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- 2008
- Working Paper
An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions
By: Craig James Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh
Prior research hypothesizes managers use "real actions," including the reduction of discretionary expenditures, to manage earnings to meet or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used... View Details
Keywords: Performance Expectations; Earnings Management; Marketing Strategy; Financial Reporting; Brands and Branding; Food and Beverage Industry
Chapman, Craig James, and Thomas J. Steenburgh. "An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-073, February 2008. (Revised February 2009, December 2009, June 2010, July 2010.)
- 13 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?
benefit society: asset stripping, short-term profit at the expense of workers, and long-term stability. “There are certainly a lot of concerns around whether these kind of transactions are indeed fomenting inequality by getting rid of... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible
reputational capital often entails sacrificing short-term gains in return for long-term profit. For example, some negotiators are habitually straightforward, guarding their integrity with great care despite the potential for short-term... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 09 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Where Will You Be in 30 Years: Behind the Scenes of the 5 Big Life Decisions Documentary
long-term chart of life and career. The Difference Between Happiness and Success In addition to the nuances of each alum’s story and the micro-themes that connected them, a fourth and final major theme that emerged was the ease at which... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
writes, "Secretive and far from pristine, the industry [hedge funds] has long been notorious for providing scant information (if any at all) and for suspect fundraising practices."282 Research indicates that long-term investors... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 05 Mar 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?
particularly by younger adults, of the importance of compound interest, inflation, and long-term value of money in one's planning), and political-economic stories (the way people communicate confidence that can affect entire economies and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 10 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Minimum Wage Debate Is Really About Social Values
aware that the long-term economic path for the United States has some challenges. Spending outstrips our forecast for revenue by an enormous amount and that requires some adjustment. We'll have to either raise taxes or cut spending.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
where they would end up. She learned that setting a long-term ambition for the business was very helpful in enabling her to pivot the unit’s strategy at key moments. Having a hypothesis about the destination makes it possible to have a... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 01 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner
were sometimes more stressed and sometimes less stressed than others in lower positions in the group. But researchers studying primates have found that the pursuit of hierarchical status can be particularly detrimental to long-term... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
which requires sustained support for long-term success. Had Amazon approached the New York headquarters decision in line with the seven steps outlined above, experience suggests that its odds of success would have been far greater. Of... View Details
- September 2024
- Case
InfraCredit and the Project Inception Facility
By: John Macomber, Namrata Arora and Maagatha Kalavadakken
Around the world, large infrastructure projects are frequently stymied by the high cost and high uncertainty of the project inception phase: the research and engineering and planning prior to financial close and start of construction. Could there be a new kind of... View Details
Keywords: Infrastructure; Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Cost; Cash Flow; Capital; Assets; Financial Markets; Financial Strategy; Insurance; Energy; Product Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Credit; Financial Services Industry; Energy Industry; Banking Industry; Africa; Nigeria
- 2011
- Chapter
Clusters and Competitiveness: Porter's Contribution
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
While clusters have been known to exist at least since the days of Marshall, Michael Porter's work, first in The Competitive Advantage of Nations (Porter, 1990) and then in On Competition (originally published in 1998; updated edition in Porter, 2008), has undoubtedly... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Framework; Policy; Industry Clusters; Practice; Competitive Advantage
Ketels, Christian H.M. "Clusters and Competitiveness: Porter's Contribution." Chap. 10 in Competition, Competitive Advantage, and Clusters: The Ideas of Michael Porter, edited by Robert Huggins and Hiro Izushi, 173–192. Oxford University Press, 2011.
- April 2009
- Article
How to Market in a Downturn
By: John A. Quelch and Katherine Jocz
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Because no two recessions are exactly alike, marketers find themselves in poorly... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Spending; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Segmentation
Quelch, John A., and Katherine Jocz. "How to Market in a Downturn." Harvard Business Review 87, no. 4 (April 2009): 52–62.
- 2002
- Book
Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
By: Rakesh Khurana
Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Selection and Staffing; Personal Characteristics; Experience and Expertise; Investment Activism; Corporate Strategy
Khurana, Rakesh. Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002.
- 2017
- Working Paper
Business and Sustainability: New Business History Perspectives
By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist
This working paper provides a long-term business history perspective on environmental sustainability. For a long time, the central issues addressed in the discipline of business history concerned how business enterprises innovated and created wealth, as well as... View Details
Bergquist, Ann-Kristin. "Business and Sustainability: New Business History Perspectives." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-034, October 2017. (Revised November 2017.)
- 20 Dec 2023
- News
New School
In the early days of the pandemic in 2020, Curriculum Associates, a Massachusetts-based company that creates research-based print and online instructional and assessment tools, made the decision to make its products free to teachers and students who suddenly found... View Details
- Web
Executive Education - Entrepreneurship
time with HBS faculty and peers from around the world in programs that encourage and support entrepreneurial leadership. Entrepreneurship-related courses: Families in Business (12-17 NOV 2023) Promote long-term business success and... View Details
- 05 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations
trust even his "enemy." 4. Make unilateral concessions Negotiations with strangers and enemies tend to be calculative, with both parties carefully measuring what they're gaining with each concession made by the other side. By contrast, negotiations based on... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- Web
Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Notes June 2019 HBS Case Collection Martini Klinik Prostate Cancer Care 2019 by Michael E. Porter, Jens Deerberg-Wittram, and Thomas W. Feeley Since its establishment in 2005, Hamburg's Martini Klinik had single-mindedly focused on prostate cancer care with a... View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance
could have positive long-term implications to any organization’s success. “We were surprised by the magnitude of the effects,” Pany says, noting that future studies could examine just how such relationships form and evolve. “There’s just... View Details