Economics and business

Hold-up problem

The hold-up problem is the underinvestment arising when a party makes relationship-specific investments before terms are agreed, fearing the partner will expropriate part of the return.

Holding company

A holding company, or parent corporation, is a company that controls other companies by owning their voting stock while leaving daily operations to the subsidiaries.

Holding period return

Holding period return (HPR) is the total return on an investment over one stated interval, computed as income plus the change in value divided by the beginning value, not annualized.

Holidu is a Munich-based vacation rental technology company founded in 2014 by brothers Johannes and Michael Siebers, operating a metasearch platform for holiday homes and the Bookiply host software business.

Holland Cooper

Holland Cooper is a British country and equestrian luxury fashion brand founded by Jade Holland Cooper in 2008 and based in Cheltenham in the Cotswolds.

Hollweg family

The Hollweg family is a German entrepreneur family that has owned Cordes & Graefe KG since 1933, a building-technics wholesaler in Stuhr behind the GC-Gruppe.

Holly Maloney

Holly Maloney is an American venture capitalist who leads healthcare investing at General Catalyst, where she became its first female managing director and built its Health Assurance practice.

Hollywood accounting

Hollywood accounting, also known as Hollywood accountancy, is the practice of defining "net profit" in film contracts so studio fees and overhead consume revenue before participants are paid.

Hollywood Video

Hollywood Video was an American video rental chain founded in 1988 by Mark Wattles, which grew to 2,006 stores before its 2005 sale to Movie Gallery and 2010 closure.

Hollywoodbets

Hollywoodbets, Hollywood Sportsbook, South African sports betting and casino brand based in Umhlanga, Durban; provincial bookmaker licences plus UK Gambling Commission remote licences; Durban July, Sharks, Dolphins, Brentford sponsorships; duopoly with Betway.

HoloMatic

HoloMatic (禾多科技) was a Beijing-based autonomous-driving supplier founded by Ni Kai in 2017, which developed driver-assistance and parking solutions for Chinese automakers before its core divisions were dissolved in August 2024.

HoloSolis

HoloSolis is a French solar manufacturing startup, founded in 2022 by EIT InnoEnergy, IDEC Group, and TSE, building a 5 GW photovoltaic gigafactory at Sarreguemines-Hambach in Moselle, France.

Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck) is a private, family-controlled media holding based in Stuttgart, Germany, which owns Macmillan, Digital Science, and a majority stake in Springer Nature.

Home equity line of credit

A home equity line of credit (HELOC) is a revolving credit line secured by a lien on a borrower's home, allowing repeated borrowing against home equity.

Home equity loan

A home equity loan is a fixed-rate, lump-sum loan secured by the equity in a borrower's home, typically repaid in equal monthly payments over 5 to 30 years.

Home insurance

Home insurance, also called homeowners insurance, is an annual property insurance contract covering damage to a house, its contents, and liability, except floods and typically earthquakes.

Home Owners' Loan Corporation

The Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) was a New Deal agency created in 1933 that refinanced over one million distressed home mortgages during the Great Depression.

Homebase

Homebase is a British home improvement and garden retailer founded by Sainsbury's in 1979; it entered administration in November 2024 and now survives as an online-only brand owned by CDS.

HomeBuddy

HomeBuddy is a Swiss home-services marketplace founded in 2016 in Freienbach, the consumer brand of SIREN GROUP AG, acquired by QuinStreet for $190 million in 2026.

Homemaking

Homemaking is the unpaid production of services within a household, such as cooking, cleaning, laundry, and childcare, treated in family economics as measurable household production outside GDP.

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Homes.com

Homes.com is an American residential real estate listing portal owned by CoStar Group, operating on a "Your Listing, Your Lead" model that routes buyer inquiries to the listing agent.

Homestead strike

The Homestead strike, also known as the Battle of Homestead, was an 1892 lockout and strike at Andrew Carnegie's Homestead steel works in Homestead, Pennsylvania.

Homo economicus

Homo economicus, or rational economic man, is a model in economics of a rational, self-interested individual who maximizes utility, central to neoclassical microeconomics and traced to John Stuart Mill in 1836.

Homology Medicines

Homology Medicines was a genetic medicines company founded in 2015 to develop gene therapy and nuclease-free gene editing for rare diseases using proprietary AAV vectors.

Hon. Precision, Inc.

Hon. Precision, Inc. (鸿劲精密) is a Taiwanese manufacturer of semiconductor IC test handlers and thermal-control equipment, headquartered in Taichung and listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange as 7769.

Honasa Consumer (Mamaearth parent)

Honasa Consumer Ltd is the Gurugram-based parent of Mamaearth, founded in 2016 by Varun and Ghazal Alagh and listed on Indian stock exchanges in 2023.

Honduran lempira

The Honduran lempira is the currency of Honduras, introduced in 1931, divided into 100 centavos, and named for the Lenca chieftain who resisted the Spanish conquest.

Honeywell

Honeywell is an American industrial technology company tracing to an 1885 thermostat patent, which split between 2025 and 2026 into Honeywell Technologies, Honeywell Aerospace, and Solstice Advanced Materials.

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Honeywell UOP

Honeywell UOP, formerly the Universal Oil Products Company, is a process technology company founded in 1914 and owned by Honeywell since 2005, licensing refining and petrochemical technologies.