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- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
persists as the biggest threat to private minority shareholders in these firms. Book: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2217627 Working Papers Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market By: Becker, Bo, and Victoria Ivashina... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Becoming a Board Member - Alumni
shareholder and stakeholder satisfaction Commitment to the mission (nonprofit board) View our Board Bio Template. Find a Career Coach Does your board bio need a refresh? HBS alumni receive six complementary career coaching sessions a... View Details
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
hardware and software solution to 300 clients, mainly primary and secondary schools in India. The product aimed to improve student engagement and performance, reduce the time it took teachers to develop and grade learning assessments,... View Details
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
Acquisitions, Value Creation Under Polman's leadership, Unilever focused on long-term shareholder value accretion with a multi-stakeholder approach that emphasized global growth in revenues and earnings through deep penetration in rapidly... View Details
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Three Components of Family Governance
of statement. The rare family in business may have a more elaborate family governance structure, with a separate meeting for family-owner-managers or a separate council for family shareholders or periodic meetings between shareholders,... View Details
- April 2006 (Revised October 2006)
- Case
Chrysanthemum and Dragon: JAFCO Asia in China
By: Rawi E. Abdelal and David Lane
In the autumn of 2002, JAFCO Asia, a subsidiary of JAFCO Co., Ltd., became the first foreign private equity firm to open an office in Beijing's Haidian Science Park. JAFCO was the only Japanese private equity firm operating in China. As such, Managing Director Vincent... View Details
Keywords: History; International Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Performance Effectiveness; Foreign Direct Investment; Business Strategy; Financial Services Industry; China; Beijing; Japan
Abdelal, Rawi E., and David Lane. "Chrysanthemum and Dragon: JAFCO Asia in China." Harvard Business School Case 706-012, April 2006. (Revised October 2006.)
- November 2010
- Article
Stress-Test Your Strategy: The 7 Questions to Ask
By: Robert Simons
An economic downturn can quickly expose the shortcomings of your business strategy. But can you identify its weak points in good times as well? And can you focus on those weak points that really matter? I identify seven questions all executives should ask in order to... View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Creativity; Success; Customers; Employees; Business and Shareholder Relations; Performance; Risk and Uncertainty; Decision Choices and Conditions
Simons, Robert. "Stress-Test Your Strategy: The 7 Questions to Ask." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 11 (November 2010): 93–100.
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
stakeholder engagement and b) reduced informational asymmetry due to increased transparency. Using a large cross-section of firms, we find that firms with better CSR performance face significantly lower capital constraints. Moreover, we... View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
will be engaged in every item of behavior that takes place at work. Likewise, all the other people engaged with the focal organization—its customers, its shareholders and... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 09 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business
from shareholders to make changes that you know will threaten the long-term future of your company. This situation reflects the experiences of Paul Polman, the former CEO of Unilever. On the second season of my podcast, I talked to over a... View Details
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
risk, but also enhances shareholder value. The law isn't just for lawyers, either, she says. Managers must become more astute about the legal environment around them, and be willing to challenge and work with counsel to achieve best... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
exceeds a peak price. Conversely, bidder shareholders react more negatively as the offer price is influenced upward toward a peak. Merger waves occur when high returns on the market and likely targets make it easier for bidders to offer a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
management friendly provisions, we identify the economic determinants of the resulting trade-offs for shareholder value. Consistent with the theory, our empirical analysis shows that provisions that allow managers to delay takeovers have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
a partner and co-head of private equity in the Americas for KKR. “It also happens to be good business. If you share ownership, you make people feel like they are truly cared for. Employee turnover goes down, absenteeism goes down, employee View Details
- 16 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service
shareholder returns of 150 percent while the S&P 500 has delivered 14 percent. They've also grown their sales 134 percent while the S&P 500 has grown just 53 percent. Clearly, these firms have found something that allows them to... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
Dr. Shehan Dissanayake, a managing director and board member of Bahamian investment firm The Tavistock Group (Tavistock), the largest shareholder in the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo), one of the country's largest agribusinesses,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
What’s a company’s purpose? Too often it has been hijacked by one extreme or the other claiming it’s either the unbridled pursuit of profit on behalf of shareholders or it’s anything but profit. I also take issue with the idea that... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
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Doing Business in a Divided World - Alumni
to navigate this shifting and complex landscape. To mark the launch of BiGS, the School brought together senior executives in industry, academia, government, and the nonprofit sector for a day of discussion around current practices, challenges, opportunities, and... View Details
- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?
in any organization is a difficult task fraught with controversy and organizational politics. Yet, it is also one in which organizations must routinely engage to maintain a competitive edge and maximize View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
environmental needs and its core competencies and institutional capacity. Using a "three theatre" CSR framework, the paper demonstrates why the question for corporations is not whether to engage in CSR, but why they need to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel