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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
HBS Students Mentor Kids
Boston. Manville is designed for kids from ages 5 to 15 who struggle in traditional educational settings due to emotional or physical issues. A key element of the school’s approach is the big sister/big brother concept, in which an older... View Details
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Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements - Course Catalog
through two main topics: Reporting strategy analysis: assessing a firm's value proposition and identifying its key value drivers and risks; evaluating the degree to which accounting policies and standards... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
Chairman, President & Chief Executive, The Procter & Gamble Company Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Hamilton College, 1969 A.B., History LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "The case study method had such an enormous impact on me that I have made... View Details
- 16 Oct 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Core Earnings? New Data and Evidence
- February 2024
- Course Overview Note
The Anatomy of Fraud
By: Jonas Heese
Corporate fraud remains a serious problem. Learning how to detect and prevent it, and make better investment decisions, has broad applicability for private and public market investors, as well as for people joining or running companies. This course note describes a... View Details
Heese, Jonas. "The Anatomy of Fraud." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 124-076, February 2024.
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
back-office burdens from the doctors and support staff to the company. One of the company's software services, for example, translates electronic records from its system to others (no more stuck MRIs), and lets doctors track and manage... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
business strategy jointly. And it must agree as a group on an organizational vision for the new firm, as well as on which managers will occupy key positions and what should be expected of them." In... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- January 2000 (Revised October 2002)
- Case
Cambridge Hospital Community Health Network - The Primary Care Unit
By: V.G. Narayanan, Lisa Brem and Ryan Moore
The Cambridge Hospital Community Health Network needed to gain a better understanding of its unit-of-service costs, which had been rising at a rate of 10% per year. The network's step-down costing system gave only aggregate costing information, and there was some... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Accounting; Cost; Network Effects; Health Industry; Service Industry; Massachusetts
Narayanan, V.G., Lisa Brem, and Ryan Moore. "Cambridge Hospital Community Health Network - The Primary Care Unit." Harvard Business School Case 100-054, January 2000. (Revised October 2002.)
- Student-Profile
Anil Doshi
TOM Program In working closely with TOM faculty, I have gained the skills to produce knowledge that is both academically rigorous and relevant to practice and society. A key strength of the TOM unit is the diversity of the faculty, in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
In June, W. Carl Kester, the School's Industrial Bank of Japan Professor of Business Administration, was appointed senior associate dean and MBA Program chair (succeeding Professor and Senior Associate Dean Steven C. Wheelwright). The Bulletin recently asked Kester to... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
sustainability issues do not significantly outperform firms with poor ratings on the same issues. These results are confirmed when we analyze future changes in accounting performance. The results have implications for asset View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
stagnating sales, accounting losses, or a falling stock price. In extreme cases such poor performance may cause the company to default on its debt, resulting in bankruptcy. Restructuring the debt can be difficult and costly, although in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
a shopping mall, just as the addition of a talented director or actor can change the fortunes of a movie. There is one key difference, however. “In real estate, you’ll know about what your project is worth, in the end. Not so with films.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
Management. After completing his doctorate, Serafeim accepted a teaching position at HBS, one of eight newcomers to join the faculty. Serafeim, an assistant professor in the Accounting & Management Unit,... View Details
- 2013
- Chapter
Luxembourg: A Sustainable Society Starts Here
By: Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim
Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim. "Luxembourg: A Sustainable Society Starts Here." Chap. 6 in CSR Report 2013, edited by Francesco de Leo and Francis Quinn, 73–92. InnoVatio Publishing Ltd., 2013.
- Article
Sustainability in Financial Services Is Not About Being Green
By: Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim
Keywords: Sustainability; Financial Services; Banks; Insurance Companies; Risk; Risk Management; Insurance; Accounting; Banks and Banking; Financial Services Industry
Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim. "Sustainability in Financial Services Is Not About Being Green." Harvard Business Review Blogs (May 15, 2013).
- fall 1988
- Article
Analysis of the Organizational Characteristics Related to Tight Budget Goals
By: R. Simons
Simons, R. "Analysis of the Organizational Characteristics Related to Tight Budget Goals." Contemporary Accounting Research 5, no. 1 (fall 1988): 267–283.
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
future, we had to agree on very challenging goals and hold people to their commitments, making schedules, managing within budgets, and achieving sales and profit goals. Surprising as it may seem, this had not been done before. This meant... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
On Track
her clients keep an even keel by meeting periodically with each one. “I give them a book that I put together especially for them,” she said. “It shows how each manager and the whole account has done; that... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 10 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization
Your Organization Accountable Every organization has business goals and metrics they shoot for. Diversity, equity, and inclusion should be included in those key goals and as such should be attached to... View Details