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- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
short-seller report alleging that Evergrande, one of China's largest property developers, was using fraudulent accounting and paying bribes to secure business. Evergrande's stock plummeted, and Value Partners, which had a sizable holding... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
information. Finally, we provide evidence that High Sustainability companies significantly outperform their counterparts over the long-term, both in terms of stock market and accounting performance. The outperformance is stronger in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
business plan for Exchange.com, an online marketplace for rare and hard-to-find items he founded upon graduating and sold to Amazon.com for a reported $200 million in stock seven months later. Leschly counts himself among the new network... View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
valuation and is commonly used in practice by stock market analysts and companies themselves. However, it is rarely taught in MBA programs or broached in valuation textbooks. Yet the application of the method raises a number of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
(its stock price was down more than 70% during 2008); and third, Rohm's forecast sales, earnings, and value declined precipitously thereby reducing its attractiveness as an acquisition target. Given this confluence of events, Dow sued to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Depression. As 2,000 alumni convened on campus Monday, October 13, the U.S. stock market soared to its biggest one-day numerical gain since 1933, following on the heels of an 18 percent decline the previous week, the worst such drop in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Recovery, and Final Disposal." Says Lorentzen, "We have to get the facts — whether good or bad — on the table to elevate the debate about paper to the highest level." For its part, Aracruz Celulose, the first Brazilian company to be listed on the New York View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
$30,000, Norton packaged UnErase with other programs he'd written for IBM PC users, selling them under the name Norton Utilities. Norton's stock rose with IBM's, and his original investment grew into multiple millions. No longer active in... View Details
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
than department-level-performance measures; (2) internal supply department routines that respond to specific patients' needs rather than to predetermined stocking routines; (3) knowledge that is necessary for efficient handoffs of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
the United States and use this list to analyze the relationship between insider ownership and firm value. Our data have two useful features. First, since dual-class stock separates cash-flow rights from voting rights, we can separately... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
entrepreneurial enterprises. And yet they are subject to exactly the same rules and conditions as large companies. A second example. There has been a lot of discussion about stock options and expensing them through regulatory action and... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
grandfather, but he reasoned that much of the money had come from securities, and it was “much better to have sold them and lost the money in this adventure out here, than to quietly watch it melt on the stock exchange.” The expedition... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
Dollar General Corporation's acquisition by private equity sponsor KKR, which took the company private in 2007. Although the proposed merger generated a 30% premium over the stock price at the time, and the enterprise value to EBITDA... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
Avenue, a luxury department store chain, has been hard hit by the 2008 financial crisis and stock market crash. Speculation about impending bankruptcy is rampant in the press. The CEO, Stephen Sadove, must decide how to respond. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
52-week high; conversely, bidder shareholders react increasingly negatively as the offer price is pulled upward toward that price. Merger waves occur when high recent returns on the stock market and on likely targets make it easier for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
protective stock in case delivery is not when expected. Late deliveries cause higher costs for expediting orders and rescheduling the plant around the missing items. Also, low-price suppliers may not be electronically connected to their... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
Laurel House, he walks by a dresser bearing a runner woven by a student, along with a note explaining that similar runners are for sale at the school’s gift shop, which Marietta’s wife, Sky, has stocked with locally produced body... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
Syrian Electronic Army on April 23, 2013, the group tweeted out “Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured” to the account’s almost 2 million followers. The resulting stock turmoil is estimated to have... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
Total's IR organization that it may drop the stock unless the company had a good explanation of why it was in Myanmar (also known as Burma) and how this was in accordance with its ethical chart. Total subsequently adapted its IR... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
firm, he put in place a system of franchised brokerage offices that greatly reduced overhead costs and eased the impact of dramatic market downturns. Specializing in the stocks of small and medium-sized companies, the firm increased its... View Details