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  • 27 Apr 2020
  • News

Three Things Lockdowns Have Exposed About Working and Parenting

  • March 2000 (Revised May 2001)
  • Case

Silicon Valley Bank

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
Silicon Valley Bank, a $4 billion institution in California, has made its reputation by working with venture capitalists in backing start-up companies. In 1999, it is forced to compete with nonbank financial institutions that can give money on better terms and in a... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Business Startups; Competitive Strategy; Financial Institutions; Financing and Loans; Financial Markets; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Entrepreneurship; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; California
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  • News

Airbnb Isn’t Really Confronting Its Racism Problem

  • 22 Dec 2015
  • Blog Post

HBS Takes Business Education Online

Last year, HBS replaced its previous week-long residential pre-MBA program, Analytics, with HBX’s Credential of Readiness (CORe) program, an online primer on the fundamentals of business that is open to learners around the world.  While... View Details
  • 29 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?

entrepreneurs can achieve both—the Larry Ellisons of the business world are few and far between. In fact, there is a fundamental tension between the money side and the control side—getting rich often means selling control to investors;... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services
  • 25 Nov 2010
  • News

US businesses urge Irish to keep low tax

  • June 1985 (Revised December 2002)
  • Background Note

Basic Ratio Analysis and Equity Valuation

By: David F. Hawkins
Describes the use of common financial ratios to analyze a firm's performance and financial condition. Discusses fundamentals of equity valuation. Based on an earlier note by the same author. View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Financial Condition; Equity
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  • 13 Oct 2016
  • News

Facts show US economic performance weak

  • 27 Jul 2006
  • News

India, China Two Contrarian Forces

  • 29 Apr 2013
  • News

The fragrance series – Part 3

  • 06 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray

What if a bedrock method that investors have relied on for decades to find cheap-but-promising stocks to buy low and sell high no longer works well? The book-to-market ratio has been used since at least the Great Depression to identify undervalued stocks. But it has... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • October 1987
  • Case

Philips Group--1987, The

By: Francis Aguilar and Michael Y. Yoshino
Discusses how Philips, a major Dutch-based multinational company, attempts to bring about a fundamental change in its strategy, organization, and culture in response to a rapidly changing market and competitive environment. View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Corporate Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Markets; Change Management; Netherlands
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  • 22 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

he's done so, Silk has charted fundamental changes in the advertising business—some of them well known, others that address long-standing puzzles or that challenge conventional wisdom. In a trio of papers, Silk has laid out his research... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising
  • 2014
  • Other Teaching and Training Material

Strategy Reading: Introduction to Strategy

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
"Introduction to Strategy" provides a comprehensive overview of the strategy discipline and introduces the building blocks of strategy by providing overviews of fundamental conceptual frameworks. Students will learn how firms decide where to compete by exploring the... View Details
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  • November 7, 2019
  • Article

WeWork’s Saga Is a Cautionary Tale about Golden Parachutes and CEO Pay

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
While the WeWork saga has dealt another blow to already-low public confidence in business, it should also strengthen cries for fundamental changes to a system that offers supersized compensation for undersized performance. View Details
Keywords: Executive Compensation; Change; Compensation and Benefits; Corporate Accountability; Initial Public Offering
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  • News

WeWork's saga is a cautionary tale about golden parachutes and CEO pay

    Keshub Mahindra

    Keywords: Diversified
    • 06 Jul – 31 Aug 2017
    • HBS Online

    HBX CORe

    CORe (Credential of Readiness) is HBX's primer on the fundamentals of business thinking - a three-course online program covering Business Analytics, Economics for Managers, and Financial Accounting. Target audience: Individuals without a post-graduate degree in... View Details
    • December 2004
    • Article

    Market Valuation and Merger Waves

    By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and S. Viswanathan
    Does valuation affect mergers? Data suggest that periods of stock merger activity are correlated with high market valuations. The naïve explanation that overvalued bidders wish to use stock is incomplete because targets should not be eager to accept stock. However, we... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Market Transactions; Value; Cash; Stocks; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Bids and Bidding; Market Design; Stock Shares; Accounting Audits; Performance Evaluation
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    • 06 Jan 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem

    It is fascinating to observe pundit after pundit come down strongly on the side of expensing stock options in the reported financial statements, as if that were the silver bullet for combating corporate malfeasance and resolving all our accounting problems. But the... View Details
    Keywords: by William Sahlman