Stocks - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market By: Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco Franzoni, Amir Kermani, and Carlo Sommavilla Abstract—This paper shows that the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

U.S. data. We confirm that the equity of better-capitalized banks has lower systematic risk (beta) and lower idiosyncratic risk. However, over the last 40 years, lower risk banks have higher stock returns on a risk-adjusted or even a raw... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 May 2009
Research & Ideas

What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands

by investors and government regulators for hyping stocks and other questionable practices. The last CEO spent over one million dollars to redecorate his office and pushed through $3.6 billion in executive bonuses the day before he agreed... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Banking; Financial Services

03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

stock performance of these offerings. RLBOs appear to consistently outperform other IPOs and the stock market as a whole, with economically and statistically meaningful positive returns. There is no evidence... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

May 2011
Teaching Note

Securities Lending After the Financial Crisis (TN)

By: Robert C. Pozen and Gayle Elizabeth Hameister

Teaching Note for 311131. View Details

Keywords: Asset Management; Business and Government Relations; Stocks; Debt Securities; Investment Funds; Investment Return

Citation

Purchase

30 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

much mid-cap European stock you should have in your portfolio, any more than it would enable you to perform surgery on yourself." Intelligence is not the issue, he emphasizes; it really is a question of knowledge and time. Retirement... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

rapid business and stock price growth. He questioned Green Mountain, the maker of Keurig single-serve coffee machines and their famous K-Cups, about their growth prospects, their handling of acquisitions, their plan for the expiration of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20

We propose and test a catering theory of nominal stock prices. The theory predicts that when investors place higher valuation on low-price firms, managers will maintain share prices at lower levels, and vice-versa. Using measures of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Need a Say on Pay

perks and forms of compensation, such as stock option grants. "My sense is that the Obama administration fundamentally believes in the power of markets combined with good government supervision," Ferri says. "While some... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006

three- and five-year stock performance of these offerings. RLBOs appear to consistently outperform other IPOs and the stock market as a whole, with economically and statistically meaningful positive returns.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

honest criticism will hurt the group's collegiality or, worse, result in reprisal—namely, getting kicked off the board and losing a gig that often pays six figures annually, plus stock options or shares. "At $150,000 a year—a typical... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

26 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 26, 2008

purchasing and brought process discipline to store operations through using Six Sigma quality methodology. Although the changes led to higher profitability, the retailer's stock price remained unchanged. Many wondered if poor View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

Neither an asset's cost nor its size specifies its riskiness. For example, consider two assets, $1 billion of a single-drug biotech stock and $1 billion of U.S. Treasury bonds: Each has the same cost and size but they have radically... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

24 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works

logistical challenges. Meanwhile, McMillon took the bold step in mid-March of paying $550 million in one-time bonuses to hourly employees to reward them for keeping shelves stocked in a time of unprecedented demand. Brian Cornell, CEO of... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health

02 Mar 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents

increased for consumers, and there were more jobs lost in those sectors suffering from higher steel prices than steel jobs created. After Trump’s announcement, the Dow Jones industrial average greeted the news with a drop of more than 1.5 percent. The View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini; Steel; Manufacturing

21 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?

explored how great companies often lose their ability to innovate and eventually fail at the hands of much smaller, "disruptive" competitors. "Basically any stock you wish you have owned started out as a disruptive... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

of a scientist's research. Moreover, the magnitude of the effect of this flurry is influenced by context—such as the presence of coauthors who patent and the patent stock of the scientist's university. Whereas previous research emphasized... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade

smarter trades, according to the findings of a study by Soltes, an assistant professor at HBS, and David Solomon, a professor at the USC Marshall School of Business. To conduct the research, the duo obtained investor meeting records from a mid-cap company traded on the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places

candidate and gives both sides the freedom to discontinue discussions without damaging their egos and reputations." Another risk directors face, he notes, is a potential decline in their firm's stock price based on their final... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Employment

May 1983 (Revised December 1987)
Case

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