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- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Resources for the Future, a Washington, D.C., think tank dedicated to providing research and policy analysis for environmental decision makers. "And even if returns on environmental investments were always positive, that does not mean...
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- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
52-week high; conversely, bidder shareholders react increasingly negatively as the offer price is pulled upward toward that price. Merger waves occur when high recent returns on the stock market and on...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
$30,000, Norton packaged UnErase with other programs he'd written for IBM PC users, selling them under the name Norton Utilities. Norton's stock rose with IBM's, and his original investment grew into multiple millions. No longer active in...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Reinventing Dell: The Innovation Imperative by Heather Simmons (MBA 1990) (Murmurous Publishing) This book tells the inside story of one of tech’s most intriguing giants. Simmons asks: How did Dell go from one of the most admired companies in the world to a firm whose...
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- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
on the stock and one who is bearish. Students are asked to consider the arguments and the analytical approaches employed by each. Is Tesla a good investment or not? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/218033...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
supplying superior bottleneck components while outsourcing non-bottleneck components. I show that a firm pursuing this strategy will have a higher return on invested capital (ROIC) than competitors with a less modular design. Over time,...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
wrong: I don't want to return to some "idyllic" past when markets were less powerful and effective. I want to go forward. But I think we have problems that we need to address. The trouble with executive compensation Let me use...
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by Kim B. Clark
- 01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts
Ltd. (GCS). "There is no way I could have guessed what Kodwo and I would accomplish," says the soft-spoken Richardson, who, along with Mills, became a licensed broker within two months of arriving in Ghana, ultimately trading 20 percent of the total value of shares on...
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- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
pre-specified age, his shares are liquidated and the proceeds are distributed to the other contributors to the MIF. Contributors who are alive at the pre-specified age are also paid the value of their accumulated shares. Like tontines, of which MIF is a variant, this...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16
managerial skill, and significant alignment of interests. All these abound in the private sector. Thus major opportunities exist for businesses that can create and claim value by improving resource efficiency. The products and services that new (or legacy) cities will...
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Anna Secino
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
return on investment? Why don’t business performance metrics encompass the value of human assets? Fundamental questions like those can get lost in news headlines and in the normal course of business. Welcome to the Managing the Future of...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
here. Do attractive places to live with reasonable housing stock and good mass transit attract talent and that creates the basis for a growing dynamic economy? Or does growth really hinge on having that talent and that talent becomes a...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
often even high school graduates. To train them to work in their stores in things like stock shelving, putting goods on the shelves Or a Microsoft doing that with cognitive diversity individuals, for example, autistics Or more commonly,...
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companies that enhance the value to society while earning a return for shareholders? Blockchain – Changing mechanisms for coordination and trust (approximately 20 percent of class session): We cover the under revolutionary promise of...
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