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  • 29 Aug 2017
  • Blog Post

3 Insights from My First Year at HBS

tensions between optimizing shareholder value and the taking into account the wellbeing of employees and society. I struggle on a daily basis to think of how I can optimize my HBS experience and resources, not just for personal gain, but... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)

community. Our second-largest shareholder was so enamored by this that he wanted me to advertise it. I absolutely refused. I always followed the theory that if someone else toots your horn, the noise travels twice as far. Grand Bank was... View Details
Keywords: Finance
  • 09 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

Easterbrook forfeited cash and stock worth $105 million. Shareholders sued the board for breach of its fiduciary duties, including its oversight duty, but the Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed the suit, saying the board acted... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage
  • 11 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

done better in the last six months to a year," one director said. "What did we miss? I think it's always great to have time to reflect backward about what we learned about what we've just been through, or what we're going through, and how we could have served the View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

upcoming 2009 annual meeting. The Shell remuneration committee wonders how the shareholders will react. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409126 Executive Remuneration at Royal Dutch Shell (B)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Fast Answer

Turnarounds and Transformation

Company's Largest Shareholder and Chairman, Scott Ross, Has Turned Things Around -- Sometimes Using a Blunt Approach, Wall Street Journal, 28 May 2022 SEAS: A Turnaround That's Still Enticing: Launch at BUY, $92... View Details
  • Web

Digital Archival Resources - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS Polaroid Corporation Annual Reports, 1937-1952 Annual reports typically include a letter to shareholders written by Edwin... View Details
  • Web

Field Course: Managing Family Wealth: A FIELD Immersion - Course Catalog

the nature of the project, focused on existing or frontier-exploratory solutions. Examples might include: Outlining shareholder division in a succession plan, forming a philanthropic strategy, or exploring investment into crypto-assets. A... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Ink: Comfort in Discomfort

by them. Organizational leaders are also using both/and language to communicate their organizations’ goals and missions. Barclays unveiled a campaign it called AND—stressing that the 300-plus-year-old bank would only survive the next century by being relevant to View Details
  • 20 Jan 2015
  • News

Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized

they took. “Nobody had anything more sophisticated, and it seemed so primitive,” Bushkin says. “It’s the biggest opportunity I’ve ever seen to do enormous good and simultaneously create enormous shareholder value. There are damn few... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Aug 2001
  • News

T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)

globalization, and a devotion to creating value for stockholders, he eschewed elements of conventional corporate thinking and job security. "If you create an atmosphere of trust that starts with shareholders and goes all the way through... View Details
Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Management
  • December 2010
  • Article

Management and the Financial Crisis (We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us...)

By: William A. Sahlman
The financial crisis of 2008-2009 has revealed that our broad model of corporate governance is broken, independent of the shortcomings in the regulatory system. Managers and boards of directors in scores of systemically important firms failed to protect employees,... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Human Capital; Ethics; Policy; Corporate Governance; Financial Crisis; Finance; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • August 2019 (Revised August 2022)
  • Case

Baroo (A): Pet Concierge

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Susie L. Ma
Baroo CEO Lindsay Hyde was facing unrest from the board of her pet services startup in August 2017. One board member (and lead investor) was alarmed that Baroo’s growth was slowing while its appetite for funding was accelerating. Hyde wanted to hit the gas and continue... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Outcome or Result; Failure; Business and Shareholder Relations; Venture Capital; Governing and Advisory Boards; Opportunities; Strategy; Service Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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  • May 2011
  • Article

Consequences and Institutional Determinants of Unregulated Corporate Financial Statements: Evidence from Embedded Value Reporting

By: George Serafeim
I analyze Embedded Value (EV) reporting by firms with life insurance operations to assess the impact of unregulated financial reporting on transparency and to examine the institutional characteristics that promote unregulated reporting. Under EV accounting the present... View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Reporting; Cash Flow; Contracts; Equity; Profit; Value; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business Earnings
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  • 02 Dec 2019
  • What Do You Think?

How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?

And then—Don’t Shoot the Messenger.” Inanc Inan was prescient as he kicked off this month’s discussion by asking, “Where does the buck stop? (The) first ethical step (by Boeing’s CEO) would be to step away from the post to signal to View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation
  • 13 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

that public-firm managers will care about the stock price to the extent that analysts and their shareholders care, Farre-Mensa adds. Management compensation at public firms is often linked to the stock price of the firm; a manager may... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 28 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Manufacturing Matters

erosion of the economy, which could lead to a decline in the standard of living. An individual company, though, can move assets anywhere. So companies can reward their shareholders regardless of what happens to the national economy. As a... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing
  • 11 Jun 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives

You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 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
  • 21 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 21

Meanwhile, Allstate continued to lose market share to GEICO and Progressive as it struggled to build its direct sales business in the face of opposition from its tied-agent distribution system. During the May 2011 Annual General Meeting (AGM), 31% of View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne