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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

27 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 27

in preferred equity from the United States government via the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). Yet, the stock had continued to slide in early 2009. In late February, the company announced that it would convert as much as $50 billion... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

January 1996
Case

Transportation Displays Incorporated (C): The Case for a Preemptive Restructuring

By: Stuart C. Gilson, Joel T. Schwartz, Steve Silver and David Stemerman

A company nears the end of a long multiyear turnaround and now must consider how to "cash out" so its management can realize a financial return on investment. The privately held company has several options, including a leveraged ESOP and a leveraged recapitalization. View Details

Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Capital; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Private Ownership

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19 Nov 2015
Blog Post

What to Expect During Your Second Year at HBS

Chairman of Goldman Sachs and Professor at HBS who recently became the President of the Dallas Federal Reserve, offered to teach a group of students about the stock market. We participated in a simulation throughout the semester –... View Details

01 Mar 2003
News

Restoring Order

founded the investment firm that bears their names, has chaired the New York Stock Exchange; served as chairman and CEO of Aetna; and was the founding dean of the Yale School of Management. While noting the fundamental soundness and... View Details

Keywords: Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance

01 Dec 2013
News

Curing Health Care

practice. We put our ideas into practice, see how they work, and learn from that how to make them even better." —Deborah Blagg Prescription: Make Medicine Personal A writer and scientist with a PhD in biophysics from Johns Hopkins, Gregory View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2010
News

Iron Lady

“build an economy that works for the ordinary citizen of Nigeria” (BBC, September 13, 2010). Dubbed the “Iron Lady,” Oteh announced last summer that “local and international investors need to understand that things have changed.” She sacked the two top officials of... View Details

Keywords: Finance

17 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 17

Abstract—We analyze time-series of investor expectations of future stock market returns from six data sources between 1963 and 2011. The six measures of expectations are highly positively correlated with each other, as well as with past... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2009
News

Over the Top

power is precisely what caused the short-term fixation that led to the current financial crisis. As stockholder power increased over the last twenty years, our stock markets also became increasingly institutionalized. The real investors... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Government

06 Dec 2021
News

Elevator Pitch: Power Sourced

grand-prize winner in the 2021 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge, Chaku launched its first product, Nikki’s Plantain Crisps, in South Africa in 2020. For its US market approach, the company is initially employing a higher-margin, B2B model. Early corporate... View Details

Keywords: agriculture; Africa; food manufacturing; entrepreneurship; startup; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2009
News

Faculty Research Online

Michael Norton explores the common occurrence of “conversational blindness.” See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6066.html. Thinking Twice about Supply-Chain Layoffs Cutting the wrong employees can be counterproductive for retailers, new research from Assistant Professor... View Details

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

25 Apr 2014
News

Keeping an iron grip on Nigeria's financial markets

Oteh's bold decisions have cleaned up the Nigerian capital markets and her zero tolerance for improper acts earned her the nickname "Iron Lady." The reform efforts she champions have been hugely successful, as the country's stock market... View Details

James E. Stowers, Jr.

Stowers developed a proprietary and revolutionary computer modeling technology to analyze stock performance of target companies. His modeling program along with additional investments in technology became the cornerstones for his... View Details

Keywords: Finance

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Dean LeBaron | Baker Library

captured his imagination was how computer models based on complexity science could be applied to portfolios to spread risk across many stocks with particular characteristics. He launched Batterymarch to bring these concepts to real-world... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Research Brief: Capitol Gains

FOR MORE INFORMATION Legislating Stock Prices Psst looking for a hot stock tip? Forget the Wall Street Journal. Try the Congressional Record. HBS professors Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy, with... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

29 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Global Change in the Built Environment

itself in recent years among institutional investors, partly because of the collapse of the stock market in 2001 and partly because of the high returns for over a decade relative to stocks and bonds. Because... View Details

Keywords: by Arthur Segel; Construction; Real Estate

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Corporate Strategy Course - Project Resources

expansions and strategies; labor/management actions; stock exchanges, ticker symbols, and industries; and principal subsidiaries, divisions, operating units, and competitors. Information is sourced from publicly accessible data as well as... View Details

Roy D. Chapin

Chapin reorganized Hudson’s finances, and as a result, the original stockholders, who paid in $100,000 in 1910, received $16 million in new stock and $7 million in cash. View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

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