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Research: Business School Really Does Influence How Students Make Decisions Later On

Harvard Business

This changed after Peter Dolan (Dartmouth, 1980) took the helm in 2001. Despite the general trend across schools toward becoming more finance-oriented, there could have been considerable variation in what’s taught. In another supplementary analysis, we used the rankings of finance departments in business schools.

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Research: How Investors’ Reading Habits Influence Stock Prices

Harvard Business

A cornerstone of efficient and transparent markets is freely available information. But does the mere action of placing a piece of financial news in the public domain make it readily seen and efficiently reflected in stock prices? And reprints of old news continue to spur market reactions.

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Corporate Inequality Is the Defining Fact of Business Today

Harvard Business

public companies from the 1960s up to 2005 in HBR: “Since the mid-1990s, a new competitive dynamic has emerged — greater gaps between the leaders and laggards in an industry, more concentrated and winner-take-all markets, and more churn among rivals in a sector.” The competition story revolves around digital technology.