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  • August 2003
  • Teaching Note

Pharmacyclics: Financing Research and Development (TN)

By: Malcolm P. Baker and Richard S. Ruback
Teaching Note for (9-201-056). View Details
Keywords: Pharmaceutical Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • 06 Jul 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

2009, pp. 78-84. Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (New York: Little Brown and Company, 2005) Charles Handy, The Age of Unreason (Boston: HBS Press, 1989) Charles S. Jacobs,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • January 2001 (Revised July 2003)
  • Case

Pharmacyclics: Financing Research & Development

By: Malcolm P. Baker, Richard S. Ruback and Aldo Sesia
Pharmacyclics (NASDAQ: PCYC), a pharmaceutical company that manufactures products that will improve existing therapeutic treatments for cancer, arteriosclerosis, and retinal disease, was considering a $60 million private placement in February 2000. The company had more... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Cash Flow; Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Financial Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry
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  • 25 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 25

Institutional Investors Frame Their Losses: Evidence on Dynamic Loss Aversion from Currency Portfolios Authors:Kenneth A. Froot, J. Arabadjis, S. Cates, and S. Lawrence Publication:Journal of Portfolio... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 1999
  • Other Unpublished Work

Estimating Industry Multiples

By: Malcolm Baker and R. S. Ruback
We analyze industry multiples for the S&P 500 in 1995. We use Gibbs sampling to estimate simultaneously the error specification and small sample minimum variance multiples for 22 industries. In addition, we consider the performance of four common multiples: the simple... View Details
Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Performance; Mathematical Methods
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  • September 2003 (Revised January 2004)
  • Case

Giant Cinema

By: Malcolm P. Baker, Richard S. Ruback, Erik Stafford and Kathleen Luchs
The owner of Giant Cinema must decide whether to invest in a digital projector, a new technology for screening films, or purchase a traditional projector. The impact of the new technology is uncertain, and the case describes probabilities for different outcomes that... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Film Entertainment; Technology Adoption; Financial Strategy; Investment; Outcome or Result; Risk and Uncertainty; Technology; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • 10 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

the United States was a highly protected market," declares HBS professor Malcolm Salter, who has tracked the auto industry for decades. "That wasn't because of trade barriers but because gasoline prices were so much lower than... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 1998
  • Article

Alternative Models of Uncertain Commodity Prices for Use with Modern Asset Pricing Methods

By: Malcolm Baker, E. S. Mayfield and John Parsons
This paper provides an introduction to alternative models of uncertain commodity prices. A model of commodity price movements is the engine around which any valuation methodology for commodity production projects is built, whether discounted cash flow (DCF) models or... View Details
Keywords: Asset Pricing; Goods and Commodities; Price; Risk and Uncertainty; Valuation; Production; Projects; Cash Flow
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  • September 1999 (Revised July 2022)
  • Case

The Goldman Sachs IPO

By: Ashish Nanda, Malcolm S. Salter, Boris Groysberg and Sarah Matthews
Addresses the proposed IPO and raises questions regarding how agency costs may rise or fall as Goldman converts from a private partnership to a public limited corporation. View Details
Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Going Public; Corporate Governance; Agency Theory; Transformation; Financial Services Industry
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  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

classic The Obstacle is the Way. I have also been ramping up my anti-racist readings, devouring White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo and Ibram Kendi’s How to Be An Anti-Racist. I’ve been keen to re-read The... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 27 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

  PublicationsInnovation Corrupted: The Origins and Legacy of Enron's Collapse Author:Malcolm S. Salter Publication:Harvard University Press, 2008 Publisher's Abstract Although much has already been written... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 19, 2016

Markets By: Baker, Malcolm Abstract—The link between measures of risk and return within the equity market has been very weak over the past 47 years: in the United States, returns on high-risk stocks have cumulatively fallen short of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

Facebook. Enron's Lessons for Managers Published: July 12, 2004 Like the Challenger space shuttle disaster was a learning experience for engineers, so too is the Enron crash for managers, says Harvard Business School professor Malcolm... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 8

Author:Malcolm S. Salter Abstract Researchers and business leaders have long decried short-termism: the excessive focus of executives of publicly traded companies-along with fund managers and other... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo and Ibram Kendi’s How to Be An Anti-Racist. I’ve been keen to re-read The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcom X, but can’t seem to find my copy as I think I... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing
  • 13 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 13

expectations are impossible to meet, either approach sets up the firm and its managers for failure, and in the process, value is destroyed. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1583563 Fluid Teams and Fluid Tasks: The Impact of Diversity in Experience and Team... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 5

state-owned businesses. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911408-PDF-ENG China Construction America (B): The Baha Mar Resort Deal Regina M. Abrami, Malcolm Riddell, and Weiqi ZhangHarvard Business School Supplement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-038.pdf Fluid Teams and Fluid Tasks: The Impact of Team Familiarity and Variation in Experience (revised) Authors: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Abstract In many manufacturing and service... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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