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- May 2021 (Revised June 2021)
- Supplement
'GEnron'? Markopolos versus General Electric (B)
By: Jonas Heese and David Lane
Supplement to the (A) case that offers an assessment of the August 2019 Markopolos report on General Electric. View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Communication; Energy; Financial Condition; Insurance; Performance; Planning; Business and Shareholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Value; Insurance Industry; Financial Services Industry; Energy Industry
Heese, Jonas, and David Lane. "'GEnron'? Markopolos versus General Electric (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 121-033, May 2021. (Revised June 2021.)
- 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
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
A share market skyrocketing. We discuss the cause and the consequence of investor sentiment on the cross-listing decision of firms and the responsibilities of corporate managers to maximize existing View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 24 Mar 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing
owners opted for an IPO in March 2000. Valued at 400 million Rand on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, its shareholders included about 1,000 of the company's security guards. From Ipo To Acquisition "An... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
Relationships Using CRM By: Avery, Jill, and Susan Fournier Abstract—With incidences in the 20%-25% range, the practice of firing customers has become increasingly attractive as firms try to maximize the lifetime View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
literacy stifle demand. A second view argues that demand is rationally low, because formal financial services are expensive and of relatively low value to the poor. This paper uses original surveys and a field experiment to distinguish... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
Wall Street. Though many believe this happens because firms have a "fiduciary duty" to maximize shareholder returns, U.S. executives do not, as a matter of law, have any such obligation. Yet it's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
with a low level of disclosure. Second, competition ensures that services with a high level of disclosure subsidize consumers. Third, firms maximize profits at the extensive rather than the intensive margin, outperforming competitors by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
everyone, but we quickly come to regard them as normal and to appreciate the benefits that they make possible. “Sensible business people value risk reduction and predictability” Business has a critical role to play here, as the source of... View Details
- 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
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
management. Instead, Perlman mapped backward from his VC target, reasoning that WebTV's appeal and value to the VCs would be greatly enhanced by partnership with a prominent consumer electronics firm. Perlman started by pitching his... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
provide higher quality. When the cost of providing quality is not too high, firms use only one attribute to differentiate their products: they maximally differentiate on one dimension and minimally differentiate on the other dimension (a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
and the environment while still creating value for their shareholders. How to Become a Sustainable Company Authors: Robert G. Eccles, Kathleen Miller Perkins, and George Serafeim Publication: MIT Sloan Management Review 53, no. 4 (2012)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
If we value achievement and adopt celebrity standards, we will certainly fall victim to our own excess. Nothing will be enough, and success will never satisfy. If we're high achievers, we may be plagued with self-doubt, feeling that we've... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 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
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
Friedman-is that the first duty of managers is to maximize shareholder value, and thus that they should take every opportunity (within the bounds of the law) to structure market institutions so as to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
respond to a revised proposal from two private equity firms to take the company private. In November of 2006, the Board had unanimously approved an offer of $37.60 per share after going through intense negotiations with numerous firms, but institutional View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 17 Jan 2007
- Op-Ed
Learning from Private-Equity Boards
If Enron had been owned and controlled by a small group of private-equity investors, could the monitoring and control practices of a professionally run buyout shop have protected Enron's shareholders and employees from the problems that... View Details