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- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
corresponded with the stock market peaks such as in the late 1990s and 2006-2007, with dips during recessions in the early 1990s and 2001. What influenced M&A in different time periods during spikes and dips is under debate. Previous... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
FIELD 3 Tests Students
each of the 10 sections then pitched their ideas to another section. Afterward, the entire class participated in a stock-market simulation, with each student investing in the 15 business ideas pitched to his or her section. The stock... View Details
Keywords: FIELD program
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore
Portnet a global standard, particularly as the state-run corporation expands overseas. It now has about ten port ventures in seven countries. Khoo reckons that within the next six years, more than a third of PSA’s business will come from outside Singapore. PSA is to be... View Details
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
empirical investigation of the risk of globally diversified portfolios of stocks and bonds and of optimal intertemporal global portfolio choice for long horizon investors in the presence of permanent cash flow shocks and transitory... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 May 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #5: Phyllis Newhouse, CEO, Entrepreneur, Leader
free energy. As exciting as Heliogen’s technology sounded, it paled in comparison to the story of Phyllis Newhouse herself, the first African American female CEO to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange. Below is an edited version... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- News
Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
its Nasdaq stock market debut. But Bezos was still feeling frugal. He didn’t want to spring for a cab from Logan to the Harvard campus, so some MBA students vied to give him a lift. Two of them, Rayport recalls, were promptly hired to... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
proceeded when faced with multiple options. Those options — from mergers and acquisitions to leveraged buyouts and asset divestitures to "vulture" investing and tracking stock — are also explored. Gilson reminds readers that the devil is... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Fast Answer
Companies: history
descriptions, subsidiaries, executives, stock information, and debt. Mergent Complete Corporate Index In print: Ref. HG 4961 .M45 in the Stamps Reading Room Use to find information in all Mergent Manuals, dating back to 1909. Use View Details
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
spending more money to hire a firm like Merrill Lynch that has people actively managing their stock portfolios. “Neither one of these approaches is better or worse than the other,” Quelch said. “They cater to two different types of... View Details
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
Abstract—Under fairly general assumptions, expected stock returns are a linear combination of two firm fundamentals-book-to-market ratio and return on equity. This parsimonious relation is pervasive, producing expected return proxies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807029 SUN Brewing Harvard Business School Case 207-022 The Khemka family of India, founders, managers, and majority owners of Russia-based SUN Brewing, faces a difficult decision in 1998. Following the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
English and relatively strict rules have been introduced with Der Neuer Markt. These advances have increased the incentives for capable managers to seek entrepreneurial routes. The second difference is the access to technical knowledge. In some countries, a View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- February 2011
- Teaching Note
Citigroup's Exchange Offer (TN)
By: Robin Greenwood
Teaching Note for 210009. View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”
point to history to make their case. The country's first major financial crisis—the Great Depression—led to the Securities Acts of 1933 and 1934, which effectively regulated the stock market for nearly seventy years, noted Goldschmid.... View Details
Keywords: by Catherine Walsh
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
P&G recently reported the strongest earnings in its long history, and its stock price has doubled since 2000. Key ingredients in the company's resurgence include innovation, micromarketing, and an emphasis on nurturing talent. Notes... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Deals For Sale
components what the New York Stock Exchange does with stocks." Winning bidders forward payment to FairMarket. The firm then ships the merchandise to the buyer and sends payment to the seller, retaining a 9 percent commission. Randall is... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 23 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?
would be perceived as a good thing, showing that independent directors are doing their jobs protecting the interests of shareholders. In fact, Ma and Khanna found the opposite. The stock market punished firms where dissent was evident,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Banking on Success
you’ll keep the cost line flat and that you have the discipline to raise revenues faster than your competitors, your stock price can rise in double digits,” he said. View Details
Keywords: Management
- October 2023 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
GameStop: Social Media Finds a Cheat Code (A)
By: Joseph Pacelli and Sarah Mehta
This case covers the events leading up to the 2021 GameStop short squeeze. Using GameStop as an illustrative example, the case explores the rise in retail trading, increased financial information sharing on social media, and the gamification of investing enabled by... View Details
Keywords: Value; Stocks; Financial Markets; Social Media; Investment; Applications and Software; Financial Services Industry; United States
Pacelli, Joseph, and Sarah Mehta. "GameStop: Social Media Finds a Cheat Code (A)." Harvard Business School Case 124-005, October 2023. (Revised March 2024.)
- 2009
- Case
Blaine Kitchenware, Inc.: Capital Structure (TN): Brief Case.
By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Joel L. Heilprin