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The Secrets Of Great Due Diligence: From the executive summary: ‘Deal making is glamorous; due diligence is not. The aforesaid simple statement goes a long way towards explaining why so many companies have made so many acquisitions that have produced so little value. Although, big companies often make a show of carefully analyzing the size and...; Tags: Financial accounting, Harvard Knowledgebase, diligence, financial statement, acquisition, analysis, team, financial; White papers 2004-05-03
It's Time To Grow - The Right Way: Today's growth initiatives must be ever mindful of the hard-won efficiency lessons of the past several years. Strategies in vogue during the last growth cycle -- boosting revenues through mergers and acquisitions, even if they lacked strategic rationale, or using price cuts to gain market share without creating corresponding savings...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, M&A, strategy; White papers 2004-03-15
Outsmarting With Outsourcing: Outsourcing is a process wherein an organization leases out a non-core business activity to a third party for implementation. Such strategy helps in cost saving and enables the organization to fully concentrate on its core business areas. However, there are certain issues to be examined before choosing the outsourcing partner...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, outsourcing, cost savings, strategy, benefit; White papers 2003-12-08
Milking More From The Mature Business: From the executive summary: ‘Organizations can boost growth by analyzing and leveraging existing portfolios, services, and markets. The need is to focus on what is going on in the business units. Corporate strategy can guide acquisitions, divestitures, and market and product development efforts outside the scope of individual business units....; Tags: Corporate law, Harvard Knowledgebase, divestiture, product development, acquisition, strategy; White papers 2003-07-21
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance: Is business malfeasance always the board's fault? Everyone has a stake in ethical behavior and moral reasoning. There is a need for the corporate world to take a clear stand on the importance of selecting an ethical CEO. Anyone who ever wondered whether ethics matters need only look at the...; Tags: Financial services, Investment, Harvard Knowledgebase, equity, corporate governance, ethics, board; White papers 2003-05-05

Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform: In the wake of recent corporate failures, numerous suggestions have been made about how to improve governance. In fact, nearly all the suggestions lie well within the existing framework of corporate governance. Few reformers have stopped to examine the adequacy of that framework in practice or its ability to support...; Tags: Corporate law, Harvard Knowledgebase, corporate governance; White papers 2003-04-28
Six Sigma: It’s Not Just for Manufacturing: Six Sigma programs have traditionally been prescriptions for quality improvement in manufacturing industries. Their concerns have some merit. Six Sigma won't work for every service process, and adjustments may be required for it to suit even those processes for which it does apply. Nevertheless, many of the lessons learned from...; Tags: TQM/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process improvement, Harvard Knowledgebase, Six Sigma, organizational culture, manufacturing, adjustment, leader, monitor; White papers 2003-01-27
The Right Way to Replace a Fired CEO: Boards of Directors often botch up the job of finding a replacement CEO. They understand that selecting a CEO is a major responsibility; they help the CEO set realistic performance expectations; and they develop a deep understanding of the company’s strategic position. Firing a CEO rarely pays off in terms...; Tags: Corporate governance, Performance management, Harvard Knowledgebase, CEO, firing, director, board, performance, job; White papers 2003-01-06
Strategic Asset Allocation In A Continuous-Time VAR Model: This article derives an approximate solution to a continuous-time intertemporal portfolio and consumption choice problem. It presents a continuous-time version of the model of optimal intertemporal portfolio choice and consumption with time-varying equity premium of Campbell and Viceira (1999). It shows that this model has an exact analytical solution when...; Tags: Asset management, Financial services, Investment, Harvard Knowledgebase, interest rate, equity, investor, asset allocation, asset, stock; White papers 2002-09-01
Outsourcing: model outsourcing as an activity that requires search for a partner and relationship-specific investments that are governed by incomplete contracts. The extent of international outsourcing depends inter alias on the thickness of the domestic and foreign market for input suppliers, the relative cost of searching in each market, the relative...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, outsourcing, environment; White papers 2002-08-01
Outsourcing Versus FDI In Industry Equilibrium: From the executive summary: ‘The paper studies the determinants of the extent of outsourcing and of direct foreign investment in an industry in which producers need specialized components. Potential suppliers must make a relationship-specific investment in order to serve each prospective customer. Such investments are governed by imperfect contracts. A...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, outsourcing, investment, foreign direct investment, industry, supplier; White papers 2002-08-01
Outsourcing: It's Not Just About Cost Cutting: To get the real strategic value out of third-party relationships, the first thing to do is throw out what one thinks he knows about outsourcing. Outsourcing used to be viewed as little more than a ho-hum tactic for reducing the costs of back-room functions such as payroll and IT. It...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, outsourcing, product design, logistics, payroll, manufacturing, information technology; White papers 2002-07-22
Sizing Operational Risk And The Effect Of Insurance: Implications For The Basel II Capital Accord: This paper addresses the issue of regulatory capital for Operational Risk, focusing on the BIS proposals for banking organizations. It is organized into four parts followed by a conclusion. Part A looks at how a financial firm should determine how much Operational Risk to hold. Part B examines how the...; Tags: Financial Planning, Harvard Knowledgebase, Basel II, insurance, C, banking, financial; White papers 2002-06-18
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation: One should listen carefully to what the customers want and then respond with new products that meet or exceed their needs. That mantra has dominated many a business, and it has undoubtedly led to great products and has even shaped entire industries. Even when customers know precisely what they want,...; Tags: Manufacturing, Strategy, Harvard Knowledgebase, manufacturer, product development, market research, industry, tool; White papers 2002-05-06
Making Your Company Ready For the Next Twenty-Five Years: This article focuses on the use of importance of the internet for the business development. Most people overestimate the effects of change in the short term, underestimate them in the long term and fail to spot where change will be greatest. Nowhere is this judgement truer than with new technologies....; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, JIT, globalization, business development, outsourcing, supplier, Internet; White papers 2002-01-01
Strategy for the Recession: Even before the September terrorist attacks in the U.S., business executives were paddling furiously to traverse the economic doldrums. Now it is almost certain that the crossing will be longer and harder. The practices that are mentioned in this passage will help the professionals. The contingency measures that World Trade...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, tenant, terrorist attack, strategy, agency, financial; White papers 2001-12-10
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters: The article asserts that acquirers usually pay too much. It takes reference of the study sought to examine questions of M&A strategy and execution with a new rigor. A great many mergers and acquisitions occur in industries that have substantial overcapacity; these tend to be older, capital-intensive sectors. Geographic roll-ups,...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Harvard Knowledgebase, M&A, acquisition, globalization, R&D, industry; White papers 2001-04-02
Asset Pricing At The Millennium: This paper surveys the field of asset pricing. The emphasis is on the interplay between theory and empirical work, and on the trade off between risk and return. Modern research seeks to understand the behavior of the stochastic discount factor SDF that prices all assets in the economy. The behavior...; Tags: Asset management, Financial Planning, Investment, Financial accounting, Harvard Knowledgebase, asset pricing, interest rate, asset, volatility, stock, stock price, theory, finance, survey; White papers 2000-02-01