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- November 1999
- Case
Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (A)
By: Andre F. Perold
Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (LTCM) was in the business of engaging in trading strategies to exploit market pricing discrepancies. Because the firm employed strategies designed to make money over long horizons--from six months to two years or more--it adopted a...
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Fluctuation;
Capital;
Financial Liquidity;
Financing and Loans;
Investment Funds;
Investment Portfolio;
Corporate Governance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Management;
Risk Management;
Marketing;
Motivation and Incentives;
Financial Services Industry
Perold, Andre F. "Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 200-007, November 1999.
- 21 Sep 2018
- News
America traded one recession for a far more serious one
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
document. By "nonfinancial" we mean the kind of information that is typically provided in a company's corporate social responsibility or sustainability report regarding its performance in environmental, social, and View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- February 2023
- Case
Success Academy Charter Schools
By: Robin Greenwood, Joshua D. Coval, Denise Han, Ruth Page and Dave Habeeb
This stand-alone multimedia case follows the story of Eva Moskowitz and Success Academy, a network of high-performing charter schools in New York City. As a New York City councilor between 1999 and 2006, Moskowitz became frustrated over the inertia and dysfunction in...
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Keywords:
Business and Government Relations;
Performance Effectiveness;
Equality and Inequality;
Private Sector;
Education Industry;
New York (city, NY)
Greenwood, Robin, Joshua D. Coval, Denise Han, Ruth Page, and Dave Habeeb. "Success Academy Charter Schools." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 222-707, February 2023.
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
giant IBM? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/316143-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 416-019 Gap Inc.: Refashioning Performance Management In 2014, clothing retailer Gap Inc. rolled out a new View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online
Highlights The Money Journey Part 1 Complementarity PFA Pension: Strategy 2020 ShowHide Details Concepts The Money Journey Performance Evaluation Portfolio Construction & Diversification Investing in Alternatives Trends in Alternatives &...
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- 12 Dec 2020
- News
Private Equity and the Raid on Corporate Britain
- Web
Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online
6 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online. What you earn. Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Apply Now Key Concepts Understand the key financial levers that drive financial View Details
- Person Page
Course Development
By: Debora L. Spar
Managing International Trade and Investment
Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details
- 2012
- Chapter
Pursuing Public Value: Frameworks for Strategic Analysis and Action
By: Herman B. Leonard and Mark H. Moore
Features Harvard Kennedy School scholars who focus diverse conceptual lenses on a single high-stakes management task—enhancing port security across the United States. This title considers the challenge of driving change in a complex system involving hundreds of private...
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Leonard, Herman B., and Mark H. Moore. "Pursuing Public Value: Frameworks for Strategic Analysis and Action." Chap. 5 in Ports in a Storm: Public Management in a Turbulent World, edited by John D. Donahue and Mark H. Moore, 84–115. Innovative Governance in the 21st Century. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2012.
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
Serafeim, George Abstract—Combining corporate sustainability performance scores based on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data with big data measuring public sentiment about a company’s...
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Dina Gerdeman
- June 2009
- Case
Executive Remuneration at Royal Dutch Shell (A)
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kaitlyn Simpson
The remuneration committee at Shell decided to exercise their discretionary power to award five top executives a bonus for 2008, even though they had not met the necessary performance measures under the compensation plan. Proxy advisors RiskMetrics and the British...
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Corporate Governance;
Governance Controls;
Executive Compensation;
Performance Evaluation;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Energy Industry
Lorsch, Jay W., and Kaitlyn Simpson. "Executive Remuneration at Royal Dutch Shell (A)." Harvard Business School Case 409-126, June 2009.
- 01 Apr 2015
- News
Sustainability Reporting: The Lawyer’s Response
- 07 Sep 2012
- News
What Every Nonprofit Board Needs to Know
- April 2006 (Revised April 2012)
- Case
Ghana: National Economic Strategy
By: Michael E. Porter and Kjell Ke-Li Carlsson
Set in the year 2001, as President John Kufuor contemplates a national economic strategy following his election in the first democratic transfer of power in Ghana's history. Focuses on Ghana's long history of poor economic performance and intractable poverty,...
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Keywords:
History;
Economic Growth;
Government Administration;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Ghana
Porter, Michael E., and Kjell Ke-Li Carlsson. "Ghana: National Economic Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 706-497, April 2006. (Revised April 2012.)
- December 2022 (Revised August 2023)
- Case
Ribbit Capital and the Gauntlet Investment Opportunity
By: Shai Bernstein and Allison M. Ciechanover
Ten-year-old, Palo Alto-based Ribbit Capital is best-known for its global investments in fintech. The firm was also an early advocate of crypto and blockchain, having invested in more than two dozen startups in the space in the past decade. In the Spring of 2022,...
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Alternative Assets;
Cryptocurrency;
Business Startups;
Investment Portfolio;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Negotiation Deal;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Venture Capital;
Financial Services Industry;
California
Bernstein, Shai, and Allison M. Ciechanover. "Ribbit Capital and the Gauntlet Investment Opportunity." Harvard Business School Case 823-038, December 2022. (Revised August 2023.)
- March 2006
- Background Note
Strategic Compliance Management
Explains the construct of strategic compliance management (SCM) and asserts that managers and their firms can perform more effectively, that is, create or capture more value or better manage risk, when they comply with applicable laws, search for innovation...
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Bagley, Constance E. "Strategic Compliance Management." Harvard Business School Background Note 806-173, March 2006.
- November 1995 (Revised April 1996)
- Case
ENTel and the Privatization of Argentine Telecommunications
Growing fiscal deficits, persistent economic recession, and underinvestment in the nation's telecommunications infrastructure lead the Argentine government to privatize its state-owned monopoly provider of telecommunications services, ENTel, in late 1990. The...
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Opportunities;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Communication Technology;
Privatization;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Competition;
Development Economics;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
Performance Effectiveness;
Telecommunications Industry;
Argentina
Emmons, Willis M., III. "ENTel and the Privatization of Argentine Telecommunications." Harvard Business School Case 796-065, November 1995. (Revised April 1996.)
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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online
This course is part of the Business in Society and Finance & Accounting track. Introduction to Sustainable Investing Sustainable Investing $1,750 Next 6-week session starts May 15th Apply Evaluate environmental, social, and governance...
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- 2022
- Chapter
The Origins of the Developmental State: The European Experience
Book Abstract: There has been a major revival of interest in State Capitalism: what it is, where it is found, and why it is seemingly becoming more ubiquitous. As a concept, it has evolved from radical critiques of the Soviet Union, to being deployed by neo-liberals to...
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State Capitalism;
History;
Macroeconomics;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Economic Systems;
Europe
Reinert, Sophus A. "The Origins of the Developmental State: The European Experience." Chap. 3 in The Oxford Handbook of State Capitalism and the Firm, edited by Mike Wright, Geoffrey T. Wood, Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Pei Sun, Ilya Okhmatovskiy, and Anna Grosman, 53–77. Oxford University Press, 2022.