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  • 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19

case focuses on the lead-up to Disney's 2012 annual meeting where Disney would face a vote on the compensation package of its CEO, Robert Iger. Leading proxy advisory firms were recommending that shareholders reject the proposed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

markets. By expanding program choice in this manner, cable operators were able to increase prices and attract more customers. Cable entrepreneurs also saw an opportunity to create "cable-only" channels by acquiring programming View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 22 Jul 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power

solutions now. So we’ve been able to benefit from this and support their efforts by embedding ourselves in the community.” Janice believes that she and Kanin Energy are on the right side of history. She is confident that there are wealth... View Details
  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

does not look likely to be approved by Mylan shareholders, who must vote upon it. If Perry can swing the voting in favor of the deal, it will gain handsomely on its King shares without facing any corresponding losses on its Mylan holdings since those are hedged. Carl... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 17, 2006

formats, digital rights management systems, wireless network infrastructure, and handset capacity), and the key dynamics—music delivery method, pricing, mobile-PC integration—that characterize mobile music business models. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

Centralization is predicted when the value of firm-wide coordination dominates these adaptation and information-processing concerns. Based on a novel data set containing information on establishment-level decision rights over information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Aug 2018
  • News

The Value of Valleys

years I worked at Parthenon Capital. I had a great start of a career there. It was a continuation of my private equity career from prior to school. And I got the idea that I would go out and find a company to buy and run, move to Atlanta with my young family and spent... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Hard Choices

even value-destructive practices in order to maintain it or inflate it further? And does anyone really believe that shareholders are the only constituency that matters: not customers, not employees, not the community or the country or... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
  • 05 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV

of the largest shareholders in both VW and Porsche, who sits in both supervisory boards. Location In A Globalized World As Fear and Knoop looked more closely into the Leipzig decision, they realized that the Leipzig plant only employs... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Manufacturing
  • 12 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 12

link: http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.28.3.25   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 314-099 Aspada: In Search of the Right Structure for Impact Investing No abstract available. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

basis of systematic performance. Focusing on relative total shareholder returns (rTSR), the predominant metric specified in these contracts and used by market participants to evaluate managers, we document that 60% of firms—those that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

considering such a path, the authors offer practical advice for each stage of the process. Think it through. Do you have the right qualities for the job (managerial skills, confidence, persuasiveness, persistence, a thirst for learning,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008

Mexico's long history with authoritarian government shaped its judicial, taxation, and property rights institutions. These institutions, the authors argue, cannot be reformed with the stroke of a pen. Moreover, they represent powerful... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

supposed to be kept separate and preferably distant. And many agree with Milton Friedman who famously said that the purpose of business is to maximize returns to shareholders and compete to satisfy consumer desires in the marketplace.... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17

independent of the shortcomings in the regulatory system. Managers and boards of directors in scores of systemically important firms failed to protect employees, customers, or shareholders and placed the global financial system at risk. I... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=909007 Copyright Law in the U.S. and EU Harvard Business School Note 309-052 This note reviews the basic rules for copyright protection in both the U.S. and the EU. It outlines the works... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organization's effectiveness. In What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, HBS professor and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

traditional corporate social responsibility, the recent wave of CEO activism focuses on social issues unrelated to their core business, ranging from environmental issues to LGBT rights and race relations. Using two field experiments we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21

Materials"L'Occitane en Provence Bo Becker, Daniela Beyersdorfer, Scott Mayfield, and Mayuka YamazakiHarvard Business School Case 212-051 Cosmetics company L'Occitane en Provence must decide if it is the right time to go public, and,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library

Photographic Process,” Journal of the Optical Society of America 37, no. 2, 1947, 61–77. The “special experiment” before SX-70 had been SX-69. back to text “Land 1966 Shareholders Meeting Dub, 1966.” (¼ Inch Open Reel Audio)... View Details