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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

upright poles topped by signs, with some chairs at their bases. During the extraordinary “bull” market of the 1920s, the New York Stock Exchange began reassessing its capacity to handle ever increasing... View Details

11 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas

Gurun used a database that tracks litigation against 1,000 top firms in the US stock market, looking at all lawsuits between 1995 and 2013. They cross-referenced that with a database of advertising spending by the same companies in more... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

puppets, and it was lucrative enough to make me feel pretty wealthy when I went to the candy store. What is your outlook for the stock market over the next five years? I think most of my classmates would say... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Engineering. Michael Cline (MBA 1985), Accretive Technology Partners J. Michael Cline is the founding Partner of Accretive Technology Partners, LLC, a private equity firm focused on building market leaders in the business process... View Details

26 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 26, 2007

example, those with a talented director or well-known actor) also receive more advertising. In this study, we use data on a movie's stock price as it trades on the Hollywood Stock Exchange, a popular online... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives

history, and then dig deeper to explore the firm’s market position and challenges. As you would in any job interview, you should show that you’ve done your homework and understand the organization. If the company is in a different... View Details

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FAQ - Alumni

donorsecuritygifts@harvard.edu . To ensure proper processing of your gift, complete this online form to notify us of your stock transfer. Donors may take a charitable income tax deduction for its mean fair View Details

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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

services in 1994, it spun off Lehman Brothers through a public stock offering, trading on the New York and Pacific stock exchanges, as Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. Richard “Dick” Fuld, who had overseen the... View Details

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

nonpecuniary perspective. Our core findings, based on large-scale online surveys, are that (i) self-reported nonpecuniary concerns are large, both for stock market investors and non-investors; (ii) concerns... View Details

May 1983 (Revised December 1987)
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Technical Data Corp.

By: William A. Sahlman

Describes a decision confronting the president of a small company about selling some or all of the shares in his company to another firm. Technical Data Corp. provides analytical services to professional bond market traders over a system of computer terminals operated... View Details

Keywords: Stocks; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Valuation; Negotiation Tactics; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Information Industry; Service Industry

June 2007 (Revised January 2008)
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The Vanguard Group, Inc. in 2006 and Target Retirement Funds

By: Luis M. Viceira

The Vanguard Group is one of the largest asset managers in the U.S., with over $1 trillion in assets, ninety percent of which are mutual fund assets, and more than 12,000 employees at year-end 2006. Vanguard has built a strong reputation as the manager of reference for... View Details

Keywords: Asset Management; Investment Funds; Personal Finance; Brands and Branding; Retirement; Trust; Financial Services Industry; United States

January 2011 (Revised April 2011)
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CME Group

By: Forest L. Reinhardt and James Weber

The case describes CME Group, the world's largest commodities exchange, futures and options on futures contracts, history, regulation, and the strategic choices the company faced. CME Group was formed from the oldest and most well-known exchanges in the world. Traders... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Stocks; Goods and Commodities; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Risk Management; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Financial Services Industry; United States

01 Apr 2000
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Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani

ever-expanding growth of the market and the siren song of get-rich-overnight IPOs, the need for a precise formula to measure stock risk against performance is more pressing than ever. "If I tell you that a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

04 Jan 2022
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Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?

to keep $64 million in proceeds from stock that he had sold while CEO and $41 million in stock and options to which he was entitled at the time. "Did the board act appropriately in firing Easterbrook without... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

the financial crisis, companies like New Century Financial or Countrywide Financial built their success by incentivizing their employees on volume--to sell as many mortgages as possible with little regard for quality—and the stock View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

May 2013 (Revised March 2014)
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Gap, Inc., 2012

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin

Between 2000 and 2012, Gap, Inc. (Gap) ceded its world leadership position in specialty fashion retailing to Inditex of Spain and H&M of Sweden. These two companies, each less than a quarter of Gap's size in 2000, were now setting the pace in the global mass fashion... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Change; Fashion; Multinational; Brands; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Performance Improvement; Strategy; Brands and Branding; Change Management; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sweden; Spain; United States

11 Mar 2001
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Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

market and accumulated expatriate savings overseas provided them with funds to expand on a greater scale, though it also created governance structures which were more dependent on contracts and relationships than equity. Though joint... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

railroads represented a highest percentage of listed stocks and bonds issued on the New York Stock Exchange. The stock market grew from a few... View Details

06 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

with the financial market system. Johannesburg has a stock market as it has had for over a century, and business executives I spoke with said that you can get a future contract... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

valuation of volatile stocks, which we contend measures the economy’s risk appetite. Our novel proxy for risk appetite explains 41% of the variation in the one-year real rate since 1970, while the valuation of the aggregate stock View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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