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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, revenue; White papers 2004-03-15
Do the Right Thing: A question, which often arises, is what does it mean to run a company with strong values? How does a commitment to "do the right thing" as it is applied to employees, customers, and other stakeholders affect an organization's daily decision making? Developing and living with a set of principles,...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Financial accounting, Harvard Knowledgebase, decision-making, shareholder, vision, leader; White papers 2003-09-29
The New ROI: Return on Individuals: The article affirms that there are ways to measure ROI on the investments one makes in people. Sure and doing so provides one with insights on how to spend your limited resources more effectively. The ultimate objective is to be able to evaluate a firm's entire portfolio of human capital...; Tags: ROI/TCO, Benefits, Harvard Knowledgebase, ROI, compensation, training, benefit; White papers 2003-09-01
M&A: The Value of a Customer: The M&A valuation process often gives short shrift to the caliber of customers held by the target company. Article explains the analysis tools for assessing customer value. It states that there are reasons to buy a company: to get real estate or other facilities; to get brands, trademarks, patents,...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Harvard Knowledgebase, M&A, analysis tool, valuation, real estate, brand, analysis, tool; White papers 2003-07-14

4+2 = Sustained Business Success: From the executive summary: ‘Researches indicate that most of the management tools and techniques do not have any direct implications on the superior business performance. However, what really matters is having a strong grasp of the business basics. Without exception, companies that outperformed the industry peers excelled at four primary...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, management practice, talent, leadership, merger, partnership, technique, strategy, industry; White papers 2003-07-07
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
Thy Neighbor’s Portfolio : Word-Of-Mouth Effects In The Holdings And Trades Of Money Managers: This paper explores the hypothesis that investors spread information and ideas about stocks to one another directly, through word-of-mouth communication. This hypothesis comes up frequently in informal accounts of the behavior of the stock market. The stockholdings of any given fund manager respond more sensitively to the holdings of other...; Tags: Investment, Harvard Knowledgebase, fund manager, hypothesis, stock, investor, mutual fund, stock market; White papers 2003-05-01
Thy Neighbor’s Portfolio: Word-of-Mouth Effects in the Holdings And Trades of Money Managers: A mutual-fund manager is more likely to hold a particular stock in any quarter if other managers in the same city are holding that same stock. This pattern shows up even when controlling for the distance between the fund manager and the stock in question, so it is distinct from...; Tags: Investment, Harvard Knowledgebase, hypothesis, stock, mutual fund, investor, stock market; White papers 2003-05-01
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
Identifying Your Next Big Opportunity: How to identify a big opportunity, go after it, and execute it? Those big questions are often debated by entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. When considering any opportunity, the entrepreneur should ask a series of questions to himself: What are my strengths? Who are my early adopters? What are the barriers...; Tags: Entrepreneurship, Harvard Knowledgebase, entrepreneur, venture capital, barrier; White papers 2003-04-21
Tips for Avoiding Misunderstandings When Negotiating Cross-Border Deals: Negotiation is a delicate business, made even more delicate by different cultural understandings. How can you avoid the subtle pitfalls and make deals go smoothly? Your negotiating partner’s expectations of the negotiation may well be very different from yours. Like you, he will want to succeed, but success may not...; Tags: Free trade, Harvard Knowledgebase, negotiation; White papers 2003-03-31
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster: Experienced negotiators are generally comfortable working out the terms of an economic contract: They bargain for the best price, haggle over equity splits, and iron out detailed exit clauses. However, these same seasoned professionals often spend so much time hammering out the letter of the deal that they pay little...; Tags: Investment, Harvard Knowledgebase, equity, negotiation, agreement; White papers 2003-03-03
Business Interruption Exposures: The provisions and costs of Employee Benefit programs should be clearly and frequently communicated to employees. Multinational organizations should step up to their international risk management responsibilities. Insurance policy provisions should be uniform as to named insured, notice and cancellation clauses, territory, etc. All communication providing or requesting information should...; Tags: Financial Planning, Harvard Knowledgebase, employee benefit, risk management, insurance; White papers 2003-01-01
The Digital Trade Agenda Of The U.S.: Parallel Tracks Of Bilateral, Regional And Multilateral Liberalization: This article discusses the digital trade agenda of the U.S. In August of last year, U.S. Congress enacted the Bipartisan Trade Promotion Authority Act of 2002. Thereby it has ended an eight-year period in which the United States lacked the fast-track authority to conclude trade agreements with a simplified congressional...; Tags: Free trade, Harvard Knowledgebase, liberalization, agreement, U.S., best practice; White papers 2003-01-01
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard: Effective leaders, know that measurement and management systems play a critical role in communication; in establishing the culture and values of the organization; and in aligning diverse units, employees, and constituencies. This article describes how effective leaders customize their organization's measurement and management system to partner with their employees for...; Tags: Business structures, Leadership, Harvard Knowledgebase, Balanced Scorecard, partnership, leader, strategy, vision, supplier, tool; White papers 2002-12-23
Most Accountants Aren't Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, signed into law last July, is the government's response to a series of financial reporting scandals that rocked investors. Among other measures the law offers up stiff criminal penalties for accounting fraud. But in this, it suggest most accounting errors which, aren't the result of...; Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, Harvard Knowledgebase, bias, accountant, auditing, accounting, financial reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, financial; White papers 2002-12-09
Project Analysis? Climb The Decision Tree: From the executive summary: ‘For more than a decade, consultants and academics have been touting Real Options Valuation ROV as a means of improving decision-making that goes into a project. Researches, however, indicate that ROV has not been widely adopted as a planning tool. Many project managers worry that the...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Harvard Knowledgebase, decision tree, analysis, decision-making, finance, team, tool, software; White papers 2002-09-09
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 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