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- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Predicting Financial Market Bubbles and Crises in Real-time
Laureate Eugene Fama that stock markets do not exhibit price bubbles. Greenwood and his colleagues used stock return data gathered from a variety of US industries and a gamut of international View Details
- 28 Nov 2018
- News
Elevating Women at Fidelity
In the wake of sexual harassment allegations at Fidelity, Abby Johnson (MBA 1988) has stepped up a concerted effort to promote women within the 72-year-old firm, according to Bloomberg. "A year ago Fidelity came under media scrutiny after it dismissed a prominent View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
IPA Meets IPO
line, took that concept to another level. When his company went public in 1995, Koch made sure that his loyal quaffers (at $15 a share), not Wall Street insiders (at $20), got the best stock price. He attached fliers to his six-packs that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
our HBS professors had always warned that if we spent $5,000 today, we would be giving up a fortune ten or twenty years down the road, given the stock market’s rate of return. A famous futurist of the day was predicting that U.S.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
Learning by Doing: Stock Pitching When it comes to getting an edge in a stock trade, HBS finance professors Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy urge students to go straight to the source. “We encourage them... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
if one excludes new start-ups, most new capital is provided by debt. Of course, liquidity in the stock market does enable investors to capture gains on their investments, and it also enables mergers and acquisitions. To provide adequate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
of the Yale School of Management; under-secretary of state during the Nixon administration; chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange; and chairman and CEO of Aetna. Along with his impressive résumé, Donaldson brought a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Reaching New Heights
First-year students in Section G raised nearly $12,000 toward the construction of a new primary school in Nepal after hearing a presentation from former Microsoft executive John Wood. After a trek in the Annapurna region, Wood quit his job and seven-figure View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Wizard to the Rescue
Just how much is the famous HBS brand worth? Quite a lot, it seems, from the humorous turn of events in this year’s HBS Show, The Wizard of Hawes. When Dean Clark takes HBS public, savvy students become overnight billionaires. But the good times don’t roll for long... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
Initiative to apply innovative business practices to drive high-impact social change. 1994 Building on his earlier work, Michael Jensen advances “agency theory,” the underpinning for compensating executives with stock and View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Research Brief: Capitol Gains
FOR MORE INFORMATION Legislating Stock Prices Psst looking for a hot stock tip? Forget the Wall Street Journal. Try the Congressional Record. HBS professors Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy, with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Seeing Things Others Don’t
impressive results as he has moved in and out of stocks with an uncanny ability to anticipate their ups and downs amid the economy’s twists and turns. Said a colleague, “How do you explain genius? Ken just sees things others don’t.” View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
that offer them. Hall's research is focused on the optimal design and incentive effects of compensation plans built around equity-based pay and especially stock options, the instruments most responsible for the huge numbers associated... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Restoring Order
founded the investment firm that bears their names, has chaired the New York Stock Exchange; served as chairman and CEO of Aetna; and was the founding dean of the Yale School of Management. While noting the fundamental soundness and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
this growth is inevitable as the divide between man and machine blurs. Hot Stocks: Investing for Impact and Profit in a Warming World by James Ellman (MBA 1994) Rowman & Littlefield The world is warming, our portfolios will have to adapt, and the View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Navigating rough waters
for the nuts and bolts of his company, from understanding the processing of checks to the most complicated financial report. He had been CEO of Bank One when JPMorgan Chase purchased it in 2004. During his tenure at JPMorgan Chase, where he serves as chairman and CEO,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Research Brief: Profit with Purpose—and Middle Management
purpose can propel an organization’s accounting and stock market performance. According to a recent working paper coauthored by Associate Professor George Serafeim and Claudine Madras Gartenberg (MBA 2006, DBA 2011), the finding upends... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Utopian Vision
dentists who got lucky on the stock market.” The development plan calls for a golf course with villas, a luxury boutique hotel, farms, a nature preserve and science research center, and a beach village with a nearby artists’ colony. Curry... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
You Can Bank on This
outlook is murkier, Wall Street's offers aren't so enticing, and the cream of the crop considers offers from other sectors. If 10 percent or fewer of graduating Harvard MBAs opt for careers in financial services, Soifer says that's a long-term buy signal; if 30 percent... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Seth Klarman on the Critical Value of the Long View
amounts of greed and nothing good happens—which isn’t fair and isn’t true,” Klarman told the magazine. “I’m not on Wall Street, I’m in Boston, but you’re tarred with that brush.” The article notes Klarman’s displeasure in watching investors’ increased focus on boosting... View Details