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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
enterprises delivering high-impact goods and services to the emerging middle class and low-income populations, which he cofounded in 2007. At HBS, his work examines businesses serving low-income markets around the world, which means he is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 31 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?
In 1997, a young entrepreneur visited a class at Harvard Business School taught by my colleague, Len Schlesinger. The class discussed a case based on the visitor’s fledgling online retailing company that had... View Details
- 07 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Innovation in Asia
industry, and even a country to the head of the class almost overnight, said Kiyotaka Fujii, president and CEO of SAP Japan Co., Ltd. That lesson was learned by Japan in the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 2012
- Working Paper
Earnings Management from the Bottom Up: An Analysis of Managerial Incentives Below the CEO
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Julie Wulf
Performance-based pay is an important instrument to align the interests of managers with the interests of shareholders. However, recent evidence suggests that high-powered incentives also provide managers with incentives to manipulate the firm's reported earnings. The... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Interests; Business and Shareholder Relations; Motivation and Incentives; Earnings Management; Performance Evaluation; Stock Options
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Julie Wulf. "Earnings Management from the Bottom Up: An Analysis of Managerial Incentives Below the CEO ." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-056, January 2012. (Revised August 2012.)
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling
classes we took, I did write a case on Raj Kapoor, one of the early entrepreneurs in Bollywood, for Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism, a class taught by the inimitable... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
workforce is inherently of interest,” says Assistant Professor Daniel Gross, who examines the historical effects of automation. He coauthored the case “AT&T: Managing Technological Change and the Future... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
You Make It Published: September 20, 2010 Nervous about an upcoming presentation or job interview? Holding one's body in "high-power" poses for short time periods can summon an extra surge of power... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
talent. But there were positives to being a part of a very small ecosystem. Haryopratomo: One of the benefits of working in a market like Indonesia, back in 2008 and View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
Dinh Thi Hoa (MBA '92) was a young girl when relatives and friends who feared for her safety spirited her out of Hanoi in the summer of 1972 to escape the fury of U.S. bombing... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 01 May 2017
- Blog Post
Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone at HBS
out of my comfort zone on a daily basis. Not only am I an introvert, but I also suffer from Imposter Syndrome – everyone here is so incredibly accomplished and I constantly think I’m the Admissions mistake. First year I would spend hours... View Details
- Web
The Arts of Communication - Course Catalog
holding an employee accountable, giving a peer critical feedback, speaking on your feet, influencing someone to change their behavior, resolving conflicts, and more. This class is for anyone ready to take risks, hungry to receive and... View Details
- 05 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
The Softer Side of Business at HBS
3. It’s Amazing How Much You Will Learn about Yourself These classes aren’t for the faint of heart – if you’re not willing to reconsider longstanding assumptions about yourself and how others perceive... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events
Recent HBS Alumni Events on Campus and Beyond 1 Members of the Classes of 2003 to 2017 gathered for a Young Alumni Reception at Joy District Chicago in September. 2 The MBA... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
Over the past two decades, there has been a tremendous boom in the venture capital industry. The pool of U.S. venture capital funds has grown from less than $1 billion in 1976 (Charles River Associates 1976) to over $60 billion in 1999.... View Details
- June, 2023
- Article
Walking the Purpose-Talk Inside a Large Company: Sustainable Product Development as an Instance of Divergent Change
By: Marissa Kimsey, Thijs Geradts and Julie Battilana
There is a growing interest in large companies pursuing a new purpose—changing their core reason for being from a singular focus on financial gain to a renewed responsibility to people and the planet alongside profit. Yet knowledge of how a large company can walk that... View Details
Kimsey, Marissa, Thijs Geradts, and Julie Battilana. "Walking the Purpose-Talk Inside a Large Company: Sustainable Product Development as an Instance of Divergent Change." Special Issue on Corporate Purpose. Strategy Science 8, no. 2 (June, 2023): 311–321.
- 14 Jun 2021
- Op-Ed
When Your Nerves Get the Best of You, Change the Narrative
When I first started teaching executive education classes at Harvard Business School, I was part of a team of five professors who conducted one-week programs for leaders View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Harvard Club of Boston Hits Historic Milestone
In the same year that HBS enrolled its first class 100 years ago, the Harvard Club of Boston welcomed its first members. Over the ensuing decades the club in downtown Boston has grown to over 6,000 members,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events
Leadership Meeting was held in Paris. HBS alumni leaders from 11 European clubs participated along with representatives from HBS’s Europe Research Center, the Harvard Innovation Labs, and HBS faculty. Reunions 4 The Class View Details
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
The growth and competiveness of emerging markets is a fundamental reality in global business today. Yet it is often forgotten just how much these countries have changed in a short period of time, how... View Details