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- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
likely to perceive CSR strategies favorably. Our results show how CSR strategies can affect value creation in public equity markets through analyst recommendations. Institutional Stock Trading on Loan Market Information Authors:Victoria... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- February 2006 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
Auctioning Morningstar
By: Malcolm P. Baker and James Quinn
Morningstar, a publisher of data and ratings for mutual fund investors, is considering an auction-based approach to the company's upcoming IPO, with management weighing the risks and benefits of the auction approach vs. a traditional underwritten offering. View Details
Keywords: Financial Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Stock Shares; Cost vs Benefits; Strategy; Auctions; Business or Company Management; Conflict of Interests; Publishing Industry
Baker, Malcolm P., and James Quinn. "Auctioning Morningstar." Harvard Business School Case 206-023, February 2006. (Revised August 2006.)
- 10 Jul 2014
- News
Harpoon Brewery CEO Steps Aside, Turns Stake over to Employees
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Fixer Upper
almost two decades in marketing at Chemical Bank, before quitting to try her hand at real estate in 1987. Then came that year’s stock market crash, which precipitated a six-year tumble in housing prices as well. “I decided if I could make... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 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
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
much mid-cap European stock you should have in your portfolio, any more than it would enable you to perform surgery on yourself." Intelligence is not the issue, he emphasizes; it really is a question of knowledge and time. Retirement... View Details
- Fast Answer
Industry Classification Benchmarks
How do I find the ICB for a company? The Industry Classification Benchmark system is a classification system for industry activities widely used by institutional investors. Use Bloomberg to locate the Industry Classification Benchmark. ... View Details
- October 2006 (Revised May 2007)
- Case
King Arthur Flour
By: Thomas J. DeLong, James Holian and Joshua Weiss
Steve Voigt, the CEO of King Arthur Flour, must determine how the company can continue to grow, whilst preserving its unique culture. In 1996, the company was sold to employees in as ESOP transaction. The following decade saw significant growth, despite declining sales... View Details
Keywords: Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Business or Company Management; Organizational Culture; Employee Ownership
DeLong, Thomas J., James Holian, and Joshua Weiss. "King Arthur Flour." Harvard Business School Case 407-012, October 2006. (Revised May 2007.)
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
- Web
WRDS - Wharton Research Data Services | Baker Library
of Use . Learn More Finding a Time Series of Financial Data in Compustat Finding a Time Series of Stock Prices in CRSP Finding Historical Financial Statements with Compustat Finding CUSIPs in CRSP Still need help? Our expert librarians... View Details
- 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
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Asset Management; Cash Flow; Stock Shares; Financial Markets; Investment Funds; Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods; Strategy; Valuation; Financial Services Industry
Baker, Malcolm P., and David Lane. "Matrix Capital Management (A)." Harvard Business School Case 211-017, January 2011. (Revised January 2015.)
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Lehman Brothers Deal Books | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
transactions including mergers, initial and common stock offerings, and debentures. The volumes contain agreements between the sellers and underwriters, prospectuses and other literature advertising an offer, filings of the U.S.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
online stock trading and online auctions are the few places in e-commerce that approximate "wow" today. Noting that 30 percent of all securities trading is done by individual investors online, Walker said that the Web has turned the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
other words, if a retailer only gives the manufacturer warehouse stock information rather than actual sales data, or if the data is sent by fax instead of electronic transfer (which can be more efficiently verified), VMI may not pay off.... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Protecting against the Erosion of Brand Value
Innovation, a newsletter from HBS Publishing. “Barnes & Noble’s action indicates that within the publishing area, circumstances have changed, meaning that the power to capture value from a brand will increasingly shift from book publishers such as HarperCollins and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HP's Fiorina Speaks at HBS
quarter the company has had in ten quarters, the most profitable since we launched the merger.” As a high-profile female executive, Fiorina is no stranger to scrutiny and second-guessing; she told her audience, “You can’t manage your business by conventional wisdom,... View Details
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Politics and War - 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 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
schools, have benefited from setting up internal management development programs and facilities in order to maintain a qualified pool of employees. Replicating U.S. business practices in other countries is a very complex challenge, asserts Palepu. "In order to do... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: Frozen Assets
a PR stumble during its too-sheer yoga pant debacle. “I think there is a lot of market share to be had around what she’s doing,” says former Starbucks colleague Wendy Collie, the president and CEO of the West Coast–based grocer New Seasons Market, which View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos