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Anna King
professors to help us figure out where we're going and how to get there." Finding, and giving, support of all kinds Anna came to HBS "to shore up some of the business fundamentals," but once she arrived, she found much...
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- March 1984 (Revised August 1996)
- Case
B.F. Goodrich-Rabobank Interest Rate Swap
By: Jay O. Light
A U.S. manufacturing organization and a Eurobank swap fixed and floating rate obligations to reduce their financing costs.
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Keywords:
Financing and Loans;
Cost Management;
Production;
Interest Rates;
Credit Derivatives and Swaps;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Light, Jay O. "B.F. Goodrich-Rabobank Interest Rate Swap." Harvard Business School Case 284-080, March 1984. (Revised August 1996.)
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
later, he had completed his active-duty service commitment and was out. "I left the Navy on a Friday and started at HBS the next week," says McGee. "I didn't know what a balance sheet was. I didn't know what an income statement was. View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Spangler Center Opens to Rave Reviews
commercial and MBA Program services (e.g., the Coop, post office, travel center, financial aid, registrar) that were formerly scattered around the campus. The Spangler Center has been praised for its...
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- July 2011 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
CEO Compensation at GE: A Decade with Jeff Immelt
By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
When ISS, a large shareholder advisory group, recommended a "no" vote on Jeff Immelt's award of 2 million stock options in April 2011, GE's compensation committee had to decide whether to rescind or amend the award or ignore the ISS recommendation. Was Immelt's 2010...
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Budgets and Budgeting;
Stock Options;
Stock Shares;
Annual Reports;
Executive Compensation;
Compensation and Benefits;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Performance Evaluation;
Corporate Governance;
Corporate Accountability;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Narayanan, V.G., and Lisa Brem. "CEO Compensation at GE: A Decade with Jeff Immelt." Harvard Business School Case 112-003, July 2011. (Revised September 2011.)
- January 1998
- Case
Morgan Stanley and S.G. Warburg: Investment Bank of the Future (B)
By: James K. Sebenius and David T. Kotchen
Supplements the (A) case.
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Negotiation;
Valuation;
Investment Banking;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Consolidation;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Sebenius, James K., and David T. Kotchen. "Morgan Stanley and S.G. Warburg: Investment Bank of the Future (B)." Harvard Business School Case 898-141, January 1998.
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
could have on families who didn't have a lot of resources at their disposal," says Elana Silver, now a talent development consultant at State Street, a Boston-based financial services company. "For...
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- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
Security and Exchange Commission mandated that publicly traded companies had to disclose all material information to their investors at the same time. The researchers found that after the introduction of that rule, the return spread of...
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- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)
In June, the School conferred its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award and the Alumni Achievement Award, on four professors emeriti and five alumni, respectively. This is a profile of a Distinguished View Details
- 25 Sep 2009
- News
Are You Being Served?
surprising than my unexpected win was the fact that all through the process, the state — and its oft-reviled bureaucracy — went out of its way to be fair, courteous, and forgiving. It got me to thinking: Has government been forced to...
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Bryan Guerra
This is not to mention the culture of sharing and community that exists among classmates, teachers, and alumni. With all of this, I've been able to envision a future career that lacks any limitations, and I look forward to making the most...
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- August 2008 (Revised May 2009)
- Case
Kmart and ESL Investments (A)
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah Abbott
A major bankrupt retailer is poised to emerge from Chapter 11. Two activist hedge funds ("vulture investors") will own over 50% of reorganized Kmart's common stock, based on prior investments in Kmart's debt claims, and an infusion of new equity financing. The Chapter...
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Restructuring;
Capital Structure;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Investment;
Investment Activism;
Valuation;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Gilson, Stuart C., and Sarah Abbott. "Kmart and ESL Investments (A)." Harvard Business School Case 209-044, August 2008. (Revised May 2009.)
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Lindsay Steinmetz
better public education, rather than a new technology, financial rewards or product. The best part of that realization though is that I have classmates choosing to be leaders in the other sectors to follow their genuine interests as well,...
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Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
business will pay for the services of your graduates if they don’t ask the hard questions? Meeting others who can advance your career isn’t all there is, maybe that is what “nobody really understood.” Timing...
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JJ Singh
declined. After 28 years of service in the Department of Veterans Affairs, he was months away from retirement. He was squirreling away his vacation days — each representing a few hundred dollars. "This will View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
(Harvard Business School Press) Information Markets: What Businesses Can Learn from Financial Innovation, by William J. Wilhelm, Jr., and Joseph D. Downing, is the finance professional’s must-have guide to understanding the changing role...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Turning Point: Step Change
principal reinforced the importance of being a forgiving and inclusive leader. A third moment took place when I was working in the US Department of the Treasury’s TARP program after the 2008 financial crisis. Assistant Secretary Herb...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
on IT services in 2018, and the direction of global tech trends, the shortage isn’t going away quickly. Berendt cofounded Talent Alpha in 2018 to fill that gap. The Kraków-based startup is building a marketplace to link central and...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
New York Club Honors Goldman Sachs CEO
community service efforts. Last year, the club gave $25,000 in financial aid to MBA students, provided a full scholarship to the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management executive program at HBS, and...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Advancing the Vision for HBS
As chair of The Harvard Business School Campaign, I have seen firsthand its impact on advancing key HBS priorities, including field-based learning, HBX, global research, the Harvard Innovation Labs, and financial aid. The philanthropic...
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