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- 28 Nov 2018
- News
Elevating Women at Fidelity
In the wake of sexual harassment allegations at Fidelity, Abby Johnson (MBA 1988) has stepped up a concerted effort to promote women within the 72-year-old firm, according to Bloomberg. "A year ago Fidelity came under media scrutiny after it dismissed a prominent View Details
James Stillman
Benefiting from his close ties to William Rockefeller and “the Rockefeller crowd,” Stillman was able to not only grow National City’s commercial banking business, but also to expand operations into the investment banking arena. Under Stillman’s leadership, National... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- April 1993 (Revised December 1994)
- Case
Lehman Brothers and the Securitization of American Express Charge-Card Receivables
By: Andre F. Perold and Kuljot Singh
In early 1992, Lehman Brothers had received a mandate from its affiliate, American Express Travel Related Services (TRS) Co., to securitize a portion of its consumer charge-card receivables portfolio. It is now July 22, and Lehman and TRS have just returned from a... View Details
Perold, Andre F., and Kuljot Singh. "Lehman Brothers and the Securitization of American Express Charge-Card Receivables." Harvard Business School Case 293-121, April 1993. (Revised December 1994.)
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
our HBS professors had always warned that if we spent $5,000 today, we would be giving up a fortune ten or twenty years down the road, given the stock market’s rate of return. A famous futurist of the day was predicting that U.S.... View Details
- January 2011
- Supplement
Matrix Capital Management (B)
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
Keywords: Public Ownership; Cash Flow; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Investment Funds; Financial Strategy; Valuation; Partners and Partnerships; Markets; Performance Efficiency; Patents; Stock Shares; Decisions; Financial Services Industry
Baker, Malcolm P., and David Lane. "Matrix Capital Management (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 211-048, January 2011.
- Web
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- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
invested in technology stocks, relative to their style benchmarks, than their older colleagues. Furthermore, young managers, but not old managers, exhibit trend-chasing behavior in their technology stock investments. As a result, young... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Finding Her Place
Photo: Courtesy Chapman Partnership Symeria Hudson (MBA 1997) never expected to find herself leading a nonprofit. Hudson had spent the first 25 years of her career in the corporate world—the first 10 years in consumer goods and then 15 in the medical technology sector.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Research Brief: Lost in Translation
intraday trading volumes and more modest price movements in stocks compared with calls led by more fluent speakers. “Executives typically speak English quite well when they’ve had time to prepare and rehearse,” says Yu. “But when they... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 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
Alfaro, Laura, and Anusha Chari. "India Transformed: Insights from the Firm Level 1988–2007." India Policy Forum 6 (2009). (Also NBER Working Paper w15448. Featured in The Economist. Economics focus. "Dancing elephants. Is Indian capitalism becoming oligarchic?" Jan 27th 2011.)
Howard Schultz
Not only did Schultz foresee that a large-scale coffee shop chain was a lucrative business, but he maintained Starbucks lead through a combination of customer and employee satisfaction plans. Schultz’s plan to offer part-time employees View Details
Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)
that board members of the best-performing companies frequently owned substantial amounts of stock in the firms they oversaw. In 1995, he chaired the Blue Ribbon Commission of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), whose... View Details
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Manuel Llano
personal criteria in a post-MBA career. He is happy to help with interview prep, stock pitches, and resume and cover letter reviews. Work Experience: Goldman Sachs and Picus Capital (internship) View Details
- February 1986 (Revised November 1992)
- Case
Novo Industri A/S--1981
By: W. Carl Kester and Glynn Ferguson
This small but rapidly growing Danish biochemical company must choose among several financing opportunities that include a convertible Eurobond, a rights offering in Denmark and an issue of new common shares in the United States. The case involves a broad range of... View Details
Keywords: Capital Markets; Cost of Capital; Bonds; Stock Shares; Financing and Loans; Globalization; Biotechnology Industry; Chemical Industry; Denmark; United States
Kester, W. Carl, and Glynn Ferguson. "Novo Industri A/S--1981." Harvard Business School Case 286-084, February 1986. (Revised November 1992.)
- September 2006
- Exercise
Earnings Management Exercise
By: Malcolm P. Baker
Students act as managers or investors. Managers have the ability to manipulate reported earnings, and investors must bid for shares taking this into account. View Details
Baker, Malcolm P. "Earnings Management Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 207-034, September 2006.
- 02 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News
more advantageous." This trend is so well established that a simulated long-short stock portfolio created by the researchers to take advantage of this fact earned abnormally high returns of up to 101 basis points per month. (In part, the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
talent—which is a little like picking a stock before it goes up, she says—and then shopped their prototypes of plates and bowls, platters and vases around to gauge interest. The responses she got confirmed her hunch that chefs were eager... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
Learning by Doing: Stock Pitching When it comes to getting an edge in a stock trade, HBS finance professors Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy urge students to go straight to the source. “We encourage them... View Details
- 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
Malloy, Christopher J., Tobias J. Moskowitz, and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen. "Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk and Asset Returns." Journal of Finance 64, no. 6 (December 2009): 2427–2480. (Finalist for the 2010 Smith Breeden Prize for the best paper in the Journal of Finance.)
- 14 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How to Profit from Scarcity
the right place at the right price. Coca-Cola's mantra always has been to be within an arm's reach of desire. To be out of stock is to lose a sale or, worse, to lose a sale to a competitor. But marketers also understand that, by using the... View Details