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  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

Ideas: Books

plantations to local growers, transforming itself into a marketing company. The firm’s shareholders opted for lower risks but also lower profits. Multinationals and Global Capitalism by Geoffrey Jones (Oxford University Press) Professor... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

Negative Ad Power

increase sales and shareholder value. Coke and Pepsi both want to increase the amount of carbonated soft drinks that we consume. If Pepsi and Coke go after each other in advertising, they will turn off consumers and reduce demand for both... View Details
Keywords: John A. Quelch;Katherine E. Jocz; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

Siebel Addresses HBS Northern California Club

large part to its founder's emphasis on customer relations over shareholder value. Today, Siebel has over eight thousand employees in more than 34 countries. Fortune magazine ranked the company second in its 2001 listing of the "100... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2003
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Bottom-Line Discrepancies

Desai, who is studying the gap between book income — what companies report to shareholders — and tax income — what companies report to the IRS. In a paper titled “The Divergence between Book and Tax Income” published in the forthcoming... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Sep 2009
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Executive Pay: Onward & Upward

departing executives soon become common practice. 1990 To better align executive pay with shareholder returns, academics — led by HBS professor Michael Jensen — and activists urge greater use of stock options. During the bull market years... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 19 Aug 2013
  • News

Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers

participants, the income earned from honey production often makes the difference between living below or above the poverty line. When not helping his fellow Kenyans boost their incomes and satisfy their palates, Keshavjee also makes sure they look sharp: He is the... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Management
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

KPMG for Mayor!

or nonprofit must demonstrate to its shareholders or donors that it can perform efficiently. To state the obvious, companies must make money. How could running a local government be a profitable enterprise? In a word: taxes. Voters in... View Details
Keywords: Eric Werker; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

A lifetime investment in the entrepreneurial spirit

to entrepreneurs ‘We've been where you're going,’ and really mean it.” Bowes was also the founding shareholder of Amgen and its first chairman and treasurer. Prior to founding USVP, he had success as a venture capitalist with companies... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Books

analysis of the differing perspectives. As a result of the conference, Beer and Nohria have mapped out two dominant and conflicting archetypal theories of change. Theory E is based on the creation of economic value, often expressed as View Details
Keywords: Rogelio Fussa; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Sep 2005
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Predictable Surprises

CEOs several decades ago. The airline’s previous generation of leaders settled tough union negotiations, made agreements that allowed them to operate profitably and look good in the short term, and dumped their pension obligations into the future. But given View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Jan 2003
  • News

James E. Burke, MBA 1949

as it overcame the Tylenol tragedy to take its place as the country's dominant brand in health-care products. "A company credo that put customers first and shareholders last ultimately benefited both groups," he says. Jim Burke was among... View Details
  • 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
  • 01 Jun 2017
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The Exchange: Venture Forth

illustration by Peter Arkle When Professor Paul Gompers began studying the venture capital industry in the late 1980s, colleagues often wondered why. “They’d say that it’s such a backwater and unimportant industry,” he recalls. With more than $127 billion invested... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Sep 2012
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What’s the Big Idea?

and governance dimensions. Critics of the One Report concept maintain that it destroys shareholder value by diverting attention from short-term profit maximization. But Eccles and two colleagues found just the opposite. In a recent paper... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management
  • 01 Mar 2007
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Letters to the Editor

small group of private-equity investors, then there would have been few employee shareholders or any kind of shareholders at risk. Yes, the board failed all Enron stakeholders. Many of the private-equity... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1998
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Short Takes

stock-price measure known as Tobin's Q , Kang found that three types of shareholders owning large blocks of a company's stock had a positive impact on the firm's performance: outside-director owners (shareholders who serve on the... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 25 Aug 2014
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Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987

moments when I am a good leader and there are moments when I am not,” he admits. Having devoted his entire career to Corning—both the company and the small town where it sits on the Chemung River—Weeks’s success is hard to miss, whether measured in employee... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Dec 2013
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Case Study: Citizen Buffett

trigger a crippling default on an amended loan agreement, Morton has to take a hard look at the numbers, industry trends, strategy considerations, shareholder interests, and several other financing options and come up with a plan to save... View Details
Keywords: Blagg, Deborah; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Oct 2001
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HBS Press Books in Brief

expectations embedded in a company's stock price. Providing a fundamentally new way to evaluate all stocks, Expectations Investing will set investors on the path to success. Managers can also use the book to devise, adjust, and communicate their company's strategy in... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management; Finance
  • 28 Dec 2016
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In Memoriam: Bill Bowes (MBA 1952)

Legendary venture capitalist and philanthropist Bill Bowes (MBA 1952) passed away on December 28. Bowes founded San Francisco’s US Venture Partners in 1981 and helped shape some of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies, including Sun Microsystems and Amgen, where he was... View Details
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