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  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

Strange Bedfellows

Since when do the taxman and the shareholder agree? IRS Commissioner Mark Everson and SEC Chairman Christopher Cox (MBA 1976) have advanced a simple, but controversial proposal. Companies would be required to disclose how much they pay in... View Details
Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Government
  • 24 Aug 2017
  • News

Jeffrey Immelt: How I Remade GE

“For the past 16 years GE has been undergoing the most consequential makeover in its history,” departing CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) writes in Harvard Business Review. “We were a classic conglomerate. Now people are calling us a 125-year-old start-up—we’re a digital... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

Faculty Books

Lecturer Robert Pozen and his coauthor detail how mutual funds are marketed, regulated, and invested in stocks and bonds. They describe the critical factors needed to choose a specific fund, including what to look for when reading prospectuses, View Details
Keywords: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 16 Sep 2010
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Idea Takes Root

wire. The IIRC deserves better, and here’s why. As Eccles states in his blog, reporting both financial performance and performance in the areas of environmental sustainability, social responsibility, and governance in an integrated fashion has enormous benefits for... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Corporate Services
  • 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
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Hope for Reform Dims

felt like a scapegoat, Thain took the high road. “I still think the acquisition will be a good deal for Bank of America. It’s unfortunate how it was all handled.” On the day Thain spoke at HBS, Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis unexpectedly announced his retirement,... View Details
Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 01 Aug 2001
  • News

T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)

globalization, and a devotion to creating value for stockholders, he eschewed elements of conventional corporate thinking and job security. "If you create an atmosphere of trust that starts with shareholders and goes all the way through... View Details
Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Management
  • 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 Mar 2008
  • News

Lessons from Private Equity

GADIESH: To reap private equity returns, act more like a private equity manager COURTESY OF BAIN & CO A recent Harvard Business Review article headlined “If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business” gave many leaders of public companies a thoughtful pause: Why can’t we... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management
  • 17 Apr 2017
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Jeff Immelt Wants a Radical Transformation of GE

Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) wants to change just about everything at GE, from its image as a slow-moving corporate behemoth, to the focus of its core businesses, to the location of its corporate offices. In May, the company that made the first lightbulb, as well as... View Details
Keywords: Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 01 Apr 2002
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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 Apr 2001
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William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency

run, while still allowing each of the customers some choice in fabric type, color, and logo embroidery. This capability has opened a new, fast-growing market segment for Li & Fung. Innovation in management is something that company View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade
  • 01 Jun 2001
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HBS Press Books in Brief

professionals, and senior executives to make better decisions, generate higher profits, and increase shareholder wealth. To order HBS Press books, call 800-545-7685 or visit www.hbsp.harvard.edu. Other books by HBS authors are available... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 09 Dec 2021
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Higher Returns

hit me like a ton of bricks. It was a headline in the New York Times that said "Shareholder value was no longer everything, top CEOs say." That was the headline. It was 8/19/19. I refer to that day in the book as the day the shareholders... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2012
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Hierarchy's Last Stand

underperform and be overcompensated. A caricature, but sadly still true: consider the enormous pay packages for CEOs in companies that lose money. Shareholder protests (such as those in the United Kingdom), voting against compensation... View Details
Keywords: Rosabeth Moss Kanter; Corporate Services
  • 01 Jun 2008
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Kash Rangan

CSR often cite Milton Friedman, who famously said that “the social responsibility of business is to increase profits.” Do you agree? I absolutely think it’s too narrow a view. In the decade of the ’90s, maximizing shareholder value became... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 01 Sep 2012
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Supporting our Exceptional Faculty

increasing shareholder value. When the alumni invest in our faculty — by funding professorships or supporting the activities of the Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning, for example — they are supporting present needs while also... View Details
Keywords: David E. Bell; professorships; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Savings and Loam

working-class people to earn interest on their savings, and become part owners in the process. “This is a model that was designed for stakeholder value, although people didn’t call it that 200 years ago,” Cummings notes. But there’s new resonance in the modern era, “at... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 01 Jan 2011
  • News

Peter Harf, MBA 1974

detergent part of Benckiser public. Subsequently, in 1999, this company merged with Reckitt & Colman, forming Reckitt Benckiser. The new firm thrived, reaching a total shareholder return of 16.5 percent per year over a period of 10 years.... View Details
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