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- 01 Dec 2012
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Shareholders' Value?
short-term investors: A market of buy-and-hold investors wouldn't be very useful. However, a market composed of mostly short-termers presents its own problems, and today they have too much impact on the market. The more influence short-term traders have on market...
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- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Predicting Financial Market Bubbles and Crises in Real-time
over 100 percent in raw and net of market returns over the past two years to determine the likelihood of a crash (defined as a 40 percent drawdown) after a large price run-up. They also collected all of the characteristics of price run-ups that may lead to a crash,...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
and the environment. Interestingly (given that we interviewed them in late 2007 and early 2008), they were very concerned about the volatility and fragility of the financial markets. They thought the financial world had become detached...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
Lessons from Financial Crises in Asia and Latin America." With the response of international lending agencies to the volatile Asian markets a prime topic of the day, the remarks of one high-ranking official, Shigemetsu Sugisaki, deputy...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Fourth Annual African-American Alumni Association Conference
"Navigating Success in Volatile Times" will be the theme of this year's HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) conference. The fourth annual event, to be held October 5–7 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, will provide...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
asked his students. The class quickly reached consensus: Parker’s great, the idea is great, the context is pretty good—despite volatile interest rates—but from an investor’s point of view, the deal stinks. Well, true enough—except that...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
inadequate and costly telecommunications, income and education disparities, and corruption. Add to that a history of political and economic volatility and one begins to understand that entrepreneurship is as much a required tool of...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
volatile organic compounds from everyday products can influence our health in ways people aren’t always aware of. This landmark book, revised and updated with the latest research since the COVID-19 pandemic, lays out a compelling case for...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
problems. Wang: Beyond the advantages that Scott has mentioned, imagine you’re in a country where the currency is more volatile than cryptocurrencies, or where it’s highly risky to be carrying around cash. Cryptocurrencies can be...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
on supply and demand than they do on crises in the Gulf. Even if we solved the immediate crisis in Iraq, then what? Terrorism is a global issue that will take years to address. In the investment world, I think an invasion would further fuel the high level of View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2022
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June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Winslow Homer: American Passage By William R. Cross (MBA 1986) Farrar, Straus and Giroux In 1860, at the age of 24, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) sold Harper’s Weekly two dozen wood engravings, carved into boxwood blocks and transferred...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
rising prices, an underdeveloped legal system, and volatility in its equity markets. This dichotomy, Yoffie surmised, is an unmistakable sign that something is afoot - as he put it, "a paradigm shift" - glimpsed by conference participants...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
society that should offer a safety net, but also companies, where they recognize that employees are, first and foremost, people who must manage through the volatility we all experience over the course of our lives. Employees are there...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Dec 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Model outlines the author’s unique leadership principles, what he calls “Personal” and “Professional” Leadership. To illustrate what works and what doesn’t, the author takes readers inside the highly volatile beverage industry and shares...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
Business, along with members of the Greater Chicago/Midwestern high-tech business community, into closer contact with industry leaders at the HBS conference. “The volatility of the Nasdaq over the last year has not been lost on the...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
Be Flexible In today's competitive and volatile business environment, depending on forecasting as the basis for planning and strategy has become a particularly risky way to operate. Especially vulnerable are manufacturing projects that...
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Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
Luiza Helena initiated a reorganization that replaced family members with professional management and launched a campaign to reinforce the company’s mission to serve customers and employees. Despite the volatile nature of the Brazilian...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
women and meant the difference between survival and starvation for dozens of families. Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL by Roger L. Martin (MBA '81) (Harvard Business Review Press) Martin lays the blame for the stock...
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- 01 Feb 1999
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New Releases
flexibility, and leverage to topple the Goliath Microsoft. Yet the drama unfolding in court - not to mention the announcement, as this issue of the Bulletin goes to press, that America Online Inc. plans to acquire Netscape in an industry-shaking $4 billion deal -...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 22 Feb 2022
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Brand New
meeting unprecedented demand: The furniture industry, used to 2 percent to 4 percent annual growth, Sundy says, has seen that climb to between 30 percent and 40 percent. “The question now is, How do you manage a business through the View Details