by Richard S. Ruback - Publications - Faculty & Research

Richard S. Ruback

Richard S. Ruback is a Baker Foundation Professor and the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He is currently focusing his research in applied corporate finance, especially... View Details

Richard S. Tedlow

Richard S. Tedlow is the Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he is a specialist in the history of business.

Professor Tedlow received his B.A. from Yale in 1969 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from... View Details

Keywords: advertising; computer; marketing industry; retailing; semiconductor; tire

24 Nov 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Valuation When Cash Flow Forecasts Are Biased

Keywords: by Richard S. Ruback

Richard S. Reynolds, Jr.

After a successful, but brief career in investment banking, Richard Jr. joined his father's company in 1938. Under his leadership, Reynolds Corporation expanded tremendously, buying more government plants and establishing facilities... View Details

Keywords: Metals

Richard S. Fuld, Jr.

Fuld took the helm of Lehman Brothers when it was spun-off by American Express in 1994. Over the next ten years, he transformed the small bond trading firm into one of the most respected full service investment banking and brokerage firms... View Details

Keywords: Finance

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Sam Walton: Great From the Start

contained no renewal clause. Options to renew were standard features of leases such as the one Walton had originally entered into. L. S. Robson, Walton's father-in-law, was reportedly shocked by Walton's... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Retail

07 May 2008
Research & Ideas

The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School

Date: April 17-18, 2008 Faculty Chair: Richard S. Tedlow Faculty Summary Report: Colloquium: The Intellectual History of the Harvard Business School: Six Case Studies What were the overall goals of the... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Education

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

enterprise, the future is not something that just happens. It is something they create. —Richard S. Tedlow A born empire builder, Carnegie could see in the early 1870s that steel was destined to transform the material basis of... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

15 Jun 2010
News

Richard Sears' Perfect Pitch: Retailing By Catalog

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy

The world's fair in New York City at the end of the depression decade was a big deal. Planning began in 1935. The fairgrounds covered 1,216.5 acres in what had been a garbage dump in Queens. By opening day, April 30, 1939, the moonscape... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Tech Investment the Wise Way

Press, 2001. This excerpt is taken with permission from a contributed essay in Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives And Investors Manage High-Tech Risks, edited by Lewis M. Branscomb and Phillip E. Auerswald. Chesbrough and... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough & Richard S. Rosenbloom

Richard L. Nolan

Professor Nolan earned his B.A. from the University of Washington in Production and Operations Research in 1962, and his M.B.A and Ph.D. in 1963 and 1966, respectively. Upon graduation in 1966, he joined Boeing Commercial Airplane Company as an Information... View Details

Keywords: aerospace; information technology industry; internet

Ethan S. Bernstein

Ethan Bernstein (@ethanbernstein) is an associate professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the second-year MBA course Managing Human Capital, the... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

Admit It: You’re in Denial

Ford was in many ways a brilliant man. But he was painfully unaware of his blind spots. This ignorance cost him and his company a great deal. Don’t let the same happen to you. — HBS professor Richard S.... View Details

Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Management

01 Sep 2004
News

Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)

A Michigan native and graduate of the University of Southern California, Richard Stillman served full-time in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1965. His military career, during which he rose to the rank of colonel and command of the Third... View Details

05 Jul 2006
Working Paper Summaries

Promoting a Management Revolution in Public Education

Keywords: by Stacey M. Childress, Richard Elmore & Allen S. Grossman; Education

01 Dec 2006
News

Inside Intel

achieved, he never ceased to believe that what had happened before could happen again. Reprinted from Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American, by Richard S. Tedlow, View Details

Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Hanna, Julia; technology; manufacturing; innovation; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Oct 1997
News

Antitrust in Historical Perspective

reason why the government found itself forced by the fears (some fantastic but others quite justified) of the electorate to act. Firms such as Carnegie Steel, Standard Oil, and American Tobacco seemed to be monsters, archetypes of some... View Details

Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow

23 Jul 2018
Working Paper Summaries

The Creative Consulting Company

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan, Richard Nolan, and David P. Norton; Consulting

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

(also listed under Finance) Richard Ruback Royce Yudkoff Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Field X (also listed under Finance) Randolph Cohen Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Field Course: Field Y: Projects in Business... View Details

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