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- 01 Mar 2004
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Reforming Company Boards
structuring and M&A transactions, it was obvious that the focus was not on building shareholder value but on reporting predictable, double-digit earnings growth to achieve temporarily high stock market valuations. The truth has been... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Fixer Upper
almost two decades in marketing at Chemical Bank, before quitting to try her hand at real estate in 1987. Then came that year’s stock market crash, which precipitated a six-year tumble in housing prices as... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 10 Apr 2019
- News
Rakuten’s Mikitani Bets $5.5 Billion To Shake Up Japan’s Telecom Industry
much leaner than our competitors, and we can enrich the service using the existing Rakuten ecosystem. And I don’t think people really care whether it’s NTT, SoftBank or Rakuten that much. It’s primarily about connectivity, speed, price... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
A Case for Coffee
Specialty Coffee Industry,” coauthored by HBS assistant professor Peter Hecht. Tanzania has the climate and altitude to produce specialty coffee that commands premium prices in the world market. Yet, income from coffee exports has... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Feedback
—Barbara Thornton (MBA 1995) Practicing PWYW Re: The Price Is Right As part of my financial services, I help retirees identify and implement their optimum Social Security claiming strategy. Pricing this... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
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Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea
MBA students interview consumers in Seoul, Korea, to help inform the marketing strategies they developed for Orion Snack International. The project was the culmination of a required first-year course designed to develop students’ global... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
ago, to research the “new, but untested, financial system,” unregulated as all get-out, filled with “trust me” and “I don’t really understand the math.” Light and his experts seem to understand it now. What new information did they get... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
Learning by Doing: Stock Pitching When it comes to getting an edge in a stock trade, HBS finance professors Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy urge students to go straight to the source. “We encourage them... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
Illustration by Istvan Banyai Since 2006, Gazelle has offered consumers an answer to the question of what to do with their old electronic devices when they upgrade: Sell them to us. Customers can go to Gazelle's website; get a price for... View Details
Keywords: ecommerce; Kathy Korman Frey; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
he explains. In a record six weeks, Robinson was promoted to controller for Citicorp's Global Consumer Businesses, becoming responsible for seven hundred employees worldwide. In 1994 he joined ADVO, Inc., the largest direct-marketing company in the United States, where... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
was aligned with the interests of shareholders. If the company’s stock did well, executive pay would rise in concert. Thus was born the idea that CEOs should serve to maximize shareholder value, the mantra that has defined the business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
into public stock offerings capitalizing on the boom, only to experience financial heartache when the bubble burst. Sound like the Internet revolution of the 1990s? Try the radio revolution of the 1920s. In a presentation to alumni at a... View Details
- 27 Nov 2013
- News
No Bologna, Please
into Panera," he told the HBS Alumni Bulletin in 2004. "As we went through a year-and-a-half of divestitures, our stock sank to a split-adjusted $3 a share. Those were not happy times." Today, Panera's share View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
Wall Street has left the caffeinated powerhouse virtually untouched. The price of Starbucks stock has climbed steadily over the past ten years, gaining approximately 2,200 percent on the ten-year anniversary... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
Alumni Books Coffee Can Investing: A Better Idea Than Mutual Funds in an IRA or 401(k) by Terry Allen (MBA 1963) Fuller Mountain Press This book describes exactly what to do to maximize returns for those who want to bet on the stock... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
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Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
that will make anonymity an afterthought. I think the Bitcoin public ledger will eventually hold so much valuable information that some very interesting analytics companies are going to emerge to make sense of the data. Has there ever... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
anger, and shifting ideologies. Then, in 1982, the bull market in stocks began. It changed the way companies were managed. CEOs focused on getting the stock price up. There was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
under the bridge — ancient history, like the history of imperial China. Markets have short memories. Many young traders today did not even experience the Asian crisis of 1997–1998. Those who went into finance after 2000 lived through seven heady years. View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India is more Transparent
First, as a result of a legal system derived from the common-law tradition, annual reports provide the basic rudiments of information that Western observers expect, and familiar rules govern corporate disclosure. Real-time View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
director of the Brady Commission, a task force created to examine ways to avoid another stock market crash like Black Monday on October 24. “It was hard not to say yes,” he recalls. After the commission completed its report, Glauber... View Details