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  • 01 Jun 2023
  • HBS Case

A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

street-to-prison cycle that had ravaged his youth. He had passed a high school equivalency test and had earned a college degree, and by that point could envision a bright future as a budding accountant at Arthur Andersen, the firm he... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories

    Ryan L. Raffaelli

    Ryan Raffaelli is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He created and teaches the MBA course "Leadership: Execution and Action Planning" (LEAP) and serves... View Details

    Keywords: publishing industry; advertising; consulting; information technology industry; grocery; nonprofit industry; retailing; consumer products; federal government

      Jung Koo Kang

      Jung Koo Kang is an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management Unit. He teaches the Financial Reporting and Control course in the MBA required curriculum.

      Professor Kang’s research focuses on financial technology and innovation, alternative data,... View Details

      • June 2012
      • Article

      Short Termism: Don't Blame the Investors

      By: Francois Brochet, George Serafeim and Maria Loumioti
      The article presents research on executives and corporation investor relations. A study is conducted of the language used by executives in conference calls discussing earnings with investors and financial analysts. A correlation was found between the use of language... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Management; Business Earnings; Managerial Roles; Investment; Agency Theory; Communication Strategy; Business and Shareholder Relations
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      • May 2014
      • Case

      Groupon, Inc.

      By: Krishna G. Palepu, Blythe J. McGarvie and James Weber
      Internet coupon site "Groupon" grew revenues rapidly and went public, but struggled to impress investors or operate profitably. Did it have a sustainable business model? Groupon sold coupons called Groupons which purchasers used to acquire goods or services at... View Details
      Keywords: Accounting; Corporate Governance; Entrepreneurship; Financial Management; Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Organizational Culture; Strategy; Web Services Industry; United States
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      • May 2024
      • Case

      A New Aiera for Equity Research

      By: Joseph Pacelli, Charles CY Wang and James Barnett
      Aiera (pronounced “era”) co-founder and CEO Ken Sena considers strategic pathways to growth for the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform used to source, verify, and transcribe earnings calls, company presentations, and other corporate events. View Details
      Keywords: Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; AI and Machine Learning; Growth and Development Strategy; Accounting Industry; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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      • November–December 2022
      • Article

      Number One in Formula One: Leadership Lessons from Toto Wolff and Mercedes, the Team behind One of the Greatest Winning Streaks in All of Sports

      By: Anita Elberse
      Toto Wolff, the team principal for Mercedes-AMG Petronas—arguably the most impressive team in F1 racing history—has led his organization to unparalleled success. Mercedes earned the Constructors’ Championship (for best overall team performance) every year from 2014... View Details
      Keywords: Formula One; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Management Style; Success
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        Ryan W. Buell

        Ryan W. Buell is a Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches View Details

        Keywords: banking; e-commerce industry; fast food; financial services; high technology; hotels ＆ motels; insurance industry; restaurant; retailing; service industry; transportation

          Arthur C. Brooks

          Arthur C. Brooks is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches courses on leadership, happiness, and... View Details

            Derrick Bransby

            Derrick studies how teams accomplish complex work in novel contexts. His dissertation advances the idea of disciplined flexibility: a strategy teams use to navigate uncertainty... View Details
            • 12 May 2008
            • Research & Ideas

            Accounting Information as Political Currency

            downward earnings management, corporate donors to candidates in closely watched races exhibit significant evidence of downward earnings management in the second and third... View Details
            Keywords: by Martha Lagace
            • 30 Jan 2012
            • News

            The Perils of High CFO Incentive Pay

              Jeffrey T. Polzer

              Jeff Polzer is the UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He studies how people collaborate in teams and across organizational networks to accomplish their individual and collective... View Details

                Joseph L. Badaracco

                Joseph L. Badaracco is the John Shad Professor of Business Ethics at Harvard Business School. He has taught courses on business ethics, strategy, and management in the School's MBA and executive programs.
                 
                Badaracco is a graduate of St. Louis... View Details

                  Summer R. Jackson

                  Summer Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches LEAD in the MBA required curriculum.

                  Professor Jackson is an organizational ethnographer... View Details

                  • 12 Feb 2008
                  • Working Paper Summaries

                  The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns

                  Keywords: by Lauren H. Cohen, Andrea Frazzini & Christopher Malloy; Financial Services

                    Alexandra C. Feldberg

                    Alexandra (Allie) Feldberg is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School.

                    Professor Feldberg uses qualitative and quantitative methods to examine intersections between gender,... View Details

                    • January 2011 (Revised July 2011)
                    • Case

                    Elizabeth Jacobs: Price-Earnings Ratios and Employee Stock Option Grants

                    By: David F. Hawkins
                    Analyst questions the value of accounting measurement of earnings per share and stock option costs for equity valuation purposes. View Details
                    Keywords: Earnings Management; Business Earnings; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Stock Shares; Employee Ownership; Stock Options; Equity; Accounting Audits; Valuation; Profit Sharing; Accounting Industry
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                    • 02 Nov 2010
                    • Working Paper Summaries

                    Making the Numbers? ‘Short Termism’ & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster

                    Keywords: by Nelson P. Repenning & Rebecca M. Henderson
                    • June 18, 2019
                    • Article

                    Research: Investors Reward Companies That Talk Up Their Digital Initiatives

                    By: Suraj Srinivasan and Wilbur Chen
                    A study of how companies disclose their digital initiatives on earnings calls and written communications finds that more firms are using these technologies, that financial markets reward companies that disclose such initiatives, but that financial performance... View Details
                    Keywords: Digital Technologies; Disclosure; Investment; Performance Improvement
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