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Curriculum - Business & Environment
Acquisitions, Value Creation Under Polman's leadership, Unilever focused on long-term shareholder value accretion with a multi-stakeholder approach that emphasized global...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
Family companies that progress to the Cousin Consortium stage, where two or more cousins control the company, can have bloated, highly political boards. But over time many family businesses learn the value of a well-composed and well-run...
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- 11 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
A Day in the Life: Ben Hsieh
there were several compelling arguments on why companies should only focus on shareholder value. Since many of my close friends’ progressive values mirror mine, I’m grateful to have exposure to differing...
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- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
"bridge the communications gap" between lawyers and managers. Sean Silverthorne: You argue that managers shouldn't just view the law as a compliance issue, but rather something that can be used actively to increase the firm's View Details
- 04 Apr 2023
- Book
Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues
While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones...
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Leadership - Faculty & Research
of caring for not only the corporation and shareholders but also the patients and medical professionals. How should leaders of health-related businesses weigh the demand for efficiency and profit alongside the care of patients and the...
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- 26 May 2022
- HBS Case
Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?
would embroil the company in an ugly fight—one that risked alienating some shareholders—but he felt strongly that Apple should champion its customers’ basic human right to privacy. “We believe that a company that has values and acts on...
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by Avery Forman
- 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21
competitive system. April 2015 Strategic Management Journal The Throne vs. the Kingdom: Founder Control and Value Creation in Startups By: Wasserman, Noam Abstract—Does the degree to which founders keep control of their startups affect...
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Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
discuss how these findings advance understanding of how organizational structure and corporate leadership interact and of how organizations can more effectively realize the strategic value of corporate social responsibility activities....
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Business for Social Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Balancing Act: Resource Allocation and the Green Transition By: David Collis and Haisley Wert May 2024 (Revised May 2024) | Faculty Research In mid-2023, amid pressure from climate change activists, shareholder activists, and confronting...
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- 04 Apr 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?
they have decided to give up their weekend to come up with a better idea? Would they have agreed to break the routine of Mondays working remotely to share their response in the relative privacy of the office (vs. online)? Would the five even be sharing the same View Details
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by James Heskett
- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
Effects of Using Unverifiable Estimates in Financial Reporting Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ross L. Watts Abstract SFAS 142 requires managers to estimate reporting unit values to determine goodwill write-offs. Those estimates often use...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Mar 2019
- HBS Case
The Ferrari Way
company was run in a more casual way, with a great deal of informality,” he says. Being accountable to shareholders caused Ferrari to have to get serious about setting performance targets and professionalizing its organizational chart....
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- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
maintain a total return to shareholders greater than their industry peers for more than ten years. And so, it seems, there is value in being reminded from time to time what really works. Excel At Four...
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- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Does Spirituality Drive Success?
said, "I'd rather use the word fulfillment. Success is a metric; you never have enough. But only you can define fulfillment. We as individuals are the only judges." HBS senior research fellow Laura Nash moderated the session. Entrepreneurship And View Details
- 21 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Common Strategy Mistakes
that's actually a good thing. I also believe that as capital markets have evolved they have become more and more toxic for strategy. The single-minded pursuit of shareholder value, measured over the short term, has been enormously...
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by Joan Magretta
- 16 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service
According to a new book by Harvard Business School's Ranjay Gulati, it is customer-centric firms—those with a so-called outside-in perspective—that are most resilient during turbulent markets. An outside-in perspective means that companies aim to creatively deliver...
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- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
Henry Ford, their creation of profits and firm value employs relatively few, very well-paid people, exacerbating income inequality in our economy. They have relatively few expenditures for control over the quality of the information...
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- 22 Nov 2023
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So You Want to Join a Startup
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: At age 29, Gus Bessalel (MBA 1988) decided to leave consulting for a decidedly less glamorous life as an entrepreneur, working out of a storage room in the bowels of an underground hotel...
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- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
purpose than simply profit and increasing stock price, though they were all laser-focused on profitability and saw it as essential to achieving their larger purpose for the firm. They had a multi-stakeholder view of the firm as opposed as a View Details
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by Martha Lagace