Stock Price Informativeness - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2007
News

Pharma Suits a Farm Gal

GRAHAM: From rodeo to CEO. Amylin Pharmaceuticals CEO Ginger Graham (MBA ’86) had a good year in 2006, with Amylin stock up as much as 45 percent, with Byetta and Symlin, its two innovative diabetes drugs, performing well, and with the... View Details

Keywords: biopharmaceutical company; Health, Social Assistance; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

develop three novel measures of how much of the price impact of their trading different mutual funds internalize. We show that mutual funds that internalize more of their price impact hold larger cash... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

24 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 24, 2008

non-connected stocks by up to 7.8% per year. Returns are concentrated around corporate news announcements, consistent with mutual fund managers gaining an informational advantage through the education... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Apr 2008
HBS Case

Negotiating with Wal-Mart

Arkansas) and growing trust (both sides eventually eliminated elaborate legal contracts in favor of Letters of Intent), the new relationship focused on establishing a joint vision and problem-solving process, information sharing, and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

Dollar General Corporation's acquisition by private equity sponsor KKR, which took the company private in 2007. Although the proposed merger generated a 30% premium over the stock price at the time, and the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Trade Cards - The Art of American Advertising

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details

24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009

effects of v4 scarcity, while obtaining price discovery and allocative efficiency benefits of market transactions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-091.pdf Why Do Countries Adopt International Financial Reporting... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 May 2022
News

Bidding Up

economists treat as being a black box, look inside to see what’s going on. So an auction’s a perfect example of a price formation process. Like I worked with oil exploration leases, the value of exploring a tract is pretty much the same... View Details

19 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future

On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

13 Apr 2022
News

New School

overseeing a historic gift of about $200 million in stock to the Iowa State University Foundation and the Boston Foundation. At the same time, Curriculum Associates has transitioned from a solely print-based company to a largely online... View Details

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

importance of an informed and rigorous historical understanding for practitioners. He visited my office later to say that he felt Chilean policymakers and business leaders lacked such an understanding, and he would like to do something... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Oct 2010
What Do You Think?

Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?

effect the information will support and raise current levels." Guy Higgins commented, "Recall that CEO compensation began to balloon only when the CEOs could see each other's comp packages and began thinking, 'I'm better than... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

and $12 billion, which equates to between 1.3% and 8.7% of the stock of prepackaged software in private fixed investment in the United States and a very high rate of return to the original federal investment in the Internet. We argue that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2004
News

Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)

a soft side, too, and that’s what he used most with his staff. We were completely loyal to him. I also give talks in Europe and all over America on Dow Jones, the stock market, and, of course, my old boss. I’ve been fortunate to have a... View Details

03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

that their ex post performance is lower. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50032 Cheaper by the Dozen: Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54634 forthcoming Journal of Finance Limited Investment Capital and Credit Spreads By: Siriwardane, Emil N. Abstract—Using proprietary credit default swap (CDS) data, I investigate how capital shocks at protection sellers... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

31 Mar 2002
What Do You Think?

Is This the Decade of the Investor?

interests of small investors." He also suggests that investors have little ability to judge whether compensation for managers is fair, particularly in an information economy in which it is difficult to assess justification for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library

stock market crash. An exhibition featuring selections from the collection provides further context for understanding the economic and social dimensions of the Bubble. Photography and Corporate Public Relations: The Case of U.S. Steel,... View Details

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

sets. To demonstrate the sets, he secured informal permission from his employer to string an electrical wire from a local hilltop to serve as an antenna for the reception of signals from Philadelphia stations. When customers who purchased... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

June 2002 (Revised July 2002)
Case

NTT DoCoMo: Marketing i-mode

By: Youngme E. Moon

i-mode is a wireless Internet service offered in Japan by NTT DoCoMo. In just three years, the service has won over 30 million subscribers and achieved a 60% share of Japan's mobile Internet market, making it the most successful mobile data service in the world. It is... View Details