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- December 2004 (Revised October 2017)
- Background Note
Subscriber Models
By: Mihir Desai, Robin Greenwood, Scott Mayfield and Lucy White
Introduces the subscriber model as an alternative valuation framework for firms whose revenues can be traced to repeated transactions with customers. View Details
Desai, Mihir, Robin Greenwood, Scott Mayfield, and Lucy White. "Subscriber Models." Harvard Business School Background Note 205-061, December 2004. (Revised October 2017.)
- January 2019
- Supplement
The De Beers Group: Launching GemFair for Artisanal Diamonds
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
In April 2018, the De Beers Group launched a pilot project called GemFair to create a new supply of ethically and environmentally sourced diamonds from artisanal and small-scale mines (ASM) in Sierra Leone. Whether this project would yield a meaningful supply of rough... View Details
Keywords: Diamonds; New Business; Strategy Development; Strategy Execution; Scope; ESG; Supply; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Value Creation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mining Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Sierra Leone; United Kingdom
Esty, Benjamin C., and Daniel Fisher. "The De Beers Group: Launching GemFair for Artisanal Diamonds." Harvard Business School Supplement 719-437, January 2019.
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
women from advancing and make their work lives uncomfortable. In my experience, Damore’s assertions don’t match the reality in today’s corporate environment. Having worked with female CEOs under enormous pressure, such as General Motors’... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
analysis applied to news coverage of corporate responses to the pandemic between late February and late March, when public markets were declining 30 percent or more before eventually recovering much of their View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
investors identify value stocks,” Wang says. Why the metric isn’t working One reason the metric became less reliable over time? The transition to a knowledge-based economy, the researchers say. Corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
boardrooms to be corporate statespeople,” he commented. Investors may or may not be enthusiastic about CEO activism. (In Merck’s case, it doesn’t seem to have affected its stock value much. However, the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
orders to our community partners, benefiting some 1,000 poor families. Zobel de Ayala How have you incorporated corporate social responsibility (CSR) into the company’s mission? CSR has always been at the heart of Manila Water’s business... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
and his team—which included Kristy Cunningham—to get to the heart of what exactly had happened to the 62-year-old icon. The redesign is part of an initiative by McDonald’s corporate to modernize the customer experience, which began in the... View Details
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
with HBS Working Knowledge editor, Sean Silverthorne, Porter discusses the importance of cluster research and the value of the CMP. Silverthorne: How can data from the Cluster Mapping Project help View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
excessive influence (by any stakeholder) Scott believed that the role of government was to establish reasonable rules and to enforce them.” Nongovernmental organizations bear some responsibility, too. As Jim W pointed out: “Delaware’s narrow charter that View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- October 2020
- Supplement
TowerBrook: ESG in Action (B)
By: Victoria Ivashina, Brian Trelstad and Meaghan Conway
This case is the second of a two-part series that follows Ramez Sousou and his team at TowerBrook Capital Partners as they face a challenging investment decision in February of 2013. It is intended to be distributed at the end of the discussion of “TowerBrook: ESG in... View Details
Ivashina, Victoria, Brian Trelstad, and Meaghan Conway. "TowerBrook: ESG in Action (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 221-046, October 2020.
- 12 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist
the long-term investments required to create sustainable shareholder value. Corporate leaders would be well advised to follow Fink’s thoughtful counsel. He isn’t just speaking for BlackRock but for all the long-term investors who depend... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
to appeal to young would-be smokers. But corporate distrust runs so deep for some consumers that constructive dialogue is virtually impossible; consider vaccination skeptics who criticize Big Pharma’s influence, despite considerable... View Details
- August 2024
- Technical Note
Measuring Concentrated Ownership
By: Christina R. Wing, Everett Alexander and Justin Huang
Firms with strong governance practices exhibit lower control premiums due to reduced risks and more efficient operations. Conversely, poorly governed firms may exhibit higher control premiums as new owners anticipate the need for substantial governance improvements.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Our Students for a Changing World
Smith Professor of Corporate Finance. “Cross-cultural communication is, at its core, about empathy. Each time you interact professionally in a different environment, you enhance your ability to stand in another person’s shoes and consider... View Details
- Web
Investment Strategies - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Investment Strategies Course Number 1425 Senior Lecturer William Vrattos Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits 13 Sessions Exam Career Focus Global capital markets are vast and dynamic, with over $100 trillion in listed public equities and more than $300 trillion... View Details
- April 2016 (Revised June 2017)
- Teaching Note
Dollar General Bids for Family Dollar
By: Jonas Heese, Paula A. Price and Suraj Srinivasan
In spring 2015, Dollar General CEO Rick Dreiling was looking ahead to retiring at year's end but worried about ensuring continued growth for the company he had built since 2008 into a market leader in the U.S. discount retail world. Dollar General operated over 11,500... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
and CEO Dan Schulman was especially vocal: “This decision reflects PayPal’s deepest values and our strong belief that every person has the right to be treated equally, and with dignity and respect,” he wrote in a statement. As the outcry... View Details