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19 Jan 2024
News

The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details

2007
Chapter

Microfinance: Business, Profitability, and the Creation of Social Value

By: Michael Chu

The chapter examines the development of microfinance from its NGO origins to the present stage in which it is characterized by regulated commercial institutions capable of superior financial returns. It then looks at the creation of social value under these... View Details

Keywords: Microfinance; Investment Return; Profit; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Perspective; Value Creation

2012
Working Paper

The Impact of Modularity on Intellectual Property and Value Appropriation

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Joachim Henkel

Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect intellectual property (IP). We... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Open Source Distribution; Value; Complexity; Intellectual Property

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April 2021
Exercise

Valuing Employment Exercise

By: George Serafeim, Ethan Rouen and Katie Panella

The Valuing Employment exercise can be used to show the importance of impact measurement in designing incentives and contracts. The exercise has two phases. In the first phase, participants play the role of managers at the State of Massachusetts Infrastructure... View Details

Keywords: Bid Evaluation; Workforce; Impact Measurement; Bids and Bidding; Contracts; Design; Measurement and Metrics

September 1977
Article

A Note on Values and Multilinear Extensions

By: A. E. Roth

Keywords: Value

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17 May 2019
News

Putting Value on Diversity, Inclusion, and Leadership

people grow into the role of having an impact that you value. I think my legacy will be a legacy of developing people in this field who really want to make a difference and who value diversity View Details

December 2004 (Revised April 2006)
Case

Nestle and Alcon--The Value of a Listing

By: Mihir A. Desai, Vincent Dessain and Anders Sjoman

In response to a perceived undervaluation by the capital markets, Nestle is considering divesting a part of its ophthalmology subsidiary, Alcon, and must decide on a listing location. In the process, students are challenged to wrestle with the valuation of a... View Details

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; International Finance; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Markets; Taxation; Business Subsidiaries; Valuation; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Europe; United States

Educators

2015
Conference Presentation

Is There Universal Belief in a Good True Self?

By: J. De Freitas, H. Sarkissian, I. Grossmann, F. De Brigard, A. Luco and G. E. Newman

Article

Shareholder Value Maximization and Product Market Competition

By: Julio J. Rotemberg and David S. Scharfstein

07 Apr 2014
News

Family Values

year of the MBA Program. Connell, who died in 2001, the same year he received the School’s Alumni Achievement Award, was a longtime leader in Boston’s business and philanthropic communities. Known for his visionary leadership, Connell... View Details

02 May 2017
Working Paper Summaries

The Cross Section of Bank Value

Keywords: by Mark Egan, Stefan Lewellen, and Adi Sunderam; Banking

April 2021
Teaching Plan

Valuing Employment

By: George Serafeim and Ethan Rouen

Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 121-086. View Details

Mar 2017
Keynote Speech

Creativity and the Value of Confident Humility

By: Teresa M. Amabile

2016
Other Article

Multinational Firms, Value Chains, and Vertical Integration

By: Laura Alfaro

2000
Working Paper

Value Maximization and the Corporate Objective Function

By: Michael C. Jensen

SSRN

Oct 05 2018
Tout

Community Values

2024
Working Paper

The Value of Open Source Software

By: Manuel Hoffmann, Frank Nagle and Yanuo Zhou

The value of a non-pecuniary (free) product is inherently difficult to assess. A pervasive example is open source software (OSS), a global public good that plays a vital role in the economy and is foundational for most technology we use today. However, it is... View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Open Source Distribution; Applications and Software