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  • 26 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 26, 2008

United States, Europe, or Japan, or any combination. He is also faced with the immediate decision if to make offers to U.S. and European regional managers. Cash resources are scarce, and GI hopes to raise additional capital soon. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

competitive strategy; (2) accounting analysis for representing the firm's business economics and strategy in its financial statements and for developing adjusted accounting measures of performance; (3) financial analysis for ratio analysis and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25

  PublicationsHeterogeneity and Graceful Technology Retreats: A New Perspective on Responding to Dominant Technological Threats Authors:Ron Adner and Daniel Snow Publication:Industrial and Corporate Change (forthcoming) Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

which had historically been very manual in nature. CEO Juan Villarzu's initial turnaround attempts introduced a customer-centric corporate culture to his ranks, but he was still challenged by how to create an outsourcing strategy given... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Opening the Door

capital in the world. It's time we had some kind of a health-care/SEC equivalent. There are some encouraging trends in the private sector. For example, Sears Holdings Corporation and Darden Restaurants are now giving employees View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management
  • Web

Program Policies - HBS Online

For Participants engaged in a Corporate Learning Program Participants in a Corporate Learning Program means any participant who is enrolled in a company-sponsored Program and enrolled in a Program through... View Details
  • 06 Dec 2016
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December 6, 2016

the firm operates above this threshold, managing earnings smoothes revenue and cash flow with few long-term consequences. Below it, managing earnings can tip the firm into a vicious cycle of accelerating decline. Our results have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10

business initiatives, we find that firms engage in a dynamic process of managing contradictory boundary activities. Boundaries between differentiated units are reinforced to enable exploitation and exploration, while corporate boundary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2019
  • News

We’re All Going to Get Hacked

It’s looking for a particular pattern, probably a credit card pattern in this case, and didn’t find it. So it keeps on, every time it finds a new pathway—it just goes down it and marches down to the next computer, to the next computer, and then on and on. The View Details
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

programs as a win-win-win scenario: compliance improves, regulators conserve enforcement resources, and firms save money. But this outcome can only be achieved if the self-regulatory activities of corporations can effectively substitute... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Aug 2021
  • News

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

2021 AUGUST 12 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation recently announced that it has established a $100 million Social Impact Investment Fund “aimed at advancing racial equity through economic development, especially in predominantly Black and... View Details
  • 03 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 3

risk managers, can become influential. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-068.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsNote: Net Cash, Share Repurchases and EPS Growth William E. Fruhan Jr. Harvard Business School Background Note 212-101 How companies with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

September 11: A Community Reflects

across the river at Harvard College and at other locations throughout the University. Speaking on behalf of Dean Kim B. Clark, who was in New Mexico and unable to return due to airline travel restrictions, longtime faculty member Professor James I. View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
  • Web

Print View - Course Catalog

builds on topics introduced in TEM and FIN1/FIN2, this is not a remedial entrepreneurship course, nor is it a follow-on corporate finance course. For example, since an understanding of a company’s cash flow... View Details
  • 27 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 27, 2007

microprocessor industry in new directions. However, in 2006 it was not clear whether Opteron's success in the server segment would translate into success in other microprocessor segments, notably corporate desktop and laptop, and whether... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

sales increases, solid profitability, and positive cash flow. From October 2010 to October 2011, GM, Ford, and Chrysler sales increased 1.8%, 6.2%, and 27%, respectively. GM and Ford reported strong profits and better-than-expected sales... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

household income gains for new adopters. However, one year after the study ended, the exporter refused to continue buying the cash crops from the farmers because the conditions of the farms did not satisfy European export requirements.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23

high rates of return on corporate political investment, but evidence for this puzzle is largely descriptive in nature. We exploit the setting of the American Jobs Creation Act's passage in 2004 to provide more robust estimates of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 11

environmental performance, and social responsibility evaluation, which cover the company in the national, regional, and corporate levels for the purpose of realizing the comprehensive evaluation of economic and environmental performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jun 2012
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Leadership: What We Know

collection of wildly diverse, well-intentioned, but poorly organized gaggle of scholars and practitioners who are largely left to their own devises when it comes to deciding how best to teach leadership. From the college classrooms to View Details
Keywords: by Scott A. Snook, Rakesh Khurana & Nitin Nohria; Education