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- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
themselves. The authors offer what they call the three imperatives for every manager who seeks to avoid this stagnation: Manage yourself. Who you are as a person, the beliefs and values that drive your actions, and especially how you... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
value proposition to maximize value creation for both consumers and the luxury brands that supported the business model. The jury was still out on whether a rental model could... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
Modigliani-Miller capital structure irrelevance propositions. The case focuses on two questions: (1) From a shareholder's perspective, how is Apple's cash different from cash in a bank or money market account? (2) Can Apple create significant View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
systems and implementation. Ozark is deciding among three ERP options; different senior executives support different options. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/616019-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-097 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
exiting shareholders receive fair value in MBOs. This article identifies four factors that create an unlevel playing field in that market check: information asymmetries, valuable management, management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
eligibility for a severance package valued at $47 million? “In the old days, your personal behavior was not seen as relevant to your role as a corporate leader, but now, if you’re a candidate for CEO of a large company, your personal... View Details
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
transmitting information from equity to debt holders. This provides a novel argument as to why information contained in stock prices affects the real value of a corporation. It also allows us to make empirical predictions regarding the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
attention and energies on maximizing profit and financial value. This exclusive focus on profit and shareholder value maximization has led to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governance in India and Around the Globe
corporate governance in India and, indeed, in Asia. In our research, we ask why it is that Infosys developed a reputation for being committed to shareholder value creation in a country, India, where... View Details
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
how companies create value for customers and shareholders. The BSC measures the customer value proposition, and links critical processes and intangible assets to customer and View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
external events in the late 1990s, accelerated dramatically with the accounting scandals of the Enron era plus the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley, and then continued to change under the pressure of shareholder activism. There's a lot more... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
compensation incentives for CSR. We test our predictions using novel executive compensation contract data and find that firms with more shareholder friendly corporate governance are more likely to provide compensation to executives linked... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
reasons why the leadership literature has been recast so that it is solely focused on economic performance, but we believe probably the most important thing is that the obsession with shareholder value... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
School Note 811-016 This note discusses how some firms (start-ups and established companies) maximize customer value and profits via their pricing processes. It is aimed at companies that compete on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
behavior. Indeed, a significant cost for corporations—the cost associated with compensating key employees with stock options—was until recently treated as an expense for tax purposes but not for financial accounting purposes. More specifically, the View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
and the development of incremental tradeoffs towards radical moves to create new business models, new forms of satisfying needs that drastically reduce costs and/or raise value perceived by customers. One important enabler of new business... View Details
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads Authors:Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, and Patrick Cullen Publication:Journal of Management Development 30, no. 5 (2011) Abstract The paper seeks to examine major challenges facing MBA programs and to argue that they will... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
consumers bestow their loyalty by spending most of their grocery dollars with one retailer for 1-2 percent payback? Let's look more closely at the actual rewards. They come in two forms : (1) turbo charged vouchers (doubling, tripling, or even quintupling the View Details
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
transparency." The question remains as to whether states make very good capitalists. As investors, Michael points out that they are "systematically inefficient—from a profit maximization standpoint." As Paulo Wilson... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
microfinance banks join forces to face the new challenges of globalization, competition, and politics while common shareholder ACCÍON investments considers its options. From an initial project to share costs in the revamping of their IT... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace