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  • 25 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

New Learning at American Home Products

capabilities in maintaining and upgrading product portfolios through acquisition and divestiture. Acquisitions were financed almost wholly out of retained earnings and income received from divestitures. The resulting overall financial... View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical
  • 22 Aug 2024

Admissions Overview and Q&A

This virtual session will be hosted by a member of the MBA Admissions Team and will include a short presentation on the MBA program as well as information on financial aid and admissions. This event is primarily Q&A based, so we encourage... View Details
  • 25 Jul 2024

Admissions Overview and Q&A

This virtual session will be hosted by a member of the MBA Admissions Team and will include a short presentation on the MBA program as well as information on financial aid and admissions. This event is primarily Q&A based, so we encourage... View Details
  • 22 May 2024

Admissions Overview and Q&A

This virtual session will be hosted by a member of the MBA Admissions Team and will include a short presentation on the MBA program as well as information on financial aid and admissions. This event is primarily Q&A based, so we encourage... View Details

    Ray W. MacDonald

    MacDonald presided over Burroughs during a dramatic growth period for the computer industry in the 1970s, and Burroughs’ products for electronic data processing and financial accounting systems were among those enjoying prosperity... View Details
    Keywords: Computers & Electronics
    • December 2019 (Revised June 2024)
    • Supplement

    The Dutch East India Company in 1612 (B)

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci
    The case relates the decision made in the A case and what happened in the aftermath. View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Laws and Statutes; Financial Markets; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Business History; Shipping Industry; Netherlands
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    • December 2019 (Revised June 2024)
    • Case

    The Dutch East India Company in 1612 (A)

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci
    The Dutch East India Company’s board of directors must decide what to do about an impending legal requirement to liquidate the company’s assets and return to shareholders their capital and any profits earned during a ten-year lock-up period. The charter granted to the... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Laws and Statutes; Financial Markets; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Business History; Shipping Industry; Netherlands
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    • March 2009 (Revised November 2009)
    • Case

    WL Ross and Plascar

    By: C. Fritz Foley and Linnea Meyer
    How can distressed investors take advantage of the procedures governing an international bankruptcy? Wilbur L. Ross, chairman and CEO of the private equity firm WL Ross & Co., LLC, has the opportunity to bid for debt and equity claims on Plascar Industria e Comercio... View Details
    Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Private Equity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries
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    • April 2006 (Revised March 2007)
    • Case

    Drexel Burnham Lambert (A): "The Smartest People on Wall Street Can be Had"

    By: Boris Groysberg, Anahita Hashemi and Brendan Reed
    In February 1990, Drexel Burnham Lambert declared bankruptcy amid a slew of scandals. Equities chief Arthur Kirsch hoped to keep his high-performing 600-person team intact. Could he find a company that would take on such a massive group hire? Competitors were already... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Selection and Staffing; Leadership; Negotiation; Groups and Teams; Power and Influence; Society
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    • 19 Oct 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: October 19, 2010

    Southwest Airlines One Report, combing financial and nonfinancial performance information. This case examines Southwest's environmental and corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports produced in the two years preceding 2009 and follows... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    5-Year Data Summary - Annual Report 2016

    Financials 5-Year Data Summary 5-Year Data Summary CFO Letter Financial Highlights Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial... View Details
    • 05 Feb 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

    Harvard Business School Case 719-018 Rebuilding Puerto Rico On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria swept over Puerto Rico, devastating the island’s infrastructure and agriculture. The natural disaster was layered atop years of mounting View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Program Policies - HBS Online

    learnings of the program. Some programs also have assignments that must be completed as part of your experience. Business Analytics , Economics for Managers , and Financial Accounting contain required quizzes, and an average score of 50%... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2017
    • News

    What’s New in Educational Innovation? A Few Highlights

    first-year MBA students. The bootcamp uses a learning-by-doing approach to build skills required to succeed as an early-stage entrepreneur. Other topics such as coding and financial analysis are planned for future programs. HBX Two New... View Details
    • 11 May 2016
    • News

    World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer

    and the European Central Bank as lenders who have already adopted negative rates. Nobuyuki Hirano, president of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., echoes Oteh’s warning in the article, arguing that the policy will “gradually undermine... View Details
    • 01 Sep 2003
    • News

    Jonathan Mariner

    Mariner Photo courtesy Jonathan Mariner “There aren’t many activities that bring a community together so quickly — without respect to age, race, and gender lines — as a winning ball club,” observes Jonathan D. Mariner, the veteran sports executive who has served as... View Details
    Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
    • 01 Sep 2003
    • News

    Sharon Patrick

    Sharon L. Patrick draws a bright line between the financials of a business and its architecture — its economics and business model. It’s the latter that tells her what makes the financials tick and drives... View Details
    Keywords: Susan Young; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
    • 25 Sep 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: September 25, 2007

    also discussed. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607081 Dollar General Going Private Harvard Business School Case 108-015 Intended to improve students' understanding and encourage their use of View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Mar 2009
    • News

    Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

    Beijing is America’s largest foreign creditor. But how long will the Chinese continue to finance U.S. deficit spending? Illustration by Stuart Bradford In his new book, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, HBS professor... View Details
    Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
    • 29 May 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: May 29

    Rio Doce. But again, the company runs into problems with obtaining regulatory approvals. This is compounded by the global financial crisis that seriously impacts the global steel industry. How will Baosteel react to this adverse... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne