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Howard Schultz and Starbucks Coffee Company (Spanish version)
Koehn, Nancy F.Case HBS-803S13EntrepreneurshipInvestigates the entrepreneur's strategic initiatives to develop a mass market for specialty coffee in the 1980s and 1990s. These initiatives included the development of premium products, rapid expansion of company-owned stores--each with attractive retail environments and responsive customer service--and, especially, the creation of a strong brand. Also devotes considerable attention to how Schultz built the Starbucks organization, examining the...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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Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur, Leader, and Philanthropist
Dwojeski, Anne E.; Grundy, William; Helms, Erica; Miller, Katherine; Koehn, Nancy F.Case HBS-807145-EEntrepreneurshipMadam C. J. Walker, who has been credited as the first self-made African-American woman millionaire, created a hair-care empire after years spent as a laundress in St. Louis, Missouri. Decades before the Civil Rights movement, her company gave employment to thousands of African-American women and marketed its products around the world. Madam Walker was active in the social and political causes of her day, and used her position as a successful ent...Starting at €8.20
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Oprah Winfrey, Teaching Note
Koehn, Nancy F.; Besharov, Marya; Miller, KatherineTeaching Note HBS-808018-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching Note to (803-190).Starting at €0.00
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Starbucks Coffee Company in the 21st Century
Koehn, Nancy F.; Besharov, Marya; Miller, KatherineCase HBS-808019-EEntrepreneurshipThe case explores the opportunities and challenges confronting Starbucks in the early 21st century. For more than 15 years, Starbucks has grown swiftly and successfully, helping create a large, dynamic market for specialty coffee, building one of the world's most powerful brands, and forging a new business model based on industry disrepair and responsible global citizenship. In 2008, Starbucks leadership faces a range of issues--inside and out of...Starting at €8.20
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Bono and U2, Teaching Note
Koehn, Nancy F.; Legris, ElizabethTeaching Note HBS-811091-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching Note for 809148.Starting at €0.00
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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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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