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- 02 Jun 2017
- News
Venture Capital Firms With More Teenage Daughters Perform Better
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Brightest Young Business Leaders by John Coleman (MPA/MBA ’10), Daniel Gulati (MBA ’11), and W. Oliver Segovia (MBA ’10) (Harvard Business Review Press) Recent Harvard MBAs share personal stories about assuming the mantle of leadership in ways unlike previous... View Details
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Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems: Company, Industry, Market and Transaction Research
companies. Also includes private equity information. Individual accounts needed. Please see More Info page for instructions. CB Insights & Industry Analytics CB Insights is a private company database that tracks global venture... View Details
- April 1964 (Revised January 2003)
- Case
Empire Glass Company (A)
By: David F. Hawkins
Concerns management control at the divisional level, and the use of budgets. View Details
Hawkins, David F. "Empire Glass Company (A)." Harvard Business School Case 109-043, April 1964. (Revised January 2003.)
- June 18, 2014
- Blog Post
How to Kill Quarterly Earnings Guidance
By: Gabriel Karageorgiou, Daniela Saltzman and George Serafeim
Karageorgiou, Gabriel, Daniela Saltzman, and George Serafeim. "How to Kill Quarterly Earnings Guidance." HBR Blog Network (June 18, 2014). http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/06/how-to-kill-quarterly-earnings-guidance/.
- 2014
- Working Paper
The Role of the Corporation in Society: An Alternative View and Opportunities for Future Research
By: George Serafeim
A long-standing ideology in business education has been that a corporation is run for the sole interest of its shareholders. I present an alternative view where increasing concentration of economic activity and power in the world's largest corporations, the Global... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Governance; Environment; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting; Sustainability Research; Sustainability Targets; Corporate Performance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Serafeim, George. "The Role of the Corporation in Society: An Alternative View and Opportunities for Future Research." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-110, May 2014.
- March 2011 (Revised April 2021)
- Case
The Whiz Kids
By: Tom Nicholas and David Chen
In October 1945, Henry Ford II received a telegram in his office at the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan written by Charles "Tex" Thornton, a U.S. Air Force colonel. The telegram presented an opportunity for Ford to deploy a system of statistical control which... View Details
Keywords: Ford Motor Company; Statistical Control; Management Systems; Accounting; Operations; Strategy; Mathematical Methods; Auto Industry; United States
Nicholas, Tom, and David Chen. "The Whiz Kids." Harvard Business School Case 811-042, March 2011. (Revised April 2021.)
- November 1999 (Revised April 2000)
- Case
Cresud S.A.
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Jonathan West and David Benedict Pearcy
Cresud, a listed Argentine agricultural company, generates value by operating farms and through land appreciation. This case describes Cresud's business model, industry, and country context. Can a corporate farmer in agriculture use public funds to compete in both the... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Business Model; Value; Corporate Accountability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Goldberg, Ray A., Jonathan West, and David Benedict Pearcy. "Cresud S.A." Harvard Business School Case 900-010, November 1999. (Revised April 2000.)
- 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
Merchant, Kenneth A. "Graves Industries, Inc. (B): Lohnes Marine Hardware Division." Harvard Business School Case 187-046, September 1986. (Revised March 1987.)
- Article
The Innovation of Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Steven R. Anderson
Kaplan, Robert S., and Steven R. Anderson. "The Innovation of Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing." Cost Management 21, no. 2 (March–April 2007): 5–15.
- Profile
Daniel Sheyner
As Daniel Sheyner (MBA 2014) tells it, most private equity firms have a very specific target in mind when recruiting: "The best athletes." The highest-ranked investment banking and consulting analysts; the elite. "Goldman Sachs, KKR, Blackstone—they want... View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
The Growth of the Private-Sector Space Industry
- 03 Apr 2020
- News
The Small Business Administration Confronts an Historic Crisis
- June 2011 (Revised February 2013)
- Case
Mandatory Environmental, Social, and Governance Disclosure in the European Union
By: George Serafeim
In 2011, the European Commission was deciding on how to best modify the existing European Union policy on corporate disclosure of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Previous directives had recommended that European companies report ESG... View Details
Keywords: Integrated Corporate Reporting; Corporate Strategy; Corporate Disclosure; Environmental Accounting; Competitive Strategy; International Accounting; Financial Reporting; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Debates; Europe
Eccles, Robert G., George Serafeim, and Phillip Andrews. "Mandatory Environmental, Social, and Governance Disclosure in the European Union." Harvard Business School Case 111-120, June 2011. (Revised February 2013.)
- 2003
- Casebook
Accounting: Text and Cases
By: Robert N. Anthony, David Hawkins and Kenneth Merchant
Anthony, Robert N., David Hawkins, and Kenneth Merchant. Accounting: Text and Cases. 11th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2003.
- 14 Apr 2015
- News
How crowdsourcing could help simplify America’s tax code
- 06 Feb 2015
- News