Stock Market Participation - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

18 Feb 2016
News

Challenge Aims to Speed Drug Trials Process

share ideas on how precision diagnostics and therapies can be brought to market faster. Participants will receive feedback from an online community of precision medicine influencers, executives, researchers,... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Alumni Are Integral to HBS

feel like I have a little bit of a different perspective going back to my work life.” “I feel like I have a little bit of a different perspective going back to my work life.” —Amy Lang, The Boardroom participant 400+ Alumni View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Capitalism’s New Agenda

School’s centennial celebration a few years ago, we convened groups of business leaders in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the United States to consider the future of the global market system. In keeping with the School’s learning model,... View Details

Keywords: Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine; social activism; Occupy Wallstreet; Corporate Services; Finance

01 Dec 2008
News

Lesson from the Fall

both the movement of capital markets and gains in the price of competitors’ stock can provide executives with unearned windfalls for uncompetitive performance and promote unwarranted overconfidence. Awarding... View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

24 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

The team studied trends in outstanding credit, stock market values, and home prices from 1950 to 2016 for 42 countries. They found the potential for a financial crisis was highest in years when both View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

Fast Answer

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, fixed-income... View Details

19 Apr 2018
News

One Last Pitch

stores, or for cash withdrawals. Others finalists included George Hessler (MBA 1985), who pitched Magma Trading, a new kind of stock market for large block trades that he’s dubbed “the Costco of trading.”... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

October 2023 (Revised March 2024)
Case

GameStop: Social Media Finds a Cheat Code (A)

By: Joseph Pacelli and Sarah Mehta

This case covers the events leading up to the 2021 GameStop short squeeze. Using GameStop as an illustrative example, the case explores the rise in retail trading, increased financial information sharing on social media, and the gamification of investing enabled by... View Details

Keywords: Value; Stocks; Financial Markets; Social Media; Investment; Applications and Software; Financial Services Industry; United States

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Educators

Purchase

01 Sep 2009
News

Over the Top

power is precisely what caused the short-term fixation that led to the current financial crisis. As stockholder power increased over the last twenty years, our stock markets also became increasingly... View Details

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

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Session Types | Information Technology

Session Examples Executive Education Executive Education uses the HBS Live Online Classrooms in a range of programs, including the Comprehensive Leadership Programs, letting participants engage in case discussions from anywhere in the... View Details

01 Apr 1998
News

Deals For Sale

FairMarket is an online auction house that allows companies with surplus computers and computer components to sell to the highest bidder. "We make the distribution chain more efficient by acting as a centralized market for such... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

15 Jun 2021
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

Founder, Co-CIO, and Chairman, Bridgewater Associates I always had little jobs. I had a paper route. I would shovel driveways. And then I started caddying. This was the 1960s, when everyone was talking about the stock market, and the... View Details

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

Founded in 1997 to revolutionize the mundane printing business with new display technology, the company had its eye on multibillion-dollar markets like electronic newspapers. But to realize that vision, its scientists had to get into... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog

risks that globalization entails. All managers now face a business environment where international, macroeconomic, and political phenomena matter. Understanding the genesis of financial and currency crises, stock View Details

20 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

automated way, for instance by screening out weapons manufacturers stocks or overweighting LGBTQ friendly companies, while still closely tracking the overall stock market... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Investment Strategies - Course Catalog

bonds outstanding. Every day, public markets set prices for CEOs and CFOs, financial institutions, and investors, all seeking to raise and invest money in a way that drives the economy forward. A public exit - whether through an initial... View Details

01 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?

typically are presented four to six weeks after the close of a quarter, often involve a conference call by company executives with shareholders and stock analysts. Part of those sessions may include executives giving soft “guidance” or... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

get out of the way. But we also have to be prepared. Where the market fails to provide the service, we have to step in." Genes On The Web In a discussion moderated by HBS Professor Josh Lerner, participants... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

01 Mar 2003
News

Northern California Initiative Reaches Out to Women, Girls

have been sharing their business expertise with local girls by giving career-skills workshops, holding mock job interviews, and serving as judges on scholarship panels. One particularly successful event was a stock View Details

Keywords: Amy Burton; the Women's Initiative; HBS Association of Northern California; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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