Fortune 100... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

01 Nov 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Forecasting Airport Transfer Passenger Flow Using Real-Time Data and Machine Learning

Keywords: by Xiaojia Guo, Yael Grushka-Cockayne, and Bert De Reyck; Air Transportation; Travel

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Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA's Office of National Estimates

By: J. Peter Scoblic

Would-be forecasters have increasingly extolled the predictive potential of Big Data and artificial intelligence. This essay reviews the career of Sherman Kent, the Yale historian who directed the CIA’s Office of National Estimates from 1952 to 1967, with an eye toward... View Details

Keywords: National Security; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction; History

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24 Apr 2014
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Medicine made personal

Australia-born Arjun Goyal (MBA 2014) credits HBS with helping him focus his career on life sciences, specifically “personalized medicine”—a tailored approach to treatment based on analysis of patient populations. With his classmate Louis... View Details

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GlobalData Disruptor | Baker Library

services, and healthcare sectors. Areas of focus include: artificial intelligence, blockchain, connected devices and IoT, digital business, robotics and drones, security tech, and more. Disruptor offers: Coverage of 40,000 startup... View Details

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Ghana

Useful for: news and analysis on African business, policy, innovation, and lifestyle. Africa Confidential Useful for: in-depth news and analysis on significant political, economic and View Details

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HBS Alumni Research Tips: Finding Company News & Industry Research | Baker Library

robotics and drones, and security tech. For industry information click on sectors. For trends and insight click on analysis . There are many frameworks for analysis here such... View Details

18 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

companies their firms are issuing securities for—or hope to do business with. The research, "Playing Favorites: Financing Options Sway Analysts' Thinking," was published in the June 2004 edition of Investor Relations Quarterly.... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

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HBS Alumni Research Tips: Finding Market Data & Insights | Baker Library

focus include artificial intelligence, blockchain, connected devices and IoT, digital business, robotics and drones, and security tech. For industry information click on Sectors. For trends and insight click on View Details

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Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

Lecturer at HBS, I am a retired Securities Litigation Partner at WilmerHale in Boston. I draw upon examples from my practice and have designed the course to develop legal literacy by honing instincts that will help business leaders avoid... View Details

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Investment analyst reports (equity research reports) | Baker Library

Help Center Investment analyst reports (equity research reports) How do I find investment analysts' reports on companies, industries and geographies? Analyst Reports contain advice on whether to buy or sell the securities of specific... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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Faculty Books

human judgment, the authors show how to secure a place for ethics in our workplaces, institutions, and daily lives. Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader by Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback (Harvard Business Review... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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