Stock Market - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2017
News

Research Brief: Profit with Purpose—and Middle Management

purpose can propel an organization’s accounting and stock market performance. According to a recent working paper coauthored by Associate Professor George Serafeim and Claudine Madras Gartenberg (MBA 2006,... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

01 Dec 2004
News

Boom Times Ahead

Dent: a track record of being right on the money. Photo courtesy Harry Dent For investors, 2005 is going to be a very good year, and several more will follow, stock market guru Harry Dent (MBA ’79) claims in... View Details

13 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

were to their investment opportunities," Farre-Mensa explains. Investment opportunities are usually measured by market-to-book ratio, the relationship between the market value of a company and the book value of its assets.... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

MBA '69), cofounder and chairman of Apax Partners & Co. Ltd., and vice chairman of EASDAQ—the pan-European stock market for growth companies which he helped establish in 1996; Gerard Montanus, a general... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services

01 Dec 2002
News

Bad Times for Business

professional athletes, the top performers in any industry — make all the money. That includes the executive market as well. The irony about pay-for-performance is that pay packages had no built-in control for the general rise in all View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

have tried to make use of knowledge about the stocks a given fund holds. What is unique in our work is that in rating each fund, we look at the overlap between that fund's holdings and the holdings of every other fund. We expect a fund to... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

23 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?

Much has been written about the long tail phenomenon in the entertainment industries. Long-tail enthusiasts claim that low-selling books, CDs, and movies, which are not available in brick-and-mortar stores, will collectively take up a majority share of the View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation

11 May 2016
News

World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer

markets and her zero tolerance for improper acts earned her the nickname "Iron Lady." The reform efforts she champions have been hugely successful, as the country’s stock View Details

December 2007 (Revised December 2021)
Case

The South Sea Company (A)

By: David A. Moss, Eugene Kintgen, Agnieszka Rafalska and Kimberly Hagan

In early 1720, the South Sea Company and the Bank of England were cometing for the right to issue new shares and to exchange those shares for government bons that were then in the hands of the public. The British government had already executed two such debt conversion... View Details

Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Debt Securities; Stock Shares; Financial Strategy; Bids and Bidding; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Great Britain

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01 Sep 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020

James Ellman shows how to invest wisely as climate change impacts multiple sectors across the stock market. The costs of global warming and its mitigation will have a major impact on equity market... View Details

17 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 17

Abstract—We analyze time-series of investor expectations of future stock market returns from six data sources between 1963 and 2011. The six measures of expectations are highly positively correlated with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Global Change in the Built Environment

itself in recent years among institutional investors, partly because of the collapse of the stock market in 2001 and partly because of the high returns for over a decade relative to View Details

Keywords: by Arthur Segel; Construction; Real Estate

06 Dec 2021
News

Elevator Pitch: Power Sourced

grand-prize winner in the 2021 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge, Chaku launched its first product, Nikki’s Plantain Crisps, in South Africa in 2020. For its US market approach, the company is initially employing a higher-margin,... View Details

Keywords: agriculture; Africa; food manufacturing; entrepreneurship; startup; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

March 2007 (Revised March 2008)
Case

The Nikkei 225 Reconstitution

By: Robin Greenwood

Taka Haneda, a proprietary trader at the Tokyo office of Goldman Sachs, has just learned that the Nikkei 225 will undergo a significant redefinition over the coming week. He faces several billion dollars of customer orders, as well as the opportunity to commit the... View Details

Keywords: Financial Liquidity; Stocks; Investment Return; Price; Market Transactions; Financial Services Industry; Tokyo

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01 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?

typically are presented four to six weeks after the close of a quarter, often involve a conference call by company executives with shareholders and stock analysts. Part of those sessions may include executives giving soft “guidance” or... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services

17 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

size of stock markets across countries and on the ownership structure of railways and other companies in France. In one of his books he argues that France was the largest "financial democracy" in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

01 Dec 2010
News

Iron Lady

Development Bank, Oteh is now the director-general of Nigeria’s SEC and the country’s chief financial regulator. At a conference in London in September, Oteh revealed her intention to strengthen the country’s capital markets in order to... View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 Dec 2004
News

One-on-One with William H. Donaldson

emerged after the booming 1990s and the resulting public uproar that forced Congress to pass the Sarbanes-Oxley Act were eerily similar to the period leading up to the market crash of 1929. Coming out of that, the president of the New... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

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Special Collections & Archives | Baker Library

teaching with the case method, helping to shape business education programs and business leaders around the world. The South Sea Bubble, 1720 Explore one of the most extensive collections in the world relating to the first international View Details

26 Mar 2025
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How to Approach Your Equity Compensation

Not all equity is created equally. Most commonly, employees will be offered Incentive Stock Options (ISOs), Non-Qualified Stock Options (NSOs), or Restricted Stock Units... View Details

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