Public Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?

comparative consumer product reviews since 1936. The publication ranks competitive brands according to quality, based on in-house testing and customer surveys, and publishes the products' retail prices. "Decades of data, just staring... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

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Phillip Andrews

CPD team, Phillip spent two years in the HBS Global Research Group where he wrote more than 20 published case studies. Prior to HBS, he worked in legal and policy capacities in both the public and private sector. Work Experience: National... View Details

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20 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 20

policy-makers. Stakeholder Marketing 2.0 Author:Bhaskar Chakravorti Publication:Journal of Public Policy and Marketing (forthcoming) Abstract As more companies pursue... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Nov 2014
Op-Ed

A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform

conservatorship, experts from public, private, and academic worlds concurred: housing finance in the United States was mortally flawed. The private sector reaped the gains while the public sector absorbed the risk. In the aftermath of the... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas Retsinas & Rob Couch; Construction; Real Estate

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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

Technology & Operations Management Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Sara Fleiss Field Course: Public Markets Investing Seminar Finance Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 C. Fritz Foley Corporate Finance: Corporate Financial Operations... View Details

05 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

stake in a number of portfolio companies at Fair Market Value. As they conside whether to exercise their option to purchase Bain Capital's stake in Artisan Entertainment, the company has an extremely successful launch of "The Blair... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2005
News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

viable,” says Slaughter. Today, CMBS represent a $550 billion market. It’s hard to overestimate the impact of this market restructuring. In fifteen years, the public equity and debt View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

05 Jan 2017
Blog Post

Crossing the River: The HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program

public sector is dynamic, generating possibilities that neither sector alone could create. Reconciling social equity and economic justice with the profit motive continues to be one of our world’s greatest challenges, and my studies helped... View Details

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Aspa Lekka

Aspa Lekka takes pride in her Greek roots, but her journey does not begin from Olympian heights. "I come from a small city called Ioannina in northwest Greece of ~170,000 people," she explains. "I studied math in one of the best View Details

Keywords: Consulting

01 Oct 1997
News

Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75

informing the practices of managers in enterprises around the globe. "Their articles and commentary have made HBR the single most influential management publication in the world," says Stone. "HBR is where you first heard about how... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

The Right Connections

prospectuses of all public biotech firms going back twenty years. Information from 295 companies and more than 3,000 executives formed the core of their study. The results showed that top managers' ties to notable pharmaceutical companies... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Mar 2006
News

Back to School

The state of public education in the United States is a perennial hot-button topic, with rhetoric often outpacing any real sense of progress. The Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a 2003 joint... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

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Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco - Addressing Extreme Weather, Climate Risk, and Resilience - Blog - Business & Environment

Careers Climate Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production... View Details

02 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

you raise a lot of capital from public equity markets for biotech companies, there is a mismatch of the governance structure. The assets of a biotech company early in its life are just R&D projects.... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health

August 26, 2009
Comment

Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road

By: John A. Quelch

Today, let us celebrate the end of an unjustifiable drain on the U.S. taxpayer: the Cash for Clunkers (C4C) program.

True, C4C greatly boosted the number of consumers visiting car dealers. Doubtless, some new cars were sold to consumers who thought they... View Details

Keywords: Government Programs; Environmental Impact; Government Waste; Customer Behavior; Economic Growth; Economy; Financial Crisis; Government and Politics; Leadership; Marketing; Programs; Value; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States

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28 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

revolutionary functionality. We explore a second entry path that does not rely upon Schumpeterian innovation: platform envelopment. Through envelopment, a provider in one platform market can enter another platform market, combining its... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Mar 2017
Blog Post

Education Sector Opportunities at HBS

there). However, there’s a lively and robust education sector community within Harvard Business School and you can learn a valuable set of skills and perspectives to take into the education field. For example, what do Boston Public... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

The Rankings Game

followed with its own business school ranking. The two publications ruled the market for nearly a decade before the FT, Forbes, the Economist, and the Wall Street Journal all launched their own rankings... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; rankings; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 22

Publications August 2013 PLoS ONE Prosocial Bonuses Increase Employee Satisfaction and Team Performance By: Anik, Lalin, Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Michael I. Norton, and Jordi Quoidbach Abstract—In three field studies, we... View Details