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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Dot Vertigo
organizations, Nolan says, technology has so thoroughly penetrated every aspect of the business that its activities, strategies, and functions have become transparent, thereby circumventing any possibility of the disorienting dot vertigo (symptoms of which include lack... View Details
- October 2006 (Revised May 2007)
- Case
King Arthur Flour
By: Thomas J. DeLong, James Holian and Joshua Weiss
Steve Voigt, the CEO of King Arthur Flour, must determine how the company can continue to grow, whilst preserving its unique culture. In 1996, the company was sold to employees in as ESOP transaction. The following decade saw significant growth, despite declining sales... View Details
Keywords: Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Business or Company Management; Organizational Culture; Employee Ownership
DeLong, Thomas J., James Holian, and Joshua Weiss. "King Arthur Flour." Harvard Business School Case 407-012, October 2006. (Revised May 2007.)
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Exploring Asia at the Crossroads
by a plenary session and several panel discussions. Saturday's sessions began with an opening address by Amaret Sila-on (68th AMP), chairman of Thailand's Stock Exchange and of the country's Financial Restructuring Authority. Some twenty... View Details
- May 2011
- Teaching Note
Securities Lending After the Financial Crisis (TN)
By: Robert C. Pozen and Gayle Elizabeth Hameister
Teaching Note for 311131. View Details
- 25 Oct 2006
- Op-Ed
Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance
The latest corporate governance crisis is buried in the details of executive compensation contracts. Don't like the timing of the stock option grant you got or the strike price of the contract? No worries! It turns out that this is... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
women and meant the difference between survival and starvation for dozens of families. Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL by Roger L. Martin (MBA '81) (Harvard Business Review Press) Martin lays the blame for the View Details
- February 2001
- Article
The Portfolio Flows of International Investors
By: K. A. Froot, P. O'Connell and M. Seasholes
Keywords: Asset Pricing; Equity Investment; Forecasting and Prediction; Behavioral Finance; Stocks; Investment Return; Market Transactions; Performance Expectations; Personal Characteristics; Financial Services Industry
Froot, K. A., P. O'Connell, and M. Seasholes. "The Portfolio Flows of International Investors." Journal of Financial Economics 59, no. 2 (February 2001): 151–193. (Revised from NBER Working Paper No. 6687 and HBS Working No. Paper 99-006, July 1998. Summarized in the NBER Reporter, 2000. Reprinted in International Capital Markets, R. Stulz and A. Karolyi, eds. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003.)
- Web
Lehman Brothers Deal Books | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
transactions including mergers, initial and common stock offerings, and debentures. The volumes contain agreements between the sellers and underwriters, prospectuses and other literature advertising an offer, filings of the U.S.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
online stock trading and online auctions are the few places in e-commerce that approximate "wow" today. Noting that 30 percent of all securities trading is done by individual investors online, Walker said that the Web has turned the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
other words, if a retailer only gives the manufacturer warehouse stock information rather than actual sales data, or if the data is sent by fax instead of electronic transfer (which can be more efficiently verified), VMI may not pay off.... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Protecting against the Erosion of Brand Value
Innovation, a newsletter from HBS Publishing. “Barnes & Noble’s action indicates that within the publishing area, circumstances have changed, meaning that the power to capture value from a brand will increasingly shift from book publishers such as HarperCollins and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HP's Fiorina Speaks at HBS
quarter the company has had in ten quarters, the most profitable since we launched the merger.” As a high-profile female executive, Fiorina is no stranger to scrutiny and second-guessing; she told her audience, “You can’t manage your business by conventional wisdom,... View Details
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
establishing that cultural values causally impact the contents of gender stereotypes. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-097.pdf Characteristic Timing Authors:Robin Greenwood and Samuel Gregory Hanson Abstract We use differences between the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
How long can the real estate boom last? No one knows the answer, but this is the most exciting time in real estate during my almost thirty years in the business. The world is awash with liquidity, and real estate is capturing much of it for three reasons. First,... View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
future stock market returns by extrapolating past returns: they expect the stock market to perform well (poorly) in the near future if it performed well (poorly) in the recent past. Such beliefs are hard to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
explored how great companies often lose their ability to innovate and eventually fail at the hands of much smaller, "disruptive" competitors. "Basically any stock you wish you have owned started out as a disruptive... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Portrait Project
Danielle Slutzky
She kept a mini fridge in her bedroom stocked with my favorite chocolate, Pesek Zman, the Israeli version of the Kit Kat bar. My grandmother led me to her fridge when I visited each June. By age seven, I’d imagine the red and yellow... View Details
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Tony Tasset Arrow Sculpture 2015 | About
the series “takes aim at the stock market, the art market, fashion magazine hot lists, the thumbs up and thumbs down of social media postings. . . . Normally this trending is all so abstract, so flat, so digital, it can be hard to get a... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance
day-to-day operations of the stock market. Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet International markets often move together, so does a global investment portfolio even make sense anymore? Why there are plenty of advantages in looking... View Details
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
likely to perceive CSR strategies favorably. Our results show how CSR strategies can affect value creation in public equity markets through analyst recommendations. Institutional Stock Trading on Loan Market Information Authors:Victoria... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace