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  • Portrait Project

Danielle Slutzky

She kept a mini fridge in her bedroom stocked with my favorite chocolate, Pesek Zman, the Israeli version of the Kit Kat bar. My grandmother led me to her fridge when I visited each June. By age seven, I’d imagine the red and yellow... View Details
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Tony Tasset Arrow Sculpture 2015 | About

the series “takes aim at the stock market, the art market, fashion magazine hot lists, the thumbs up and thumbs down of social media postings. . . . Normally this trending is all so abstract, so flat, so digital, it can be hard to get a... View Details
  • 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
Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Educational Services

    Donald T. Regan

    Regan became the youngest partner at the age of 35 and worked his way up to become the chairman and CEO in 1971. Under Regan’s leadership, Merrill Lynch expanded its narrowly focused stock brokerage into a full service brokerage firm. View Details
    Keywords: Finance

      Frederick H. Prince

      After making a great deal of money investing in industrial ventures, Prince took an interest in stockyards, purchasing and organizing a group of small companies into the Chicago Stock Yards Company. Prince's company grew to have many... View Details
      Keywords: Food & Tobacco
      • 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
      Keywords: Jeff Madrick; Finance
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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

        Harvey Golub

        Golub was instrumental in helping to transform American Express in the nineties after a period of unsuccessful and unfocused diversification. He streamlined a number of operations and divested of many non-core business lines including View Details
        Keywords: Finance
        • December 2002
        • Article

        The Persistence of Emerging Market Equity Flows

        By: K. A. Froot and J. Donohue
        Keywords: Asset Pricing; Equity Investment; Forecasting and Prediction; Behavioral Finance; Stocks; Investment Return; Market Transactions; Performance Expectations; Financial Services Industry
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        Currency Options: Historical Quotes

        Where do I find historical currency options quotes? You can find historical currency options quotes in WRDS. In WRDS, choose PHLX (Philadelphia Stock Exchange) and... View Details
        • 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
        Keywords: by John Quelch; Consumer Products; Advertising
        • 20 Jan 2003
        • Research & Ideas

        Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

        the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives incentives to get share prices to rise, which in theory would create value for shareholders and society alike. That... View Details
        Keywords: by Garry Emmons
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        Industries: financial analytical data and tools

        Detailed historical analysis back to the 1920s of stock returns and market movements Baker Library Research Guides: Financial Markets Research Guide This guide provides a list of all the resources available at Baker Library for... View Details
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        Site Credits - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

        Library Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division The Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Art Resource, NY Museum of the City of New York New-York Historical Society New York Stock Exchange Archives The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe... View Details
        • 24 Sep 2020
        • Research & Ideas

        Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

        The team studied trends in outstanding credit, stock market values, and home prices from 1950 to 2016 for 42 countries. They found the potential for a financial crisis was highest in years when both stock... View Details
        Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
        • 20 Mar 2017
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Bubbles for Fama

        Keywords: by Robin Greenwood, Andrei Shleifer, and Yang You

          Edgar S. Woolard, Jr.

          Upon becoming CEO of duPont, Woolard oversaw a massive downsizing and focused the company on its core products. In addition to drastically cutting costs, Woolard restructured duPont into twenty semi-autonomous units and expanded duPont internationally. By the end of... View Details
          Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

            Ross S. Sterling

            Using proceeds from his feed store business, Sterling began investing in oil wells in 1909. Forming Humble Oil with several other astute oil businessmen, Sterling led his company through a strong expansion period, during which the company’s capitalization grew... View Details
            Keywords: Utilities & Energy

              Samuel Sachs

              Sachs, together with his friend Philip Lehman of Lehman Brothers, was one of the first to realize the potential of issuing stock as a way for new companies to raise funds. Together the two banks underwrote securities offerings for such... View Details
              Keywords: Finance

                Jack C. Massey

                Stock Exchange. In addition to HCA, Massey took Kentucky Fried Chicken public and subsequently, listed Volunteer Capital Corporation (a holding company of Wendy’s fast food franchises). View Details
                Keywords: Healthcare