Publications

29 Mar 2021
News

Research: A Little Recognition Can Provide a Big Morale Boost

October 2007
Article

The Influence of Financial Statement Recognition and Analyst Coverage on the Market's Valuation of R&D Capital

By: Michael D. Kimbrough

Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 141 (SFAS No. 141)'s requirement that an acquirer in a business combination estimate the fair value of the target's separately identifiable assets and liabilities (including research and development capital) provides a rare... View Details

Keywords: Information; Value Creation; Fair Value Accounting; Research and Development; Financial Statements; Capital

February 2011
Supplement

Volkswagen do Brasil Case Supplement: Employee Recognition Awards Ceremony (Video)

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Employees; Auto Industry; Brazil

March 2001
Case

FIRST: For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology

By: William A. Sahlman

Describes some strategic and financial issues confronting the founder and executive director of a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving awareness of and interest in science and technology among elementary and high school students. The organization sponsors... View Details

Keywords: Middle School Education; Finance; Nonprofit Organizations; Cognition and Thinking; Strategy; Technology

July 2023 (Revised October 2024)
Case

Revenue Recognition at Stride Funding: Making Sense of Revenues for a Fintech Startup

By: Paul M. Healy and Jung Koo Kang

The case explores the challenges of revenue recognition and financial reporting for Stride Funding (Stride), a fintech startup that has disrupted the student loan market. Stride leveraged proprietary machine learning and financial models to underwrite alternative... View Details

Keywords: Revenue Recognition; Financial Reporting; Entrepreneurial Finance; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Governance Compliance; Accrual Accounting; Financial Services Industry; United States

Educators

Research Summary

Meaningful Work as the Recognition and Expression of Deeply Embedded Life Interests

A large part of my research efforts over the past twenty years has been focused on the understanding of meaning as the recognition and expression of "deeply embedded life interests", an aspect of the psychology of human personality that has a long tradition... View Details

13 Jan 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Recognition Incentives for Internal Crowdsourcing: A Field Experiment at NASA

Keywords: by Jana Gallus, Olivia S. Jung, and Karim R. Lakhani; Aerospace

March 29, 2021
Editorial

Research: A Little Recognition Can Provide a Big Morale Boost

By: Shibeal O'Flaherty, Michael Sanders and A.V. Whillans

As organizations large and small face the twin challenges of increasingly strained budgets and burned out workforces, what can managers do to keep employees engaged — without breaking the bank? In this piece, the authors share new research on the power of symbolic... View Details

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April 1999
Article

New International Accounting Standard: Recognition and Measurement of Financial Instruments

By: David F. Hawkins

Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Financial Instruments; Global Range; Accounting; Standards

December 23, 1999
Article

SEC Expected To Step-Up Search For Restructuring Charge, Revenue Recognition and Materiality Abuses

By: David F. Hawkins

Keywords: Governance; Money

December 2023
Supplement

Revenue Recognition at Stride Funding: Making Sense of Revenues for a Fintech Startup

By: Jung Koo Kang

February 2024
Supplement

Revenue Recognition at Stride Funding: Making Sense of Revenues for a Fintech Startup

By: Jung Koo Kang and Paul M. Healy

December 2023
Teaching Note

Revenue Recognition at Stride Funding: Making Sense of Revenues for a Fintech Startup

By: Jung Koo Kang

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 124-015. View Details

Article

Discontinuities and Senior Management: Assessing the Role of Recognition in Pharmaceutical Firm Response to Biotechnology

By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Sarah Kaplan and Fiona Murray

Keywords: Management; Science; Technology; Biotechnology Industry

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02 May 2014
News

Feel Unappreciated? Give Someone Else Credit

Keywords: communication; family business; recognition

13 Oct 2021
News

EU Rules Governing Artificial Intelligence Will Put Compliance Obligations on Facial Recognition Regtech

June 2016
Article

Detecting Figures and Part Labels in Patents: Competition-based Development of Graphics Recognition Algorithms

By: Christoph Riedl, Richard Zanibbi, Marti A. Hearst, Siyu Zhu, Michael Menietti, Jason Crusan, Ivan Metelsky and Karim R. Lakhani