Publications

08 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

distressed bonds. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208111 The Xiamen PX Project: The Rule of Contract or Citizens in China Today Harvard Business School Case 808-123 This case examines the effect of environmental View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

May 2021
Case

Inclusive Innovation at Mass General Brigham

By: Katherine Baldiga Coffman and Olivia Hull

Massachusetts General Brigham (MGB) Chief Innovation Officer Christopher Coburn had overseen a period of exciting transformation and growth in healthcare innovation at MGB. In November 2019, the health system was the largest recipient of National Institutes of Health... View Details

March 2012 (Revised December 2014)
Case

Schön Klinik: Measuring Cost and Value

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Mary L. Witkowski and Jessica A. Hohman

The case illustrates how a leading German hospital group has invested deeply in the measurement of patient-level outcomes and costs, the foundations of a health care value framework. The company launches a pilot project to use time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC)... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Costing; Activity-Based Costing; Hospitals; Activity Based Costing and Management; Value; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Health Industry; Germany

summer 2008
Article

Corporate Social Responsibility Through an Economic Lens

By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Robert N. Stavins and Richard H.K. Vietor

Business leaders, government officials, and academics are focusing considerable attention on the concept of "corporate social responsibility" (CSR), particularly in the realm of environmental protection. Beyond complete compliance with environmental regulations, do... View Details

Keywords: Profit; Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Environmental Sustainability

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12 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 12

control rights and cash-flow rights in the borrowing firms exacerbates potential tunneling and other moral hazard activities by large shareholders, thereby increasing credit risk and monitoring needs. Consequently, lenders form syndicates... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

or fail to analyze the utter breakdown in board governance and Enron's internal controls, and the failure of credit rating agencies to blow the whistle," he says. "They also overlook the collusion of investment banks in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

01 Jan 2007
News

Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

trouble letting go, he gave us freedom to sink or swim." The brothers have pursued a strategy of maintaining Ayala's core strength—extensive, large-scale, high-end real estate development in and around Manila—while expanding their View Details

01 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

calming. And it is healing: the Mayo Clinic urges us to "intentionally set a goal to be kinder to others. Express sincerely felt kindness to a co-worker." Science has confirmed what we observe in our daily interactions. According to the Mayo Clinic, acts of kindness... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Communication (42) Investment Activism (12) Investment Banking (6) Investment Funds (12) Investment Portfolio (8)... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

Case Study: Staking a Claim

Surround’s niche but results can be a little all over the place, Terry acknowledges, and the organic content is probably better for top-of-the-funnel awareness. As a small startup with no brand awareness, Surround needs more activity at... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

customer rather than assign resource costs first to activities and then to products or customers. For each group of resources, estimates of only two parameters are required: the cost per time unit of supplying resource capacity and the... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson

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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

decisions Value a venture, project, or investment opportunity and perform a sensitivity analysis Who Will Benefit College Students and Recent Graduates Those Considering an MBA Mid-Career Professionals Learn the language of business... View Details

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Finance - Faculty & Research

targeted interventions to boost long-term engagement and spending. Keywords: Dynamic Policy ; Deep Reinforcement Learning ; Representation Learning ; Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment ; Latent Variable Models ; Customer Relationship Management ; Customer Value and Value... View Details

February 1997 (Revised April 1997)
Case

Harrington Financial Group

By: Robert C. Merton and Alberto Moel

In early 1997, Harrington Bank, a small Indiana savings and loan (thrift) wondered what its next move should be. Harrington was acquired in 1988 by the principals of Smith Breeden Associates, a money-management and consulting firm specializing in the application of... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Mergers and Acquisitions; Price; Risk Management; Mortgages; Contracts; Asset Management; Investment; Financial Services Industry

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HBS - Key Metrics

2023 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads Key Metrics Financials (in millions) 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 Revenues $1,067 $966 $805 $861 $925 Expenses 1,003 908 779 831 821 Net Operating Surplus 64 58 26 30 104 Capital View Details

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Economic Development in Inner Cities - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

national economy. Trying to cure the inner city’s problems solely by increasing social investment has rarely been successful. But when we approach revitalization from a competitiveness perspective, we begin to see the existing and... View Details

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

that implicitly activating the construct of time, rather than money, leads individuals to behave more ethically by cheating less. We further found that priming time reduces cheating by making people reflect on who they are. Implications... View Details

March 2023 (Revised September 2023)
Case

Patagonia: 'Earth Is Now Our Only Shareholder'

By: Brian Trelstad, Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael Norris and Susan Pinckney

In September 2022, Yvon Chouinard, the iconoclastic founder of outdoor apparel company Patagonia, announced a new ownership model for his company. Chouinard and his family had held complete control of the company's voting and non-voting stock since its founding 50... View Details