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- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
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 data, and financial statement data... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Second, the correlation between bond yields and ratings fell. And lastly, negative stock price responses to announced rating downgrades are larger in absolute value (a downgrade in this weaker ratings environment is even worse news).... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
compensation at least since proponents of agency theory 25 years ago began advocating the use of stock options in compensation packages. Its use is a source of praise in the evaluation of governance by rating agencies that provide... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 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
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
Malloy, and Felicia Marston Abstract Comparing two snapshots of the historical I/B/E/S database of research analyst stock recommendations, taken in 2002 and 2004 but each covering the same time period 1993-2002, we identify 54,729 ex-post... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
boardrooms to be corporate statespeople,” he commented. Investors may or may not be enthusiastic about CEO activism. (In Merck’s case, it doesn’t seem to have affected its stock value much. However, the markets declined 1.5 percent later... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
questions. The calls are high stakes — a top executive with a murky message can cause share demand to dry up, or worse, a drop in the stock price, faster than you can say, "Outlook is uncertain." Imagine, then, the challenge for... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
"In the United States, we embrace new technology with a huge amount of enthusiasm," he observes. "We develop a lexicon, rush to invest large sums of money and energy, and a phenomenon is born! Then, after a year of unsustainable stratospheric growth in... View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
wrongdoers is consistent with their judgments, and we offer preliminary evidence on how to reduce these biases. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-020.pdf Stock Price Fragility Authors:Robin Greenwood and David Thesmar... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
employment, trade, and services—rather than trends in the stock market. They usually distributed their predictions in weekly bulletins that carried relevant business news and economic indexes. Along with their predictions, forecasters... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
profitability. There are at least two antidotes to this scenario. One involves serial acquisitions. But research has suggested that most acquisitions destroy value. This helps explain why the stock of acquiring firms is often discounted... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
future stock market returns by extrapolating past returns: they expect the stock market to perform well (poorly) in the near future if it performed well (poorly) in the recent past. Such beliefs are hard to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
will take place.” The departure of Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing’s CEO, was announced on December 23. Boeing’s stock rallied on the news. Clearly, the departure of one person is not a solution to an endemic problem. The question remains: How... View Details
- 04 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee
I’ve heard many ideas for reducing gun violence in the United States, but this was a new one on me. Mihir Desai, a finance professor at Harvard Business School, noted in a recent podcast that stock prices of gun manufacturers are severely... View Details
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
They found that the former generally outperformed the latter in risk-adjusted returns by at least 5 to 7 percent. "The 'strategic traders'—those that trade in accordance with their ethnic population—have much higher sales, much higher profitability, and much higher... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
real-estate market, have created what many experts are calling an affordable housing crisis. They predict that the problem is likely to get worse because of a widening income gap and a shrinking stock of low-income units. As a result,... View Details
- January 2005 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Kohler Co. (A)
Kohler Co., best known for its plumbing fixtures, is a large, private family firm. As part of a recapitalization aimed at preserving family ownership of Kohler Co., nonfamily shareholders, who held 4% of common stock, were required to sell their shares to the company.... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Stocks; Price; Family Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Valuation
Villalonga, Belen, and Raphael Amit. "Kohler Co. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 205-034, January 2005. (Revised March 2008.)
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
or an equity mutual fund that holds low-dividend stocks and passes through little in the way of realized capital gains. A high-tax asset might be a standard corporate bond, since the interest payments on a bond held in a taxable account... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 08 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance
day-to-day operations of the stock market. Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet International markets often move together, so does a global investment portfolio even make sense anymore? Why there are plenty of advantages in looking... View Details
- 23 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up
on moral grounds, since they don’t feel they did anything wrong. The problem is a big one for stock photo agencies—not just because of loss of revenue but also because unchecked abuse cuts into future business by motivating some violators... View Details