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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting A Stop to the Earnings Game

By: Joseph Fuller and Michael C. Jensen

Putting an end to the "earnings game" requires that CEOs reclaim the initiative by avoiding earnings guidance and managing expectations in such a way that their stocks trade reasonably close to their intrinsic value. In place of earnings forecasts, management should... View Details

Keywords: Stocks; Performance Expectations; Goals and Objectives; Risk and Uncertainty; Growth and Development Strategy; Decisions; Risk Management; Budgets and Budgeting; Earnings Management; Value; Projects
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    The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger than Your Business Card

    What Color Is Your Parachute? meets Out of Office in this inspiring, practical playbook to achieve sustainable work-life balance while optimizing your happiness, personal growth, and bank accounts.

    Pouring yourself into a single... View Details
    • June 2016
    • Case

    Big Spaceship: The Evolving Agency

    By: Boris Groysberg and Matthew G. Preble
    This case discusses the evolution of Big Spaceship, an advertising and marketing agency, from a product-focused business to a relationship-oriented one as clients seek deeper and more meaningful long-term partnerships. The 15-year-old company had already evolved... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Marketing; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Marketing; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social Media; Advertising Industry; United States; New York (city, NY)
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    Agribusiness Seminar

    carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your own, in your living group, and in the larger classroom, driven by the renowned HBS case method. Review Our Campus Health & Safety Protocols Admissions... View Details
    Keywords: Agriculture; Agriculture
    • Program

    Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation

    foster teamwork and amplify the program's impact on your organization. Learning and Living at HBS When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully... View Details
    • Web

    Employment | Harvard Business School

    unmatched opportunity to work closely with world-renowned faculty on the research, case studies, and coursework that shape the world's leaders. Working at HBS Benefits & Compensation Hiring Process Departments Diversity Affinity Groups... View Details
    • April 2003 (Revised December 2003)
    • Background Note

    Analyzing Complex Negotiations

    Develops a framework linking structural diagnosis and strategy design in complicated (complex and ambiguous) negotiations. To develop good strategies, negotiators must rigorously diagnose the structure of their negotiating situations. Equivalently, strategy follows... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Negotiation Process; Complexity
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    • September – October 2008
    • Article

    Care Platforms: A Basic Building Block for Care Delivery

    By: Richard Bohmer and David Lawrence
    Without significant operational reform within the nation's health care delivery organizations, new financing models, payment systems, or structures are unlikely to realize their promise. Adapting insights from high-performing companies in other high-risk, high-cost,... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Management Systems; Standards; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Business Processes; Organizational Design; Customization and Personalization; Health Industry
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    Transforming Customer Experiences

    aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your own, in your living group, and in the larger classroom, driven by the renowned HBS case method. Review Our Campus... View Details

      Michael Beer

      MICHAEL BEER

      Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

      • 06 Sep 2018
      • Blog Post

      How to Thrive in an Unstructured Environment

      “Perfect is the enemy of done.” No experience has helped me internalize this more than my summer at blueground, an international, vc-backed real estate startup. Before business school, I worked at a large oil & gas company, where structure and View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship
      • Program

      Aligning Strategy and Sales

      based on customer profitability Build and nurture the best sales talent and go-to-market approach for each product or segment Translate your corporate strategy into sales strategies, tasks, and processes Build a high-impact sales team and... View Details
      • April 2008
      • Module Note

      Improvement with Customer-Operators

      By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
      Taught as the third module in a Harvard Business School course on Managing Service Operations: Understanding the Customer Operating Role (606-092). Explores how firms can systematically leverage their customer-operators in the organizational improvement process is... View Details
      Keywords: Service Operations; Performance Improvement; Customer Focus and Relationships; Framework; Employees; Business Model; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design
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      • 2011
      • Working Paper

      How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools

      By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade
      The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two... View Details
      Keywords: Change; Business Education; Business History; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Behavior
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      Senior Executive Leadership Program—China

      global context, drive new levels of innovation, and build accountable, high-performance organizations. Key Benefits Taught in both Chinese and English with simultaneous translation, this program is designed to strengthen the leadership... View Details
      • Web

      Lifelong Learning - Alumni

      other subject experts addressing timely topics on business and society, recorded live in Klarman Hall. Includes presentations from recent conferences, reunions and other events. Career Coaching for You, for Free An HBS career coach can guide your career development and... View Details
      • October 2023
      • Article

      Matching Mechanisms for Refugee Resettlement

      By: David Delacrétaz, Scott Duke Kominers and Alexander Teytelboym
      Current refugee resettlement processes account for neither the preferences of refugees nor the priorities of hosting communities. We introduce a new framework for matching with multidimensional knapsack constraints that captures the (possibly multidimensional) sizes of... View Details
      Keywords: Refugee Resettlement; Matching; Matching Markets; Matching Platform; Matching With Contracts; Algorithms; Refugees; Market Design
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      Disruptive Innovation

      Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your own, in your living group, and in... View Details
      • March 2004 (Revised February 2006)
      • Case

      Salt Lake Organizing Committee, The: 2002 Olympics

      By: H. Kent Bowen, Bryce LaPierre and Courtney Purrington
      After two and a half years of effort, Fraser Bullock, COO of the 2002 Winter Olympics, faced projected deficits and post-9/11 security requirements only five months before the opening ceremony. Summarizes the organizational structure and processes put in place by... View Details
      Keywords: Framework; Knowledge Dissemination; Business or Company Management; Managerial Roles; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Planning; Practice; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Sports; System
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      Families in Business

      enterprise who meet any of the above criteria are also invited to apply on their own. Learning and Living at HBS When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has... View Details