Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

In 2011 it was $2 billion , good for third place. W]e seek to find undervalued companies in the Graham & Dodd tradition, a methodology for valuing stocks that primarily looks for deeply depressed prices.” He just argues that the CEOs and boards are for various reasons unwilling to take basic, obvious steps to raise share prices.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

In 2004, Michael Dell left the company, replaced by Kevin Rollins, a former Bain consultant who joined the company in 1996. In a 2011 paper , researchers from HBS, Columbia, and the University of Chicago looked at the success of 472 tech buyouts based on a novel measure: patents. By the mid 2000s, much of Dell''s competition had faded.

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Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The idea was simple: Combine the best of both companies into the new Yahoo China, which was projected to generate more than $25 million in revenue in 2004. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004. billion — the world’s biggest internet offering since Google’s IPO in 2004.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

His customers always overpowered him and controlled the pricing, and his meager budget relegated him to riding in the backs of trucks and crowded trains. In 2011, for the third year in a row, the Euromonitor International market research firm ranked Haier as the top appliance brand in the world, calculated its retail volume share as 7.8

Globalization 8

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Leaders who succeed at the job usually do so by combing through the company in search of noncore assets to shed, businesses to sell, activities to stop, functions to eliminate, and product lines to simplify, as Steve Jobs did when he took back the reins at Apple in 1997, and as Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, the CEO of Lego, did in 2004.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

But as Apple’s profits multiplied from 2004 through 2011, it was clear that, as you now call it, “ return of capital ” to shareholders was not a pressing priority for Mr. Jobs. Rather, they trade in outstanding shares in the hope that their market price will increase. In this virtuous circle, buybacks have no role.

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Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Unfortunately, Covisint’s ownership structure and auction format heavily favored auto companies (the consumers on the platform) while forcing suppliers into fierce price competition, leaving them with little or no residual value. By 2011, its PlayStation had become the best-selling game console of all time.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Snapchat, an idea conceived in 2011, is now valued around $16 billion, with more than 100 million active users who send an average of over 400 million snaps per day. All Airbnb does is offer a connection between home and flat owners with rooms to rent to people looking for a lower-priced alternative to hotels. Narrowly focused.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

In 2004 one in 5 practicing physicians used an electronic health record (EHR) in the U.S. This therapeutic deluge will make decision making more complex for clinicians, who must understand efficacy and risk, and for payers, who must choose which treatments to favor through preferred pricing.

Health Care 9

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 9

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

At the same time, a second wave of innovation for job sites was cropping up, marked by two major developments: the appearance of listings aggregators (Indeed and SimplyHired, both founded in 2004), and the founding of LinkedIn (in 2003). No one watching the industry could have predicted the impact of LinkedIn.

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Price IPO Content Marketing 101

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2015

corporations responded by bringing back $299 billion in profits in 2005, compared with an average of $62 billion from 2000 to 2004 and a subsequent decline to $102 billion in 2006. The hedge fund activist wants Apple to double its stock price , with massive buybacks as the lever. for investments that create jobs.

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Hedge Proposal Pharmaceuticals Price 8