Stock Price - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

market setting, the transfer price that maximizes a multinational's profits may also be the same one that maximizes the social welfare of the domestic economy that houses it. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-098.pdf... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Jul 2023
News

Why Leaders with Big Egos Worry Wesfarmers CEO Rob Scott

correlation with superior shareholder returns from those leaders who have the sense of humility and self-awareness.” The article tracks Wesfarmers’ recent rise in stock price (about 40% over the past five... View Details

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

(19) Annual Reports (2) Annuities (1) Arts (2) Asset Management (3) Asset Pricing (4) Assets (11) Attitudes (18) Auctions (4) Balanced Scorecard (11) Banks and Banking (30) Behavioral Finance (7) Behavior (75) Bids and Bidding (1) Bonds... View Details

24 Apr 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders

decisions because they fear failure. I know, because it happened to me. In my first year as CEO of Medtronic, I passed up the opportunity to buy a rapidly growing angioplasty company because it faced patent and pricing risks. While those... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Auto; Food & Beverage

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

What Makes a Good Leader?

often a judgment call." The ability to render that judgment can sometimes make or break a company. "The phrase 'public confidence, private doubt' comes to mind," observes Joe Badaracco. "If leaders disclosed all their concerns and doubts, View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg & Susan Young

07 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 7

tracks the performance of the 10 highest yielding stocks of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). The case provides share price data, dividend... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid with a Round Number

psychologists before making their offers to buy a company. Of the some 2,000 price-per-share bids in their sample, 47 percent were divisible by $1.00—that is, the bankers bid with a share price ending in two zeros after the decimal point.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

day the letter became public, Vail’s stock price jumped 6%, representing an increase in almost $350 million of market value. With the stock price... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

Thinking Ahead

personalization for a customer, thinking through the right shelf assortment in a store, or stocking a warehouse, it implies changes in your process.” Finally, AI’s ability to rapidly test different options demands an experimental,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

22 Nov 2023
News

So You Want to Join a Startup

interesting. And there's a bit of the grass is greener syndrome where you get excited about something that you hear about. It's like a stock tip, somebody tells you about a hot stock and you want to go buy... View Details

07 Jul 2019
HBS Case

Walmart's Workforce of the Future

consequences of senior leadership’s choices, says Kerr. “It’s easy to be critical and say that Walmart should be doing more, but when students review the company’s actions over the past five years, they have to confront the fact that every time the minimum wage went... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Barbon , Marco Di Maggio , Francesco Franzoni & Augustin Landier AUG 2019 Do brokers spread order flow information in the stock market? Using trade-level data, the authors focus on large portfolio liquidations that result in temporary... View Details

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Anticorruption Efforts" (with Paul Healy, Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12–077, 2012). George Serafeim : Runner-up for the 2013 Whitebox Grant for Research in the Behavioral Sciences for the paper with Mozaffar Khan and Leonid Kogan, "Mutual Fund Trading... View Details

27 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54078 Stock Market Returns and Consumption By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Kaveh Majlesi Abstract—This paper employs Swedish data containing security level information on households'... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?

Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

IRS argues that the difference in stock price is actually income to the entrepreneur. # 9: Issuing founder shares without vesting. Simply put, vesting protects the members of the founding team who take the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Strategy and the Internet

competitive advantage—by operating at a lower cost, by commanding a premium price, or by doing both. Cost and price advantages can be achieved in two ways. One is operational effectiveness—doing the same things your competitors do but... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter

01 Feb 2001
News

What Makes a Good Leader

business leadership can benefit society." photo courtesy HBS Communications The ability to render that judgment can sometimes make or break a company. "The phrase 'public confidence, private doubt' comes to mind," observes Joe Badaracco. "If leaders disclosed all their... View Details

Keywords: Management

21 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?

Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

27 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 27

contribution is positively associated with proxies for quality of accruals and governance. Next, we investigate the implications of accruals' predictive value for accrual-based market anomalies. We find that portfolios formed on stock... View Details