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  • 19 Jul 2011
  • News

Brightening the Future

business that can help the poor while remaining economically viable is in keeping with Ayala’s career shift away from the for-profit focus on maximizing shareholder value. In his new venture, he told BusinessWorld, “We want to maximize... View Details
Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

Books

Mills shows how capitalism's financial value chain — comprising venture capitalists, bankers, and entrepreneurs and compelled by the lure of potential fortunes to be made — failed in its role to exercise caution in the formation and... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

shareholder value in concentrated industries. By contrast, non-delay provisions have an unambiguously negative relation with value, and more so in concentrated industries. Overall, our analysis suggests that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 10

Decker, Inc. William E. FruhanHarvard Business School Case 211-067 This case allows instructors to explore shareholder value creation and transfer opportunities in merger and acquisition transactions. It... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2020
  • Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

were to their investment opportunities," Farre-Mensa explains. Investment opportunities are usually measured by market-to-book ratio, the relationship between the market value of a company and the book View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 23 May 2019
  • Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology
  • July 1995 (Revised May 1997)
  • Case

Nutra Foods

By: David F. Hawkins
An investor reviews his equity investment and asks for help in understanding how the stock splits and dividends impact his investment and the company's stockholders' equity portion of the balance sheet. View Details
Keywords: History; Financial Management; Private Equity; Capital Structure; Valuation; Investment Return; Business and Shareholder Relations; Financial Services Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • November 2006 (Revised December 2011)
  • Case

HCA, Inc. (A)

By: Richard S. Ruback
Focuses on the buyout of HCA by three private equity firms: Bain Capital, KKR, and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity. It provides an opportunity to discuss a variety of issues related to leveraged buyouts including the process, the role of private equity, the... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Private Equity; Investment; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Valuation
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  • 23 Dec 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?

rock the boat when they are leaving," speculates Ma. By contrast, when Ma and Khanna measured the effects of firm performance on likelihood of dissent, they found a much lower correlation. A one unit increase in the ratio of a firm's market View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • February 1992 (Revised October 1996)
  • Case

CUC International, Inc. (A)

By: Krishna G. Palepu and Paul M. Healy
The case series examines the role of financial reporting and corporate finance policies as vehicles for communication between managers and outside investors. This case describes management's concern that the company's stock is undervalued because analysts viewed the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Stocks; Financial Management; Decisions; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Management Style; Management Practices and Processes; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value; Financial Services Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

it happen in practice. That’s on the private market side. On the public side, the question is how you can influence the behavior of a company to reflect your values, or protect the long-term value of your investment—or both—while only... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 25 Aug 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?

little guidance. Executives may be tempted to take refuge in the idea that they have fiduciary obligations to maximize shareholder returns, but this is simply a myth—corporate leaders have many responsibilities, but there is no... View Details
Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda
  • 08 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)

not just maximize shareholder value but doing good by doing well—how to pursue business that has a social mission at its heart while also generating returns for its investors,” said Mbanusi. Casting a wide... View Details
  • 03 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

cultural profiling, the practice of actively monitoring workers' behavior to assess how well they embody the values of their employing organization and of penalizing those employees who engage in deviant cultural behaviors. First, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

Dot Vertigo

organizations, Nolan says, technology has so thoroughly penetrated every aspect of the business that its activities, strategies, and functions have become transparent, thereby circumventing any possibility of the disorienting dot vertigo (symptoms of which include lack... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • June 1995
  • Teaching Note

Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream Inc.: Keeping the Mission(s) Alive TN

By: Richard E. Walton
Teaching Note for (9-392-025). View Details
Keywords: Value; Business Ventures; Creativity; Marketing; Business and Shareholder Relations; Policy; Business Growth and Maturation; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; Competency and Skills; Managerial Roles; Compensation and Benefits; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • Web

Digital Archival Resources - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS Polaroid Corporation Annual Reports, 1937-1952 Annual reports typically include a letter to shareholders written by Edwin... View Details
  • 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
  • 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