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The Greening of the Balance Sheet
Budgets and budgeting Magazine ArticleGreen initiatives can, by reducing costs, enhance a company’s bottom line. Actions that harm the environment can have the opposite effect. Now, thanks to a burgeoning market in greenhouse gas emission credits put into effect by the Kyoto Protocol, environmental considerations will increasingly affect not only companies’ income statements but also their balance sheets. A […] -
Countering the Biggest Risk of All
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleCorporate treasurers and chief financial officers have become adept at quantifying and managing a wide variety of risks: financial, hazard, and operational.... -
Expensing Options Solves Nothing
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleThe use of stock options for executive compensation has become a lightning rod for public anger, and it's easy to see why. Many top executives grew hugely... -
Global Accounting Is Coming
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleAccounting scandals have opened the door to international influence on U.S. financial reporting. Most important for U.S. companies, under emerging global... -
Earnings Game: Everyone Plays, Nobody Wins
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleQuarterly earnings numbers dominate the decisions of executives, analysts, investors, and auditors. Yet for all the attention paid to these numbers, they're... -
So You Think You Understand Revenues
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleThe sophisticated technologies used to understand costs don't illuminate revenue sources well. For that you need a whole new breed of accountant. -
Expensing Stock Options: A Fair-Value Approach
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleNow that companies such as General Electric and Citigroup have accepted the premise that employee stock options are an expense, the debate is shifting... -
What's Your Project's Real Price Tag?
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleWith companies' financial statements being scrutinized as never before, executives are under pressure to forecast the cost of major projects accurately.... -
Unexpected Benefits of Sarbanes-Oxley
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIn the wake of a series of gross corporate abuses around the turn of the century, Congress passed Sarbanes-Oxley, which was intended to make corporate... -
From Niche to Mainstream (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleRiku Nakamura relocated six years ago with his family from Tokyo to San Mateo, California, to spearhead the launch of Kenko USA, the first foreign subsidiary... -
Growth as a Process: The HBR Interview
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleUnder Jack Welch's leadership, General Electric's managers applied their imaginations relentlessly to the task of making work more efficient. Jeffrey... -
Why Financial Statements Don't Work for Digital Companies
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleTraditional accounting can't explain how companies like Uber and Twitter are valued. -
U.S. Financial Reporting Is Stuck in the 20th Century
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleCurrent accounting rules don't always communicate real value to investors. -
2002 HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for Today's Business Agenda
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn the last year, war broke out, the economy took a nosedive, and an alarming number of businesses went belly up. Thus, it is with some urgency that we... -
Relative Value of Growth
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleMost executives would say that adding a point of growth and gaining a point of operating-profit margin contribute about equally to shareholder value.... -
How the Growth Outliers Do It
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleSteady, predictable growth is what every big company strives for, and what investors prize above all else. McGrath set out to discover how many companies... -
Giving After Disasters
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAlthough the global cost of natural disasters has increased sharply, traditional sources of funding--governments, nonprofits, and NGOs--have not kept... -
High Margins and the Quest for Aesthetic Coherence
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe key to selling well-designed, well-crafted products at high margins is the aesthetic coherence of the company and its goods. Embodying that ideal... -
How Managers Should Read Financial Statements
Finance and investing Digital ArticleJoe Knight, coauthor of Financial Intelligence, explains the financial statement—and why managers should get involved in finance. -
Reduce the Risk of Failed Financial Judgments
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleWhen crucial financial estimates rely on judgment, companies can minimize their risk by turning to appraisers, actuaries, and evaluators, whether internal,...
