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The Pennsylvania Railroad alone, which employed over 110,000 workers by

    Mihir A. Desai

    Mihir A. Desai is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He received his Ph.D. in political economy from Harvard... View Details

    • August 2018
    • Case

    Christine Lagarde

    By: Julie Battilana, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Vanessa Ampelas and Noemie Assenat
    For a modular presentation of the same material, please see “Christine Lagarde (A): A French Prime Minister Calls” (HBS No. 419-017), “Christine Lagarde (B): Being a Public Servant” (HBS No. 419-018), and “Christine Lagarde (C): Managing the IMF” (HBS No. 419-019).... View Details
    Keywords: Change; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Leadership; Gender; Leading Change
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    • June 2004
    • Article

    A Catering Theory of Dividends

    By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
    We propose that the decision to pay dividends is driven by prevailing investor demand for dividend payers. Managers cater to investors by paying dividends when investors put a stock price premium on payers, and by not paying when investors prefer nonpayers. To test... View Details
    Keywords: Dividends; Catering; Financial Instruments; Investment Return; Business and Shareholder Relations
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      Clayton S. Rose

      Clayton Rose is Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice and teaches the course Accountability in the Advanced Management Program. His case writing is focused on the how leaders consider the... View Details

      Keywords: financial services

        W. Earl Sasser

        Earl Sasser is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and has been a member of the faculty there since 1969. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Duke University in 1965, an MBA from the University of North Carolina in 1967, and a Ph.D. in... View Details

        Keywords: airline; automotive; banking; broadcasting; communications; construction; credit card; education industry; entertainment; fast food; hotels ＆ motels; insurance industry; marketing industry; oil ＆ gas; restaurant; retailing; service industry; sports; tourism; transportation
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        Business Economics - Doctoral

        Yang Current HBS Faculty Laura Alfaro Samuel B. Antill Brian K. Baik Malcolm P. Baker Anke Becker Shai Benjamin Bernstein John Beshears Alberto F. Cavallo Alex Chan Katherine B. Coffman Lauren H. Cohen Shawn... View Details

          Rohit Deshpande

          Rohit Deshpandé is a Baker Foundation Professor and Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, Emeritus at Harvard Business School, where he has been teaching in the Advanced Management Program,... View Details

          Keywords: advertising; agribusiness; airline; banking; beauty products; beverage; financial services; home video games; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications; tourism; video games

            Michael A. Wheeler

            Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

            Keywords: arts; construction; e-commerce industry; energy; federal government; green technology; internet; legal services; nonprofit industry; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; publishing industry; real estate; service industry; sports; state government; utilities

              Peter Tufano

              Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at View Details

              Keywords: asset management; banking; brokerage; credit card; education industry; energy; federal government; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; microfinance; mining; nonprofit industry; oil ＆ gas; petroleum; real estate; retail financial services; state government; utilities; video games

                Lynda M. Applegate

                Lynda M. Applegate is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS and is Chair of the Advisory Committee for Harvard University’s Masters Degree of Liberal Arts in Finance and Management at the Harvard University Extension School.  She has also played a... View Details

                • October 2009
                • Article

                Managing Risk in the New World

                By: Robert S. Kaplan, Anette Mikes, Robert Simons, Peter Tufano and Michael Hofmann Jr.
                Five experts gathered recently to discuss the future of enterprise risk management: Kaplan, the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, who with his colleague David Norton developed the balanced scorecard; Mikes, an assistant professor at HBS who studies... View Details
                Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Crisis; Capital Structure; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Risk Management
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                • October 2003 (Revised February 2004)
                • Case

                Dividend Policy at Linear Technology

                By: Malcolm P. Baker and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
                In 1992, Linear Technology, a designer and manufacturer of analog semiconductors, initiated a dividend. The firm increased its dividend by approximately $0.01 per share each year thereafter. In fiscal year 2002, Linear experienced its first significant drop in sales... View Details
                Keywords: Financial Strategy; Investment Return; Financial Condition; Taxation; Initial Public Offering; Financial Management; Semiconductor Industry
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                  Howard H. Stevenson

                  Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

                  Keywords: broadcasting; communications; computer; construction; financial services; forest products; health care; high technology; industrial goods; insurance industry; investment banking industry; manufacturing; paper; professional services; real estate; service industry; software; venture capital industry
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                  Alumni

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                    Robert J. Dolan

                    Robert J. Dolan is the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and began his academic career in 1976 as a faculty member at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago. He joined... View Details

                    • 01 Feb 1997
                    • News

                    Doing It Your Way

                    sitting in his Baker Library office amidst drifting piles of correspondence - much of it from bright, young HBS grads describing their hopeful new business ideas. As he considers what the hottest fields for entrepreneurs have been these... View Details
                    Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)

                      Robert C. Merton

                      Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

                      Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

                      Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
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                      Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

                      society today. Friday, June 13 Video Recording Dean’s Welcome Address 8:30–9:30 a.m. ET Speaker: Srikant Datar , Dean of the Faculty, George F. Baker Professor of Administration Dean Srikant Datar kicks off Reunion Weekend View Details
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                      Finance Faculty - Faculty & Research

                      Finance Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students Unit Head Malcolm P. Baker Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration Unit Head, Finance Samuel B.... View Details