Publications

Teaching Note for (9-100-031). View Details

Keywords: United States

1992
Chapter

The Effects of Changes in Corporate Control on Firm Performance

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Performance; Organizational Change and Adaptation

15 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

and Rohini Somanathan Publication:In Handbook of Development Economics. Vol. 4, edited by T. Paul Schultz and John Strauss. Elsevier Science & Technology Books, 2008 Abstract This chapter focuses on the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

TeachingInterests

Leadership and Corporate Accountability

This course focuses on the responsibilities of companies, their leaders, and their boards. Its aim is to deepend students' understanding of the economic, legal, and ethical dimensions of these responsibilities and to provide practical guidance on driving performance... View Details

TeachingInterests

Financial Reporting and Control

Throughout their careers, business leaders are required to measure and evaluate their organization's economic performance, improve resource allocation and strategy implementation within their organizations, and build accountability for performance through effective... View Details

March 2021
Teaching Note

Capitalizing Development Costs at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Volkswagen

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 121-018. View Details

May 1998 (Revised April 2000)
Case

City of New York, The

This case examines the economics of a municipality, and then explores its financial position from the perspective of a bond rating firm. View Details

Keywords: Bonds; Financial Management; Public Sector; City; Financial Statements; Government Administration

April 2016
Teaching Note

Three-Year Planning at Li & Fung Limited

1996
Article

Discussion of a Market-Based Evaluation of Discretionary Accrual Models

Keywords: Markets; Finance

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June 2011 (Revised January 2013)
Case

Oddo Securities―ESG Integration

The case describes the process of integrating environmental, social, and governance issues into valuation models and research analyst recommendations. View Details

Keywords: Financial Strategy; Mathematical Methods; Integration; Valuation; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Governance Controls; Investment

September 2007
Teaching Note

Merrill Lynch in 2003: Sunny Skies Ahead? (TN)

Keywords: Financial Services Industry

August 2003
Teaching Note

CUC International, Inc. (A) (TN)

Teaching Note for (9-192-099) View Details

Keywords: Financial Services Industry

August 2003
Teaching Note

Valuation Ratios in the Airline Industry (TN)

Teaching Note for (9-103-002). View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Air Transportation Industry

February 2000 (Revised September 2002)
Teaching Note

Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. TN

Teaching Note for (9-100-037). View Details

Keywords: Insurance Industry

December 1999
Case

Brierley Investments Limited

Brierley's is an investment company that has performed poorly in the New Zealand market. Management has prepared a report of the intrinsic value of the company's investments. View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Corporate Disclosure; Financial Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Performance Evaluation; Investment; Business Strategy; Financial Services Industry; New Zealand

September 2017
Case

Blackstone's Julia Kahr at the Summit

By: Paul A. Gompers, John D. Dionne and Amram Migdal

In 2009, Blackstone, the New York-based alternative asset and financial services firm, committed to invest up to $750 million into Summit Materials, a new company in the aggregates sector (i.e., construction materials, such as crushed stone, sand, gravel, cement,... View Details

01 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 1

costs. But to realize those benefits, the acquirer needs to achieve economies of scale by absorbing the target's resources into its operations. CEOs, who are often unrealistic about the performance boost from such acquisitions, must be... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

achieve actionable transparency by embedding their design in a centralized system with a shared design language and near-real-time updating, where everyone with an interest in improving the design has the right and the means to act on it.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

November 2021 (Revised November 2023)
Case

Hitting Home: Amazon and Mary's Place

By: Paul M. Healy, Debora L. Spar and Amy Klopfenstein

In 2020, Amazon, the $386 billion online retail behemoth, built an eight-story shelter for women and families experiencing homelessness on its expanding headquarters in Seattle, Washington. The shelter, operated in partnership with a non-profit organization known as... View Details

Keywords: Business Ethics; Homelessness; Business And Society; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Corporate Accountability; Urban Development; Society; Information Technology; Ethics; Technology Industry; Seattle; United States; North America