Publications

This is a CORE course for students pursuing careers in finance. Thus, students interested in pursuing careers in mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds, endowments, wealth management, financial consulting, marketing and client service, sales and trading,... View Details

October 2003
Teaching Note

Dividend Policy at Linear Technology (TN)

Teaching Note to (9-204-066). View Details

Keywords: Semiconductor Industry

Teaching Interest

Executive Education: Finance for Senior Executives

Finance for Senior Executives provides the frameworks to strategically use financial resources and position your company for future success. By examining corporate finance from both internal and external perspectives, this HBS Executive Education View Details

January 2007
Exercise

Multifactor Models

Students evaluate the performance of four mutual funds and compute the cost of capital for two companies using fixed benchmarks, the CAPM, and a multifactor model of returns. View Details

Keywords: Cost of Capital; Performance Evaluation; Business Model; Investment Funds; Investment Return; Motivation and Incentives; Markets

October 2006 (Revised October 2012)
Teaching Note

Wells Fargo Convertible Bonds (TN)

Keywords: Financial Services Industry

September 2006
Teaching Note

Berkshire Partners: Bidding for Carter's (TN)

Keywords: Financial Services Industry

September 2006
Teaching Note

The MCI Takeover Battle: Verizon versus Qwest (TN)

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Telecommunications Industry

September 2006
Teaching Note

Corning: Convertible Preferred Stock (TN)

Keywords: Stocks

01 Sep 2011
News

Making a Difference in the World

The City Solution: Facts and Figures p. 32 “half the world’s people ” U.N. Habitat report (“Cities and Climate Change – Global Report on Human Settlements”) March 2011 p. 33 “2 percent land mass most of its... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Teaching Interest

Overview

I currently teach Finance 1 in the required curriculum. In the past, I have taught Finance 2, I have taught in the elective curriculum - Investment Strategies and Behavioral Finance - and I have taught in executive courses, including Finance for Senior Executives and... View Details

February 2007 (Revised January 2008)
Supplement

Multifactor Models (CW)

Keywords: Asset Pricing; Cost of Capital; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Funds; Investment Return; Mathematical Methods; Performance Evaluation

September 2006 (Revised November 2007)
Exercise

Market Making Exercise

Students make a market in a new security, posting bid and offer prices and quantities for a new derivative security. View Details

Keywords: Financial Instruments; Financial Markets; Price

1994
Other Paper

Conglomerates and LBO Associations: A Comparison of Organizational Forms

By: George P. Baker and Cynthia Montgomery

2000
Working Paper

Contractibility and Asset Ownership: On-Board Computers and Governance in US Trucking

By: George P. Baker and Thomas Hubbard

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1998
Working Paper

CEO Incentives and Firm Size

By: Brian Hall and George P. Baker

What determines CEO incentives? A confusion exists among both academics and practitioners about how to measure the strength of CEO incentives, and how to reconcile the enormous differences in pay sensitivities between executives in large and small firms. We show that... View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Motivation and Incentives; Executive Compensation; Size; Management Systems