Stocks - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Oct 2014
HBS Seminar

Koleman Strumpf, University of Kansas School of Business

12 Mar 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO

Even the stock market moves with changes in the leadership of a company. When the Japanese camera maker Olympus fired its CEO in 2011, its stock fell; when Air France-KLM indicated it would let its CEO go... View Details

06 Feb 2013
What Do You Think?

Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

person checking my groceries that the company appeared to be doing well, noting that it had just reported significantly better earnings than expected. The checker beamed, commenting that the stock price had reached a record high the day... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

September 2019
Case

JTC: Stronger Together with Shared Ownership

By: Ethan Bernstein and Daniela Beyersdorfer

Nigel Le Quesne, CEO of Jersey-based financial services firm JTC, firmly believed that "shared ownership" was at the heart of his company’s successful track record. The firm had seen its revenues, profits, and number of clients and staff grow steadily throughout its... View Details

Keywords: Ownership; Employee Ownership; Leadership Style; Compensation and Benefits; Organizational Culture; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Going Public; Mission and Purpose; Management Practices and Processes; Human Resources; Financial Services Industry; Channel Islands; Europe; United States

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01 Jun 2022
News

In My Humble Opinion: Home Base

Take stock of the impressions you’ve gotten about working parenthood, and then step back and ask, What’s going to work for me? Define this for yourself.” Daily routine: A good long walk. “I’m not trying to outpace anybody. I don’t count... View Details

Keywords: April White

23 Aug 2006
Op-Ed

The Real Wal-Mart Effect

the United States, and its growth rate in the last twenty years has steadily declined from 30-plus percent to below the 10 percent mark in 2006. Wal-Mart has also been slowed by rapid increases in particular cost elements such as healthcare, pressure on its View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail

29 Apr 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Comparing the Cash Policies of Public and Private Firms

Keywords: by Joan Farre-Mensa

29 Apr 2016
HBS Seminar

Richard Freeman, Harvard University & NBER

08 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

mounted, the stock tanked, people were laid off, and some good employees jumped ship. The platform burned for all but the most complacent. Yet the economic collapse meant there was little or no funding left for new plant equipment, a new... View Details

Keywords: by John P. Kotter

05 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?

Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Rei Morimoto; Financial Services; Retail

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

in Washington politicians. Fairly or not, people have become willing to believe that executives, as a class, are greedy and dishonest. However natural it might be to ask how so many executives—not to mention accountants, investment bankers, View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

company’s user base, developer incentives, the value of information to advertisers, and the ability of the organization to continue to hold and recruit outstanding talent. The US stock market had already begun to weigh in on the company’s... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

01 Jan 2013
News

André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973

enabled Jakurski and his colleagues to expand into a full range of financial services, including trading and investment banking. In 1991, when the Brazilian stock market opened up to foreign investment, Jakurski invested heavily in... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

21 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms

to 25 percent. The company also matches the gratuities; the total has been rising steadily since Trader Joe’s began stocking the product in its 200 California stores in 2021, and Nyamumbo expects it to grow significantly following the... View Details

August 2020 (Revised February 2021)
Case

Luckin Coffee (A): Caffeine-fueled Growth?

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman

This case describes the founding of Chinese coffee chain Luckin Coffee in 2017 and its path to surpassing Starbucks as the largest coffee chain in China (by number of stores) in 2019. Unlike Starbucks stores, which were designed to be welcoming “third places” for... View Details

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18 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

non-fungible tokens. This article originally appeared in the Harvard Gazette. You Might Also Like: Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can The Popular View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Technology

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Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020

IPO” case in her Private Equity Finance class in the fall of 2019. Lomtadze, at the tail end of an international roadshow in preparation for an IPO on the London Stock Exchange, returned to HBS to attend the class discussion along with... View Details

12 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research

Blanding is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: Bruce yuanyue Bi / Alamy Stock Photo] Related Reading Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation? For Better... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time

getting bigger or richer; “growth involves changes to the internal ‘machinery’ of the firm itself,” according to the paper. The researchers used Compustat, a dataset of all United States companies listed on the stock exchange from 1959 to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

18 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

"The most effective learning strategy depends on the situation," writes David A. Garvin. "There is no stock answer, nor is there a single best approach." In Learning in Action, he illustrated the diversity of learning organization... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

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