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- 2020
- Working Paper
An Executive Order Worth $100 Billion: The Impact of an Immigration Ban's Announcement on Fortune 500 Firms' Valuation
By: Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Britta Glennon
On June 22, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) that suspended new work visas, barring nearly 200,000 foreign workers and their dependents from entering the United States and preventing American companies from hiring skilled immigrants using H-1B or L1...
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Visa;
Foreign Workers;
Fortune 500;
Immigration;
Policy;
System Shocks;
Business Ventures;
Valuation
Bahar, Dany, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Britta Glennon. "An Executive Order Worth $100 Billion: The Impact of an Immigration Ban's Announcement on Fortune 500 Firms' Valuation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-055, October 2020.
- 16 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service
According to a new book by Harvard Business School's Ranjay Gulati, it is customer-centric firms—those with a so-called outside-in perspective—that are most resilient during turbulent markets. An outside-in perspective means that companies aim to creatively deliver...
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- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
it) creates undue risk of moral hazard, simply because boards and senior management are often significant shareholders. If it is true that the average tenure of a CEO today is 3 years, how could any sane CEO not seek to maximize share View Details
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by James Heskett
- June 2007
- Exercise
EZAmuse Negotiation Background (A)
By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
This is the background to an exercise in negotiation. A promising venture-capital-backed company, EZAmuse Communications, is raising a B round. Its existing backer, Reality Venture Partners, would like it to raise enough for six or nine months, when it will have...
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Borrowing and Debt;
Negotiation Deal;
Valuation;
Leadership Style;
Venture Capital;
Partners and Partnerships;
Product;
Germany
Hardymon, G. Felda, and Ann Leamon. "EZAmuse Negotiation Background (A)." Harvard Business School Exercise 807-007, June 2007.
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
Working PapersEconomic Catastrophe Bonds Authors:Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek, and Erik Stafford Abstract The central insight of asset pricing is that a security's value depends on both its distribution of payoffs across economic...
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Martha Lagace
- May 2016 (Revised May 2017)
- Case
Supply Chain Finance at Procter & Gamble
By: Benjamin C. Esty, E. Scott Mayfield and David Lane
In April 2013, Procter & Gamble (P&G), the world’s largest consumer packaged goods (CPG) company, announced that it would extend its payment terms to suppliers by 30 days. At the same time, P&G announced a new supply chain financing (SCF) program giving suppliers the...
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Keywords:
Working Capital;
Supply Chain Finance;
Corporate Treasury;
Consumer Packaged Goods;
Supply Chain;
Supplier Relationships;
Banking;
Liquidity;
Accounts Payable;
Financial Reporting;
Cash Flow;
Cost Management;
Banks and Banking;
Financial Strategy;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Supply Chain Management;
Accrual Accounting;
Value Creation;
Consumer Products Industry;
Forest Products Industry;
United States;
Brazil
Esty, Benjamin C., E. Scott Mayfield, and David Lane. "Supply Chain Finance at Procter & Gamble." Harvard Business School Case 216-039, May 2016. (Revised May 2017.)
- 30 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores?
brick-and-mortars, including Best Buy, Target, Staples, and Sears, will gladly match their online prices in-store if a customer asks for them. However, others, like Home Depot, Bloomingdale’s, and Macy’s, are usually quite firm about...
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- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
economic force is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using U.S. Census microdata on firm-level output, R&D, and patenting. The model provides a good fit to the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
agents, for whom the relative value of the reward is higher. Second, contrary to existing laboratory evidence, financial incentives do not appear to crowd out intrinsic motivation in this setting. Third, non-financial rewards elicit...
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Sean Silverthorne
- August 2011 (Revised October 2015)
- Case
Boardroom Battle Behind Bars: Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings—A Corporate Governance Drama
By: William C. Kirby and Tracy Yuen Manty
Despite widespread news of the incarceration of Gome Electronics' CEO, Huang Guangyu, Bain Capital felt they carefully undertook due diligence before making a significant investment in the company. The venture capital firm was confident that it and the current...
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Keywords:
China;
Legal Aspects Of Business;
Corruption;
Risk;
Corporate Governance;
Crime and Corruption;
Power and Influence;
Risk Management;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Venture Capital;
Ethics;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Values and Beliefs;
Private Equity;
China
Kirby, William C., and Tracy Yuen Manty. "Boardroom Battle Behind Bars: Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings—A Corporate Governance Drama." Harvard Business School Case 312-025, August 2011. (Revised October 2015.)
