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  • 15 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

Teradyne and HP forced their organizations to focus on these new technologies. The CEOs of both companies got involved, creating separate, financially autonomous divisions for the projects to ensure that the technological breakthroughs... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology
  • 06 Jun 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly

Keywords: by Malcolm Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler; Banking; Financial Services
  • 03 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

corporate profits attributable to foreign operations has escalated from 5 percent in the 1960s to 30 percent today. Second, multinational firms, once characterized as a web of autonomous subsidiaries serving... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 2010
  • Chapter

The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability

By: Alnoor Ebrahim
Calls for greater accountability are not new. Leaders of organizations, be they nonprofit, business, or government, face a constant stream of demands from various constituents demanding accountable behavior. But what does it mean to be accountable? By and large,... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Corporate Accountability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Taxation; Leadership; Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Behavior; Trust
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Ebrahim, Alnoor. "The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability." Chap. 4 in The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management. 3rd ed. Edited by David O. Renz, 110–121. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010.
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

markets, trade tariffs, and taxation virtually overnight in 1991, sending shock waves throughout its economy. For YPF, at the time heavily diversified in cinemas, airlines, hotels, and restaurants in addition to energy, the first order... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
  • November 1994 (Revised March 1995)
  • Background Note

Capital Projects as Real Options: An Introduction

By: Timothy A. Luehrman
Introduces a framework for evaluating corporate investment projects as call options. Presumes readers are familiar with basic option pricing and basic capital budgeting rules. Explains the motivation for viewing projects as options; presents a mapping between a capital... View Details
Keywords: Financial Instruments; Capital Budgeting; Corporate Finance
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Luehrman, Timothy A. "Capital Projects as Real Options: An Introduction." Harvard Business School Background Note 295-074, November 1994. (Revised March 1995.)
  • 21 Nov 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms

leading any other kind of institution," says Groysberg. "If you become a leader in a manufacturing company, for example, all you're basically going to have to do is manage. When you become a leader... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • December 2004 (Revised April 2006)
  • Case

Nestle and Alcon--The Value of a Listing

By: Mihir A. Desai, Vincent Dessain and Anders Sjoman
In response to a perceived undervaluation by the capital markets, Nestle is considering divesting a part of its ophthalmology subsidiary, Alcon, and must decide on a listing location. In the process, students are challenged to wrestle with the valuation of a... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; International Finance; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Markets; Taxation; Business Subsidiaries; Valuation; Food and Beverage Industry; Health Industry; Europe; United States
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Desai, Mihir A., Vincent Dessain, and Anders Sjoman. "Nestle and Alcon--The Value of a Listing." Harvard Business School Case 205-056, December 2004. (Revised April 2006.)
  • 24 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

Moyo,International Finance Corporation Yet over the course of the hour-and-a-half long panel session, the conversation kept circling back to the question of true ownership: Who... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

about the move of the core companies into the client server (RISC chips and UNIX operating systems) technology that permitted them to mount a major challenge to the United States in the early 1990s, when the marriage View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products
  • 02 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy

Business incubators are a booming industry. Offering office space, funding, and basic services to start-ups, these organizations have become the hottest way to nurture and grow fledgling businesses. But are incubators a fleeting... View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Henry W. Chesbrough, Nitin Nohria & Donald N. Sull
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act

By: Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley and Kristin J. Forbes
This paper analyzes the impact on firm behavior of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings by U.S. multinationals. The analysis controls for endogeneity and omitted variable bias by using... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Government Legislation; Taxation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Behavior; United States
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Dharmapala, Dhammika, C. Fritz Foley, and Kristin J. Forbes. "Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 15023, June 2009.
  • December 1998 (Revised November 2005)
  • Background Note

Contribution to Capital

By: Henry B. Reiling and Mark Pollard
Distinguishes and explains the basic rules associated with two types of contributions to capital: (1) transfers of property by a government to a company to entice it to take some action such as relocate a plant, and (2) transfers of property to a corporation by... View Details
Keywords: Capital; Property; Taxation; Public Administration Industry; United States
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Reiling, Henry B., and Mark Pollard. "Contribution to Capital." Harvard Business School Background Note 299-040, December 1998. (Revised November 2005.)
  • August 2007 (Revised January 2009)
  • Exercise

Real Options Exercises

By: Timothy A. Luehrman
Introduces students to simple forms and solution techniques for real options found in corporate settings. Revised versions of problems appearing in an older problem set (293-095). The basic differences are that the new set is shorter, but also a bit more demanding. View Details
Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Valuation
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Luehrman, Timothy A. "Real Options Exercises." Harvard Business School Exercise 208-045, August 2007. (Revised January 2009.)
  • October 1976 (Revised June 2008)
  • Case

Chemalite, Inc.

A chemical engineer who has set up a company to manufacture and market one of his inventions is trying to prepare his state of the corporation report. This case is designed to serve as a vehicle to introduce students to basic bookkeeping and accounting functions. View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Business Startups; Valuation; Chemical Industry
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Wilson, David A. "Chemalite, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 177-078, October 1976. (Revised June 2008.)
  • 24 Nov 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

you need to think critically about what you are doing every 100 years or so, whether you need to or not," Dean Jay Light wryly observed in opening remarks to an unprecedented campus gathering last March of business school deans,... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education
  • 31 Aug 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

performance, according to the researchers. Differentiating between diversity and inclusion I differentiate between diversity and inclusion by thinking of progress in diversity as depending primarily on successful recruiting View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

which makes the policies themselves a whole lot easier to figure out. This is basically what I've tried to do in my book. Q: You point out that American risk management policy has passed through three phases. Can you give the major... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
  • August 1996 (Revised January 1999)
  • Background Note

Achieving and Sustaining Superior Profits

A basic premise of strategy is that superior profits occur when a corporation secures favorable positions in attractive industries, and pursues economies of scope across business units. This note draws on research that documents the importance of industry, positioning,... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Profit
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McGahan, Anita M. "Achieving and Sustaining Superior Profits." Harvard Business School Background Note 797-039, August 1996. (Revised January 1999.)
  • March 1994 (Revised June 1999)
  • Background Note

Real Options: Valuing Managerial Flexibility

Provides a basic understanding of real options in corporate finance. Traditional discounted cash flow techniques (NPV) do not deal well with managerial flexibility or future response to uncertainty. The value of this flexibility can be significant and is handled well... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Capital Budgeting; Corporate Finance
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Edleson, Michael E. "Real Options: Valuing Managerial Flexibility." Harvard Business School Background Note 294-109, March 1994. (Revised June 1999.)
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