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- 05 Aug 2014
- News
Venture Capitalists Coddle Entrepreneurs as Royalty
- September 1986 (Revised April 1990)
- Case
Mueller-Lehmkuhl GmbH
Mueller-Lehmkuhl sells apparel fasteners and rents attaching machines. It views these two products as effectively a single item and prices them accordingly, the fasteners at high profit and its attaching machines at a loss. The cost system allocates the cost of the... View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Profit; Manufacturing Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Japan; Germany
Cooper, Robin. "Mueller-Lehmkuhl GmbH." Harvard Business School Case 187-048, September 1986. (Revised April 1990.)
- 28 Sep 2012
- News
The predictability principle
- 23 Apr 2015
- News
How to Embrace Healthy Risk in Investing
- 28 Jun 2020
- News
Prices are rising faster than official figures suggest
- 12 Jul 2016
- News
The Fastest-Growing Cause for Shareholders Is Sustainability
- September 1969 (Revised June 1976)
- Case
Control Data Corp. (D)
Set in 1965, at a time when the company's mix of "sales" was shifting increasingly to customer leasing of its computers, the student is asked to evaluate possible revisions in the policies for depreciating the cost of a leased computer. View Details
Vancil, Richard F. "Control Data Corp. (D)." Harvard Business School Case 170-036, September 1969. (Revised June 1976.)
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Private Equity Vies for $10 Billion in Cement Assets
- 23 Jun 2015
- News
Governance reforms add significance to being a public company
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Where Are All the Women in Private Equity?
- February 2012 (Revised December 2012)
- Supplement
Sino-Forest (B)
By: David F. Hawkins
Excerpts from a hedge fund's report accusing a Chinese bond company of using fraudulent financial statements. View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Crime and Corruption; Accounting Audits; Business Earnings; Financial Services Industry; China
Hawkins, David F. "Sino-Forest (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 112-066, February 2012. (Revised December 2012.)
- September 2003 (Revised February 2007)
- Case
PolyMedica Corporation (A)
By: David F. Hawkins and Jacob Cohen
The Securities and Exchange Commission and investors question PolyMedica Corp.'s practice of capitalizing rather than expensing of direct-response advertising. View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Business Earnings; Advertising; Private Sector; Budgets and Budgeting; Cost Management; Capital Markets; Marketing; Private Equity; Pharmaceutical Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Hawkins, David F., and Jacob Cohen. "PolyMedica Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 104-023, September 2003. (Revised February 2007.)
- May 2014 (Revised April 2016)
- Case
Three-Year Planning at Li & Fung Limited
By: Paul M. Healy and Keith Chi-ho Wong
Having been able to follow its own "three-year plan" on course constantly, Li & Fung Limited fell short of meeting its stretch earnings target for the first time in almost two decades, leading to a double-digit drop in stock price overnight. Questions were raised on... View Details
Keywords: Li ＆ Fung; Financial Planning; Accounting; Financial Reporting; Distribution Industry; Service Industry; Hong Kong; China
Healy, Paul M., and Keith Chi-ho Wong. "Three-Year Planning at Li & Fung Limited." Harvard Business School Case 114-098, May 2014. (Revised April 2016.)
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
and a real appraisal of what makes a good company. How have new regulations addressed the problems you describe? There was a need to tighten up the rules across the board, and that’s been done. In the View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
ESG Returns Eventually Will Win Over Critics
- 29 Jun 2014
- News