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  • Research Summary

Managing Financial Reporting and the Effect on Firms' Costs of Capital

Amy P. Hutton's research investigates the impact of capital market forces and firm contracts on financial reporting and disclosure policies. Specifically, her research examines how managers use financial reporting to convey a firm's strategy, and the effect of... View Details
  • 01 Feb 1998
  • News

Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together

In the fall of 1996, HBS professor David A. Garvin was searching for teaching materials for his elective course General Management: Processes and Action. He wanted to help his students understand the pitfalls and opportunities that... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine
  • 03 May 2016
  • First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

2016 Berrett-Koehler Publishers Building the Future: Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Susan Salter Reynolds Abstract—Machiavelli famously wrote, "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 May 2017
  • News

Facing the Board

It may have been a year—or 50—since the six dozen Harvard Business School alumni gathered in an Aldrich Hall classroom Monday morning had dug into a case study. However, once they got over the initial fear of being cold called by... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photos by Susan Young; Blackrock; The Boardroom
  • 19 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 19

paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

New Paths to Success in Asia

Businesses in the Asia-Pacific region today are caught up in a dizzying swirl of economic, cultural, political, technological, and social change. Enormous opportunities await managers who can harness these power currents to drive their businesses forward, but their... View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

who need them, especially among vulnerable populations. Racial inequities, laid bare by the pandemic, and social unrest provoked by recent police killings have escalated tensions. In the course of writing... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health
  • October 2014 (Revised October 2015)
  • Case

Procter & Gamble, 2015

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
On July 30, 2015, Procter & Gamble (P&G) announced headline double-digit earnings per share growth for the year ended June 30. A closer look at the numbers suggested a less healthy picture. Sales, volumes, and operating profits were down. Investors were not impressed;... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Analysis; Strategy; Consumer Products; Global; Procter ＆ Gamble; Corporate Strategy; Competition; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 02 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 2, 2007

consumer collaboration, in which consumers use digital media that lie beyond the control of marketers to communicate among one another, responding to marketing's intrusions by disseminating counterargument, information sharing, rebuttal,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

    Extreme Teaming

    Today’s global enterprises increasingly involve collaborative work by teams of experts operating across different professions, organizations, and industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross industry... View Details
    • April 2013
    • Supplement

    AIG and the American Taxpayers (B)

    By: Karthik Ramanna and Matthew Shaffer
    Explores the decision faced by AIG's board on whether to join shareholder and ex-CEO Maurice Greenberg's lawsuit against the U.S. government. The suit, argued by super-lawyer David Boies (of Bush v. Gore and California Gay Marriage fame), claims that in September 2008... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Markets; Financial Policy; Property Rights; Financial Institutions; Financial Crisis; Financial Management; Insurance Industry; United States
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    • 06 Jul 2017
    • News

    How to teach civics in school

      Michael E. Porter

      Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details

      Keywords: biotechnology; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; internet; nonprofit industry; service industry; state government
      • 29 Jun 2017
      • News

      HBX Launches New Certificate Program, Becoming a Better Manager

      • December 2020 (Revised March 2025)
      • Case

      Responsive Working at PepsiCo UK (A): Designing a Turnaround

      By: Amy C. Edmondson and Nancy Boghossian Staples
      Facing a significant decline in revenues in 2016, David Gwilliam, Head of Transformation at PepsiCo UK introduced a new way of working (“Responsive Working”), which encompasses a set of work practices and some new team structures. The work practices comprise a set of 9... View Details
      Keywords: SLAM Teams; Turnaround; Groups and Teams; Employees; Training; Decision Making; Planning; Performance Improvement; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United Kingdom; Europe
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      • 20 Apr 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: April 20

      Simmons (E) Amy C. Edmondson and Susan ThyneHarvard Business School Supplement 610-061 This case updates the "Leading Change at Simmons" series by examining Simmons' increasing debt under the... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 04 Nov 2013
      • News

      A Harvard Professor Knows Why the Bloated Blockbuster Will Never Die

      • 24 Jun 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: June 24

      clause in Argentinian sovereign debt instruments have generated considerable controversy. Some official-sector participants and academic articles have suggested that the rulings will disrupt or impede future sovereign debt restructurings View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • November 2019
      • Case

      Apple, Einhorn, and iPrefs (Abridged)

      By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and W. Carl Kester
      In March 2013, Apple Computer has a very large cash balance, and is under pressure to return cash to shareholders. Hedge fund manager David Einhorn thinks Apple can "unlock value" by issuing perpetual preferred stock, dubbed iPrefs. Henry Blodget, CEO of Business... View Details
      Keywords: Markets; Stock Shares; Value Creation; Business and Shareholder Relations
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      • May 2015
      • Teaching Note

      The United Kingdom and the Means to Prosperity

      By: Laura Alfaro, Lakshmi Iyer and Hilary White
      After struggling through the country's longest recession since 2008, the U.K. was expected to grow faster than any other G7 nation in 2014. Analysts wondered whether the return to growth was because, or in spite of, Prime Minister David Cameron's controversial £113... View Details
      Keywords: United Kingdom; Austerity; Fiscal Deficits; Fiscal Policy; Keynesian Multiplier; Government; Government Policy; Recessions; Depression; Inequality; Government Intervention In The Markets; Stagnation; Public Finance; Economics; Macroeconomics; Government Administration; Business and Government Relations; Economic Growth; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Public Sector; Economy; Financial Crisis; Taxation; Government and Politics; United Kingdom
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