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- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Dividends Harvard Business School Case 209-004 In 2006, Progressive Corporation announced a change in its dividend policy. Henceforth, dividends would be paid annually rather than quarterly and, more importantly, would be set according to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
has been divided by both worldview and practice. Why, in the face of the common challenge of dependence on imported Russian gas, have national reactions to such vulnerability varied so dramatically across the continent? And why have a handful of French, German, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
never really know for sure.” Of all the cases you have taught, is there one that is most memorable? There was a case written long before I arrived called “Clarkson Lumber” — it had different names at different times — and it was the first case I always taught in View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
well as domestic companies have found success in emerging markets by positioning themselves as partners in progress—building businesses that also advance market development. Initiatives along these lines can take a number of forms—from advancing traditional View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
discovered a company that I thought was amazing. Sodexo is a French company, Global French Company. I just fell in love with their mission and their values and their lens of the world, and their role in it as a corporate citizen. So, I... View Details
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
In the midst of this crisis, VHSS, the German Shipbroker's Association, introduced a proposal to value ships using discounted cash flow analysis (to determine a long-term asset value, LTAV) rather than market prices from comparable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
revive securitization. Q: Corporate boards have been criticized for being asleep at the wheel leading up to last year's financial meltdown. Are boards at fault? A: After Enron and WorldCom, Congress hastily passed Sarbanes-Oxley,... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
resource pools, increased corporate operational dependence on IT, and enhanced application opportunities have combined to drive this topic much higher on many companies' agendas. Different companies are impacted in different ways.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era: Lessons from Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft by Alison Davis (MBA 1988) and Matthew Le Merle Cartwright Publishing Over the last 30 years a host of new technologies have begun... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
and Corporate Tax Strategies: Evidence from the 2013 Tax Hikes By: Pérez Cavazos, Gerardo, and Andreya M. Silva Abstract—Exploiting the increase in personal tax rates due to the American Taxpayer Relief Act and Healthcare Act, we identify... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
1960s. Nundy attended boarding school in India and later worked there during college summers. Her years in India have caused her to reexamine her priorities. "For me, closing a billiondollar merger transaction between two large corporate... View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
With less internally generated cash flow available to fund the project, management had to decide how much capital to raise, what kind to raise, and when to raise it. These decisions would determine its capital structure, at least in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
now as broad in scope as the backgrounds of its practitioners. VanAuken is a case in point: He's the president of BrandForward, a consulting shop he founded in 1999 in upstate Honeoye Falls, New York, after years in the corporate world,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
tempered by substantial risks for businesses and investors looking to cash in on China’s economic renaissance. Over the course of the three-day Global Leadership Forum, twenty HBS faculty members and thirty U.S. and Chinese business... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
and broader interpretations of business's role in society surfaces throughout Keen's story. He wrote his HBS application essay about wanting to learn the tactics of corporate business for the good of tribal peoples—to be a sheep in wolf's... View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
Kaplan Abstract Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) has become a crucial component of contemporary corporate governance reforms. Now that principles, guidelines, and standards abound, it is time to take stock. Has the idea of ERM reached... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
monetize the value they would create? Would investors see as much potential in BCM as its founders? And how would the company's cash constraints impact the strategy in the current economic environment? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46138 Forthcoming Accounting Review An Analysis of Self-reported Anticorruption Efforts By: Healy, Paul M., and George Serafeim Abstract—We use Transparency International's ratings of self-reported anticorruption efforts... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
chances. "Moviegoing is embedded in the American social fabric," he says during a conversation at AMC's Theatre Support Center (the company's corporate headquarters) in Leawood, a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. "We provide the... View Details