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- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
articulated by (HBS professor) Michael Porter, will be most successful when the collection of integrated and aligned activities enable the company to offer a value proposition—whether low total cost, product leadership, complete customer... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Goldman Sachs
substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high-net-worth individuals. We commit people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Privatization and the New European Economy
"the average amount of global privatization was valued at between US$70 to $80 billion. Experts predict that the potential for privatization in Europe in the decade ahead will have a value of between... View Details
- 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
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
You sometimes hear people say things like, "I believe in global warming" or "I don't believe in climate change." It seems odd to approach climate change in this way, as though it were a question of belief, like religion. Most of the time when we confront uncertainty in... View Details
- Web
South Asia - Global Activities 2021
during the four modules focusing on key topics relevant for today’s leaders: Strategic thinking in a global context Creating and delivering customer value Performance excellence and shareholder View Details
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
Champion International, by contrast, resulted in culture change and some improvements in performance, but negligible enhancement of shareholder value. In the end, Professor Beer notes, neither concept on its own will deliver sustainable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
CSR often cite Milton Friedman, who famously said that “the social responsibility of business is to increase profits.” Do you agree? I absolutely think it’s too narrow a view. In the decade of the ’90s, maximizing shareholder View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
received for those options. Considering that the market systematically puts a higher value on options than employees do, companies are likely to end up with more cash from the sale of externally issued options (which carry with them no... View Details
- March 2013
- Supplement
HOYA Corporation (A)
By: W. Carl Kester
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
both companies had to learn how to cope with the increasing interest in their business—not only by their traditional shareholders but also by new classes of share- and stakeholders. Total, for example, is followed closely by its... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
Case 218-095 Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period (A) Snap, the disappearing message app, went public at $17 per share on March 2, 2017, making its two 20-something founders the youngest self-made billionaires in the country. Over the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Fast Answer
Sustainable investing and ESG resources
by ERM, this report synthesizes survey responses from investors and companies to assess the value and quality of ESG ratings from leading ratings firms. ESG data (public company focus) MSCI ESG Research This platform includes access... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
they do. Turf battles often result when each division is more concerned with protecting its own territory than with maximizing the value of the whole. A perverse hierarchy, one that rejects ideas from below, often evolves. And when a... View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
less fearful of imminent takeover, yet the pressure remains: They face shareholders who wonder why they aren't getting private-equity-level returns. Rather than dismiss the value private equity has created... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 2009
- Teaching Note
Nextel Partners: Put Option (TN)
By: Timothy A. Luehrman
Teaching Note for [207-128] View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
even generate sufficient high quality capital-budget projects to use the available resources—and therefore go on merger-and-acquisition expeditions. The stock market is telling managers what the scarce strategic resource is. When it View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
highly successful CEOs basked in near celebrity status conferred by the media, George dodged the limelight and steadfastly insisted that he didn’t create anything. He just made it possible for others to do so. George also believed in creating a work environment that... View Details
- Web
Transportation - Business & Environment
business leaders that recognize shareholder value is irrelevant if the planet cannot be sustained long enough to realize financial gains. Every day, I rely on HBS frameworks for analysis and disruption... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
razor-sharp focus on the future. Although the products have changed over the years—from the glass bulbs for Thomas Edison’s electric light to the cover glass in Apple’s iPhones—Weeks sees a steady pattern of innovation paired with an old-fashioned commitment to values.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young