Stock Market Expectations - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007

and rewarding more participatory, more sincere, and less directive marketing styles. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-017.pdf The Impact of Shareholder Activism on Financial Reporting and Compensation: The Case of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Special Collections & Archives | Baker Library

teaching with the case method, helping to shape business education programs and business leaders around the world. The South Sea Bubble, 1720 Explore one of the most extensive collections in the world relating to the first international View Details

23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23

that pursue a social mission through the use of market mechanisms. These hybrid organizations, often referred to as social enterprises, combine aspects of both charity and business at their core. In this paper we distinguish between two... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

and discrepancies can emerge as a result. Effective Auditing for Corporates provides you with proactive advice to help you safeguard core value within a corporation and to ensure that auditing processes and key personnel meet the View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation

questions. The calls are high stakes — a top executive with a murky message can cause share demand to dry up, or worse, a drop in the stock price, faster than you can say, "Outlook is uncertain." Imagine, then, the challenge for... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2010
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Faculty Books

mission statements of many business schools talk about developing leaders, these same schools produce little serious research about leadership. To fill this void, Professors Nohria and Khurana and scholars from fields as diverse as psychology, economics, and history... View Details

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

01 Feb 2011
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the Euro. The First Ten Years, 149-178. Madrid, Spain: Banco de España, 2010 Abstract This article explores the demand for the euro for risk management purposes and the evidence of stock market integration... View Details

01 Dec 2014
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Innovation: Frozen Assets

a PR stumble during its too-sheer yoga pant debacle. “I think there is a lot of market share to be had around what she’s doing,” says former Starbucks colleague Wendy Collie, the president and CEO of the West Coast–based grocer New... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

04 Jan 2021
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How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?

December 16, 2020. Summing up last month’s column My column last month about job training inequality and economic growth sparked many insightful comments about the role of markets as arbiters of fairness and the nature of competition for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Aug 2016
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Can Obamacare Be Saved?

they also risk having to switch provider networks, disrupting patient-physician relationships. "According to Kaiser, health insurance premiums for the average plan are expected to rise by 9 percent in 2017" These consumers will... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health

12 Apr 2011
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more likely to use equity in the transaction, and buy companies in a related industry. The market tends to react more negatively to the announcement of the acquisition of a venture capital-backed company, but the long-run View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 May 2002
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A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

pace of change in many markets accelerates and as some industries move toward serving "markets of one," the cost of understanding and responding to customers' needs can easily spiral out of control. In the course of studying... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel

05 Jun 2019
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If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?

effects of competition have an advantage within their markets, says Alexander J. MacKay, assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, who coauthored the study Consumer Inertia and Market Power with Marc... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy

22 Oct 2012
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Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism

conditions are met. "In Western markets that had more thorough privatization programs, the stock markets developed more, and it became less necessary for government to prop up... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Help Center Betas How do I find current betas for companies? Historical? Industry Beta? Current BETA: Bloomberg Current and historical financial information on individual equities, stock market indices,... View Details

01 Apr 2002
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Dot Vertigo

organizations, Nolan says, technology has so thoroughly penetrated every aspect of the business that its activities, strategies, and functions have become transparent, thereby circumventing any possibility of the disorienting dot vertigo (symptoms of which include lack... View Details

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

10 Jul 2000
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Privatization and the New European Economy

"some 12 to 15 percent of GDP in Europe was public sector enterprise," he said. But all that began to change in the early 1980s amid loud cries of inefficiency, as markets opened up and governments sought sources of revenue.... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Jun 2000
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Q & A: Gustavo Herrero

are thin. The sale of national companies to foreign multinationals weakens regional stock markets even further. Corruption is another issue that must be confronted in most countries. What is the purpose of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jan 2005
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Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964

production of a commodity that most Indians needed, I didn't mind." Bajaj's antiestablishment views prevailed, and by the beginning of the 1980s, Bajaj Auto had increased its annual production to 172,000 vehicles. Today, with revenues of $1.5 billion and a View Details

01 Oct 1998
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Playing to Win

No less intense was the off-field rivalry between the world's leading athletic equipment companies. With their dueling events, giveaways, and advertising - and through the on-field heroics of the teams and stars they equip - the companies' ongoing multinational View Details