Stock Market Participation - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 16

democratize information and change the way that stocks are traded, threatening the industry's product and business model. There were upheavals and stagnation in established core financial markets such as the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?

because the buyer’s rival could take it to market faster.” Therefore, selling the idea at a later stage provides the seller with better protection. There are other reasons, which are not explicit in the model, for which a later-stage sale... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Motion Pictures & Video; Entertainment & Recreation; Banking

01 Sep 2020
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020

James Ellman shows how to invest wisely as climate change impacts multiple sectors across the stock market. The costs of global warming and its mitigation will have a major impact on equity market... View Details

12 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch

video we really want to see. But assuming a captive audience on these video sites may not make online marketers more effective at reaching consumers. Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Thales S. Teixeira notes that it's just as... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

01 Dec 2010
News

Iron Lady

Development Bank, Oteh is now the director-general of Nigeria’s SEC and the country’s chief financial regulator. At a conference in London in September, Oteh revealed her intention to strengthen the country’s capital markets in order to... View Details

Keywords: Finance

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

bankruptcy reorganization on June 1, 2009. What are some of the key issues the company faces? Three Harvard Business School faculty members--Joseph Bower, an authority on general management; Vineet Kumar, a marketing expert; and Dante... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

When Reputation Trumps Regulation

U.S.-listed foreign firm. Siegel collects evidence from a core sample of Mexican firms to show that some insiders from foreign-listed firms exploit this lax enforcement and run off with the firm's assets with impunity, while others learn to reap the View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

2011
Working Paper

Quantity vs. Quality: Exclusion by Platforms with Network Effects

By: Andrei Hagiu

This paper provides a simple model of platforms with direct network effects, in which users value not just the quantity (i.e., number) of other users who join, but also their average quality in some dimension. A monopoly platform is more likely to exclude low-quality... View Details

Keywords: Multi-sided Platforms; Exclusion; Quality And Quantity; Cost; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Network Effects; Market Participation; Digital Platforms; Monopoly; Quality; Motivation and Incentives; Strategy

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29 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad

question whether ads, including the over-the-top Super Bowl spots, have become too entertaining, says Thales S. Teixeira, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School. In upcoming research, Why, When and How... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting

20 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Bargain Hunters Beware: A Store's 'Original Price' Might Not Be After All

tells them so. What if those “original prices” stores base their discounts on aren’t real? That’s the question Donald Ngwe asks in his new working paper, Fake Discounts Drive Real Revenues in Retail. An assistant professor in Harvard Business School’s View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising; Retail

03 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 3, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207077 Framedia Harvard Business School Case 207-057 Examines an acquisition in the highly competitive new media advertising industry in China in late 2005. The transaction leads to eventual consolidation... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Fast Answer

Industries: financial analytical data and tools

Detailed historical analysis back to the 1920s of stock returns and market movements Baker Library Research Guides: Financial Markets Research Guide This guide provides a list... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

Elevator Pitch: Power Sourced

grand-prize winner in the 2021 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge, Chaku launched its first product, Nikki’s Plantain Crisps, in South Africa in 2020. For its US market approach, the company is initially employing a higher-margin,... View Details

Keywords: agriculture; Africa; food manufacturing; entrepreneurship; startup; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Collective Impact: An Innovative Approach to Improving Public Education

In this webinar, Professor Grossman will describe an innovative approach to improving public education Collective Impact and how you can get involved to help transform public education in the communities you care about. View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia

Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk William K.L. Fung (MBA 1972): E-Commerce and... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes and Deborah Blagg; David Lane; Educational Services

15 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives

understand your industry and its market dynamics. But industry is not destiny. As usual in business, the important levers in aligning strategy and sales are committed leadership and management behaviors. Our program is intended to help... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

04 Sep 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

job's demands for constant travel. She may come to the conclusion that she cannot continue to use her marketing skills and experience and raise a family successfully. However, she could apply that same stock... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 9

also accounts reasonably well for the large gyration in stock prices over this period. Finally, the endogenous adoption mechanism plays a significant role in amplifying other shocks. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

claim." When the global stock market and interest rates began to decline in 2000, many corporations faced a double whammy when returns on pension assets were well below expectations and pension... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

Fast Answer

Corporate Strategy Course - Project Resources

individual equities, stock market indices, fixed-income securities, currencies, commodities, and futures for both international and domestic markets. Also provides company profiles and financial statements,... View Details

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