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Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online

Consulting and Research Limited MSc, Business Administration What You Earn Certificate of Completion Boost your resume with a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online Earn by:... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

Class of 2007 Fellowship Awarded

business solutions to poverty. “One day we were talking to villagers who live on $2 a day, and the next day we were meeting with business and government leaders,” recalls Kim. Last summer he built on this... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
  • August 2005 (Revised April 2006)
  • Case

Kemps LLC: Introducing Time-Driven ABC

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Kemps is making a strategy shift: from being focused on fulfilling customer requests to becoming the best cost dairy producer in the industry. Its existing manufacturing cost system, however, fails to capture the costs associated with handling special flavors, small... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Customer Relationship Management; Cost Accounting; Managerial Roles; Cost Management; Earnings Management; Business Strategy; Time Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Decisions; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2022
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Road to Recovery

biggest barrier—and this sounds crazy—is the lack of a billing code for contingency management.” A participant who remains substance-free and follows a treatment plan can earn up to $100 a month (up to $599 per year) for making healthy... View Details
Keywords: April White; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online

courses within either subject area to earn a Certificate of Specialization Learn More about what you earn Syllabus 6 Modules, 30-35 Hours Download full syllabus 5-6 hrs Module 1 Challenge of Dynamic... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2009
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HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008

The business of business education produced another year of strong results for HBS during fiscal 2008, which ended last June. Applications for the core MBA Program reached a five-year high of 8,661, and the... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 10 Feb 2014
  • News

King of His Castle

APPLING George Appling (MBA 1998) has become king of his castle. The Texas native turned an "enduring passion" for Renaissance fairs into a successful business owning one. "What sets our fair apart is that we didn't build it to make money... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken; Arts, Entertainment
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector

By: Malcolm S. Salter
This paper describes how the gaming of society's rules by corporations contributes to the problem of institutional corruption in the world of business. "Gaming" in its various forms involves the use of technically legal means to subvert the intent of society's rules in... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Civil Society or Community; Competitive Advantage; Earnings Management; Trust; Law; Performance; Investment Funds; Private Sector; Behavior; Relationships; Goals and Objectives
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Signaling Firm Performance Through Financial Statement Presentation: An Analysis Using Special Items

By: Edward J. Riedl and Suraj Srinivasan
This paper investigates whether managers' presentation of special items within the financial statements reflects economic performance or opportunism. Specifically, we assess special items presented as a separate line item on the income statement (income statement... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Financial Statements; Economics; Performance; Research; Opportunities; Business Earnings; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 01 Sep 2006
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Project Runway

Stacey Estrella (MBA ’93), a corporate communications executive at a Silicon Valley software firm, started sewing for fun just two years ago. But her beautifully crafted dresses and suits helped her beat out thousands of other hopefuls to View Details
Keywords: Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Payout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment

When corporate payout is taxed, internal equity (retained earnings) is cheaper than external equity (share issues). If there are no perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor... View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Equity; Financing and Loans; Investment; Taxation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 01 Jan 2012
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Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952

Founding Partner, Asset Management Company Download Johnson profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1928 Born, Quincy, Illinois 1950 Earns BS, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University 1962 Launches Draper... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2008
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Lessons from Private Equity

GADIESH: To reap private equity returns, act more like a private equity manager COURTESY OF BAIN & CO A recent Harvard Business Review article headlined “If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business” gave many leaders of public companies a... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
  • May 2011
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Consequences and Institutional Determinants of Unregulated Corporate Financial Statements: Evidence from Embedded Value Reporting

By: George Serafeim
I analyze Embedded Value (EV) reporting by firms with life insurance operations to assess the impact of unregulated financial reporting on transparency and to examine the institutional characteristics that promote unregulated reporting. Under EV accounting the present... View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Reporting; Cash Flow; Contracts; Equity; Profit; Value; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business Earnings
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    Charles B. Wang

    and business managers to achieve sound products and a culture of management that fosters brutal honesty and integrity. CA earned revenues of over $5 billion and net income of $570 million in 1998, and had... View Details
    Keywords: Services
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    Claire Freidman

    Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Prior to business school, I spent five years working in finance. My clients were entertainment companies and I knew I wanted to switch careers and work on... View Details
    Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Technology
    • 01 Oct 2000
    • News

    Three Promoted to Full Professor

    Harvard College, where he majored in biology, Gompers worked for a year as a research biochemist for Bayer Chemical AG before earning a master's degree in economics at Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship. He completed his Ph.D. in... View Details
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    Donna Khalife

    Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Earning my MBA at HBS was critical in giving me the right environment to explore my passions and gain new skills to pursue those passions whole-heartedly.... View Details
    Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship
    • 15 Nov 2013
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    Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again

    Côme Laguë by Robert S. Benchley Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) has no respect for firms he calls "patent trolls"—holding companies that buy up and bank the intellectual property of closed businesses solely for the purpose of generating income... View Details
    Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
    • 28 May 2019
    • News

    From Das’s Desk

    As this issue arrives, the staff in External Relations is analyzing the results of our recent all-alumni survey, which aimed to better understand the learning needs of alumni. Whether you earned an MBA or a doctoral degree, or graduated... View Details