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06 Jan 2016
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Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?

company was performing well, at least on measures available to the public. (As a subsidiary of Amazon, Zappos no longer reports separate financials.) It is one of only 12 American companies that win awards both for its customer service... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto; Fashion

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

in fiscal 2023, up one point from the prior year. Approximately half of the School’s MBA students currently receive fellowships, which cover an average of more than 50 percent of a student’s total tuition. About 28 percent of total tuition—nearly $43 million—was View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

responsibility. Working PapersInducement Prizes and Innovation Authors:Liam Brunt, Josh Lerner, and Tom Nicholas Abstract We examine the effect of prizes on innovation using data on awards for technological development offered by the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Harvard Business School

earned several honors including the Ernst & Young Michigan Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year, Supplier of the Year Award from the National Minority Supplier Development Council, and Michigan Manufacturer of the Year View Details

05 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

Working PapersOn Best-Response Bidding in GSP Auctions Authors:Matthew Cary, Aparna Das, Benjamin Edelman, Ioannis Giotis, Kurtis Heimerl, Anna R. Karlin, Claire Mathieu, and Michael Schwarz Abstract How should players bid in keyword auctions such as those used by... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

July 2024
Case

Negotiating in a Hurricane: John Branca and the Michael Jackson Estate

By: James K. Sebenius and Alex Green

When the "King of Pop," Michael Jackson, unexpectedly died in 2009, he left behind an estate that was over $500 million in debt, with largely illiquid assets, and legions of creditors poised to begin to seize assets in as soon as 60 days. The task of managing Jackson’s... View Details

Keywords: Bargaining; Dispute Resolution; Negotiation; Entertainment; Financial Management; Financial Condition; Assets; Music Industry

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11 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career

program that organizes offsite charitable activities, such as Habitat for Humanity. In addition, Velocity rewards employees with $1,000 cash contributions to their charities of choice and peer-to-peer ‘flash’ awards of Kiva gift cards... View Details

01 Jan 2013
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Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987

Cofounder and Managing Partner, Strategic Grant Partners Download Jacobson profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1960 Born, Framingham, Massachusetts 1982 Earns BA, International Relations, University of... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

31 Jan 2014
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Body, Heal Thyself

according to the New York Times. Then, in October, the government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Moderna $25 million to develop mRNA to combat infectious diseases and biological threats. "What we're trying to... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; biotech; Health, Social Assistance; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Jan 2002
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Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)

Founding Chairman, Egon Zehnder International, Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education University of Zurich, 1949 A.B., Classics University of Zurich, 1953 Ph.D., Law (including one year at the University of... View Details

16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016

forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Who Neglects Risk? Investor Experience and the Credit Boom By: Chernenko, Sergey, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—Many have argued that overoptimistic thinking on the part of lenders helps fuel credit booms.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Affiliated Organizations & Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations... Affiliated Organizations &... View Details

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Digital Millennium Copyright Act | About

civil copyright infringement may be ordered to pay either actual damages or “statutory” damages affixed at not less than $750 and not more than $30,000 per work infringed. For “willful” infringement, a court may award up to $150,000 per... View Details

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Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community. - Advancing Racial Equity

marginalized communities of color prior to enrolling at HBS. The Recognizing Individuals Seeking Equity (RISE) Fellowships—each totaling $20K over two years—will be awarded on top of need-based tuition scholarships. The RISE Fellowship... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

receive fellowships, which cover an average of more than 50 percent of a student's total tuition. About 27 percent of total tuition—more than $30 million—was awarded as fellowships in fiscal 2021. Average fellowship support per student... View Details

26 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

performing department receives a bonus, while the worst performing department receives a pay cut. Determining whether departments were awarded the bonus or pay cut depends on objective rankings in the point system, but also on the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

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By: Ethan C. Rouen

Relying on empirical archival methodologies—as well as techniques in data science—to develop and structure new sources of data by which to approach questions of looming disclosure changes, Professor Rouen has focused on one of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s... View Details

24 Feb 2022
Op-Ed

Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

advised Congress and past presidents on health care policy, and won the first HBS student award for outstanding instructor. Richard J. Boxer, MD, FACS, is clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of... View Details

Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer; Health

August 2018 (Revised July 2020)
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Revenue Recognition at HBP

By: Paul Healy and Siko Sikochi

In early 2014, Paul Bills, CFO of Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), sat down with David Wan, the company’s CEO, to discuss budget preparations for the coming year. Bills noted that the performance of Corporate Learning, one of HBP’s three business units, would be... View Details

Keywords: Accrual Accounting; Budgets and Budgeting; Revenue Recognition; Financial Reporting; Publishing Industry; Education Industry; United States

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