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- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
intensifying as HTC faced big name players such as Nokia, Apple, and Samsung Electronics. Many companies were offering their own application stores. What did HTC have to do to become a more powerful global brand? Where should HTC participate in the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
might be appropriate to redesign (“refactor”) a system, to reduce what has been called “architectural debt.” Unfortunately, we lack robust data by which to evaluate the relationship between architectural design choices and system maintenance costs, and hence to predict... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
commitment, and what you call "auction fever." How are these phenomena related? A: The phenomena are related in that they lead to a similar outcome: overbidding in auctions. That is, any of these might lead to an auction participant bidding higher than the... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Argentina and Chile over recent decades. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50182 forthcoming Management Science Creating Reciprocal Value Through Operational Transparency By: Buell, Ryan W., Tami Kim, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
"pro-social," meaning they are likely to value more equal distributions of resources, while others are "pro-self," meaning they try and maximize value for... View Details
- 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
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
we could add real value by seeking to develop a comparative perspective on the two countries around the theme of how they had been impacted by globalization over the last 100 years. Both countries had rich historiographies, but they had... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
chief patent counsel. Similar to independent venture organizations (but unlike many corporate programs), the program also had a clear goal: to maximize return on investment. The XTV partners felt that the ambiguous goals of many of the... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 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
- 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
- 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
Palepu, Krishna G., and Paul M. Healy. "CUC International, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 192-099, February 1992. (Revised October 1996.)
- 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
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
reduced margins and increased risks that come with entering a number of domains that already have established incumbents, and the trade-offs between maximizing shareholder return (for example through... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
"rationality" of the decision, when rationality is defined as maximizing the consumer's expected utility. The consumer's decision of whether or not to buy a product is a highly appropriate dependent variable for consumer... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 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
- 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
- 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