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Kaelin Goulet
moment of extreme income inequality, when the "have-nots" suffered disproportionately because of the actions of the "haves." Maybe it was working to develop savings instruments for lower-income communities during an...
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Ralph A. Hart
Hart was instrumental in taking the newly public company, Heublein, to new heights. He grew revenues five-fold (from $100 million to $500 million) and dramatically expanded Heublein’s international footprint with production facilities in...
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Food & Tobacco
- June 1995 (Revised May 1996)
- Teaching Note
American Express TRS Charge-Card Receivables and Lehman Brothers and the Securitization of American Express Charge-Card Receivables TN
By: Andre F. Perold and Wai Lee
Teaching Note for (9-293-120) and (9-293-121).
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- May 1976
- Article
The Impact on Option Pricing of Specification Error in the Underlying Stock Price Returns
By: Robert C. Merton
Merton, Robert C. "The Impact on Option Pricing of Specification Error in the Underlying Stock Price Returns." Journal of Finance 31, no. 2 (May 1976): 333–350.
- June 2001
- Case
Bond Math
This case presents four exercises that teach compounding interest and valuing bonds.
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Pulvino, Todd C., and Peter Tufano. "Bond Math." Harvard Business School Case 201-101, June 2001.
- February 1984 (Revised February 1994)
- Background Note
Note on Options
By: David E. Bell
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Stock Options
Bell, David E. "Note on Options." Harvard Business School Background Note 184-141, February 1984. (Revised February 1994.)
- February 1984 (Revised January 1994)
- Exercise
Options Exercises
By: David E. Bell
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Stock Options
Bell, David E. "Options Exercises." Harvard Business School Exercise 184-137, February 1984. (Revised January 1994.)
- December 2009
- Article
Catering Through Nominal Share Prices
By: Malcolm Baker, Robin Greenwood and Jeffrey Wurgler
We propose and test a catering theory of nominal stock prices. The theory predicts that when investors place higher valuation on low-price firms, managers will maintain share prices at lower levels, and vice-versa. Using measures of time-varying catering incentives...
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Baker, Malcolm, Robin Greenwood, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "Catering Through Nominal Share Prices." Journal of Finance 64, no. 6 (December 2009): 2559–2590. (Internet Appendix.)
Harvey Golub
Golub was instrumental in helping to transform American Express in the nineties after a period of unsuccessful and unfocused diversification. He streamlined a number of operations and divested of many non-core business lines including...
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Finance
Robert L. Crandall
Crandall is credited with several innovations in the airline industry including introducing the original “Super Saver” fares, launching the first frequent flyer program, and developing the first yield management system for maximizing revenue. He was also View Details
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Transportation
Hale Holden
Holden’s role as a railway spokesman was his most significant mark on the development of American business. An attorney by training, Holden was instrumental in successfully arguing railway rate cases on behalf of Chicago Burlington. He...
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Transportation
H. Stanley Marcus
Taking control of the company from his father in 1950, Marcus was instrumental in promoting the exclusivity and uniqueness of the Neiman-Marcus brand. Through extravagant in-store promotional events and expert purchasing, he secured the...
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Retail
Henry R. Kravis
Kravis, along with his partners Kohlberg and Roberts, was instrumental in legitimizing the use of leveraged buy-outs for underperforming organizations. Kravis did not just specialize in orchestrating LBOs, he constantly pushed the...
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Finance
- 19 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
The Making of An Internship: Impact
into production in 2017. Lily Wu, who joined The Whitney Museum of American Art, was instrumental in prioritizing the resources and initiatives needed to fully execute the museum’s three-year strategic plan. Ahmed Eldemerdash developed...
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All Industries
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation
A Resource for the Next Big Idea, and More The HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation is instrumental in bringing innovative projects to life at the School. Recent successful HBS initiatives that are advancing management...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
What if a bedrock method that investors have relied on for decades to find cheap-but-promising stocks to buy low and sell high no longer works well? The book-to-market ratio has been used since at least the Great Depression to identify undervalued stocks. But it has...
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by Rachel Layne
- 04 Sep 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Capital
- 2020
- Guest Column
Learning from Lehman: Lessons for Today
By: Laura Comstock, Michael Holland and Peter Tufano
Comstock, Laura, Michael Holland, and Peter Tufano. "Learning from Lehman: Lessons for Today." Analysis Group Forum (2020), 9–14.
- November 2006 (Revised June 2007)
- Teaching Note
Conflict on a Trading Floor (TN) (A) and (B) (LCA)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Aldo Sesia
- August 2001
- Technical Note
Technical Note on Expectations
Reviews the mathematics of expectations embedded in a company's current stock price and the related (whole) enterprise value. Begins by showing how the current stock price can be compounded forward to arrive at an expectation one or more years in the future. Describes...
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Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Technical Note on Expectations." Harvard Business School Technical Note 902-055, August 2001.