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06 Dec 2021
News

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Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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Datastream | Baker Library

Datastream Historic and global coverage of equities, stock markets, commodities, futures, currencies, options, bond markets, company financials, and economic data. Get Access HBS Faculty, Students, and Staff In person access only HBS... View Details

25 Oct 2006
Op-Ed

Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance

The latest corporate governance crisis is buried in the details of executive compensation contracts. Don't like the timing of the stock option grant you got or the strike price of the contract? No worries!... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis

24 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

The team studied trends in outstanding credit, stock market values, and home prices from 1950 to 2016 for 42 countries. They found the potential for a financial crisis was highest in years when both View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial 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... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

Raymond V. Gilmartin

Gilmartin increased the stock price of Merck & Company fourfold during his first four years as head of the company. Gilmartin has focused the company’s research endeavors on therapies which can benefit... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

01 Jun 2006
News

Banking on Success

you’ll keep the cost line flat and that you have the discipline to raise revenues faster than your competitors, your stock price can rise in double digits,” he said. View Details

Keywords: Management

01 Jun 2011
News

An Economy Undermined

anger, and shifting ideologies. Then, in 1982, the bull market in stocks began. It changed the way companies were managed. CEOs focused on getting the stock price up. There was... View Details

Keywords: Jeff Madrick; Finance

03 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

stock performance: Over the past five years, Domino’s outperformed while Cheesecake Factory underperformed. So, the market factored ESG performance into the stock price for... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Mar 2004
News

Protecting against the Erosion of Brand Value

When Barnes & Noble rolled out a line of “store-brand” classic books last summer, the publishing industry gasped.The company aimed to provide consumers with high-quality books at prices significantly below what they would pay from... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jan 2010
News

Allan W.B. Gray, MBA 1965

fascinated by stocks since he was a boy, Allan Gray has built a successful career around finding and investing in companies which are priced well below his assessment of their intrinsic value. After earning... View Details

20 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract Abstract We propose and test a catering theory of nominal stock prices. The theory predicts that when investors place higher valuations on low-price firms, managers will maintain share View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

"That's not great protection, but at least it's some coverage. But for really devastating kinds of large losses, the coverage levels actually fall from there. They should continue to increase, but don't—and even fall for the most devastating events." View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services

November 1994 (Revised November 1994)
Case

MW Petroleum Corporation (A)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman, Peter Tufano and Barbara Wall

Amoco Corp. is negotiating to sell a wholly-owned subsidiary, MW Petroleum, to Apache Corp. MW owns large reserves of oil and gas comprising many properties at different stages of engineering, development, and production. The proposed acquisition is a large one for... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Business Subsidiaries; Mining; Cash Flow; Stock Options; Financing and Loans; Price; Negotiation; Production; Valuation; Mining Industry

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Educators

Purchase

May 2009
Teaching Note

Nextel Partners: Put Option (TN)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman

Teaching Note for [207-128] View Details

Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Voting; Price; Public Ownership; Valuation; Financial Liquidity; Stock Options; Management Practices and Processes; Telecommunications Industry

Citation

Purchase

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

Career Coach

Cici Xie

visa, Cici can provide insights into how these industries recruit, differences amongst various investing styles, what the job experience will look like, and how to choose your career path to meet your personal goals. She is happy to help with career visioning,... View Details

02 Dec 2002
What Do You Think?

How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?

they are granted. Some corporations whose option expenses represent a relatively modest charge—often due to low betas resulting from low stock price volatility—have done so already. On another front,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Fast Answer

Insider trading

screen. For stocks that have experienced the most purchases and sales by insiders. Type: INSD and hit GO. Use the fields at the top of the screen to select country, time period, type of... View Details

22 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

The Hedge Fund as Activist

higher price per share. (source: Figure 1 of our paper) Our hypothesis was that rather than effecting significant operational change, hedge funds create value by putting firms "in play" as potential merger or acquisition... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood; Financial Services

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