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- March 2009
- Supplement
Bausch & Lomb, Inc.: Pressure to Perform (B)
By: Robert L. Simons
This case breaks the existing (and still available) Bausch & Lomb, Inc.: Pressure to Perform case into an (A) and a (B) case. The (B) case can be used in class to demonstrate the serious consequences of overly aggressive accounting. The (B) case should be used after... View Details
- January 2003 (Revised October 2007)
- Case
DoubleClick, Inc.
Examines DoubleClick's capital structure from IPO. Discusses additional offering of common stock, stock splits, dividends, sale of convertible debt, repurchase of convertible debt, and repurchase of common stock. View Details
Fields, Thomas D., and Jacob Cohen. "DoubleClick, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 103-016, January 2003. (Revised October 2007.)
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
compensation from financial performance is not an answer. At issue is the short-term/long-term balance of stockholder interests." Srinivasan suggested that a program should contain both. Phillip Gelman added, "If managers were... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Company databases: which database to choose? | Baker Library
equity research, company profiles, histories, etc. Bloomberg Availability: In-Library for Authorized Baker Visitors* Strengths/Unique Features: Comprehensive platform used to analyze financial data from equity and fixed income markets,... View Details
- Fast Answer
IFC: LA/Hollywood
covering the Cable, Online Video, Tech and Broadcasting sectors. Financial Times The Financial Times is one of the leading international business dailies. Harvard affiliates may register for an individual... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
portfolio managers and we're going to have to leverage our local knowledge with our partners." Cash Not On Hand But financial partners are becoming increasingly difficult to find, particularly after the devaluations of the last... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
right funds to follow. Since distinguishing ability from luck in investing is always a challenge, that last requirement may not be so easy to fulfill. Q: Do you think the Web-based data input accounting View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
change, which included the 300 top executives plus another 100 natural leaders from the ranks without fancy titles. The 1,350 South Koreans I met at the Shinhan Financial Group Summit outside of Seoul in the fall of 2003 were all... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
its accounting practices with a focus on the key risks and opportunities facing the company. The case requires students to put themselves in the shoes of Marc Cohodes to understand the business model and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- spring 1990
- Article
Earnings and Risk Changes Surrounding Primary Stock Offers
By: Paul M. Healy and Krishna G. Palepu
Healy, Paul M., and Krishna G. Palepu. "Earnings and Risk Changes Surrounding Primary Stock Offers." Journal of Accounting Research 28, no. 1 (spring 1990): 25–48.
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era
something," and identify ways to change the business. Also on the technology front, Stevenson urged companies to consider using hosting services and application service providers to manage non-mission-critical applications, and to emphasize View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Portrait Project
JJ Singh
ensure that my brother and I had a stable future. They would rather leave behind a financial foundation than splurge in their twilight. Yet, despite their discipline, they couldn"t account for one... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
very different perspective. Then George joined us the third year. I have to say that I had never realized how important accounting was to the future of civilization until I started working with George. We can talk about saving the planet,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- Web
Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
financial world. "You gave, as needed, advice, encouragement, criticism. Always you have urged us into original and constructive thinking upon difficult problems." HBS students to Georges F. Doriot, quoted in a letter from Georges F.... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/118074-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-066 Steinhoff International: Accounting Irregularities and Financial Markets Steinhoff International... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog
areas such as accounting and financial reporting, compliance and culture, cybersecurity risk, and sustainability. The course concludes with a short module on preparing for board service. The class sessions... View Details
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
features a regime-switching short-rate model. We evaluate the out-of-sample performance of our model in terms of forecasting ability and coverage properties and find that it improves on the standard Diebold and Li model. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
promising start-ups, which, without multiple funding rounds, fell into a financial "Valley of Death"—that precarious stage between researching and developing a product and actually going to market with it. "You could raise... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
forthcoming Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis Leverage and the Beta Anomaly By: Baker, Malcolm, Mathias F. Hoeyer, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract— The well-known weak empirical relationship between beta risk and the cost of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
for solutions to make the next generation of microfinance tools even more transformative. One of the great surprises of microfinance has been the astonishingly high rates of loan repayment, at around 96 or 98 percent. How do you interpret that? Ben Roth: One metric of... View Details