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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, DBA 2011), the finding upends... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

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Resources for Harvard Economics Students

complete list of databases available to the Harvard Community via WRDS. See WRDS Fast Answers for more information. Which databases can I use in person at Baker Library? Bloomberg Current and historical financial information is available here on... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

Reaching New Heights

First-year students in Section G raised nearly $12,000 toward the construction of a new primary school in Nepal after hearing a presentation from former Microsoft executive John Wood. After a trek in the Annapurna region, Wood quit his job and seven-figure View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Jun 2005
News

Wizard to the Rescue

Just how much is the famous HBS brand worth? Quite a lot, it seems, from the humorous turn of events in this year’s HBS Show, The Wizard of Hawes. When Dean Clark takes HBS public, savvy students become overnight billionaires. But the good times don’t roll for long... View Details

Keywords: The Wizard of Hawes; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Alyssa Wilson

happy to help with understanding the industry and recruiting calendar, identifying HBS resources that could be useful, editing resumes and cover letters as well as reviewing stock screens & pitches. Employment Experience: Barclays (5... View Details

Mary Kay Ash

Ash created a successful cosmetics company by and for women by utilizing a direct sales force and creative motivational sales techniques. At the end of its first year, Mary Kay Cosmetics boasted $198,514 in sales and 318 salespeople. By 1977, the company had over... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

August 2018 (Revised August 2019)
Technical Note

A Note on Compensation

By: Ethan Bernstein and Michael Norris

This note provides an overview of the important terms, concepts, and frameworks that a manager should know about compensation—whether it be their own or that of an employee. Because compensation in practice is fraught with pitfalls, this note presents an overview of... View Details

Keywords: Compensation Design; Benefits; Perks; Variable Compensation; Compensation and Benefits; Executive Compensation; Stock Options; Profit Sharing; Job Design and Levels; Labor Unions; Wages; United States

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Purchase

the most successful businesses of the late eighties. He increased revenues from $500 million to over $1.5 billion, quadrupled profits, and generated a 500% increase in the stock price. View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

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

13 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet

the wealth around, investors should put their money in places that are familiar—usually their own country. “There is a very well-known phenomenon called home bias,” continues Viceira. “People think they know their own stock market and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

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Finding CUSIPs in CRSP

Files, then Monthly Stock File Look up CUSIPs Scroll to Step Two on the search page Set code format to CUSIP Click Code lookup under Manually enter company codes; a new window will open Type company... View Details

Charles R. Schwab

In spite of the disdain given to discount brokerage by larger investment houses, Schwab took advantage of SEC deregulation in 1975, and went on to build “the Kmart of the stock brokerage industry.” Though discount brokerage at Schwab’s... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Raymond V. Gilmartin

Gilmartin increased the stock price of Merck & Company fourfold during his first four years as head of the company. Gilmartin has focused the company’s research endeavors on therapies which can benefit large populations. He also... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

John G. Smale

Known for his patient managerial style, Smale worked at Procter & Gamble for 38 years. Under Smale's leadership as CEO, P&G's earnings and stock price doubled while the company expanded abroad and into higher margin products. Two... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

William M. Batten

Batten transformed JCPenney from a sleepy “Main Street” store into a diversified mass merchandiser located in shopping malls throughout suburbia. He dramatically expanded the merchandising line, introduced the Penney credit card, and launched the catalogue business.... View Details

Keywords: Retail

December 2009
Article

Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk and Asset Returns

By: Christopher J. Malloy, Tobias J. Moskowitz and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen

We provide new evidence on the success of long-run risks in asset pricing by focusing on the risks borne by stockholders. Exploiting micro-level household consumption data, we show that long-run stockholder consumption risk better captures cross-sectional variation in... View Details

Keywords: Asset Pricing; Stocks; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Risk Management

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Under Gray’s direction, Union Pacific Railroad became one of the few railroads in the nation to pay dividends on common stock during the Depression. During this time period, Gray also became a pioneer in the introduction of streamlined... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

Charles E. Merrill

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