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Los fundamentos que catapultarán su empresa
Dávila Parra, Antonio; Foster, GeorgeArticle ART-1815Accounting and ControlLa vieja creencia de que los sistemas de gestión matan el espíritu emprendedor es errónea. Tal vez las empresas se conformen con menos cuando no llegan a los cien empleados, pero pueden crecer más rápido si cuentan desde el principio con unos sistemas de planificación y control internos sólidos. Los autores identifican ocho aspectos que deberían ser tenidos en cuenta por las empresas si quieren alcanzar un alto crecimiento: planificación y evalua...Starting at €8.20
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How to Structure Companies for High Growth
Dávila Parra, Antonio; Foster, GeorgeArticle ART-1815-EAccounting and ControlThe old belief that management systems kill the entrepreneurial spirit is wrong. Perhaps when a company has fewer than 100 employees, a business can get by on less. But as the authors point out in this article, companies are actually able to grow faster provided that they have strong internal planning and control systems in place early on. They identify eight main categories that demand managerial attention if companies are ever to achieve high g...Starting at €8.20
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Shanghai: GDP Apostasy
Serafeim, George; Henderson, Rebecca M.; Freiberg, DavidCase HBS-115042-EAccounting and ControlThe case describes Shanghai's decision to abandon growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as its primary metric of measuring success. Within this context, the case presents the historical roots of GDP and how the measure is calculated. Moreover, the case dStarting at €8.20
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ExxonMobil: Business as Usual (A)
Serafeim, George; Rajgopal, Shivaram; Freiberg, DavidCase HBS-117046-EAccounting and ControlIn September 2016, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) launched an investigation into ExxonMobil's accounting treatment of its oil and gas reserves. The SEC questioned the company's decision to record no impairments of its reserves, although oil prices had declined by almost 60% since mid-2014 due to a mix of factors, including excess supply from the US, Russia and Middle East and slowing demand from China. Moreover, critics of Exxo...Starting at €8.20
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ExxonMobil: Business as Usual (A) and (B), Teaching Plan
Serafeim, George; Freiberg, DavidTeaching Note HBS-117057-EAccounting and ControlTeaching Plan for cases 117046 and 117047.Starting at €0.00
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The Future of Mobility: Economic, Environmental, and Social Implications
Serafeim, George; Freiberg, DavidCase HBS-118008-EAccounting and ControlThis technical note explores how advancements in technology are fundamentally transforming how consumers interact with mobility. Transformation is being driven by three independent trends: the emergence of affordable electric vehicles, the development of autonomous vehicles and the growth of modernized ride sharing. When integrated, these trends create a transportation model which utilizes a fleet of autonomous, electric vehicles which are not pr...Starting at €8.20
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Summa Equity: Building Purpose-Driven Organizations
Serafeim, George; Freiberg, DavidCase HBS-118028-EAccounting and ControlIn 2015, Reynir Indahl left top Nordic private equity firm Altor Equity Partners to found Summa Equity (Summa). After long contemplation following the financial crisis, Indahl was convinced the financial system was producing negative externalities and that the current private equity model adopted by most firms would no longer be successful. Summa was developed under a new private equity model that sought to "future-proof" businesses by focusing o...Starting at €8.20
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JetBlue: Relevant Sustainability Leadership (A)
Serafeim, George; Freiberg, DavidCase HBS-118030-EAccounting and ControlIn 2017, JetBlue, the airline founded on the mission to "bring humanity back to air travel", was considering becoming one of the first companies to report its sustainability performance according to the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) staStarting at €8.20
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JetBlue: Relevant Sustainability Leadership (B)
Serafeim, George; Freiberg, DavidCase HBS-119044-EAccounting and ControlSupplement to case 118030.Starting at €5.74
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Harlem Capital: Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship (A)
Serafeim, George; Freiberg, DavidCase HBS-120040-EAccounting and ControlJarrid Tingle and Henri Pierre-Jacques had spent the summer between their first and second years of their Harvard Business School MBA program fund raising for their start-up Venture Capital (VC) firm, Harlem Capital Partners. Harlem Capital was founded upon the principle that addressing the VC funding gap for minorities and women - whom received only 3 percent of total VC funding - could produce superior returns. Tingle and Pierre-Jacques were pa...Starting at €8.20