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  • 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
Keywords: Pankaj Ghemawat; Ken A. Mark; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 01 Dec 1996
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Intellectual Debate: The Business of Business

impartially among a range of views, faculty members debated the ramifications of this approach to course content and HBS pedagogy. Then, O&M Professor Michael C. Jensen's summary of the unit's views on the corporate objective function and performance measurement -... View Details
  • 19 Feb 2010
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The MBA Oath Debate

After months of glowing press accounts, the MBA Oath, a voluntary HBS student-crafted pledge that asks graduating MBAs to commit to the creation of value “responsibly and ethically,” has hit a media rough patch. Critics now see little... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Sep 2008
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The MBA Turns 100

degree’s relevance, asserting that programs have drifted too far into theory that has relatively little use in practice. And they fault business schools for turning out graduates fixated on shareholder value... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 21 Mar 2019
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Helping Veterans Build Careers

designated more than $28 million to high-performing, nonprofit grantee partners across the United States and the United Kingdom, helping to place more than 50,000 vets in high-quality jobs since 2009. “But veterans often struggle to translate their time in the military... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 01 Dec 2009
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Alumni Books

CIOs Create and Communicate Value by Richard Hunter and George Westerman (DBA ’03) (Harvard Business Press) The authors recommend that to combat the IT-as-cost mindset, CIOs use IT to create three kinds of View Details
  • 01 Sep 2012
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What’s the Big Idea?

and governance dimensions. Critics of the One Report concept maintain that it destroys shareholder value by diverting attention from short-term profit maximization. But Eccles and two colleagues found just... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management
  • 01 Feb 2000
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New Releases

chosen." In Down to Earth, Reinhardt draws on studies of companies in industries as diverse as energy and packaged consumer goods to illustrate approaches for reconciling shareholder value with environmental... View Details
  • 19 Aug 2013
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Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers

value to their products. At the time, Keshavjee was the head of the Aga Khan Foundation in East Africa, a major development agency, and believed that the best way to sustain health and education initiatives was through income generation... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Management
  • 01 Jun 1999
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Short Takes

familiar business imperative of creating value. "A firm that delivers cash to shareholders only by selling off assets is not sustainable," he says, "and neither is a firm that creates accounting profits only by liquidating natural capital... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 16 Feb 2011
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Healthy Growth

Ayers described himself as a “principles-based leader”. “Our purpose is to create exceptional long-term value for customers, employees, and shareholders by enhancing the health and well-being of pets,... View Details
Keywords: veterinary medicine; Health, Social Assistance
  • 24 Jul 2018
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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
  • 01 Jun 1998
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Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer

about how the current business scene is heavily skewed toward the shareholder. "Certainly the shareholder is important," he notes. "However, the shareholder role has gotten out of balance with the other... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
  • 01 Sep 2006
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Strange Bedfellows

Since when do the taxman and the shareholder agree? IRS Commissioner Mark Everson and SEC Chairman Christopher Cox (MBA 1976) have advanced a simple, but controversial proposal. Companies would be required to disclose how much they pay in... View Details
Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Government
  • 01 Oct 2001
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HBS Press Books in Brief

are first to sense and capture new knowledge all over the world; they mobilize this globally dispersed knowledge to become more innovative than their competitors; and they turn this innovation into value by effectively managing operations... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management; Finance
  • 01 Jan 2003
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James E. Burke, MBA 1949

concerned about what I should do with my life. I knew I wanted a career in business, but it wasn't until I was at HBS that I grasped that business could be a force for good in society. We were constantly reminded of the importance of moral View Details
  • 01 Mar 2004
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Reforming Company Boards

structuring and M&A transactions, it was obvious that the focus was not on building shareholder value but on reporting predictable, double-digit earnings growth to achieve temporarily high stock market... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
  • 01 Mar 2005
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Ideas: Books

analyze why such partnerships occur and show how they are improving social conditions across Latin America as well as creating value for businesses. The Social Enterprise Knowledge Network is a collaboration among HBS, the AVINA... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Mar 2010
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Alumni Books

interviews conducted by the authors, this book is filled with colorful stories about selecting and working with management, pioneering new markets, adding value through operational improvements, applying private-equity principles to... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Sep 2005
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Predictable Surprises

CEOs several decades ago. The airline’s previous generation of leaders settled tough union negotiations, made agreements that allowed them to operate profitably and look good in the short term, and dumped their pension obligations into the future. But given View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
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