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Financials - Annual Report 2019

Financials Financials 5-Year Data Summary 13ms Financial Data IN MILLIONS For the Fiscal Year ended June 30... 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 Revenues $ 925 m. 856 800 761 707 Expenses $ 821 m. 766 731 704 660 Cash from Operations 104 90 69 57 47 Capital View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Supporting Global Understanding, Locally

practice and innovation around the region,” says Sabanci Dincer, who is chair of Akbank, one of the largest banks in Turkey. Sabanci Dincer’s commitment to furthering the School’s efforts in the Middle East have included generous View Details

01 Sep 2018
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New Spaces: Convening Power

1982). Seth is president and CEO of the Baupost Group, a Boston-based investment management firm. Beth is president of the Klarman Family Foundation. “We hope that Klarman Hall will be a world-class addition to a world-class institution,”... View Details

08 Jan 2001
What Do You Think?

Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?

the words of my colleague Tom Eisenmann, the "get big fast" strategy by focusing on core activities while doing the rest by partnering with others, including competitors. A large, successful firm such as Cisco Systems has used... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Sep 2024
Blog Post

A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market

In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Research Brief: So Many Sites, So Little Time

paper by Professor Shane Greenstein with Andre Boik of UC Davis and Jeffrey Prince of Indiana University offers surprising—and helpful—insights for advertisers or anyone else hoping to win online attention. Greenstein and his coauthors analyzed View Details

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Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online

brands create shareholder value and why it’s vital to invest in your brand Who Will Benefit Marketing Professionals Managers and Consultants in Retail and Consumer Goods Entrepreneurs Transform your brand into your company’s competitive... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books

help you take active steps toward achieving your dream life. Former Wall Street investor, adviser, and author Tiffany Kent infuses specific investment advice with her personal story to show you how to take... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

20 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

the impact of inventory on sales and the interrelationship between gross margin and inventory. We also estimate the effects of exogenous explanatory variables such as store growth, proportion of new inventory, capital investment per... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 1999
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Sheila Lirio Marcelo

and the school year, advising clients as well as evaluating mid-cap companies for Monitor Clipper Partners, the company's LBO investment arm. "I learned how to juggle and prioritize lots of activities from... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

depreciation schedules for investment can be different for tax and accounting purposes, creating a tool for fiscal stimulus. I think this rationale has outlived its usefulness for several reasons. For starters, these different definitions... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

17 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 17

trading and investing being particularly controversial. We focus on the role of banks in the private equity market. We show that bank-affiliated private equity groups accounted for a significant share of the private equity View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

improvement. Whether induced learning through the use of deliberate learning activities provides additional performance benefits has been neglected. We argue that the use of deliberate learning activities... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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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 Information Financial Data IN MILLIONS for the Fiscal Year ended June... View Details

01 Mar 2014
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Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary

Initiative (SEI), they did just that. "Even the funding broke new ground," notes former SEI director Laura Moon. "John Whitehead provided staged investments based on meeting certain milestones. We now call that venture philanthropy." The... View Details

Keywords: SEI

15 May 2012
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Finally Finding the Right Fit

pursued a variety of career aspirations. Heffernan trained as a doctor (graduating first in his class), practiced briefly, and decided that medicine was not the right fit. He tried investment banking with Goldman Sachs for a few years,... View Details

Keywords: fashion; apparel; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2010
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Make or Break

BLOOM: Build it and good things will come. Ron Bloom (MBA ’85) has been an investment banker, a special assistant to the president of the United Steelworkers, and cochairman of President Obama’s task force over-seeing the Chrysler and GM... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

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The new industrial state? | Institute for Business in Global Society

government, and the nonprofit sector, alongside nine Harvard Business School faculty members. This roundtable generated a candid exchange of perspectives on the early outcomes of the United States' industrial policies, especially the Infrastructure View Details

03 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

As waves of globalization wash across the business world, tremendous new opportunities for financing and investment present themselves to savvy enterprises. In a new casebook, HBS professor Mihir A. Desai discusses the numerous challenges... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

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Consolidated Balance Sheet - Annual Report 2020

Financials Consolidated Balance Sheet 1ms Assets IN MILLIONS for the Fiscal Year ended June 30... 2020 2019 2018 Cash $ 124 $ 105 $ 89 Current Use Reserves 174 129 118 Receivables, Loans, & Other Assets 221 215 214 Invested Funds... View Details

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