Financial - Publications - Faculty & Research

May – June 1981
Article

Is Your Stock Worth Its Market Price?

By: W. E. Fruhan Jr. and Thomas R. Piper

Keywords: Stocks; Price; Value

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February 2002
Article

Stock Options for Undiversified Executives

By: Brian J. Hall and Kevin J. Murphy

Keywords: Management; Stock Options

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12 Jul 2018
News

In the Market for Environmental Change

responsible investing or social responsibility in all corporate affairs. That now lives under the rubric ESG-- Environment, Society, and Governance. “What we've seen in the financial community is, on the investment side, a growing... View Details

01 Dec 1998
News

Novartis AG Establishes Global Research Fund

Indonesian operations during the Asian financial crisis. "With our merger, Novartis associates had to respond flexibly and rapidly to deep change," says Vasella, who now serves on the HBS Board of Directors of the Associates. "In the HBS... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

01 Dec 2017
News

Removing Barriers

Anita Venkiteswaran (MBA 2012) Anita Venkiteswaran (MBA 2012), a principal at Focus Financial Partners in New York City, believes everyone qualified to attend HBS should have that ability, regardless of where they come from or their View Details

23 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective

greater, he predicts, if countries followed the example of South Africa and France, which recently expanded their mandatory reporting laws to require that companies report their financial and ESG performance in a single integrated annual... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Identifiers Available by Database

Which identifiers can be searched in each financial database? Gathering data from several different financial databases can be challenging. There are identifiers that these databases have... View Details

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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

investment of $5 million from Canadian financial institutions, Doriot helped establish the Canadian Enterprise Development Corporation (CED), one of Canada's first venture capital firms. The European Enterprise Development Company (EED)... View Details

Samuel F. Hinkle

non-chocolate lines and opening new vending businesses. His leadership of Hershey was marked by almost 10 years of top level financial performance (one of the top 50 performers of all U.S. firms). View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

Owsley Brown II

embracing bold new marketing programs. It has paid off. Brown-Forman, through its Jack Daniels, Southern Comfort, and Fetzer Wine brands, has produced stellar financial returns and double-digit revenue growth for the last decade despite... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

06 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

New Advanced Browse Feature

We want your feedback on a new way for readers to "drill down" into HBS Working Knowledge articles. Called Advanced Browse, this capability allows you to search for articles that meet multiple criteria simultaneously. Let's say you're interested in articles... View Details

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Orbis | Baker Library

Orbis A global private company comparison database containing millions of company data points. Read More ORBIS, a global company database, is unique in breadth of geographies and extent of companies covered as well as the availability of private company View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Where Are They Now?

Glauber As the nation’s financial crisis unfolded in late September, Bob Glauber (DBA ’65) and his wife were exploring the old Silk Road in remote Central Asia. But that didn’t deter intrepid reporters from trying to track him down for... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

Frank T. Cary

technology consulting. Through his leadership, IBM was recognized by <i>Fortune</i> as one of the best-managed and most admired companies in the United States. Throughout his tenure, IBM posted some of the strongest financial... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

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FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

also value in applying TDABC to low-volume care conditions. Since TDABC facilitates comparisons of costs with outcomes managers will be better able to make decisions about whether to expand or limit resources allocated to those low-volume conditions. View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

Saving the Steel Industry

United Steelworkers (USW) union as an “unsecured creditor” — much like a financial institution or corporate supplier — and used his Wall Street knowledge and contacts to facilitate mergers aimed at strengthening the industry. In exchange... View Details

Keywords: Primary Metal Manufacturing; Manufacturing

18 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery

Venture capital firms ask themselves tough questions these days. Among them: how can they dig out of the dot-com collapse? How should they invest going forward? How should the leader of a firm strike the right note for the future? And is it a field that graduating MBAs... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services

January 1997
Teaching Note

Clarkson Lumber Company, Teaching Note

By: Thomas R. Piper

Teaching Note for (9-297-028). View Details

Keywords: Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry

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June 2023
Case

Block: Creating an Ecosystem of Ecosystems

By: Lauren Cohen, Richard Ryffel, Grace Headinger and Ruoshi Qi

At Investor Day 2022, Block announced a new vision for its businesses: creating an ecosystem of ecosystems. Outside the norm for many public growth companies, Block had recently acquired a variety of new business streams in the creator economy and Bitcoin despite a... View Details