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Statement of Activity & Cash Flows - Annual Report 2017

Financials Statement of Activity & Cash Flows 1ms Revenues IN MILLIONS for the Fiscal Year ended June 30... 2017 2016 2015 MBA Tuition & Fees $ 133 $ 127 $ 120 Executive Education Tuition 191 176 168... View Details

September 2010 (Revised September 2011)
Case

Leasing Decision at Magnet Beauty Products, Inc.

By: Krishna G. Palepu and George Serafeim

A fast-growing retailer is facing two different leasing options for its stores. In choosing between the two options, management is considering the potential impact of the two options on the company's financial statements, in light of the proposed new accounting... View Details

Keywords: Financial Statements; Decision Choices and Conditions; Growth and Development Strategy; Standards; Leasing; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Retail Industry

January 2013 (Revised March 2016)
Case

The Private Company Council

By: Karthik Ramanna and Luis M. Viceira

Financial Accounting Foundation chairman Jack Brennan is under pressure from private-company interests to set up a new body—the Private Company Council—to determine separate GAAP for private companies. PCC advocates—including the US Chamber of Commerce—argue that... View Details

Keywords: FASB; Lobbying; Political Economy; Accounting; Government and Politics; Leadership; Financial Markets; Accounting Industry; Accounting Industry; Accounting Industry

January 2010
Article

Buy Local? The Geography of Successful Venture Capital Expansion

By: Henry Chen, Paul A. Gompers, Anna Kovner and Josh Lerner

We document geographic concentration by both venture capital firms and venture capital-financed companies in three metropolitan areas: San Francisco, Boston, and New York. We find that venture capital firms locate in regions with high success rates of venture... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Expansion; Success; Capital; Geographic Location; Business Units; Corporate Accountability; Business Offices; Goals and Objectives; Mission and Purpose; Investment Funds; Corporate Governance; Boston; New York (state, US); San Francisco

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Related Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade

operating museum in the United States, with strong collections of Asian art, culture, and history that illustrate the relationship between East and West. The Library’s research offerings include books, newspapers, logbooks, View Details

11 Jan 2024
Blog Post

My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

responsible for documentation, research, and maintenance of shipwrecks, reefs, downed WWII planes, boat docks, and everything in between. My role was to help them design a more sustainable operating and funding model to ensure their... View Details

23 Mar 2020
News

Tech lenders push for a piece of the coronavirus, small-business bailout

09 Sep 2024
HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

employees, it sought to claw back the severance pay he had received. The matter was ultimately settled but it underscores the importance of being clear upfront about the financial consequences View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage

1998
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Risk-Taking Incentives and the Cost of Insurance Company Failures

By: Brian J. Hall

Keywords: Insurance; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Motivation and Incentives; Insurance Industry

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Statement of Activity & Cash Flows - Annual Report 2020

Financials Statement of Activity & Cash Flows 1ms Revenues IN MILLIONS for the Fiscal Year ended June 30... 2020 2019 2018 MBA Tuition & Fees $ 136 $ 140 $ 138 Executive Education Tuition 146 222 207... View Details

07 Sep 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

a few examples. Networks enable mind-bending progress--but offer the potential of indescribable chaos in everybody’s personal life and society at large. Just ask Democratic members of the US Congress whose... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Charlotte L. Robertson

Charlotte Robertson is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches BGIE in the MBA required curriculum.

Professor Robertson conducts research on the history of financial... View Details

January 2000
Case

Cross Country Group, The: A Piece of the Rock (B)

By: Robert L. Simons and Indra Reinbergs

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Accounting Industry; Accounting Industry

January 2011
Case

A Slice of the Pie: Ruby Collins and Tenants in Common

By: John D. Macomber and Kristian Peterson

A securitized small real estate investment vehicle fails and the many individual owners have to decide how to manage or dispose of the asset. This case follows Ruby Collins, a small investor, through the logic of Section 1031 Like Kind Exchanges as well as the... View Details

Keywords: Financial Instruments; Investment; Risk Management; Ownership Stake; Partners and Partnerships; Valuation; Real Estate Industry

11 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet

For sports fans, this time of year is like a chocolate addict's free pass to Willy Wonka's factory. Horse racing's Triple Crown. The National Basketball Association and National Hockey League championship playoffs. And next up, the most... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services; Financial Services

14 May 2019
News

Karen Mills on Technology and the Future of Small Business

October 2023
Teaching Note

Timnit Gebru: 'SILENCED No More' on AI Bias and The Harms of Large Language Models

By: Tsedal Neeley and Tim Englehart

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 422-085. Dr. Timnit Gebru—a leading artificial intelligence (AI) computer scientist and co-lead of Google’s Ethical AI team—was messaging with one of her colleagues when she saw the words: “Did you resign?? Megan sent an email saying that... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Employment; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Technological Innovation; AI and Machine Learning; Diversity; Prejudice and Bias; Technology Industry