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  • 14 Apr 2022
  • News

As Companies Vow to Sever Ties in Russia, a Clean Break Proves Complicated

    Aiyesha Dey

    Aiyesha Dey has been part of the Accounting and Management unit at the Harvard Business School (HBS) since July 2017. She started her career as an accounting faulty at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, after which she joined the accounting group at... View Details

      Lumumba B. Seegars

      Lumumba Seegars is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the Leadership and Organizational Behavior course (LEAD) in the MBA Required Curriculum.

      Professor Seegars... View Details

        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

        • 2010
        • Working Paper

        Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' and the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster

        By: Nelson P. Repenning and Rebecca Henderson
        Much recent work in strategy and popular discussion suggests that an excessive focus on "managing the numbers"—delivering quarterly earnings at the expense of longer-term investments—makes it difficult for firms to make the investments necessary to build competitive... View Details
        Keywords: Investment; Performance Improvement; Competitive Advantage; Earnings Management; Management Practices and Processes; Revenue; Quality; Competency and Skills; Motivation and Incentives; Auto Industry; United States
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        Sell-Side Analysts and Legacy Spinoffs

        This paper investigates how well analysts do at evaluating spinoffs of legacy businesses vis-à-vis other spinoffs.  Analysts appear to be far more conservative in the earnings forecasts they make for legacy businesses and their parents than they are for... View Details

          Emily R. McComb

          Emily McComb is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance Unit at HBS, teaching "Finance 2" in the required curriculum of the MBA program, as well as a co-leader of the HBS Impact Investment Fund in the elective curriculum. Prior to joining the HBS faculty in 2017, Emily was... View Details

          Keywords: financial services; health care
          • November 1994 (Revised April 2012)
          • Case

          National Electric Corporation

          By: David F. Hawkins and Norman Bartczak
          A company meets financial analysis year-end earnings per share estimates, which have been progressively lowered during the year. View Details
          Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Quality; Business Earnings; Stock Shares; Analysis
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          • 26 Sep 2019
          • News

          SoftBank Bet Big on Disruptive Companies. Many Have Not Paid Off.

            Feng Zhu

            Feng Zhu is the MBA Class of 1958 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he leads the Platform Lab within the Digital, Data, and Design Institute, co-chairs the Harvard Business Analytics Program, and serves as the course head for the... View Details

            • 05 Jan 2014
            • News

            Offbeat Dispatches From Economic Summit

              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

                David Ager

                David Ager is a Senior Lecturer in Executive Education.  He engages CEOs, CHROs, and their teams to design and deliver customized executive development experiences for executive, senior and high potential leaders.  The companies hail from diverse sectors including... View Details

                • 2021
                • Working Paper

                Being the Boss: Gig Workers' Value of Flexible Work

                By: Laura Katsnelson and Felix Oberholzer-Gee
                Workers who join the gig economy face a challenging trade-off. Gig work provides worktime flexibility and a sense of being one’s own boss, but gig workers forgo certain protections that employees enjoy. In this paper, we study the work patterns of a large sample of... View Details
                Keywords: Gig Workers; Flexible Work Arrangements; Worker Welfare; Labor; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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                • 12 May 2021
                • Video

                The Story Behind the Baker Scholars

                  Elizabeth Sheprow

                  Elizabeth Sheprow is a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School. She uses a humanistic lens to research people's emotions, relationships, and narrative dynamics at work.... View Details

                    Christian Kaps

                    Christian Kaps is an Assistant Professor of business administration in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit at Harvard Business School. Kaps' research focuses on emerging topics in renewable electricity generation and storage - notably how new... View Details

                      Jorge Tamayo

                      Jorge Tamayo is an assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy Unit. He teaches the Strategy course in the MBA required curriculum.

                      Professor Tamayo is an applied microeconomist primarily interested in industrial organization and... View Details

                      • 17 May 2011
                      • News

                      Why I won't invest in hedge funds

                      • 13 May 2015
                      • Video

                      Professor Kathleen McGinn on working mothers as positive role models for their children