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- 02 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
Four Companies that Conquered America
built up a strong retail market share in the U.S., not under the RBS brand, but through a series of acquisitions of regional (not national) banks. RBS is adding value for its shareholders by letting these... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Health Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network VBHCD Initiative VBHCD... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
Most Successful CEOs Come from Within By: Bower, Joseph L. Abstract—The financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession caused a crisis of public confidence in business and American-style capitalism, with its focus on maximizing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Database Best Practices - Research Computing Services
potential security restrictions, including who will have access to the data and editing permissions. Planning your database Knowing your data well is a crucial first step. Ensure that you are familiar with datatypes, value ranges, missing... View Details
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Advancing Social Enterprise | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
“How do you motivate employees with ‘psychic equity’? or “How can we approach shareholder value creation in a broader way?” It’s much more about back-and-forth learning between the public and private... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
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
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
with a low level of disclosure. Second, competition ensures that services with a high level of disclosure subsidize consumers. Third, firms maximize profits at the extensive rather than the intensive margin, outperforming competitors by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
articulated by (HBS professor) Michael Porter, will be most successful when the collection of integrated and aligned activities enable the company to offer a value proposition—whether low total cost, product leadership, complete customer... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Transportation - Business & Environment
business leaders that recognize shareholder value is irrelevant if the planet cannot be sustained long enough to realize financial gains. Every day, I rely on HBS frameworks for analysis and disruption... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
razor-sharp focus on the future. Although the products have changed over the years—from the glass bulbs for Thomas Edison’s electric light to the cover glass in Apple’s iPhones—Weeks sees a steady pattern of innovation paired with an old-fashioned commitment to values.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
trigger a crippling default on an amended loan agreement, Morton has to take a hard look at the numbers, industry trends, strategy considerations, shareholder interests, and several other financing options and come up with a plan to save... View Details
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
might be appropriate to redesign (“refactor”) a system, to reduce what has been called “architectural debt.” Unfortunately, we lack robust data by which to evaluate the relationship between architectural design choices and system maintenance costs, and hence to predict... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary
mandate.” He reveals that with the fiber installed in the eighteen months since Netcom was launched, shareholder value has multiplied sixfold to $2.5 billion. “China’s Internet population will grow to... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
You sometimes hear people say things like, "I believe in global warming" or "I don't believe in climate change." It seems odd to approach climate change in this way, as though it were a question of belief, like religion. Most of the time when we confront uncertainty in... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
of the e-intermediary's presence. Managerial Implications: Our results provide a balanced perspective on the value of e-intermediation, compared to the generally positive views advanced by case studies. For-profit e-intermediaries that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
A share market skyrocketing. We discuss the cause and the consequence of investor sentiment on the cross-listing decision of firms and the responsibilities of corporate managers to maximize existing View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Books
Value Shift by Lynn Sharp Paine The Support Economy by Shoshana Zuboff and James Maxim Value Shift by Lynn Sharp Paine (McGraw HIll) Were it not for the years HBS assistant... View Details
- 11 Jun 2015
- News
Making connections at Harvard and beyond
organizations, and ideas—at the Business School and beyond—in ways that will maximize their positive impact on the world. “One of the things I admire most about our graduates is their tendency to go wherever there are opportunities to... View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
"pro-social," meaning they are likely to value more equal distributions of resources, while others are "pro-self," meaning they try and maximize value for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
cattle ranching. To learn the value of his crop, a farmer could turn on the radio for regular market updates from commodity exchanges. But prices of the seeds and chemical fertilizer used to grow those crops were not listed anywhere; a... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg