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- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
capitalists, entrepreneurs, and venture lenders. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809086 Banco Hipotecario S.A. Harvard Business School Case 206-102 In 2003, the chairwoman and controlling View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
GE’s transition from Jack Welch to Jeff Immelt. In 20 years at the helm, Welch had grown shareholder value from $14 billion to $400 billion and Fortune had named him “Manager of the Century.” Immelt,... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
to stop chasing stock price and shareholder value. Maybe they shouldn't have as many users. Maybe they have to expunge a lot of those users and clean up their site a lot more. Kenny: You review that decision to go public. Was that a... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
my new book Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies, I explore how purpose-driven leaders find success by going beyond focusing only on shareholders and customers and also considering their employees, communities,... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
equity that are nonetheless considered public by virtue of having publicly traded debt. We develop and test two hypotheses. The "demand" hypothesis holds that earnings of public equity firms are of higher quality than earnings of private equity firms due to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
(such as going to a museum), an online intervention that led to greater liking after offline meetings (Study 3). How to Capture Value from Innovation: Shaping Intellectual Property and Industry Architecture. 50th Anniversary Special Issue... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
might be appropriate to redesign (“refactor”) a system, to reduce what has been called “architectural debt.” Unfortunately, we lack robust data by which to evaluate the relationship between architectural design choices and system maintenance costs, and hence to predict... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
numbers, industry trends, strategy considerations, shareholder interests, and several other financing options and come up with a plan to save his company. With Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos's recent acquisition of the Washington Post and sports... View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
exiting shareholders receive fair value in MBOs. This article identifies four factors that create an unlevel playing field in that market check: information asymmetries, valuable management, management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
multinational firms, then a framework for how to craft an international strategy that creates shareholder value, Collis provides students and new managers with an integrated perspective on international strategy, drawing on earlier work... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
reasons why the leadership literature has been recast so that it is solely focused on economic performance, but we believe probably the most important thing is that the obsession with shareholder value... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- May 2009
- Teaching Note
Nextel Partners: Put Option (TN)
By: Timothy A. Luehrman
Teaching Note for [207-128] View Details
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
how companies create value for customers and shareholders. The BSC measures the customer value proposition, and links critical processes and intangible assets to customer and View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
behavior. Indeed, a significant cost for corporations—the cost associated with compensating key employees with stock options—was until recently treated as an expense for tax purposes but not for financial accounting purposes. More specifically, the View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Argentina and Chile over recent decades. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50182 forthcoming Management Science Creating Reciprocal Value Through Operational Transparency By: Buell, Ryan W., Tami Kim, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
executive compensation packages, and the board of directors’ evaluation horizons could be barriers to such decisions. My work so far has concentrated on the ESG issues where firm-level action is actually producing value both for the... View Details
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
been ever upward. There was some hope that the concept of "say-on-pay," where shareholders vote on the CEO's compensation, might have some impact by making compensation committees more cautious, but we clearly still have a long... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
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
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
economic and social value. The goal of the corporation is to add value to employees, customers, suppliers and other partners, and community/society. These CEOs and the companies they lead make decisions with the interests of these other... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
those cases. No matter the approach, shareholders and the public are unlikely to recognize the full value of a firm’s community health programs and other health-related efforts if those activities are... View Details