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  • 20 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

commissioned his CFO Bonnie Tu to open the first all-women's bicycle store in Taipei and charged her not only with figuring out the needs of women customers, but also mandating that she turn a profit. "Because your only customers are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Nov 2024
  • News

Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone

Healthcare Alumni Conference Marks 25 Years The HBS Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) hosted its 25th Annual Conference at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge on November 7, and once again offered an exclusive agenda that was jam-packed with industry thought leaders... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Green Day

able to accomplish so far, but doesn’t want all the credit. Just about the only topic that lights up his voice more surely than dynamic glass technology is the team he’s hired — including CFO Mike Armsby (MBA 1997) — to make the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 27 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 27

since much of their interaction with management occurs in public. Specifically, we investigate sell-side analyst coverage decisions in the context of CEO and CFO moves between publicly listed firms. We find that top executive moves from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

Technologies (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 407-093 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407093 JetBlue: Prepare for Financing Harvard Business School Case 207-061 The View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 13

company as an undervalued stock. CEOs and CFOs put themselves in a bind by providing earnings guidance and then making decisions designed to meet Wall Street's expectations for quarterly earnings. When earnings appear to be coming in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

focus of most panelists is the importance of a capital structure and risk management approach that complement the strategy and operations of the business. Instructive examples are provided by Judy Lewent, former CFO and head of strategic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 15

Inclusion at Royal Dutch Shell Sandra J. Sucher and Elena CorsiHarvard Business School Case 610-056 Royal Dutch Shell has been among the early players to implement diversity and inclusion policies in the 1990s, first in the U.S. and then globally. In May 2009, Peter... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: December 20

low debt compared to other firms in its industry. The firm's CFO now wants to revise its conservative financial policy. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212017-PDF-ENG Ganesh Natarajan: Leading Innovation and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Jun 2020
  • Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

often very hard to support imaginative programs with longer-term payoffs. The Nike case in chapter 10 is a good example of working around this problem. When the company set up its innovation lab to invest in small-scale, early-stage projects, the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

grow their business. Stewart, an award-winning CFO and veteran entrepreneur, shares his expertise and insights to help entrepreneurs more fully understand how a bank thinks about them and their business as a credit risk and a loan... View Details
  • 03 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 3

developed between analysts and managers by investigating analyst coverage decisions in the context of CEO and CFO moves between publicly listed firms. We find that top executive moves from an origin firm to a destination firm trigger... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

and Harvard Medical School.” JULY 7 Netflix recently announced it will move 2 percent of its cash holdings to financial institutions that directly support Black communities. Netflix CFO Spencer Neumann (MBA 1997) and the company’s... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

MBAs on a Mission

Fellow, before being hired to serve as the center’s director of strategic initiatives. “I worked primarily with the president and the CFO of Lincoln Center, and that was an extraordinary opportunity,” Houston says. “I gained experience in... View Details
Keywords: Sarah Auerbach;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna; Corporate Services; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 15 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

the earnings call, CEO Jack Dorsey and CFO Ned Segal had emphasized a slightly different and much better-looking metric: non-GAAP net income of $329M. This adjusted version of net income was a measure Twitter had defined itself when it... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 12, 2016

operating and financial expertise. Burcu Geriş, the CFO of TAV Airports Holding, and her team created a model to evaluate the opportunity and formulate a bid. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216054-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 27, 2016

post-investment value-added all contribute to value creation, the VCs rate deal selection as the most important of the three. We also explore (and find) differences in practices across industry, stage, geography, and past success. We compare our results to those for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 13

realization that his products were not meeting the needs of women customers (including particularly his wife). As a result, Lo commissioned his CFO Bonnie Tu to open the first all-women's bicycle store in Taipei (owned by corporate, not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

fast. What has recently happened in that environment is it has become necessary to hire senior people with real experience. In September, we had the good fortune of hiring a world-class CFO. She had worked at AT&T for 15 years in various financial roles and had... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology
  • 02 Mar 2016
  • News

The New Space Race

military telecommunications or beam the Super Bowl worldwide? Joseph Landon (MBA 2007), VP and CFO of Planetary Resources in Redmond, Washington, one of the space startups pursuing asteroid mining, estimates there are about 400 active... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley