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The Role of Leaders - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Strategy Strategy Strategy Explained Business Strategy Creating a Successful Strategy Corporate Strategy The Role of Leaders Related Topics The Role of Leaders The Role... View Details
  • 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
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Current research

Professor Pomeranz's research is situated at the intersection of development economics and public finance. Her current work focuses in particular on corporate taxation and public procurement, the two key ways in which government finance affects firms and entrepreneurs.... View Details
  • 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.)
  • 16 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

Editor's note: Even with recent disclosures about out-of-control spending on corporate perks and government agency parties, the US military is frequently held up as the exemplar of organizational largesse... View Details
Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.)
  • 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

    Mihir A. Desai

    Mihir A. Desai is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He received his Ph.D. in political economy from Harvard... View Details

    • 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)
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    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.)
    • 27 May 2022
    • Blog Post

    Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023

    The Armed Forces Alumni Association (AFAA) is a student-led club on campus for service members and veterans from all military branches and nations. The AFAA mission is to help talented veterans transition out of the military to Harvard... View Details
    • 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
    • 12 Jan 2016
    • News

    Opinion: It’s safe to eat Chipotle burritos — and buy some stock

    • 29 Jun 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Trade Credit and Taxes

    Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley & James R. Hines
    • 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.
    • 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
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