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01 Dec 2004
News

One-on-One with William H. Donaldson

of the Yale School of Management; under-secretary of state during the Nixon administration; chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange; and chairman and CEO of Aetna. Along with his impressive résumé, Donaldson brought a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

February 1991 (Revised June 1993)
Case

Ross Perot and General Motors

By: Jay W. Lorsch

In December, 1986 the General Motors Board of Directors must decide whether to accept the buyout agreement between GM and Ross Perot, a director of GM and its largest stockholder. The agreement called for GM to purchase all of Perot's GM shares in exchange for his... View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Stock Shares; Resignation and Termination; Business or Company Management; Agreements and Arrangements

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Educators

Purchase

firm to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange. With the capital infusion from the public offering, Johnson expanded his business operations – moving into film production, publishing, and new programming. By the end of the nineties, BET... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

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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Love and Money - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

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

01 Sep 2008
News

Faculty Books

challenges and opportunities when starting out, scaling up, hedging one’s bets, and taking stock at the end. With dozens of personal stories, hands-on checklists, and questions to guide decision-making, this book shows how the real-estate... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Real Estate

27 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential

percent stocks for the scandal free. Split another way, politicians holding more than 50 percent stocks were almost twice as likely to be involved in a scandal compared to their more risk averse... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

Fast Answer

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

August 2000 (Revised July 2002)
Background Note

Fundamental Enterprise Valuation: Short- and Long-Term Growth Rates and the Growth Horizon

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

A technical note that defines short- and long-term growth rates and the growth horizon. View Details

Keywords: Cost of Capital; Stocks; Investment Return

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Educators

Purchase

01 Dec 2002
News

Bad Times for Business

relate to your areas of interest and expertise. Then we'll discuss some of the challenges they pose. Brian, what about the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

16 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules

executives. Two, they wanted to determine whether these meetings actually affected the success of the investors' trades. The duo began their research by obtaining detailed investor meeting records from a mid-cap company traded on the New York View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

11 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts

the market. But when Lerner and Cao started analyzing the actual performance numbers, they saw that conventional wisdom had it wrong. "Reverse LBOs appear to consistently outperform other IPOs and the stock market as a whole. The... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

01 Jan 2005
News

Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964

later adopted by the Securities and Exchange Board of India and the nation's stock exchanges. Bajaj's expertise in these matters has also been tapped by the New York Stock Exchange, where he serves as a... View Details

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

Fast Answer

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

Carl R. Gray

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

24 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Why Brexit is a Big Deal

seen by many Britons as an expensive, interfering and sclerotic bureaucracy. Look for immediate downward pressure on the Euro as well as sterling, and on all European stock markets. These shifts offer significant buying opportunities for... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

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