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November 1994 (Revised November 1994)
Case

MW Petroleum Corporation (A)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman, Peter Tufano and Barbara Wall

Amoco Corp. is negotiating to sell a wholly-owned subsidiary, MW Petroleum, to Apache Corp. MW owns large reserves of oil and gas comprising many properties at different stages of engineering, development, and production. The proposed acquisition is a large one for... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Business Subsidiaries; Mining; Cash Flow; Stock Options; Financing and Loans; Price; Negotiation; Production; Valuation; Mining Industry

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Purchase

the first established broker to predict the Great Crash of 1929 and the only one that liquidated his firm’s stock portfolio. At his death, his firm boasted 115 offices with 400,000 clients and had become the largest brokerage firm in the... View Details

Keywords: Finance

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Saco-Lowell no. 2 condenser - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

The Message The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 next Saco-Lowell no. 2 condenser ca. 1926 Saco-Lowell Shops Photographer unknown This shows a No. 2 condenser arranged with self-contained fan. This machine can be... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

A Day’s Pay

Times (June 3, 2010). “It’s kind of hard to take the farmworker out of the kid and the legislator when you come from farmworker stock and you see what your parents and grandparents have gone through.” As for the future, Florez said public... View Details

Keywords: overtime pay; Crop Production; Agriculture

01 Mar 2003
News

Northern California Initiative Reaches Out to Women, Girls

have been sharing their business expertise with local girls by giving career-skills workshops, holding mock job interviews, and serving as judges on scholarship panels. One particularly successful event was a stock market lesson designed... View Details

Keywords: Amy Burton; the Women's Initiative; HBS Association of Northern California; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

November 7, 2007
Editorial

Wall Street Must Learn from the Boss's Downfall

By: A. Zelleke

Keywords: Stocks; Financial Institutions; Learning; Management

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August 2003
Article

The Really Long-Run Performance of Initial Public Offerings: The Pre-Nasdaq Evidence

By: Paul A. Gompers and Josh Lerner

Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Stocks; Markets; Performance

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08 Jul 2002
What Do You Think?

Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?

desires) ... Why should it be any different for the high-flyers? If they are truly good, is it really necessary to pay them more than they can ever hope to spend?" As Stever Robbins says, "Alignment is still a great idea. We've not seen alignment with recent... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Warren E. Buffett

Under Buffett’s leadership, Berkshire Hathaway’s stock price increased from $12 dollars a share in 1965 to a high of $4,200 in 1987. Berkshire has made a career of picking winners including Geico, the Washington Post, and Capital... View Details

Keywords: Finance

25 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 25

analyst recommendations. Using a unique data set that discloses brokerage firms' commission income derived from each mutual fund client as well as the share holdings of these mutual funds, we find that an analyst's recommendation on a View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Mar 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing

growth. Being listed on the stock exchange does mark a company's value but in this case it was a low mark.— Walter Kuemmerle Kuemmerle fired questions at conference participants on Gray's available options. Should they go public? Doing so... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Bankers, Financiers, and Statesmen - Coin and Conscience

Vanity and Virtue Misers, Moneylenders, and Thieves Money Devil Biblical and Mythological Scenes Love and Money Politics and War Louis-Philippe Speculation and Credit Bankers, Financiers, and Statesmen Stock Exchanges printer-friendly... View Details

2009
Article

India Transformed: Insights from the Firm Level 1988–2007

By: Laura Alfaro and Anusha Chari

Using firm-level data, this paper analyzes the transformation of India's economic structure following the implementation of economic reforms. The focus of the study is on publicly listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services... View Details

Keywords: Financial Statements; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Transformation; Economics; Ownership; Assets; Sales; Profit; Stock Shares; Private Sector; Investment Return; Manufacturing Industry; Service Industry; India

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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Econometrie , Colloques Internationaux du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, vol. XI, Paris, (1953): 41-47. Baldwin, Carliss. "Pricing Convertible Preferred Stock According to the Rational Option Pricing Theory." B.S. thesis,... View Details

01 May 2013
News

Deborah A. Farrington, MBA 1976

For Debby Farrington, the road to HBS began at age 11 with a visit to the New York Stock Exchange. "I was fascinated," says Farrington, who majored in economics at Smith and was one of just nine women in her HBS section. Comfortable in... View Details

03 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories

deposits and withdrawals. Five were turned into "financial centers," spacious, relaxed outlets where customers would have access to the trained staff and advanced technologies required for sophisticated services such as stock... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke; Banking; Financial Services

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Value Line | Baker Library

Value Line Comprehensive stock reports and covers most actively traded U.S. exchange-listed stocks, small and mid-cap stocks, mutual funds, options and convertibles. Read More Also provides the ability to screen for lists of View Details

19 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value

conduct an impromptu experiment. They hypothesized that the market reaction to the SEC announcement could help determine whether increasing shareholder power would be considered good or bad in the eyes of the stock market. They detail... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

January 2011 (Revised January 2015)
Case

Matrix Capital Management (A)

By: Malcolm P. Baker and David Lane

Ben Balbale, a partner at hedge fund Matrix Capital, must decide whether to exit their investment in Rovi Corporation, a company with a diverse portfolio of patents used primarily for digital interactive guides. Rovi's shares are up over 50% from the time Balbale... View Details