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Arden, Avon and Revlon as well as imported goods. She also invested in several new distribution centers throughout New York and built a high-tech communications system to handle the increasingly large volume of orders. By the late 1980s, Lillian Vernon View Details

Keywords: Retail

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01 Dec 2004
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Closing the Opportunity Gap

Gerald Chertavian (MBA ’92) used the wealth he acquired in the 1990s Internet boom to realize a longtime goal. He started a special school to help disadvantaged young adults find careers in the corporate world. Chertavian’s Boston-based... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Trouble Behind Livedoor

has researched stock price manipulation in Japan and looked specifically at firms like Livedoor. He says the Livedoor episode may, in the end, do some good by paving the road for reform of Japan's "abysmal" corporate governance.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Technology

01 Oct 1999
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Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies

Finance," focused on five subjects: corporate capital raising, corporate restructuring, extracting information from security prices, risk management, and security design. The fifteen papers presented at the... View Details

01 Jun 2006
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CEO Compensation Troubles

Ask any thoughtful corporate board member what they are most concerned about these days, and it is not Sarbanes-Oxley. It is CEO pay. Directors worry because shareholders continue to express outrage, and the media attention to the issue... View Details

Keywords: Jay W. Lorsch; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.

Though he started his career at a roller bearing manufacturer, Sloan eventually sold the company to GM after realizing that the rapid growth of the automobile industry was essentially controlling his business. Sloan’s attention to efficiency spurred his development of... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

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Nicola Pugliese

optimally communicating a career narrative and personal brand, through written collateral (resumes, LinkedIn profiles, cover letters), interviewing and networking. Work Experience: Gillette/P&G Ð Global Consumer Product Marketing, Oxford Strategic Marketing Ð CPG... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Entrepreneurship; Publishing / Communications / Advertising; Retail

2023
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How Wicked Problems Drive Business Performance: A Review of the Academic Literature

By: Caroline Adelson, Charlotte Kuller, Cate Tompkins, Ellora Sarkar, Samantha Price and Marco Iansiti

Recent years have seen a rise in the number of businesses engaged in the pursuit of “purposeful” activities – that is, activities that engage with the broader community in ways that expand beyond the pursuit of shareholder value. Many of these activities involve... View Details

Keywords: Wicked Problems; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Performance

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August 2012 (Revised September 2012)
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JP Morgan Chase & the CIO Losses

By: Clayton Rose

On July 13, 2012, JP Morgan Chase & Co. announced a larger than expected loss for the quarter, $4.4 billion, from positions held in the Chief Investment Office (CIO), raising the total losses to $5.9 billion. Since the substantial risks in the CIO had first been... View Details

Keywords: Banking; Governance; Finance; Risk Management; Corporate Governance; Business Earnings; Accounting; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States

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March 2008 (Revised July 2011)
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Cadbury Schweppes: Capturing Confectionery (C)

By: David Collis, Toby Stuart and Troy Smith

In late 2002, global confectionery and beverage maker Cadbury Schweppes needed to decide whether or not to make an acquisition bid for Adams, an underperforming gum company which had been put up for sale by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. Examining the decision from a... View Details

Keywords: Food; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry

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02 Jul 2024
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The Beauty Guide

Companies (ELC). “I am 100 percent sure that I would not be talking to you today if I hadn’t left marketing,” declares Freyre. It was through McNamara, and others, that Freyre learned the importance of mentorship in the corporate world.... View Details

01 Sep 2015
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Greater Than the Sum of its Parts

example of what results when people from throughout the Harvard community come together to pursue their ideas. "Five years ago people weren’t really talking about an interdisciplinary curriculum," says Joseph J. O’Donnell (AB 1967, MBA 1971), a member of the Harvard... View Details

01 Apr 2001
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Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan

country but to encourage it to be more competitive,” he explains. What Saeki is bringing to Japan is Nasdaq’s emphasis on good governance and transparency. “We force issuers to disclose accurate information quarterly,” he explains. Many established View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Jun 2003
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Bottom-Line Discrepancies

and the Economy, Desai examines the relationship between book and tax income for U.S. corporations over the last two decades. In the past, the discrepancy between book and tax income was associated with different treatments of... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2006
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Enron’s Legacy

for corporate boards. The yes answer reflects the fact that many productive aspects of corporate governance and control that have proven effective in the private-equity industry were noticeably absent at... View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Enron; Finance

08 Aug 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance

Unlearned? Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets Emerging markets are contending with a worrisome slowdown in economic growth accompanied by the build-up of corporate debt. Is Greed Ruining Private Equity... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals

managers who, with little of their own money at risk, were spending corporate resources on ill-conceived diversification and empire-building campaigns." "Unfortunately," Jensen concludes, "too much of the current M&A; activity falls into... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

August 2011 (Revised July 2014)
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Social Innovation at Salesforce.com

By: Christopher Marquis, Marley C. Kornreich and Bobbi Thomason

Salesforce.com recently implemented an innovative social enterprise business model whereby the Salesforce.com Foundation funds its operations and grant budget by selling discounted salesforce.com software licenses to nonprofits and education clients. The case recounts... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Model; Information Technology; Leading Change; Problems and Challenges

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