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
School Case 606-118 A successful young design firm faces a difficult decision: whether to compromise its creative values to win a big job. The client brief is very conservative. The company is pretty sure it...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2019
- Op-Ed
These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership
Group to add healthier products to its lineup. When soft drink sales declined in 2010, shareholders criticized PepsiCo’s execution. Nooyi responded by beefing up PepsiCo’s marketing and strengthening her leadership team—but held firm to...
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- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
like that was explicitly designed to engage the drives, the skills, the smarts, and the emotions of such people in a collaborative effort to design, produce, and sell products and services of value to the wider world? After we have...
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by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-057.pdf Optimal Auction Design and Equilibrium Selection in Sponsored Search Auctions Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Michael Schwarz An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-054.pdf...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
Generational Changes In The Family Business Board The board of directors in the family firm usually changes over generations and as the ownership of the firm progresses through three distinct stages. 2...
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- March 2022 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
DaVita Responds to COVID
By: Susanna Gallani and David Lane
Early in August 2021, DaVita CEO Javier Rodriguez was assessing the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on his firm, which provided life-sustaining kidney dialysis to roughly 240,000 people. Effective infection control practices and information sharing had ensured...
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Keywords:
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Change Management;
Communication;
Talent and Talent Management;
Fairness;
Values and Beliefs;
Corporate Accountability;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Pandemics;
Human Resources;
Employee Relationship Management;
Retention;
Wages;
Working Conditions;
Leadership Style;
Crisis Management;
Organizational Culture;
Health Industry;
United States
Gallani, Susanna, and David Lane. "DaVita Responds to COVID." Harvard Business School Case 122-007, March 2022. (Revised March 2024.)
- February 2005
- Article
European Integration and Corporate Restructuring: The Strategy of Unilever c1957-c1990
By: Geoffrey Jones and Peter Miskell
This article examines the role of the large Anglo-Dutch consumer products company in promoting European integration. It shows that Unilever contributed financially to campaigns to support the creation of the European Union, and its subsequent expansion, despite a...
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Keywords:
Horizontal Integration;
Organizations;
Policy;
Expansion;
Market Transactions;
Geographic Location;
Restructuring;
Competition;
Brands and Branding;
Production;
Capital Structure;
Value;
Consumer Products Industry;
European Union;
United States
Jones, Geoffrey, and Peter Miskell. "European Integration and Corporate Restructuring: The Strategy of Unilever c1957-c1990." Economic History Review 58, no. 1 (February 2005): 113–139.
- Article
Market Reaction to and Valuation of IFRS Reconciliation Adjustments: First Evidence from the UK
By: Joanne Horton and George Serafeim
We investigate the market reaction to, and the value-relevance of, information contained in the mandatory transitional documents required by International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) 1 (2005). We find significant negative abnormal returns for firms reporting...
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Keywords:
Valuation;
Markets;
Information;
International Finance;
Earnings Management;
Stock Shares;
Taxation;
Goodwill Accounting;
Price;
Financial Reporting;
Standards;
Corporate Disclosure;
United Kingdom
Horton, Joanne, and George Serafeim. "Market Reaction to and Valuation of IFRS Reconciliation Adjustments: First Evidence from the UK." Review of Accounting Studies 15, no. 4 (December 2010).
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
research on firm entry into new domains by examining heterogeneity in firms' framing and feature-level entry choices. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-007.pdf Modularity for Value...
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Sean Silverthorne
- September 2002 (Revised August 2003)
- Case
Genzyme's Gaucher Initiative: Global Risk and Responsibility
By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Andrew N. McLean
In Egypt, Genzyme's humanitarian commitment to treat all sufferers of the rare Gaucher disease worldwide first confronts its commercial imperative to recoup the huge investment required to bring the drug Cerezyme to market. Here Tomye Tierney must decide how to balance...
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Keywords:
Moral Sensibility;
Investment;
Emerging Markets;
Negotiation;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Business and Government Relations;
Sales;
Commercialization;
Expansion;
Value Creation
Bartlett, Christopher A., and Andrew N. McLean. "Genzyme's Gaucher Initiative: Global Risk and Responsibility." Harvard Business School Case 303-048, September 2002. (Revised August 2003.)