Company Values - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal

enable companies to carefully control the compensation of executives and the percentage of that compensation derived from option grants. Fixed value plans are therefore ideal for the many View Details

Keywords: by Brian Hall

01 Apr 2001
News

HBS Press Books in Brief

Inside Chinese Business: A Guide for Managers Worldwide reveals the social and cultural values that underpin Chinese business practices and influence day-to-day corporate decisions. Written by Ming-Jer Chen, an expert on business strategy... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Jun 2009
News

Cynthia Carroll

executive table. I do think, however, we’re setting a good pace for change. We’ve introduced an approach we call One Anglo that’s based on the core values that underpin the company in all its activities.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management; Mining

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

even generate sufficient high quality capital-budget projects to use the available resources—and therefore go on merger-and-acquisition expeditions. The stock market is telling managers what the scarce strategic resource is. When it View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

14 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Keeping Your Balance With Customers

different requirements, then by selecting target segments for which the company can create unique and defensible value propositions. It is not possible to be all things to all people, so market segmentation... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

13 May 2014
News

Willing Hands

place," he explains. "The team just needed a coach to get them organized to run the right plays." He cites HBS for providing that know-how, and more: "Do we need to be able to build a decision tree and create a net present value on a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

December 2005 (Revised November 2006)
Case

Corning, 2002

By: Malcolm P. Baker and James Quinn

Corning, with large investments in fiber optic technology, was hit particularly hard by the collapse of the telecommunications industry in 2001. With over $4 billion in debt, the firm's survival appears to rest on raising additional equity capital. The protagonist is... View Details

Keywords: Financial Strategy; Financial Condition; Financial Instruments; Valuation; Capital; Public Equity; Stock Shares; Business or Company Management; Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Industrial Products Industry

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01 Dec 2002
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Books

maintained that corporations are by nature amoral. In Value Shift, Paine argues that the corporate amorality doctrine has outlived its time. She points to abundant evidence, starting with the daily news and including numerous studies and... View Details

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Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog

Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous), far more value is created by companies like Amazon, Meta, and Alphabet that develop entirely novel business models than by entrenched incumbents, such as P&G or Ford, which... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

Selling Digital Privacy

If regulation won’t stop privacy invasion, what will? HBS professor John Deighton has an answer that involves convincing companies to pay us consumers to use our private information. Instead of relying on regulators to protect our privacy... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

14 Sep 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO

stirred up by Damore’s manifesto lead to healthy, open discussions at companies determined to make progress in this complex area, the Google affair will have had a salutary benefit. Only by eliminating stereotyping in the workplace—both... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

Howard L. Aller

Aller led American Power and Light during the height of its growth. Under his leadership, the company functioned as an umbrella organization for over 20 regional utility providers in the West and posted exceptional market View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

05 Jun 2017
News

Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement

value for the program participants.” Groysberg’s leadership of the W50 celebration in 2013, marking 50 years of women’s admission to the full-time MBA Program at HBS, combined with his recent case study on the rand* construction View Details

Keywords: Margaret Kelley

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Companies: rankings

Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index. Look for link to Best Places to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands an analysis of brand value produced by BrandZ. Fortune Rankings includes lists such as "Best View Details

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Emerging Topics - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases Emerging Topics Emerging Topics Shared Value... View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

What’s the Big Idea?

Mark Kramer), the concept challenges the notion that the sole business of business is to promote shareholder value. According to Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, that’s a narrow, outdated approach to value... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

11 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

E-Commerce Unplugged

experiences they seek to fulfill their identity). Companies will need to assemble the components of a total solution, some elements of which might be far from their traditional businesses. Unleashing the View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma

11 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

how companies create value for customers and shareholders. The BSC measures the customer value proposition, and links critical processes and intangible assets to customer and... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for James Austin

In an email interview, Harvard Business School professor James Austin spoke with HBS Working Knowledge managing editor Carla Tishler about his work on collaboration and his ongoing research.Tishler: You talk about companies transitioning... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

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Alphas

How do I find current and historical alphas? For historical alpha see, O'Neil Database Ref. HG4916 .O45 in the Stamps Reading Room. Historical quarterly data on alphas. Baker has the last quarter annually from 1983 to 2011. To find a security's alpha, in... View Details

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