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  • September 2006 (Revised February 2007)
  • Case

Timing of Option Grants at UnitedHealth Group (A)

Faced with press allegations that executives' stock options might have been backdated, the Board of UnitedHealth Group needs to determine whether its accounting for the options was proper, and if not, what the restatement amount should be and what... View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Ethics; Stock Options; Accounting; Crisis Management; Corporate Governance; Insurance Industry; Health Industry; United States
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  • June 2010
  • Case

Cypress Sharpridge: Raising Capital in a Time of Crisis

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Adam Benjamin Nebesar
Cypress Sharpridge, a REIT investing in agency securities, launched its IPO just before the collapse of the subprime mortgage market. The IPO failed. In June 2009, an IPO window seemed to be opening. Should the company try again? CEO Kevin Grant knew that his company's... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Capital; Financial Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Investment; Leadership; Crisis Management; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry
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  • December 2019 (Revised June 2024)
  • Case

The Dutch East India Company in 1612 (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci
The Dutch East India Company’s board of directors must decide what to do about an impending legal requirement to liquidate the company’s assets and return to shareholders their capital and any profits earned during a ten-year lock-up period. The charter granted to the... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Laws and Statutes; Financial Markets; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Business History; Shipping Industry; Netherlands
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  • 01 Mar 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?

(iStockphoto/Sanja Radin) Increasingly, I hear and read about questions such as: Why are my best tech people leaving our great company to work on something called crypto and Web3? What are the strategic implications for my organization of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 29 Mar 2022
  • Book

5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

How do companies survive not just for years, but for decades? For centuries even? During a global pandemic, researchers are studying anew what makes companies resilient, agile, and enduring. After all,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2023
  • Book

Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them

good companies commit criminal violations. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. “Executives at large companies often have limited knowledge of the risk that their View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 10 Jan 2023
  • Op-Ed

Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage

physically and emotionally, about these events? How did they motivate you going forward? What are 1-2 lowlights from your experience? It could be that one time you really thought the company was dead or when... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 18 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

ultimately harm shareholders, and the role boards of directors play in making sure their companies stay within the rules. Ann Cullen: How has the way corporations view taxation changed? Mihir A. Desai: There is growing evidence that the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • October 2022
  • Supplement

The SAH Group: The Time is Right, Instructor Spreadsheet

By: Juan Alcacer and Alpana Thapar
In January 2021, Jalila Mezni, CEO of the SAH Group, was preparing to present the company’s future growth plans to its board of directors. The Tunisian company was a leading producer and distributor of personal care and packaged hygiene products. In 2019, it expanded... View Details
Keywords: Growth Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Investment Decisions; Growth Management; Vertical Integration; Distribution; Competition; Strategy; Supply Chain; Presentations; Product Positioning; Market Entry and Exit; Consumer Products Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Health Industry; Tunisia
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  • 2019
  • Article

Time Series Experiments and Causal Estimands: Exact Randomization Tests and Trading

By: Iavor I Bojinov and Neil Shephard
We define causal estimands for experiments on single time series, extending the potential outcome framework to dealing with temporal data. Our approach allows the estimation of a broad class of these estimands and exact randomization based p-values for testing causal... View Details
Keywords: Causality; Nonparametric; Potential Outcomes; Trading Costs; Mathematical Methods
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  • 16 Aug 2022
  • Op-Ed

Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense

teams, customer bases, and platforms. "There is a ton of money out there looking for great companies to invest in." One of my portfolio companies has executed three acquisitions in the last six months at... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
  • 18 Dec 2019
  • Book

6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

As a boy, Soichiro Honda, the eventual founder of Honda Motor Co., was infatuated with airplanes. At age 10 he biked 20 kilometers to see American pilots performing aerobatics near his home in Japan, climbing a tree to watch the show. It would take about 70 more years,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • September 19, 2017
  • Article

After Equifax Breach, Companies Advised to Review Open-Source Software Code

By: Ben DiPietro and Lou Shipley
It doesn’t make much sense: At a time when high-powered automated trading systems can execute stock sales in real time, some companies that rely on open-source software to help to run their businesses track their open-source use on spread sheets on paper.
Lou... View Details
Keywords: Software; Open-source; Security Vulnerabilities; Data Privacy; Hack; Applications and Software; Safety; Cybersecurity
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  • 20 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

requires much careful thinking and management initiative. Q: Do you see the current trend of intense customer focus continuing? Shapiro: We believe that an increasing focus on customers is absolutely critical for companies to survive and... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
  • 03 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 19 Sep 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

Family Associate Professor at Harvard Business School. “There are many benefits to the individual and the company from embracing work-from-anywhere,” Choudhury says. “But there are also challenges—and one of those is that when people are... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 14 Jun 2023
  • Op-Ed

Every Company Should Have These Leaders—or Develop Them if They Don't

in the same company, or even in the same industry, so companies are often looking externally for leaders, a difficult and costly endeavor. If employees see developmental pipelines that lead to BTL- and LTL-focused roles they might be more... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson
  • 13 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw

highlights one simple change companies could make: updating software sooner after improved versions hit the market. The research finds that some 60 percent of US organizations continued to use a popular web-server software with known... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Information Technology; Computer; Web Services
  • 09 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements

Fox News has influenced how companies disclose financial news. Legal analyst Gregg Jarrett on the set in 2016. Source: Wikipedia Commons, CC 3.0) The United States presidential election of 2000 took place in a simpler time. The internet... View Details
Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting
  • 15 Feb 2022
  • Book

When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

terrified that even that was starting to slip.” Her relationships are unsatisfactory and she drinks too much—but she can’t see another way. “Maybe I would prefer to be special rather than happy” she explains. “Anyone can do the things it takes to be happy—go on... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman

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