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    Harvey H. Lamm

    his tenure, Subaru was rated as one of the best financially managed automobile companies in the United States, regularly achieving 55%+ return on equity ratios. View Details
    Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
    • 10 Jan 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

    List: Ratings Pioneer Turns 20 In 1995, before people “googled” or “yelped,” Angela Hicks (HBS, 2000) was establishing her Angie’s List as a pioneer in the accumulation and dissemination of consumer rating... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • October 1994 (Revised November 1995)
    • Case

    N.V. Philips Electronics - Currency Hedging Policies

    By: Richard F. Meyer
    Describes Philips Electronics' policies and problems relating to foreign exchange risk and hedging. Explains centralization versus decentralization of currency hedging, economic role versus transaction role, the difficulties of capturing the necessary information... View Details
    Keywords: Business Divisions; Currency Exchange Rate; International Finance; Globalization; Policy; Information Management; Management; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty
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    • 21 Dec 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

    explain what they were doing under the 1991 statute. To hold senior government officials accountable for all bailouts, Congress should extend the 1991 statute to any type of financial institution. Q: How has Congress tried to restore confidence in credit View Details
    Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
    • Profile

    Alika Phipps

    Ratings and Capital Structure Advisory Group, “advising clients on the optimal capital structure to maintain a favorable credit rating. JP Morgan was a great experience. But although I gained a lot of expertise in finance, I was missing... View Details
    • Web

    Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024

    back to in-person learning after the COVID pandemic. Total enrollment remained flat in fiscal 2024 at nearly 42,000, as the percentage of women increased from the prior year while enrollment of international and minority participants declined. The overall completion... View Details
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    Suppliers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    Employers Suppliers Policymakers Suppliers Suppliers Suppliers of medical products, technology, and services play vital roles in the value of health care delivery and innovation in health care practice. By increasing patient success rates... View Details
    • 05 Aug 2015
    • News

    Mobilizing the Public to Fight Corruption

    building a database of corruption by having volunteers rate different government services offices, including logging the office conditions and the bribes being demanded for various services. It’s like “a Yelp for government services,” he... View Details
    • 01 Apr 2019
    • What Do You Think?

    Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?

    created as tax revenues fail to keep up with expenditures. At some point, one rarely experienced in the United States, investors may become unwilling to fuel deficits with further loans. The result: a government’s credit rating will... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 01 Mar 2007
    • News

    HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight

    presentations, exams, and hours of daily homework. Taught by volunteers from the Texas business community, PEP graduates boast a 93 percent employment rate and a recidivism rate of less than 5 percent. Says... View Details
    Keywords: incarceration; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
    • 22 May 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: May 22, 2007

    other distortions measured in the literature. The second uncertain policy we consider concerns marginal tax rates. We obtain similar results once we adjust for the impact of tax rates on income. Download the paper:... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Profile

    Evelyne White

    accumulate reputation-enhancing ratings on one platform. Compared to a small or midsized city, more entrants will vie for dominance in a large city. In a winner-take-all battle between five players, there's essentially a four-out-of-five... View Details
    Keywords: Technology; Services
    • 28 Jul 2015
    • Blog Post

    Nairobi Love: Heading Home

    In my early 20’s, I was really struggling to reconcile my public sector heart and private sector mind: how do ~40% of Kenyans live in poverty despite some of the highest literacy rates on the continent, an increasing cadre of highly... View Details
    • 01 Apr 2002
    • News

    "Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues

    "Dehydration is the leading cause of death among refugees. Before this panel ends, nearly eight hundred children will die of dehydration caused by diarrhea." Noting that the mortality rate for Afghan children under the age of five is 25... View Details
    Keywords: War on Terror; Ronald Levy; Health, Social Assistance
    • January 1995 (Revised May 1997)
    • Case

    Syscom Computers

    By: Kenneth A. Froot, Peter Tufano and Chris L Marshall
    Discusses a company deciding what it should do to manage its worldwide hedging operations. View Details
    Keywords: Decisions; Currency Exchange Rate; Information Management; Management Practices and Processes; Risk Management; Operations
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    • January 1994
    • Exercise

    Walt Disney Company's Sleeping Beauty Bonds

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    Walt Disney Co. issues a 100-year bond. This case describes the terms of the bond and immediate capital market reaction. View Details
    Keywords: Capital Markets; Cash Flow; Debt Securities; Bonds; Interest Rates; Value
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    • August 2010 (Revised February 2012)
    • Supplement

    Cosmeticos de Espana, S.A. (D)

    By: David F. Hawkins
    The fourth case in the Cosmeticos de Espana case series. What should management's accounting response be to the imposition of foreign currency controls? View Details
    Keywords: Financial Statements; Decision Choices and Conditions; Inflation and Deflation; Currency Exchange Rate; Governance Controls; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Spain; Venezuela
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    Paul Luning

    largest student-run conferences in the world. Forbes has rated it one the top twelve globally. This year, we had 1,400 participants and tickets sold out two weeks before the conference began." The demand was so great that Paul and... View Details
    • Profile

    Mi Zhou

    lower savings rates and stimulate consumption? How do we make housing, reliable health care, and quality education more affordable to everyone?” Update: After graduating from HBS in 2011, Mi moved to Hong Kong. She first worked as an... View Details
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    IFC: LA/Hollywood

    Hollywood Reporter 
    Includes film, television, cable, music, interactive media, and home video. Delivers breaking news and solid in-depth stories plus box office grosses, TV ratings, video and music charts, and film and TV production charts. Variety View Details