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Sustainability and Integrated Reporting
A sustainable strategy for a company is one that enables it to create value for shareholders over the long term while contributing to a sustainable society. In doing so, it must balance the needs of different types of providers of financial capital (e.g.,... View Details
- April 1999
- Article
New International Accounting Standard: Recognition and Measurement of Financial Instruments
By: David F. Hawkins
Hawkins, David F. "New International Accounting Standard: Recognition and Measurement of Financial Instruments." Accounting Bulletin, no. 80 (April 1999).
- 2010
- Casebook
Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture
By: Laura Alfaro
All managers face a business environment in which international and macroeconomic phenomena matter. International capital flows can significantly affect countries' development efforts and provide clear investment opportunities for businesses. During the 1990s and early...
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Keywords:
Financial Crisis;
Capital;
International Finance;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
Business and Government Relations
Alfaro, Laura. Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2010.
- 2012
- Chapter
Capturing the Link between Non-financial and Financial Performance in One Space
By: Robert G. Eccles, Jess Schulschenk and George Serafeim
Eccles, Robert G., Jess Schulschenk, and George Serafeim. "Capturing the Link between Non-financial and Financial Performance in One Space." In Making Investment Grade: The Future of Corporate Reporting: New trends in capturing and communicating strategic value, edited by Cornis van der Lugt and Daniel Malan, 43–48. United Nations Environment Programme, 2012.
- March 2004 (Revised October 2013)
- Case
Innocents Abroad: Currencies and International Stock Returns
By: Mihir A. Desai, Kathleen Luchs, Elizabeth A. Meyer and Mark Veblen
What do international stocks contribute to the portfolio of a U.S. investor? How do currencies interact with stock price movements in determining the benefits of international diversification? This case helps students compare the risks and returns of foreign stock...
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Keywords:
Diversification;
International CAPM;
CAPM;
Home Bias;
Currency Risk;
Exchange Rate Risk;
International Stock Market Returns;
United States;
Currency Exchange Rate;
Stocks;
Financial Markets;
International Finance;
Investment Return;
Currency;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Emerging Markets;
Investment Portfolio;
Financial Services Industry;
United States;
Australia;
Canada;
China;
Germany;
India;
Japan;
United Kingdom
Desai, Mihir A., Kathleen Luchs, Elizabeth A. Meyer, and Mark Veblen. "Innocents Abroad: Currencies and International Stock Returns." Harvard Business School Case 204-141, March 2004. (Revised October 2013.)
- February 2000 (Revised January 2008)
- Case
Merrill Lynch: Integrated Choice
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
Merrill Lynch, a full-service brokerage firm with $1.5 trillion in client assets, is under attack from both discount and electronic brokerage firms. It responds with Integrated Choice, a suite of products designed to capture clients from the do-it-yourself investor who...
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Keywords:
Distribution Channels;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Launch;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Financial Services Industry
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Marie Bell. "Merrill Lynch: Integrated Choice." Harvard Business School Case 500-090, February 2000. (Revised January 2008.)
- January 1999
- Article
International Accounting Standards: New Interim Financial Reporting Standard Now Effective
By: David F. Hawkins
Hawkins, David F. "International Accounting Standards: New Interim Financial Reporting Standard Now Effective." Accounting Bulletin, no. 74 (January 1999).
- 2015
- Chapter
Corporate and Integrated Reporting: A Functional Perspective
By: Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim
In this chapter, we present the two primary functions of corporate reporting (information and transformation) and why currently isolated financial and sustainability reporting are not likely to effectively perform these functions. We describe the concept of integrated...
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Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim. "Corporate and Integrated Reporting: A Functional Perspective." In Corporate Stewardship: Achieving Sustainable Effectiveness, edited by Susan Albers Mohrman, James O'Toole, and Edward E. Lawler. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing, 2015.
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
How can managers better identify, describe, and confront the issues of environmental and social sustainability that their companies increasingly encounter? One answer is One Report, a method of integrating information about View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 2016
- Working Paper
More Effective Sports Sponsorship—Combining and Integrating Key Resources and Capabilities of International Sports Events and Their Major Sponsors
By: Ragnar Lund and Stephen A. Greyser
Organizations in the field of sports are becoming increasingly dependent on sponsors for their value creation and growth. Studies suggest that sports organizations (rights-holders) often fail to exploit the full potential of such sponsorship partnerships. The aim of...
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Keywords:
Sponsorship;
"Sports Organizations,;
Case Study;
Europe;
Business Relationships;
Collaborative Marketing;
Value Co-creation;
Relationship Portfolio Management;
Value Creation;
Cases;
Marketing;
Sports;
Sports Industry;
Europe
Lund, Ragnar, and Stephen A. Greyser. "More Effective Sports Sponsorship—Combining and Integrating Key Resources and Capabilities of International Sports Events and Their Major Sponsors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-139, June 2016.
- 1991
- Book
Banks and Money: International and Comparative Finance in History
By: G. Jones
Jones, G., ed. Banks and Money: International and Comparative Finance in History. London: Frank Cass, 1991.
- 08 May 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Corporate and Integrated Reporting: A Functional Perspective
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by Robert Eccles & George Serafeim
- November 2020
- Supplement
Integrating Beam Suntory (B)
By: David G. Fubini, Rawi Abdelal and David Lane
Supplements (A) case: The spring 2014 acquisition of U.S. alcoholic spirits maker Beam Inc. by Japan’s Suntory Holdings vaulted Suntory from 15th to third-largest international spirits company in the world. Yet Suntory had borrowed nearly the entire $16 billion...
