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- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
served as CEO and chairman. Cardio-Metric's success, however, concealed troubling internal developments. Since 2002, the CEO's management style had progressed from unconventional, to questionable, to egregious. Kim, Cardio-Metric's...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- March 2005 (Revised March 2006)
- Case
Foreign Exchange Hedging Strategies at General Motors: Competitive Exposures
By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen
How can a multinational firm analyze and manage currency risks that arise from competitive exposures? General Motors has a substantial competitive exposure to the Japanese yen. Although the risks GM faces from the depreciating yen are widely acknowledged, the company's...
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Multinational Firms and Management;
Currency Exchange Rate;
Competition;
Credit Derivatives and Swaps;
International Finance;
Financial Management;
Investment Funds;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Auto Industry
Desai, Mihir A., and Mark Veblen. "Foreign Exchange Hedging Strategies at General Motors: Competitive Exposures." Harvard Business School Case 205-096, March 2005. (Revised March 2006.)
- 26 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship
Another benefit of being a joint degree student is the flexibility to complete two summer internships in different fields during the 3-year program. Last year, I interned at a climate VC fund called KawiSafi Ventures in Nairobi, Kenya....
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- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
the writing of popular film scripts like The Matrix or Star Wars. Character behaviors, actions, and motivations hook the interest of readers at all levels, regardless of their professional experience with IT, while the plot sets up a series of expectations that keep...
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by Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
frontier technology and therefore do not need to attract foreign investment to innovate, so domestic saving does not matter for growth. A cross-country regression shows that lagged savings is positively associated with productivity growth...
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Martha Lagace
- January 2023
- Teaching Note
The Opioid Settlement and Executive Pay at AmerisourceBergen
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
Teaching Note for HBS Case No 122-014. In 2020, AmerisourceBergen Corporation, a Fortune 50 company in the drug distribution industry, agreed to settle thousands of lawsuits filed nationwide against the company for its opioid distribution practices that critics alleged...
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Opioids;
Shareholder Activism;
Investment Activism;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Governance;
Governance Compliance;
Governance Controls;
Executive Compensation;
Risk Management;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Distribution Industry;
Health Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
United States;
West Virginia;
Tennessee;
Ohio;
Pennsylvania
- 04 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Real Cost of Bribery
bribes were discovered, Serafeim found that bribery cases detected by a firm's internal control systems (including tip-offs and whistle-blowers) had a far less negative impact than those detected by outside regulators. "This sends a...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat
shared other characteristics. Chief among them were willingness to make investments in international diplomacy—in terms of both their number of consulates and embassies and the amount of money they allocated...
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by Michael Blanding
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983
Download Jonathan Nelson profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1956 Born, Providence, Rhode Island 1977 Earns BS, Economics, Brown University 1977 Joins Wellman International to work in China 1983 Earns MBA 1983...
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Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Fostering Diversity
believe is crucial to society. “You need to invest in the pipeline in order for things to change,” says Victoria, an independent consultant focused on health care and technology. “We believe that we need more diversity—race, gender,...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
While there is a lot to be said for being lucky rather than being smart, I’ve learned that being smart means putting yourself in the path of luck at the right time. Investing and life are a lot like surfing that way: One mostly needs to...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
decades thereafter, the NBA’s activity on the continent focused on grassroots development. Its international Basketball Without Borders program, which launched in Africa in 2003, featured athletic development and training as well as...
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Dan Morrell
- Web
Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
Online course. If local taxes apply, they will be added to the Program Fee at time of payment. What international taxes might be applicable? The tax added to your invoice is based on your current mailing address. India mailing addresses...
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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
Business Professional This guide will equip you with the skills needed to define your purpose, make the case for corporate social responsibility to internal stakeholders, further your education, and help enact change. Access Your Free...
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- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
ignores the implications of past successes when valuing future innovation. We show that two firms that invest the exact same in research and development (R&D) can have quite divergent, but predictably divergent, future paths. Our...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally
lower total cost. Further, cannabis businesses pay a much higher share of net income as taxes, compared to other businesses of similar scale. That’s because, according to the Internal Revenue Code, businesses that “traffic” in Schedule I...
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by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
- Profile
Kayode Ogunro
employer. How has HBS prepared you for your new job? My job will require a substantial amount of travel to Europe and Africa and more hands on management of deals and projects than I would face with a typical investment firm. My HBS...
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- 2009
- Other Unpublished Work
Steering Monetary Policy Through Unprecedented Crises
By: David Moss and Cole Bolton
In early April 2008, economic conditions in Europe appeared to be deteriorating on almost all fronts: sales figures were falling, business and consumer confidence were slumping, forecasts for European growth were being revised downward, and inflation was rising. In...
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- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping
profit into long-term investments that aligned with the company’s decarbonization goals. Maersk has a unique scale that makes its decarbonization targets particularly important, with the company singlehandedly responsible for...
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