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- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
As a professor of decision making and negotiation, I often receive unsolicited phone calls from relatives, friends, and acquaintances seeking my advice on consumer matters such as negotiating for a house, bidding on eBay, and investing in the View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
same time more deferential to readers than they are in our time. When we read some of the early stories, such as the one about female stockbrokers in the 19th century [February 3, 1880: "Ladies as Stock Speculators"], it is... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
information advantages across delegates and delegators, (2) reports both stocks and flows in the measures of account, and (3) has a mutually agreeable due process to match across periods the actions of delegates and the outcomes of those... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
discomfort persisted, though Keen excelled in his work. A paper he'd written, using game theory to explore the liberalization of telecoms, was the ticket to his first job at Metropolitan Fiber Systems; an early project involved analyzing the best View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
directors appointed in response to demands by activists. Using a sample of 1,969 activism events over the period 2004-2012, we identify 824 activist directors. We find that activists are more likely to gain board seats at smaller firms and those with weaker View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
CEO Compensation at GE: A Decade with Jeff Immelt V.G. Narayanan and Lisa BremHarvard Business School Case 112-003 When ISS, a large shareholder advisory group, recommended a "no" vote on Jeff Immelt's award of 2 million stock... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
former. This effect cannot be explained by several potential alternative hypotheses, including differential changes to the preferences of American investors, differential changes in investment opportunities, differential time trends in investment, changed tax evasion... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
stock prices had been reached. Despite Fisher's poor prediction on that occasion, he played a neglected, but significant role in the growth of the forecasting industry and in the rise of a class of early business analysts. An... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
defendants. The likelihood of being named is greater for audit committee members and directors who sell stock during the class period. Named directors receive more negative recommendations from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
and new outside investors will be one of the central tensions of our time, and not just in Germany. One of the reasons why big firms offer stock options is to make managers think like owners or to align their interests with those of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
$30,000, Norton packaged UnErase with other programs he'd written for IBM PC users, selling them under the name Norton Utilities. Norton's stock rose with IBM's, and his original investment grew into multiple millions. No longer active in... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
institutions and concepts by showing where they came from. What is money? What do banks do? What's the difference between a stock and a bond? Why buy insurance or real estate? And how exactly do hedge funds make (and lose) money? This is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Fukushima’s nuclear reactors, which were designed by GE. But Immelt’s biggest challenge was inherited: Welch had handed over a company that had great people, but was short on innovation. Immelt set out to change GE’s focus by making it more global, more rooted in... View Details
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
appointing a goodwill ambassador to communicate the culture and day-to-day life in Israel; and multiple measures to draw in more tourists (Jewish and non-Jewish) to the country. Taking stock of these efforts revealed a mixed picture at... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
Danaher’s stock price had reached an all-time high. In 2015, Danaher had decided to split off its test and measurement, fuel and fleet management, and automation businesses, leaving the “new Danaher” focused on life sciences, diagnostics,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
related to the repeal of these NAS disclosures in 1982 are associated with a small positive stock price reaction suggesting no adverse economic consequences of withdrawing NAS disclosures. Further, following the repeal of disclosure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
and placing these centers in its newly held buildings. Despite 3Q’s initial success and with the “build-to-hold” strategy beginning to bear fruit, SOHO’s stock price was still near record lows. How could Zhang Xin educate the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
(its stock price was down more than 70% during 2008); and third, Rohm's forecast sales, earnings, and value declined precipitously thereby reducing its attractiveness as an acquisition target. Given this confluence of events, Dow sued to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Depression. As 2,000 alumni convened on campus Monday, October 13, the U.S. stock market soared to its biggest one-day numerical gain since 1933, following on the heels of an 18 percent decline the previous week, the worst such drop in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
grandfather, but he reasoned that much of the money had come from securities, and it was “much better to have sold them and lost the money in this adventure out here, than to quietly watch it melt on the stock exchange.” The expedition... View Details