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Keywords:
Family Business;
Communication;
Borrowing and Debt;
Globalization;
Corporate Governance;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Retention;
Leadership;
Supply Chain;
Organizational Structure;
Ownership;
Relationships;
Conflict and Resolution;
Integration;
Value Creation;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Japan;
United States;
Chicago
Fubini, David G., Rawi Abdelal, and David Lane. "Integrating Beam Suntory (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 421-004, November 2020.
- April 2011
- Module Note
Financing International Trade
By: C. Fritz Foley
This module note summarizes the key insights covered in the Financing International Trade module of the International Financial Management course. It also provides a framework that guides decisions about which financing terms should be used in which situations.
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Keywords:
Trade;
International Finance;
Decisions;
Situation or Environment;
Framework;
Globalization
Foley, C. Fritz. "Financing International Trade." Harvard Business School Module Note 211-089, April 2011.
- February 2000 (Revised October 2000)
- Case
Kendle International Inc.
By: Dwight B. Crane, Paul W. Marshall and Indra Reinbergs
Candace Kendle and Christopher Bergen, the CEO and COO of Kendle International, Inc., are reviewing ways to finance the growth of their privately-owned company. Kendle is a contract research organization that conducts clinical drug trials for pharmaceutical and...
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Keywords:
Acquisition;
Financing and Loans;
Venture Capital;
Stock Options;
Banks and Banking;
Debt Securities;
International Finance;
Financial Strategy;
Management Skills;
Private Ownership;
Initial Public Offering;
Biotechnology Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Crane, Dwight B., Paul W. Marshall, and Indra Reinbergs. "Kendle International Inc." Harvard Business School Case 200-033, February 2000. (Revised October 2000.)
- January 1998
- Article
Risk Management, Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure Policy for Financial Institutions: An Integrated Approach
By: K. A. Froot and J. Stein
Keywords:
Catastrophe Risk;
Corporate Finance;
Cost Of Capital;
Banking And Insurance;
Asset Pricing;
Hedging;
Banking;
Decision Choice And Uncertainty;
Financial Markets;
Insurance;
Policy;
Risk Management;
Natural Disasters;
Insurance Industry
Froot, K. A., and J. Stein. "Risk Management, Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure Policy for Financial Institutions: An Integrated Approach." Journal of Financial Economics 47, no. 1 (January 1998): 55–82. (Winner of Journal of Financial Economics. Jensen Prize. First Place For the best paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics in the areas of corporate finance and organizations. Revised from NBER Working Paper No. 5403, January 1996 and HBS Working Paper 96-030, December 1995.)
- December 1999 (Revised March 2001)
- Case
Machinery International (A)
By: David F. Hawkins
A U.S. company must decide how to translate its German subsidiary's DM financial statements into U.S. dollars for public and internal reporting purposes. A rewritten version of an earlier case.
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Keywords:
Machinery and Machining;
Financial Statements;
Financial Reporting;
Currency;
Money;
Accounting;
Valuation;
Manufacturing Industry;
Accounting Industry;
United States
Hawkins, David F. "Machinery International (A)." Harvard Business School Case 100-012, December 1999. (Revised March 2001.)
- March 2006 (Revised February 2007)
- Case
UBS: Towards the Integrated Firm
By: Rajiv Lal, Nitin Nohria and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In late June 2005, UBS Group CEO Peter Wuffli--anointed "Master of Zurich" by the financial press--was returning to Zurich from the firm's latest three-day Senior Leadership Conference (SLC). Tapping 600 top managers, this SLC featured an outdoor event at a former...
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Lal, Rajiv, Nitin Nohria, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "UBS: Towards the Integrated Firm." Harvard Business School Case 506-026, March 2006. (Revised February 2007.)
- March 2011 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
The IASB at a Crossroads: The Future of International Financial Reporting Standards (A)
By: Karthik Ramanna, Karol Misztal and Daniela Beyersdorfer
What are the major challenges to the continued growth of IFRS worldwide? Should countries be encouraged to pursue "full adoption" of IFRS or should each country determine its own IFRS "convergence" strategy? Given the limitations of governance and...
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Keywords:
International Accounting;
Emerging Markets;
Financial Reporting;
Global Strategy;
Fair Value Accounting;
Corporate Governance;
Standards;
Adoption;
Growth and Development Strategy
Ramanna, Karthik, Karol Misztal, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "The IASB at a Crossroads: The Future of International Financial Reporting Standards (A)." Harvard Business School Case 111-084, March 2011. (Revised March 2014.)
- February 2001 (Revised April 2001)
- Case
Merrill Lynch: Integrated Choice (Abridged)
By: F. Warren McFarlan and James Weber
Merrill Lynch, a full-service brokerage firm with $1.5 trillion in client assets, is under attack from both discount and electronic brokerage firms. It responds with Integrated Choice, a suite of products designed to capture clients, from the do-it-yourself investor...
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Keywords:
Investment Banking;
Marketing Strategy;
Distribution Channels;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Financial Services Industry
McFarlan, F. Warren, and James Weber. "Merrill Lynch: Integrated Choice (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 301-081, February 2001. (Revised April 2001.)