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  • 10 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 10

Decker, Inc. William E. FruhanHarvard Business School Case 211-067 This case allows instructors to explore shareholder value creation and transfer opportunities in merger and acquisition transactions. It... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2020
  • Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

equity that are nonetheless considered public by virtue of having publicly traded debt. We develop and test two hypotheses. The "demand" hypothesis holds that earnings of public equity firms are of higher quality than earnings of private equity firms due to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 1992 (Revised October 1996)
  • Case

CUC International, Inc. (A)

By: Krishna G. Palepu and Paul M. Healy
The case series examines the role of financial reporting and corporate finance policies as vehicles for communication between managers and outside investors. This case describes management's concern that the company's stock is undervalued because analysts viewed the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Stocks; Financial Management; Decisions; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Management Style; Management Practices and Processes; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value; Financial Services Industry
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  • 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
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit

years, unit members have studied numerous organizations, ranging from Taco Bell to Intuit, to determine what maximizes profit and growth in service organizations. In so doing, they have formulated a key business dynamic that they term the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook

could choose what type of company we would work for. He encouraged us to pick a company whose values we'd be proud of. Where the new economy is going I don't think there is a new economy — it's the same economy, the same consumers, the... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 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
  • 10 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

trends emerging. “Most companies I worked with received an increasing amount of inbound questions for greater disclosure on their ESG performance from their lenders, shareholders and regulators, but were often ill-equipped to provide... 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
  • 12 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 12

addition, a growing literature has begun to highlight the potential importance of overconfidence in driving entrepreneurial outcomes. Such a mechanism may appear at face value to work like a lower level of risk aversion, but there are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Launching leaders: HBS's new initiative fuels first-generation and low-income student success - Recruiting

that everyone comes from college-educated parents, which is simply not true. Without Ascend, I might feel like the only person in the classroom who was a first-gen student or came from a lower-income family.” Bedford emphasized the value... View Details
  • 02 Dec 2015
  • Blog Post

Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Laura Mackay...

led by a team that has garnered a great deal of respect and admiration from the local entrepreneurial and investment communities. These factors, coupled with the chance to maximize the value of my HBS and... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Health Care; Entrepreneurship
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

On the Outside at HBS

third are international, and roughly a quarter are ethnic minorities — the School can be a difficult place for these groups to thrive. To its credit, HBS understands that the real value of diversity is not in the statistical percentage of... View Details
  • 05 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-030.pdf Laws vs. Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890-1950 Author:Aldo Musacchio Abstract The early development of large multidivisional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

"rationality" of the decision, when rationality is defined as maximizing the consumer's expected utility. The consumer's decision of whether or not to buy a product is a highly appropriate dependent variable for consumer... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

reduced margins and increased risks that come with entering a number of domains that already have established incumbents, and the trade-offs between maximizing shareholder return (for example through... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 5, 2016

to drive shareholder value by improving operating performance. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216003-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-043 ICICI Bank and the Issue of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 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
  • 14 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

are increasingly paying attention to the aesthetic, symbolic, and emotional value of products, a value that is conveyed by the design language—that is, the combination of signs (e.g., form, colors,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace