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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
    • June 2000 (Revised September 2000)
    • Case

    Amazon.com: Exploiting the Value of Digital Business Infrastructure

    By: Lynda M. Applegate and Meredith Collura
    Enables a thorough analysis of Amazon.com and the company's value proposition, in terms of its business concept, digital business capabilities, and community and shareholder value. Examines the company's complex set of business models and web of business relationships,... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Asset Pricing; Capital; Financial Management; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Relationships; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry
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    • 18 Jun 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Elections and Discretionary Accruals: Evidence from 2004

    Keywords: by Karthik Ramanna & Sugata Roychowdhury
    • May 2020
    • Teaching Note

    Kraft Heinz: The $8 Billion Brand Write-Down

    By: Jill Avery
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 519-076. On Friday, February 22, 2019, following an unexpected and disappointing earnings report, The Kraft Heinz Company’s stock price fell 27%, wiping out $16 billion in market value. CEO Bernardo Hees had announced that the company had... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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    Financial Incentives

    My research examines how the performance effects of internal governance and the design of compensation vary by managerial position. For example, I document links between innovation and stock options for corporate R&D heads;... View Details

    • 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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    • 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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    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
    • 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
    • Article

    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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    • 26 Mar 2021
    • News

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

    • September 2000 (Revised November 2002)
    • Case

    Amazon.com: 1994-2000

    By: Lynda M. Applegate and Meredith Collura
    Enables a thorough analysis of Amazon.com and the company's value proposition, in terms of its business concept, digital business capabilities, and community and shareholder value. Examines the company's complex set of business models and web of business relationships,... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Asset Pricing; Capital; Financial Strategy; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry
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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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
    • 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
    • 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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    • Research Summary

    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
    • 17 Sep 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: September 17

      Publications September 2013 Management Science Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India By: Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton Abstract—This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      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