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  • November 2000 (Revised January 2003)
  • Case

Yahoo!'s Stock-Based Compensation

By: Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen
Amy Maislos, an investor in Internet and technology companies, was excited to read that Yahoo! had reported a positive net income for 1998 operations. During the late 1990s, stock prices of Internet companies had risen rapidly even though most companies were reporting... View Details
Keywords: Stock Options; Internet and the Web; Financial Statements; Corporate Disclosure; Business Earnings; Earnings Management; Information Technology Industry
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    Stefan H. Thomke

    Stefan Thomke (sthomke@hbs.edu), an authority on the management of innovation, is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has worked with firms on product, process, and... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace; automobiles; automotive; banking; biotechnology; chemical; computer; defense; electronics; health care; high technology; home video games; information technology industry; manufacturing; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; plastics; semiconductor; service industry; telecommunications; video games

      Royce G. Yudkoff

      Royce Yudkoff is the MBA Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice of Entrepreneurial Management at the Harvard Business School and a General Partner and co-founder of ABRY Partners, LLC in Boston, MA. Alongside Professor Richard Ruback, Royce currently... View Details

      • 2008
      • Book

      Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage

      By: Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
      In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organizations struggle in this area--not with formulating strategy but with executing it, or putting their strategy into action. Owing to execution failures, companies realize... View Details
      Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Operations; Performance; Strategic Planning; Business Strategy
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      • 01 Nov 1999
      • Research & Ideas

      John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922

      reprinted—and thereby according to the author "exposed"—the techniques of book canvassers, atlas salesmen, and lightning-rod peddlers. While it is not clear that Patterson was familiar with any of these scripts, it is likely... View Details
      Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
      • 06 Mar 2020
      • Book

      A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

      focused on leadership, organizational behavior, managing human capital, and career management. His new book, Teaching by Heart: One Professor’s Journey to Inspire, was recently published by Harvard Business Review Press. He shares his... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
      • 26 Apr 2022
      • Book

      What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose

      purpose” as a way to build trust and in so doing achieve both impressive economic results and positive social impact. The book demonstrates how purpose-driven business leaders find success by clearly articulating a purpose for the... View Details
      Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

        Linda A. Hill

        Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and Faculty Chair of the Leadership Initiative. Hill is regarded as one of the top experts on leadership and innovation. Hill is... View Details

        • 28 Sep 2011
        • Research & Ideas

        The Profit Power of Corporate Culture

        returns to labor, and relationships with customers (producing loyalty and customer "ownership") as well as innovation and financial performance. If the organization doesn't measure up on these dimensions over some extended period, it may be necessary to View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
        • 12 Oct 2022
        • Research & Ideas

        When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb

        belonging to a certain ethnicity to isolate distinctively Asian names. Because most guests leave reviews, the researchers say they can accurately reflect the number of bookings a host is getting. The researchers then compared the change... View Details
        Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Technology; Travel
        • 08 Feb 2021
        • Book

        How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

        one small way he could do his part, according to his new book Better, Not Perfect: A Realist’s Guide to Maximum Sustainable Goodness. In the book, Bazerman shares lessons from his own experiences and provides practical advice to help... View Details
        Keywords: by Michael Blanding
        • 25 May 2007
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Self-Regulatory Institutions for Solving Environmental Problems: Perspectives and Contributions from the Management Literature

        Keywords: by Andrew King & Michael W. Toffel
        • 05 May 2011
        • What Do You Think?

        How Ethical Can We Be?

        necessary. Of course one could ask, "Are they cheating, especially when they are probably unaware of what they are doing?" In a new book Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It, authors Max H.... View Details
        Keywords: by Jim Heskett
        • 09 Jan 2020
        • Book

        Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

        more akin to an Apple, a Tesla, or a Nest, or a GoPro—where it’s a consumer product that has the foundation of sexy hardware technology and sexy software technology,” he is quoted in a book published today, Competing in the Age of AI:... View Details
        Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
        • 08 Jun 2009
        • Research & Ideas

        The Return of the Salesman

        business and society. In its Winter 2008 issue, Business History Review included five articles on salesmanship: "Selling the American Way: The Singer Sales System in Japan, 1900-1938" (by Andrew Gordon) "Inventing the U.S. Stove Industry,... View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

          John P. Kotter

          John P. Kotter is internationally known and widely regarded as the foremost speaker on the topics of Leadership and Change.  His is the premier voice on how the best organizations actually achieve successful transformations. The Konosuke... View Details

          • 22 Mar 2010
          • Research & Ideas

          One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

          an interview with HBS Working Knowledge. "Obtaining One Strategy in times of change means the organization will respond in a holistic fashion to new challenges, staying aligned for maximum competitive impact." The book follows... View Details
          Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services
          • 17 Jan 2023
          • Book

          Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them

          procedures, foreign corrupt practices, and virtual currency. The book speaks to “how organizations are actually held criminally accountable,” says co-author Eugene F. Soltes, the McLean Family Professor of Business Administration at... View Details
          Keywords: by Lane Lambert

            Richard S. Ruback

            Richard S. Ruback is a Baker Foundation Professor and the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He is currently focusing his research in applied corporate finance, especially... View Details

              Dorothy A. Leonard

              Dorothy Leonard*, the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration Emerita, joined the Harvard faculty in 1983 after teaching for three years at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught MBA courses in... View Details

              Keywords: computer; consulting; education industry; electronics; federal government; high technology; information technology industry; software; venture capital industry