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    James I. Cash

    Professor Cash received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Texas Christian University; a Master of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University's Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences; and a Doctor of Philosophy in Management Information... View Details

    Keywords: accounting industry; computer; e-commerce industry; financial services; health care; information technology industry; software
    • February 2004 (Revised March 2004)
    • Case

    Cartwright Lumber Company

    By: Thomas R. Piper
    The Cartwright Lumber Co. faces a need for increased bank financing due to its rapid sales growth and low profitability. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
    Keywords: Growth Management; Forecasting and Prediction; Financing and Loans; Corporate Finance; Construction Industry; Forest Products Industry
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    • 01 Apr 2014
    • News

    The Truth Behind Walmart’s Green Claims

    • Research Summary

    Non-Financial Incentives

    My research shows how firms combine many facets of internal governance to motivate managers. A perspective that underlies much of my research is that managers are not motivated by financial rewards alone: “it’s not just about the... View Details

    • December 2011 (Revised May 2012)
    • Case

    Heavy Metal (A): Baosteel Enters Brazil

    What is Baosteel, a top Chinese steelmaker, doing in Brazil? The company is responding to the Chinese government's "go global" policy and to the possible rise in iron ore input costs. But steel mills are complex, capital-intensive projects, and Brazil is an emerging... View Details
    Keywords: Global Business; China; Developing Countries; Latin America; Industrial Development; Strategy And Execution; Analysis; Industrial Analysis; Heavy Industry; Country Analysis; Brazil; Economic Analysis; Natural Resources; Infrastructure; Planning; Capacity Planning; Contingency Planning; Demand Planning; Competition; Core Competencies; Corporate Strategy; Strategic Positioning; Five Forces; Bargaining Power Of Suppliers; Globalization; Government and Politics; Policy; Emerging Markets; Foreign Direct Investment; Mining; Steel Industry; Mining Industry; China; Brazil
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      Malcolm S. Salter

      Malcolm Salter has been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1967. His teaching and research focus on issues of corporate strategy, organization, and governance.

      In addition to teaching at HBS, he has held faculty positions at the Harvard... View Details

      Keywords: arts; automobiles; energy; investment banking industry; retailing; venture capital industry
      • 2000
      • Chapter

      Leveraged Management Buyouts at KKR: Historical Perspectives on Patient Equity, Debt, Discipline, and LBO Governance.

      By: George P. Baker and George Smith
      Keywords: Governance; History; Leveraged Buyouts; Executive Compensation; Borrowing and Debt
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      • March 1988 (Revised July 1990)
      • Case

      Walt Disney Productions: Greenmail

      Considers a firm whose investment strategies have essentially run out. Walt Disney's original visions and goals have all been fulfilled and after his death no new ones are forthcoming. Disney faces repeated takeover attacks and is forced to either set new corporate... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Crisis Management; Acquisition; Financial Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
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      Research Links: Secondary Sources - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

      Railroads" Personal Papers, 1885, in The Railroads: Pioneers in Modern Management Alfred Chandler, ed. New York: Arno Press, 1979. Perrow, Charles. Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of View Details
      • December 2010
      • Article

      The Case for Professional Boards

      By: Robert C. Pozen
      When the world's largest financial institutions had to be rescued from insolvency in 2008, many experts laid the blame at the feet of corporate boards. But insufficient board oversight is a problem that had supposedly been solved in 2002. As the United States... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Institutions; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Failure; Accounting Audits; Quality; Behavior; Legal Liability; Experience and Expertise; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Performance Effectiveness; United States
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      • 07 Aug 2011
      • News

      Rating Cut of U.S. Debt Echoes the Nervousness of Global Markets

      • May 2005
      • Article

      Customer Anger at Price Increases, Changes in the Frequency of Price Adjustment and Monetary Policy

      By: Julio J. Rotemberg
      Keywords: Customers; Price; Change; Money; Policy
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      • 2012
      • Working Paper

      ~Why Do We Redistribute so Much but Tag so Little? Normative Diversity, Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation

      By: Matthew Weinzierl
      Tagging is a free lunch in conventional optimal tax theory because it eases the classic tradeoff between efficiency and equality. But tagging is used in only limited ways in tax policy. I propose one explanation: conventional optimal tax theory has yet to capture the... View Details
      Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Cost; Framework; Policy; Taxation; Analytics and Data Science; Performance Efficiency; United States
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      • October 2021
      • Case

      Financial Reporting at Mattel

      By: Aiyesha Dey, Trung Nguyen, Marshal Herrmann and Julia Kelley
      In September 2020, Diana Ferguson was nearing her first Audit Committee meeting as the newly appointed Audit Committee chair of Mattel, Inc. Mattel was just recovering from an accounting scandal which had revealed the company’s poor internal controls and weak board... View Details
      Keywords: Accounting; Accounting Audits; Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; North and Central America; United States; California
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      • 06 Mar 2025
      • Blog Post

      IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities

      growing concern, HUL has created a system of viable, decentralized MRFs throughout wards in Mumbai through a public- private partnerships with the BMC local government. The government provides the land for the MRF, an implementation... View Details
      • 16 Dec 2019
      • Research & Ideas

      Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

      percent in 2015. Yet nearly one-third of Indian housewives express the desire to work. How do governments go about changing perceptions of women in the workforce when it’s in their economic interest to do so? A recent working paper by... View Details
      Keywords: by Julia Hanna
      • 14 Aug 2014
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game

      Keywords: by Karen Mills & Brayden McCarthy; Banking; Financial Services
      • 20 Aug 2019
      • News

      Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World?

      • Teaching Interest

      Strategies for Value Creation (MBA Course)

      By: Benjamin C. Esty
      SVC is a capstone course that integrates topics from finance, strategy, and leadership. It is intentionally cross-functional and designed to force integration at the end  of the MBA program.  Students develop a value creation mindset and learn that value creation is an... View Details
      • 17 Aug 2018
      • News

      Worker Representation on Boards Won’t Work Without Trust