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  • March 1996 (Revised July 1996)
  • Case

Service Corporation International

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Craig F Schreiber
The CFO of a high-growth company in the low-growth and fragmented funeral services industry must decide how to optimize capital structure and earnings growth while maximizing the company's market value. View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Value Creation; Business Growth and Maturation; Consolidation; Industry Growth; Capital Structure; Expansion; Service Industry; United States; North and Central America
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    Paula C. Rettl

    Paula Rettl is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. Her primary areas of expertise are comparative politics, political economy and political behavior, with a focus on Latin America and... 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

        Thomas W. Graeber

        Thomas Graeber is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Negotiations in the MBA elective curriculum.

        As an empirical behavioral and experimental... View Details

        • September 1986 (Revised March 1987)
        • Case

        Graves Industries, Inc. (B): Lohnes Marine Hardware Division

        Describes events occurring over a four-year period in one division of Graves Industries. The division goes through a business cycle and uses several methods of managing earnings to meet its budget targets. The purpose of the case is to allow the exploration of the... View Details
        Keywords: Earnings Management; Crime and Corruption; Ethics
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        • 26 Nov 2019
        • News

        Apple Has Survived Backlash to the Tech World While Amazon, Google, Facebook and Other Tech Giants Struggle — An Expert on Trust Explains Why

        • September–October 2021
        • Article

        Frontiers: Can an AI Algorithm Mitigate Racial Economic Inequality? An Analysis in the Context of Airbnb

        By: Shunyuan Zhang, Nitin Mehta, Param Singh and Kannan Srinivasan
        We study the effect of Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm on the racial disparity in the daily revenue earned by Airbnb hosts. Our empirical strategy exploits Airbnb’s introduction of the algorithm and its voluntary adoption by hosts as a quasi-natural experiment. Among... View Details
        Keywords: Smart Pricing; Pricing Algorithm; Machine Bias; Discrimination; Racial Disparity; Social Inequality; Airbnb Revenue; Revenue; Race; Equality and Inequality; Prejudice and Bias; Price; Mathematical Methods; Accommodations Industry
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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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        • 30 Nov 2016
        • Working Paper Summaries

        The Stock Market and Bank Risk-Taking

        Keywords: by Antonio Falato and David Scharfstein; Financial Services; Banking

          Ashley V. Whillans

          Ashley Whillans is the Volpert Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where she teaches the Motivation and Incentives course to MBA students. Professor Whillans earned her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of... View Details

            Siyu Zhang

            Siyu Zhang is a second-year doctoral student at HBS. Zhang joined Harvard Business School in 2020 as a Research Associate and has been working on macroeconomic forecasting projects. Prior to joining HBS, he was a Data Scientist at John Hancock, where he utilized... View Details

            • February 2025
            • Case

            Managing EPS at Stanley Black & Decker?

            By: Jonas Heese, Joseph Pacelli, Yuan Zou and James Barnett
            The case explores Stanley Black and Decker’s (SBD) 2022 financial restatement announcement, which related to how SBD accounted for certain equity issuances in 2019. These transactions had a minimal effect on earnings but significantly reduced shares outstanding, and... View Details
            Keywords: Accounting; Financial Reporting; Ethics; Finance; Accounting Industry; Construction Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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            • 2018
            • Book

            High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences

            By: Gordon H. Hanson, William R. Kerr and Sarah Turner
            Immigration policy is one of the most contentious public policy issues in the United States today. High-skilled immigrants represent an increasing share of the U.S. workforce, particularly in science and engineering fields. These immigrants affect economic growth,... View Details
            Keywords: Immigration; Policy; Economics; Outcome or Result; United States
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            • 07 Jul 2021
            • News

            These Are the Personality Traits You Need to Lead with Trust

              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

                Olivia S. Kim

                Olivia Kim is an assistant professor of business administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches the Entrepreneurial Management course in the MBA required curriculum.

                Professor Kim's research examines how firms... View Details

                • November 2019
                • Supplement

                Gillette: Cutting Prices to Regain Share

                By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
                After losing market share to low-priced competitors such as Harry’s and Dollar Shave Club for several years, Gillette decided to fight back by cutting prices on its razors and blades in April 2017. Bonnie Herzog, an equity analyst at Wells Fargo, must assess how the... View Details
                Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Product Positioning; Business Strategy; Competition; Price; Public Equity; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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                • Article

                Tax Policy and the Efficiency of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad

                By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.
                Deferral of U.S. taxes on foreign source income is commonly characterized as a subsidy to foreign investment, as reflected in its inclusion among "tax expenditures" and occasional calls for its repeal. This paper analyzes the extent to which tax deferral and other... View Details
                Keywords: International Taxation; Dynamic Efficiency; Deferral; Policy; Taxation; Performance Efficiency; Foreign Direct Investment; Investment Funds; Investment Return; Business Earnings; Equity; Financing and Loans; Cash Flow; Capital; United States
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                • 04 Aug 2021
                • News

                How Companies Can Repair Trust Post-COVID

                  Ethan C. Rouen

                  Ethan Rouen is an associate professor of business administration in the Accounting and Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches the elective course Reimagining Capitalism. From 2020 to 2022, he served as the faculty co-chair of the View Details