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Raymond V. Gilmartin

Gilmartin increased the stock price of Merck & Company fourfold during his first four years as head of the company. Gilmartin has focused the company’s research endeavors on therapies which can benefit large populations. He also... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

13 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet

the wealth around, investors should put their money in places that are familiar—usually their own country. “There is a very well-known phenomenon called home bias,” continues Viceira. “People think they know their own stock market and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

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 Jan 2010
News

Allan W.B. Gray, MBA 1965

fascinated by stocks since he was a boy, Allan Gray has built a successful career around finding and investing in companies which are priced well below his assessment of their intrinsic value. After earning his MBA and sharpening his... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

M.I.A. Boards

socialite Dina Merrill, who sat on the board for eighteen years and served on the compensation committee that approved CEO Richard Fuld’s $484 million in salary, stock options, and bonuses from 2000 to 2007. John Helyar, coauthor of... View Details

Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Group Therapy

undertake coordinated action despite the fact that they are often composed of very diverse units; and the role families play in these organizations. Court systems, contract law, stock markets, accounting standards, and other elements that... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

Web

Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements - Course Catalog

research analysts will share their experiences with students. To deepen students' ability to apply the course skills in a practical context, they also work on a group project. The project involves a comprehensive analysis using the course framework and a View Details

31 Oct 2006
HBS Case

Governing Sumida Corporation

goal of listing the company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange was realized in 1998. Changes to the company's retirement policy encouraged a more performance-oriented culture, and in 2000, Yawata made English the company's official language,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Electronics

01 Oct 1998
News

Beyond the Numbers

he explains. In a record six weeks, Robinson was promoted to controller for Citicorp's Global Consumer Businesses, becoming responsible for seven hundred employees worldwide. In 1994 he joined ADVO, Inc., the largest direct-marketing company in the United States, where... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Dec 2005
News

Buy the Book

retailers (such as Wal-Mart and Costco) that only stock twenty or so bestsellers yet are responsible for 34 percent of book sales in the United States. “Something hits as a success and dominates the market,” Deighton comments. “It’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

29 Jan 2019
News

Seth Klarman on the Critical Value of the Long View

amounts of greed and nothing good happens—which isn’t fair and isn’t true,” Klarman told the magazine. “I’m not on Wall Street, I’m in Boston, but you’re tarred with that brush.” The article notes Klarman’s displeasure in watching investors’ increased focus on boosting... View Details

01 Mar 2008
News

India is more Transparent

First, as a result of a legal system derived from the common-law tradition, annual reports provide the basic rudiments of information that Western observers expect, and familiar rules govern corporate disclosure. Real-time stock market... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Mar 2005
News

Faculty Research Online

who are increasingly willing and able to care for their own conditions. The result: changing models of health-care delivery. The Bias of Wall Street Analysts Historically, stock analysts’ recommendations have been swayed by business... View Details

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

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

12 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

agents over eight weeks to examine how differing types of guidance and training impact the agents' inventory management. We find agents who are trained in person and receive an explicit, personalized, daily text message recommendation of how much electronic currency to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

21 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

the last twenty years, our stock markets also became increasingly institutionalized. The real investors are mostly professional money managers who are focused on the short term. "It is these shareholders who pushed companies to... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

20 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract Abstract We propose and test a catering theory of nominal stock prices. The theory predicts that when investors place higher valuations on low-price firms, managers will maintain share prices at lower levels,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 24, 2008

education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger bets on firms they are connected to through their network, and perform significantly better on these holdings relative to their non-connected holdings. A replicating portfolio of connected View Details