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- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
Agencies then often stumble when the founder leaves. I was interested in understanding how firms, whose chief competitive assets are their founders' talents or skills, scale their operations and grow. Heavy dependence on individuals'...
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- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
margins provide the justification for the real and financial assets required to realize the value proposition. The margins and assets together establish the threshold for financial scalability of the...
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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog
investment industry - whether directly, as an asset manager/investor, advisor or private individual, or indirectly as an entrepreneur or operator receiving investment capital. The course will also provide important learnings for students...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter An estimated $30 trillion in assets worldwide—including half of all professionally managed assets in Europe—are already evaluated through environmental, social, and...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
fully solve the recent problems. Q: Are there inherent flaws in the set up of an asset management business? Given that it is a business, can it properly look after the needs of its investors while also looking after the bottom line? A:...
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- July 2003 (Revised April 2005)
- Case
Branding Citigroup's Consumer Business
By: Rohit Deshpande and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In Spring 1998, Citicorp and Travelers merged to create a financial powerhouse that united the bank with Travelers' consumer finance and brokerage businesses, including Salomon Smith Barney and Primerica. It was the first U.S. financial services company to combine...
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Mergers and Acquisitions;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Customer Relationship Management;
Decisions;
Asset Management;
Investment Banking;
Management Teams;
Brands and Branding;
Relationships;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Banking Industry;
United States
Deshpande, Rohit, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Branding Citigroup's Consumer Business." Harvard Business School Case 504-023, July 2003. (Revised April 2005.)
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HBS - Financials | Financial Highlights
million from $22 million in fiscal 2021. The School generated an operating surplus of $58 million, compared with $26 million for the prior year. HBS ended fiscal 2022 with an unrestricted reserves balance of $227 million, compared with $211 million a year earlier. The...
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- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
2001, real estate has become a legitimate asset class and a good diversifier from stocks and bonds. Second, with graying populations in the West and Japan, real estate is particularly appreciated because it is a strong generator of...
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- July 1991 (Revised August 2000)
- Case
California PERS (A)
By: Jay O. Light, Jay W. Lorsch and James O. Sailer
Examines California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), the world's fourth largest pension fund. Dale Hanson, CEO of CalPERS, has a problem; how does he use CalPERS' influence as the holder of a small percentage of 1,300 American companies to put pressure on...
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Employees;
Retirement;
System;
Asset Pricing;
Performance Improvement;
Corporate Governance;
Investment Funds;
Investment Return;
California
Light, Jay O., Jay W. Lorsch, and James O. Sailer. "California PERS (A)." Harvard Business School Case 291-045, July 1991. (Revised August 2000.)
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Competition of Countries
move assets (capital and human assets) into higher and higher value-added enterprises. This, I believe, is roughly analogous to large corporations. But countries have additional challenges, without much analogy. They must manage sound...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 15 Mar 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?
“Office Hours” series. During “Office Hours,” HBS experts field questions from Instagram users, responding through short videos. Cohen studies finance and innovation, producing research and courses about topics including fintech, asset...
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Strategic Plan | Information Technology
Modernize Foundational Technology for Digital Transformation We modernize and enhance our strategically critical enterprise systems to ensure the business of the School can be done efficiently and in a manner that engages our constituents. 4. Protect HBS Information &...
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Building Web 3 Businesses - Course Catalog
data, identity, and other digital assets – and thus potentially rebalancing their relationship with online platforms. This new Internet architecture holds the potential for building disintermediated financial and payment rails that could...
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- December 2008
- Case
Merrimack Tractors and Mowers: LIFO or FIFO?
By: William J. Bruns Jr., Sharon Bruns and Susan S. Hameling
At Merrimack Tractors and Mowers in 2008, product manufacturing costs are increasing faster than competitors' costs, and as a result earnings are likely to fall below those reported in 2007. The company president and the company controller have discussed this problem,...
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International;
Financial;
Reporting;
Standards;
Inventory;
Business Ethics;
Assets;
Valuation;
Ethics;
Taxation;
Financial Reporting;
Manufacturing Industry
Bruns, William J., Jr., Sharon Bruns, and Susan S. Hameling. "Merrimack Tractors and Mowers: LIFO or FIFO?" Harvard Business School Brief Case 083-217, December 2008.
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Financial Highlights - Annual Report 2019
surplus of $30 million, compared with $104 million for the prior year. HBS ended fiscal 2020 with an unrestricted reserves balance of $174 million, compared with $129 million a year earlier. The School’s total net assets increased to $5.2...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The 'multiplier effect' of supporting education
André Jakurski (MBA 1973), founding partner/managing director of JGP Asset Management, and his wife, Maria, generously support various organizations that provide direct services in Rio de Janiero as well as educational institutions,...
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- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Helping Young African MBAs Go Home
sharing information on what to expect.” YAM is an asset to companies that want to recruit from the diaspora of African talent that has gone to the US. “Now people reach out to us to recruit,” he says. “Every month we send out a...
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- November 1989 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.--1988
By: Timothy A. Luehrman
Set two years after a takeover attempt forced the company to restructure by leveraging up, selling assets, and repurchasing stock. The case affords an opportunity to analyze what effect the restructuring had on: 1) the cost of capital, 2) investment decisions, and 3)...
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Acquisition;
Restructuring;
Assets;
Cost of Capital;
Investment;
Competition;
Rubber Industry
Luehrman, Timothy A. "Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.--1988." Harvard Business School Case 290-016, November 1989. (Revised March 1995.)
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
it creates a legally independent project company and finances that company with nonrecourse debt (i.e., the debt must be repaid by cash flows from the project company only.) The relevant question is: Why would a firm choose to finance its View Details