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- 21 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Finding My North Star at the Crossroads of Profit and Purpose
and career choices. Graduating from IIT Kharagpur, I decided to join Schlumberger – the world’s largest oilfield services company. Schlumberger, founded in 1926, in many ways reminded me of Tata Steel, a company that cares for its people while returning View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
integration affects prices, this paper provides evidence that prices can affect integration. Many theories in organizational economics and industrial organization posit that integration, while costly, increases productivity. It follows from firms' View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
In 1926, C.P. Biddle, an assistant dean at Harvard Business School, provided one framing of what was, at the time, the highly contested question of whether and why business schools belonged in universities: The interests of the View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
with investors? After Ballmer left, the relationship with Wall Street needed tending to. The shares had given up a third of their value during his tenure, even though sales almost quadrupled. Fritz Foley, who attended Harvard Business... View Details
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
four-component processes of the Customer Management theme—customer selection, acquisition, retention, and growth—demonstrating their importance in maximizing customer value and, ultimately, in View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
words of Robert Solow, a Nobel laureate in economics and an adviser to the study, “By far the most important factor in that growth is Wal-Mart.” Second, most of the value created by the company is actually pocketed by its customers in the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Arturo Alvarez Demalde
feel the responsibility to get involved and will work hard to see a nation with strong democratic institutions, young moral leaders, a well-educated population, and world-class companies. Starting gradually by setting an example within the private sector, I aspire to... View Details
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
reduction in monopoly price leads to the production of units that cost less than their value to consumers (standard channel); (ii) regulation calms down existing consumers because a reduction in the profits of an "unkind" firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
market setting, the transfer price that maximizes a multinational's profits may also be the same one that maximizes the social welfare of the domestic economy that houses it. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- May 2010 (Revised June 2010)
- Supplement
Pfizer: Letter from the Chairman (B)
By: Robert L. Simons and Kathryn Rosenberg
This case continues the story begun in "Pfizer: A Letter from the Chairman" (HBS No. 110-003), revealing the letter Chairman and CEO Jeff Kindler wrote for the 2008 Annual Report. View Details
Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value Creation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Annual Reports; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
Simons, Robert L., and Kathryn Rosenberg. "Pfizer: Letter from the Chairman (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 110-004, May 2010. (Revised June 2010.)
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
"For several years, the cover of one conglomerate's annual report actually bore the legend '2+2=5' in large type under the company's name. They wanted you to believe that the firm's value was greater than the sum of its parts, that a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
those cases. No matter the approach, shareholders and the public are unlikely to recognize the full value of a firm’s community health programs and other health-related efforts if those activities are... View Details
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Health Plans - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
measuring and rewarding providers based on outcomes, maximizing patient value over the full cycle of care, minimizing paperwork, and competing for subscribers based on the ability to achieve positive health... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Cultivating the Next Generation of Thought Leaders
Further, Serafeim shows that because investors have such a keen interest in tracking ESG performance, up to 60 percent of a company’s value may stem from nonfinancial data. Classroom discussions often energize associate professors and... View Details
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Investment Strategies - Course Catalog
wealth. The focus of Investment Strategies is financial markets, principally equity markets, taking the perspective of an institutional portfolio manager and considering the efficacy of value investing, arbitrage, and other active... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
Building on previous theories of how social activists inspire field-level change, we hypothesize that shareholder actions and regulatory threats are likely to prime firms to cooperate with shareholder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
Kay puts it, "The mistake is to make inferences about the relationships between outcomes and processes when we cannot observe and do not understand the processes themselves." The argument is that those things that contribute to long-term View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
perspective portion of the map describes the tangible outcomes of the strategy in traditional financial terms, such as ROI, shareholder value, profitability, revenue growth, and cost per unit. These financial outcomes can be achieved only... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis By: Alfaro, Laura, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, and Paola Conconi Abstract—In recent decades, advances in information and communication... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
4 Takeaways from HBS
struggles against conformity, even in an environment as diverse as HBS. Events like these showed me how much I should treasure my own diversity and unique background because these were the passions that would fuel me to make a difference. 3. View Details