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    Josh Lerner

    Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor at Harvard Business School and Co-Director of the HBS Private Capital Project.  Much of his research focuses on venture capital and private equity organizations.  (This research is summarized in his books The Money of... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; high technology; venture capital industry
    • July 2023 (Revised October 2024)
    • Case

    Revenue Recognition at Stride Funding: Making Sense of Revenues for a Fintech Startup

    By: Paul M. Healy and Jung Koo Kang
    The case explores the challenges of revenue recognition and financial reporting for Stride Funding (Stride), a fintech startup that has disrupted the student loan market. Stride leveraged proprietary machine learning and financial models to underwrite alternative... View Details
    Keywords: Revenue Recognition; Financial Reporting; Entrepreneurial Finance; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Governance Compliance; Accrual Accounting; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • November 1998
    • Case

    Holts (A), The

    By: Howard H. Stevenson
    Focuses on the decision of whether to sell a business or to continue it. Issues regarding the family's roles, the replacement of the business's earning power, and the owner's future roles are discussed. Among the issues raised are the values being transmitted. View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Family Business; Financial Management; Business or Company Management; Value
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    How Much (More) Should CEOs Make? A Universal Desire for More Equal Pay

    By: Sorapop Kiatpongsan and Michael I. Norton
    Do people from different countries and different backgrounds have similar preferences for how much more the rich should earn than the poor? Using survey data from 40 countries (N = 55,238), we compare respondents' estimates of the wages of people in different... View Details
    Keywords: Inequality; Justice; Wage; Cross-cultural; Wages; Equality and Inequality; Fairness; Income; Employees; Management Teams; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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    • 18 Jun 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Elections and Discretionary Accruals: Evidence from 2004

    Keywords: by Karthik Ramanna & Sugata Roychowdhury
    • 10 Nov 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Too Nice to Lead? Unpacking the Gender Stereotype That Holds Women Back

    equality-oriented could make women less likely to be hired and less likely to be seen as suitable leaders.” It’s the latest potential wrinkle a long-running debate about why women are underpaid and how to right the situation. It’s widely known that women View Details
    Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
    • September 2010
    • Case

    Merck: Investing in Science-Based Business (Abridged)

    By: Ananth Raman and Inga Katharina Maurer
    Ray Gilmartin faces a dilemma. His company's credibility has been damaged by the recent withdrawal of Vioxx, a multi-billion dollar drug. Moreover, the withdrawal of Vioxx would imply that Merck would fail to meet analysts' earnings expectations for 2005 unless... View Details
    Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Cost Management; Production; Research and Development
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    • 26 Mar 2021
    • News

    Bosses Are 'Thriving' Right Now — But Most Employees Say The Opposite

    • June 2013
    • Teaching Note

    A Politician in a Leather Suit and the Paradox of Japanese Capitalism

    By: Karthik Ramanna
    Two lost decades later, capitalism in Japan embodies peculiar contradictions—preserving wealth and social stability in the face of declining economic power. Scant transparency in Japanese corporate practices plays an important role in this phenomenon. Sometimes... View Details
    Keywords: Japan; Tokyo; Economic Systems; Corporate Accountability; Values and Beliefs; Fairness; Crime and Corruption; Civil Society or Community; Corporate Governance; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Tokyo
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    • 11 Sep 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: September 11

    Rockman, Sven Beckert, and David Waldstreicher. University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming Abstract The traditional story of modern management begins in the factories of England and New England, extending only much later to the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    The Contract Year Phenomenon in the Corner Office: An Analysis of Firm Behavior During CEO Contract Renewals

    By: Ping Liu and Yuhai Xuan
    This paper investigates how executive employment contracts influence corporate financial policies during the final year of the contract term, using a new, hand-collected data set of CEO employment agreements. On the one hand, the impending expiration of fixed-term... View Details
    Keywords: Management Style; Contracts; Behavior; Employment
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    Dawn Matsumoto's research investigates managers' financial reporting decisions including the incentives driving these decisions and the impact of these decisions on capital market participants. She is interested in the role of financial intermediaries (such as... View Details

      Jaxon Wu

      Jaxon Wu earned his Bachelor of Arts with High Honors from Johns Hopkins University where he studied History and Mathematics. His current work intersects machine learning, team science, and healthcare operations. Specifically, he aspires to design intelligent... View Details
      • 17 Jan 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: January 17

      the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-057.pdf Earnings Management from the Bottom Up: An Analysis of Managerial Incentives Below the CEO Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Julie Wulf Abstract... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • January 2008 (Revised July 2008)
      • Case

      Opportunity Partners

      By: Robin Greenwood and James Quinn
      Philip Goldstein, the principal in a growing hedge fund and prominent activist investor, has taken a position in a Mexico-based closed-end fund. Following a hard-fought proxy contest in which he advocated for management to eliminate the fund's substantial discount,... View Details
      Keywords: Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value; Financial Services Industry; Mexico
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        The Contract Year Phenomenon in the Corner Office: An Analysis of Firm Behavior During CEO Contract Renewals

        This paper investigates how executive employment contracts influence corporate financial policies during the final year of the contract term, using a new, hand-collected data set of CEO employment agreements. On the one hand, the impending... View Details
        • February 2001 (Revised April 2001)
        • Background Note

        Note on Valuing Private Businesses

        By: Dwight B. Crane and Indra Reinbergs
        This case provides a brief overview of valuation for owners of closely held companies. The focus is on a comparable transactions approach, although rules of thumb and discounted cash flow are mentioned. Earnings multiples and their drivers are discussed. It uses... View Details
        Keywords: Earnings Management; Finance; Cash Flow; Analytics and Data Science; Private Ownership; Valuation
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        Program for Leadership Development

        the careful selection of living group members and new HBS case studies to professional executive coaching for individuals and teams, every aspect is designed to foster collaborative learning and accelerate personal growth. Review Our Campus Health & Safety Protocols... View Details
        • 25 Aug 2014
        • HBS Case

        Starbucks Reinvented

        untested arenas that define the company as it exists today. "This case distills 20 years of my thinking about the most important lessons of strategy, leadership, and managing in turbulence in the frame of a very relevant... View Details
        Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage
        • August 1998
        • Supplement

        Cleveland Tomorrow, Video

        By: James E. Austin and Rosabeth M. Kanter
        As part of Cleveland's turnaround, Cleveland Tomorrow creates new investment funds to stimulate new business development. This development is designed to earn a profit and bring new benefits to the community. Part of the HBS Social Enterprise Video Series on Business... View Details
        Keywords: Investment Funds; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Community Relations; Social Enterprise
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