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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
laws and shareholder rights — are not well established. There's much less competition, but if you are a sharp Harvard MBA who wants to launch a start-up, many of the details will be more difficult in Latin America." Alec Oxenford of... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
basis of systematic performance. Focusing on relative total shareholder returns (rTSR), the predominant metric specified in these contracts and used by market participants to evaluate managers, we document that 60% of firms—those that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
accountability reports can be used to determine whether and how those reports create or destroy value for shareholders and other constituencies. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1934322 Working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
it to shareholders, especially in the face of shareholder pressure. In the process, students are asked to undertake fundamental financial analyses, including ratio analysis, a financial forecast, and a cash distribution analysis. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12
control-ownership divergence and syndicate structure is mitigated by the lead arranger's reputation and lending relationship with the borrowing firm as well as by strong shareholder rights and good credit information sharing systems.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23
Rohm and Haas board decided how to move forward after its largest shareholder chose to sell all of its shares in the company. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411001-PDF-ENG The Dow Acquisition of Rohm and Haas (B)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
already very effective political actors to use some of that influence, not just on behalf of their own interests and their shareholders interests, but to use that influence on behalf of their employees, their communities and society as a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
making specialized hospital beds and power tools for orthopedic surgeons. It provides a case study of Elfers's dictum that the venture firm's forte should always be "strong support of portfolio companies and long-term goals of building View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
are quite different. You have to align their incentives, which means heavily weight the compensation of the management team to stock options, so that what makes them rich makes the shareholders rich. AG: The unstated supposition is that... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21
was undergoing the non-tradable share reform. Its current controlling shareholder, private equity firm Newbridge Capital LLC, needs to negotiate with its diverse minority shareholders to find a compromise on the terms of the conversion of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
serious concerns. If the program is approved by shareholders, Molly must decide whether to participate in the program and tender her underwater employee stock options. As a shareholder and an employee, Molly must assess the pros and cons... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 31, 2007
microfinance banks join forces to face the new challenges of globalization, competition, and politics while common shareholder ACCÍON investments considers its options. From an initial project to share costs in the revamping of their IT... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
business). Despite how Scott's restructuring was often portrayed in the news media, however, the treatment of the affected workers was by and large pretty humane. Moreover, Dunlap's compensation for the restructuring, while very large in dollar terms, was tiny in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
how companies create value for customers and shareholders. The BSC measures the customer value proposition, and links critical processes and intangible assets to customer and shareholder value creation. Thus, ABC provides a model of cost... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
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A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library
Photographic Process,” Journal of the Optical Society of America 37, no. 2, 1947, 61–77. The “special experiment” before SX-70 had been SX-69. back to text “Land 1966 Shareholders Meeting Dub, 1966.” (¼ Inch Open Reel Audio)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Failde (MBA 1985) and May Chao (MBA 1985) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Beliefs, Behaviors, and Results: The Chief Executive's Guide to Delivering Superior Shareholder Value by Scott Gillis (MBA 1988), Lee Mergy, and Joe... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
their businesses to shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends rather than invest for the long term, undermining job growth and putting the country’s economic future at risk, often pointing to the high ratio of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
business is to make money and maximize shareholder value. She shows that we have failed to reimagine capitalism as not only an engine of prosperity, but also a system in harmony with environmental realities, striving for social justice... View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
be best performing in terms of annual profitability; membership was considered highly prestigious. We document that index-inclusion incentives led firms to increase return on equity (ROE) proportionally by 35% on average through higher margins, efficiency, or View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016
insiders trade. We conclude managers do not fully disclose their private information and instead message to shareholders and analysts something of opposite sign. The data suggest they may be motivated in part by subsequent personal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel