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- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
social value, rather than personal or shareholder wealth. Our definition of social entrepreneurship extends beyond more narrow definitions of social entrepreneurship that simply apply business expertise and market-based skills to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
The Center runs roundtable discussions that give faculty an opportunity to meet with the business community.— Anders Sjöman Another trend, just as in the U.S., is shareholder activism and corporate governance rules, which have been made... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
in shareholder value in the last few years. This value creation is simply a by-product of figuring out what consumers really want and delivering it. Tell us about Panera. It’s real food, served by real people in an engaging environment.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
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 result, the interest of companies and the country have... View Details
- December 2019 (Revised June 2024)
- Supplement
The Dutch East India Company in 1612 (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci
The case relates the decision made in the A case and what happened in the aftermath. 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
Paine, Lynn S., and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci. "The Dutch East India Company in 1612 (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 320-048, December 2019. (Revised June 2024.)
- May 2009
- Teaching Note
Nextel Partners: Put Option (TN)
By: Timothy A. Luehrman
Teaching Note for [207-128] View Details
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
target shareholders in the form of higher deal premiums or more competing bids. Completion rates and deal jumping rates also remained unchanged. We estimate that the incidence-rate ratio of UK deals to non-UK deals after the reform was... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
its competition and into financial trouble. The case ends with a pivotal vote by shareholders on whether to sell this family company. Clarks (B) summarizes the results of the shareholders vote described in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
their own risks like the risks of not acting, of failed initiatives, or of alienating shareholders focused on short-term results? Bower and Paine: Those are very different risks. The risk of not acting when the threat is a weakened dam is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Brian Hall: Checks and Balances In the wake of these events afflicting corporate America, I find I’ m thinking harder about what I’ m teaching in terms of creating shareholder value. I’ ve always been a big proponent of the idea that... View Details
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
Business School Case 407-129 Briefly describes the trend in 2006 and 2007 in the United States to give shareholders an advisory vote on executive compensation. Highlights a few examples where shareholders... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- July 1991 (Revised June 1993)
- Background Note
Conflicting Responsibilities
Presents a framework for resolving issues in which managers' responsibilities--to shareholders, employees, other stakeholder groups, and to their own values and commitments in life--conflict with each other. The framework analyzes these issues in terms of duties,... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Employees; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Structure; Personal Development and Career; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations
Badaracco, Joseph L. "Conflicting Responsibilities." Harvard Business School Background Note 392-002, July 1991. (Revised June 1993.)
- 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
Serafeim, George. "Consequences and Institutional Determinants of Unregulated Corporate Financial Statements: Evidence from Embedded Value Reporting." Journal of Accounting Research 49, no. 2 (May 2011).
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
Costa Rica showing interest, and diverse, with corporations considering Agora to help manage shareholder and employee communications. “People want to be heard, but they have no channel,” says Sze. “We’re trying to fix democracy, one town... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
companies try to find a profit linkage, that's a hard test on CSR," Rangan says. "It might not lead to that." Instead, executives and shareholders should consider other benefits CSR can provide. For example, Bimbo Bakery not only uses... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman