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quedarse seguro en casa o tomar un riesgo en el exterior
Chu, MichaelArticle HBS-R1201PStrategyUna importante empresa de EE.UU. de alquiler con opción a compra sigue creciendo en la recesión, la apertura de su tienda número 1.000. El CEO, el hijo del fundador de la cadena, se pregunta si es el momento de llevar a la compañía global y aprovechar los mercados extranjeros de bajos recursos. historial internacional de la compañía ha sido mixtos: Se expandió con éxito en Canadá hace unos años, pero se vio obligado a cerrar una tienda en Puerto ...Starting at €8.20
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Before You Split that CEO/Chair (Spanish version)
Pozen, Robert C.Article HBS-F0604JLeadership and People ManagementWhat's the rationale for dividing the roles of chairman and CEO? Studies show that, usually, doing so has no effect on the company's performance.Starting at €8.20
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Arm Yourself for the Coming Battle over Social Security (Spanish version)
Pozen, Robert C.Article HBS-R0211CEconomicsThe U.S. Social Security system is in deep trouble--and that's not just bad news for your friends and family. It's also bad news for your company. Unless the Social Security system is changed, by 2041 the system will be utterly insolvent. In the next decade, the very prospect of the rising deficit will mean serious pressure on recent tax cuts, higher long-term interest rates, increased pension-funding costs, and other punishing conditions for U.S...Starting at €8.20
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Is It Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis
Pozen, Robert C.Article HBS-R0911G-EFinanceWhen the credit markets seized up in 2008, many heaped blame on "mark to market" accounting rules, which require banks to write down their troubled assets to the prices they'd fetch if sold on the open market - at the time, next to nothing. Recording those assets below their "true" value, critics argued, drove financial institutions toward insolvency. Proponents of marking to market, on the other hand, said it exposed executives' bad decisions. I...Starting at €8.20
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The Case for Professional Boards
Pozen, Robert C.Article HBS-R1012B-ELeadership and People ManagementWhen the world's largest financial institutions had to be rescued from insolvency in 2008, many experts laid the blame at the feet of corporate boards. But insufficient board oversight is a problem that had supposedly been solved in 2002. As the United States reeled from the blatant failures of corporate governance at Enron and WorldCom, Congress passed the famous Sarbanes-Oxley Act to prevent such failures from happening again. The new rules loo...Starting at €8.20
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Segmenting the Base of the Pyramid
Rangan, V. Kasturi; Chu, Michael; Petkoski, DjordjijaArticle HBS-R1106J-EStrategyThe bottom of the economic pyramid is a risky place for business, but decent profits can be made there if companies link their financial success with their constituencies' well-being. To do that effectively, you must understand the nuances of people's daily lives, say Rangan and Chu, of Harvard Business School, and Petkoski, of the World Bank. Start by dividing the base of the pyramid into three segments according to people's earnings and related...Starting at €8.20
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Decoding CEO Pay*
Pozen, Robert C.; Kothari, S.P.Article HBS-R1704E-ELeadership and People ManagementEach year most public companies issue reports describing the pay packages of their CEOs. In them compensation committees attempt to explain the rationale behind the pay figures to the shareholders, who often must vote to approve them. The issue is, in their reports many committees adjust performance numbers in obscure and inappropriate ways that lead to overly generous CEO pay. And they do so using nonstandard criteria that are difficult for even...Starting at €8.20
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Play It Safe at Home, or Take a Risk Abroad (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Chu, MichaelArticle HBS-R1201Z-EA major U.S. rent-to-own company continues to grow in the recession, opening its 1000th store. The CEO, the son of the chain's founder, is wondering whether it's time to take the company global and tap into underserved foreign markets. The company's international track record has been mixed: It successfully expanded into Canada a few years back, but was forced to close a store in Puerto Rico after only a year. The more risk-averse CFO advises aga...Starting at €8.20
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Redesigning a 401(k) Plan at Haley-Midland, Teaching Note
Pozen, Robert C.; Perl, ScottTeaching Note HBS-311129-EFinanceTeaching Note for 311128.Starting at €0.00
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The Expansion of Ping An, Teaching Note
Pozen, Robert C.; Yang, Nina J.Teaching Note HBS-311141-EFinanceTeaching Note for 311133.Starting at €0.00