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Building Innovation at Terrapin Bright Green
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes Terrapin Bright Green, an environmental consulting and strategic planning firm, and its approach for creating integrative, systematic solutions... -
LinkedIn (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In the summer of 2005, LinkedIn, a two-year-old start-up, was choosing between two options to monetize its 5 million business people network. Members... -
Honest Tea
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case examines the decisions of Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff, founders of Honest Tea. Honest Tea is a start-up in the ready-to-drink tea market.... -
Managing Stakeholders with Corporate Social Responsibility, Course Overview
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The note articulates the ways in which strong stakeholder-company relationships developed through corporate social responsibility initiatives and other... -
Compass Box Whisky Company, Spanish Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Compass Box Whisky Company is facing a changing supply situation and is evaluating switching to a business model with high inventory and long lead times.... -
Route 11 Potato Chips
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Route 11 Chips, a regional potato chip company, is struggling with whether to reduce the number of flavors it markets. Additional flavors add operational... -
Identify the Industries--1996
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Common-size balance sheets and financial ratios are given for thirteen companies. Students must identify which company is in which of thirteen industries.... -
China or the World? A Financial Reporting Strategy for Hong Kong's Capital Markets
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Set in 2010, the case discusses the strategic directions Hong Kong could pursue, particularly vis-a-vis China, as it seeks to preserve its preeminence... -
EILEEN FISHER: Repositioning the Brand, Spanish Version
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Well-established fashion brand Eileen Fisher has traditionally appealed to older women. However, to drive growth, Eileen Fisher's management team wants... -
Boston Lyric Opera
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The Boston Lyric Opera was the fastest growing opera company in North America during the 1990s. Having successfully completed a move to a larger facility... -
LinkedIn (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details An abstract is not available for this product. -
Leasing Computers at Persistent Learning
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Newly public Persistent Learning is acquiring vital computer assets. They need to determine how the lease or purchase decision will impact their financial... -
Accounting for Frequent Fliers, Spanish Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Airline frequent flier programs offer members the opportunity to earn free flights by accumulating mileage. Accounting and reporting the obligations of... -
Yelp
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Yelp was a popular on-line destination for reviews of local establishments, written by volunteer Internet users and read by 20 million people per month.... -
Giant Consumer Products: The Sales Promotion Resource Allocation Decision (Brief Case)
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details This case provides students with an opportunity to become familiar with some major strategic issues that firms face when formulating and implementing... -
Mondavi Winery
Communication Case Study8.95View Details Examines Mondavi Winery's struggle to communicate its value proposition to the market following an apparently successful IPO. The Mondavi Winery had a... -
Corporate Inversions: Stanley Works and the Lure of Tax Havens, Spanish Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In response to Stanley Work's announcement that it is moving to Bermuda--and the associated jump in market value--a major competitor sets out to determine... -
The Real Green IT Machine (B): Sensitivity Analysis of a Proposed Capital Investment
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details This case is a follow-up to UVA-C-2295. The analysis of the proposed new data center suggested that the project's net present value was negative-not by... -
Huntington Hospital (A): Empowering Staff
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Kim Markey began as executive director of revenue cycle at Huntington Hospital (HH) in November 2012. Located in Pasadena, California, HH was a 625-bed... -
Revenue Recognition Exercises
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The difference between the Financial Accounting Standards Board's Concept Statements #5 and #6 is explored as it pertains to revenue recognition and expense...
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Building Innovation at Terrapin Bright Green
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes Terrapin Bright Green, an environmental consulting and strategic planning firm, and its approach for creating integrative, systematic solutions... -
LinkedIn (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In the summer of 2005, LinkedIn, a two-year-old start-up, was choosing between two options to monetize its 5 million business people network. Members... -
Honest Tea
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case examines the decisions of Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff, founders of Honest Tea. Honest Tea is a start-up in the ready-to-drink tea market.... -
Managing Stakeholders with Corporate Social Responsibility, Course Overview
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The note articulates the ways in which strong stakeholder-company relationships developed through corporate social responsibility initiatives and other... -
Compass Box Whisky Company, Spanish Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Compass Box Whisky Company is facing a changing supply situation and is evaluating switching to a business model with high inventory and long lead times.... -
Route 11 Potato Chips
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Route 11 Chips, a regional potato chip company, is struggling with whether to reduce the number of flavors it markets. Additional flavors add operational... -
Identify the Industries--1996
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Common-size balance sheets and financial ratios are given for thirteen companies. Students must identify which company is in which of thirteen industries.... -
China or the World? A Financial Reporting Strategy for Hong Kong's Capital Markets
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Set in 2010, the case discusses the strategic directions Hong Kong could pursue, particularly vis-a-vis China, as it seeks to preserve its preeminence... -
EILEEN FISHER: Repositioning the Brand, Spanish Version
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Well-established fashion brand Eileen Fisher has traditionally appealed to older women. However, to drive growth, Eileen Fisher's management team wants... -
Calling All Parties: Now Is the Time to Come to the Aid of the Balance Sheet
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleRecently, accountants were instructed by President Bush to get their acts together. Indeed, the Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and other recent corporate financial...