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  • May 1990 (Revised September 1994)
  • Background Note

Note on Financial Reporting Strategy and Analysis When Managers Have Proprietary Information

By: Krishna G. Palepu
Provides a framework that helps explain these real-world observations about accounting and financial statement analysis. When managers have superior information on firms' strategies, and when investors suspect that managers have incentives not to fully disclose this... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Strategy; Knowledge Management
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  • June 2024
  • Article

Oral History and Business History in Emerging Markets

By: Geoffrey Jones
This article describes the motivation, structure and use of the Creating Emerging Markets (CEM) oral history-based project at the Harvard Business School. The project consists of lengthy interviews with business leaders from emerging markets. By June 2024 183... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Economies; Oral History; Emerging Markets; Business History; Research
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  • 17 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

Negative Impressions By: Hofstetter, Reto, Roland Rueppell, and Leslie John Abstract—With the advent of social media, the impressions people make on others are based increasingly on their digital disclosures. Yet digital View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

Corporate Lobbying Strategy and Foreign MNEs

“U.S. Defense Contracts and the Lobbying Strategies of Foreign MNEs: The Liability of Foreignness and Make-or-Buy Decisions about Political Goods”

Many firms engage in lobbying with the expectation that their lobbying efforts will... View Details

Keywords: Non-market Strategy; Political Strategy; Lobbying; Make V. Buy; Multinational Enterprise; Global Strategy; United States
  • 19 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

$15 Billion in Five Years: What Data Tells Us About MacKenzie Scott’s Philanthropy

higher demand and fewer resources. In 2023, Yield Giving made a significant push into health care, its top category of the year on an absolute basis. Many of these gifts went to community health providers serving populations with less... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew Lee, Brian Trelstad, and Ethan Tran
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model (PDF File of PowerPoint Slides)

By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Kari Granger

This presentation is based on our research program over the last seven years in which our objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for providing access to being a leader and exercising leadership effectively (in... View Details

Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Innovation and Invention; Leadership Development; Goals and Objectives; Research and Development; Attitudes; Perception; Technology; United States
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  • April 2023
  • Case

Twitter: The Freedom to Speak Freely and Be Heard

By: Randolph B. Cohen, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Mel Martin
In April 2022, serial entrepreneur Elon Musk announced that he would be interested in purchasing the social media site Twitter for $44 billion. With more than 100 million twitter followers, Musk had historically leveraged the site to engage with the customers of his... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Acquisition; Social Media; Power and Influence; Technology Industry; Communications Industry; Public Relations Industry; United States
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  • April 2022
  • Article

Demand Interactions in Sharing Economies: Evidence from a Natural Experiment Involving Airbnb and Uber/Lyft

By: Shunyuan Zhang, Dokyun Lee, Param Singh and Tridas Mukhopadhyay
We examine whether and how ride-sharing services influence the demand for home-sharing services. Our identification strategy hinges on a natural experiment in which Uber/Lyft exited Austin, Texas, in May 2016 due to local regulation. Using a 12-month longitudinal... View Details
Keywords: Airbnb; Uber; Natural Experiment; Geographic Demand Dispersion; Sharing Economy; Transportation; Demand and Consumers; Geographic Scope
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  • 2007
  • Chapter

Collaborative R&D in Management: The Practical Experience of Fenix and TruePoint in Bridging the Divide Between Scientific and Managerial Goals

By: Michael Beer and Niclas Adler
The gap between theory and practice has been of concern to both practitioners and academics, yet other than pleas to close the gap with more accessible writing by academics and more interest in research by practitioners few systematic efforts have been made to close... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Knowledge Management; Management; Goals and Objectives; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Improvement; Practice; Research and Development; Social and Collaborative Networks; Theory; Value; United States
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  • September 2016
  • Article

Disproportional Control Rights and the Bonding Role of Debt

By: Aiyesha Dey, Valeri Nikolaev and Xue Wang
We examine the governance role of debt in the context of U.S.-based dual class ownership structures. We hypothesize that the use of debt alleviates the conflict between shareholder classes by balancing the power of controlling insiders. We document that dual class... View Details
Keywords: Dual Class; Private Debt; Debt Covenants; Bonding Mechanisms; Ownership Type; Capital Structure; Borrowing and Debt
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  • 01 Jun 2025
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details
  • 20 Feb 2020
  • Blog Post

Black Visionary Leadership and Redefining What's Possible

you just don’t have the same chance. In thinking about what we could do during our time at HBS to help level the playing field, we came up with these concepts as an independent project. We recognize that we are extremely privileged to be here View Details
  • 09 Apr 2024
  • Book

Why Work Rituals Bring Teams Together and Create More Meaning

people to interact and bond, and compared to nothing, they do seem to work,” Norton says—even when people don’t enjoy them. “People will tell you they all hated it, but at least they hated it together.” “The... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • March 2016
  • Teaching Note

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Richard Fahey and Robert Saudek – Lighting Liberia

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
After successful careers as lawyers and Fellows in Harvard's Advanced Leadership Initiative, Richard Fahey and Robert Saudek set out to tackle a large-scale infrastructure challenge in a complex environment by ultimately using advanced leadership skills to increase... View Details
Keywords: Energy
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  • December 2011
  • Article

Alchemy of Evidence: Mau Mau, the British Empire, and the High Court of Justice

By: Caroline Elkins
Restorative justice in various forms is a phenomenon that has swept across the globe over the last three decades. Most recently, it is unfolding in the High Court of Justice in London where five Kenyans have filed a claim against the British government, alleging that... View Details
Keywords: Colonialism; History; Lawsuits and Litigation; United Kingdom; Kenya
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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Long-run Returns to Impact Investing in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies

By: Shawn Cole, Martin Melecky, Florian Mölders and Tristan Reed
We provide the first evidence on the long-run returns to private equity in emerging and frontier markets using the cash flows from every equity investment made by the International Finance Corporation across 130 countries over 58 years. Risk-adjusted returns are... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Investment; Emerging Markets; Developing Countries and Economies; Investment Return
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  • February 2025
  • Case

Abiomed: Clinical Trials and Tribulations

By: Satish Tadikonda, Faith Robertson and William Marks
After receiving 510(k) clearance for the Impella 2.5 device, Abiomed had proceeded to conduct a premarket approval (PMA) process as well to prove clinical superiority, earn greater protection, and extend commercial runway. However, in the middle of the clinical trial... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Testing and Trials; Product Launch; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • 22 Feb 2023
  • Blog Post

Meet the Disability Advocacy and Affinity Group (DAAG)

can amplify them and give them greater reach. Whether you experience a physical, learning, mental, sensory, or developmental disability, or are the caretaker of someone with a disability, you have a place View Details
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism

access to financing for veterans, accelerated suburban development and helped make the American dream of home ownership a reality for the middle class. What happened to turn that dream into such a nightmare?... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Finance; Management; Real Estate
  • 29 Apr 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Comparing the Cash Policies of Public and Private Firms

Keywords: by Joan Farre-Mensa