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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Private Equity's Diversification Illusion: Economic Comovement and Fair Value Reporting

By: Kyle Travis Welch
This study examines how accounting has informed private equity diversification claims and demand for private equity investments. Despite research showing private equity lacks portfolio diversification benefits, those marketing private equity assets continue to... View Details
Keywords: Fair Value; Access To Capital; IAS 39; FAS No. 157; FASB; IASB; ASC 820; Covariance Risk; Accounting Beta; Accounting; Private Sector; Valuation; Corporate Finance; Asset Management; Cost of Capital; Private Equity; Accounting Industry; Financial Services Industry; Europe; North and Central America
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  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Privatization and the New European Economy

competitiveness." In addition, he commented, an increased need for capital and scarcity of public resources have influenced the phenomenon. Brand noted that worldwide, 60 percent of View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 09 Nov 2022
  • News

Public Good

approach, taking the time in her first few months to meet with the organizations many employees, volunteers, donors, and beneficiaries in order to craft what she refers to as her “100-day plan.” “I don’t... View Details
Keywords: nonprofit management; social enterprise; leadership; United Way; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

    Consumers, Corporations and Public Health (Oxford University Press, 2016)

    The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under increased scrutiny in the last decade, with an increased expectation that private profit not come at the expense of consumer welfare.

    Consumers, Corporations, and Public... View Details
    • April 2011
    • Article

    Improving Cancer Care Through Public Reporting Of Meaningful Quality Measures

    By: Tracy E. Spinks, Ronald Walters, Thomas W. Feeley, Heidi Wied Albright, Victoria S. Jordan, John Bingham and Thomas W. Burke
    Historically, quality measures for cancer have followed a different route than overall quality measures in the health care system. Many specialized cancer treatment centers were exempt from standard reporting on quality measures because of the complexity of cancer.... View Details
    Keywords: Cancer; Quality Metrics; Public Reporting; Affordable Care Act; Quality; Health; Health Industry; North and Central America
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    • June 30, 2020
    • Article

    Bipartisan Tax-Free Solution to Health Care Financing: Coupling HRAs With a Public Option

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Richard Boxer and James Wallace
    A combination of health insurance initiatives by the presumptive 2020 Democratic and Republican presidential nominees could expand health care coverage and significantly reduce costs, without raising taxes. Along the way, the combination could revitalize private... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care Financing; Public Option; Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA); Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Cost Management
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    • 29 Oct 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Public Sentiment and the Price of Corporate Sustainability

    Keywords: by George Serafeim
    • April 2019
    • Article

    Incentives for Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental Evidence

    By: Andrea Blasco, Olivia S. Jung, Karim R. Lakhani and Michael Menietti
    Understanding why employees go the extra mile at work is a key problem for many organizations. We conduct a field experiment at a medical organization to study motivations for employees to submit project proposals for organizational improvement. In total, we analyze... View Details
    Keywords: Field Experiment; Innovation; Contest; Incentives; Free-rider Problem; Healthcare Organizations; Employees; Motivation and Incentives; Innovation and Invention; Organizations; Performance Improvement; Perspective
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    • Web

    Private Capital Project

    the crucial role new financial institutions could play beyond the confines of traditional banks and public markets. Today, HBS alumni have an immense impact on the private... View Details
    • August 2020
    • Background Note

    US Private Equity Firms: ESG and Impact (B)

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Holly Fetter
    This is the second part of a two-part note. The first part (A) explores how US private equity firms are incorporating ESG (Environmental, Social, & Governance) factors and impact objectives into their investment strategies and firm practices. It is based on publicly... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Does Public Ownership and Accountability Increase Diversity? Evidence from IPOs

    By: Rembrand Koning and John-Paul Ferguson
    Does public ownership improve employment diversity? Organizational researchers theorize that increased transparency to regulators and the public should lead firms to conform to legal and social norms—but that social closure and decoupling should preserve the status... View Details
    Keywords: IPO; Initial Public Offering; Employees; Diversity; Gender; Race; Entrepreneurship; United States
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    • 2012
    • Chapter

    Pursuing Public Value: Frameworks for Strategic Analysis and Action

    By: Herman B. Leonard and Mark H. Moore
    Features Harvard Kennedy School scholars who focus diverse conceptual lenses on a single high-stakes management task—enhancing port security across the United States. This title considers the challenge of driving change in a complex system involving hundreds of private... View Details
    Keywords: Leading Change; National Security; Complexity; Performance Improvement; United States
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    • 2011
    • Other Unpublished Work

    What Do Private Firms Look Like?

    By: John Asker, Joan Farre-Mensa and Alexander Ljungqvist
    Private firms in the U.S. are not subject to public reporting requirements, so relatively little is known about their characteristics and behavior—until now. This Data Appendix describes a new database on private U.S. firms, created by Sageworks Inc. in cooperation... View Details
    Keywords: Data and Data Sets; Behavior; Public Sector; Corporate Disclosure; Private Sector; Financial Statements; United States
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    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Public Disclosure of Private Meetings: Does Observing Peers' Information Acquisition Affect Analysts' Attention Allocation?

    By: Yi Ru, Ronghuo Zheng and Yuan Zou
    We investigate the impact of observing peers’ information acquisition on financial analysts’ attention allocation. Using the timely disclosure mandate by the Shenzhen Stock Exchange as a setting, we find that, when analysts can observe that a firm is visited by other... View Details
    Keywords: Attention Allocation; Informational Efficiency; Corporate Site Visits; Externalities; Information; Acquisition; Corporate Disclosure; Outcome or Result
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    • December 2007
    • Article

    Private Power in Indonesia

    By: Louis T. Wells
    The Asian Currency Crisis led to the collapse of agreements Indonesia had negotiated for private electric power only a few years earlier. The ensuing struggle meant bad publicity and several hundred million dollars in costs for Indonesia. As Indonesia in 2007 was... View Details
    Keywords: Energy Generation; Government Legislation; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Risk Management; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Government Relations; Indonesia
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    • 2021
    • Article

    Helping and Happiness: A Review and Guide for Public Policy

    By: Lara B. Aknin and Ashley V. Whillans
    Perhaps one of the most reaffirming findings to emerge over the past several decades is that humans not only engage in generous behavior, they also appear to experience pleasure from doing so. Yet not all acts of helping lead to greater happiness. Here, we review the... View Details
    Keywords: Generosity; Helping; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Happiness; Policy
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    • September 2024
    • Supplement

    National Public Broadcasting (B)

    By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
    Pre-abstract: Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details. Abstract: This (B) case supplement is designed for use by faculty only to support classroom instruction in conjunction with "National... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Strategy; Financial Management; Media; Ownership; Strategy; Advertising; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Journalism and News Industry; Journalism and News Industry; United States
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    • March 2018
    • Case

    Summit Public Schools (A)

    By: John J-H Kim and Aldo Sesia
    Summit Public Schools was a very successful charter management organization with schools in California and Washington State. The students came from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds, many from economically disadvantaged households. While nearly all of its students... View Details
    Keywords: K-12; Online Learning; Virtual Learning; Blended Learning; Secondary Education; Middle School Education; Early Childhood Education; Learning; Business Model; Performance Improvement; Technology
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    • Web

    Hiring Organizations

    Employment Data Hiring Organizations Employment Data Hiring Organizations The below organizations hired an MBA graduate from the Class of 2023 or a summer intern from the Class... View Details
    • January 2013 (Revised March 2016)
    • Case

    The Private Company Council

    By: Karthik Ramanna and Luis M. Viceira
    Financial Accounting Foundation chairman Jack Brennan is under pressure from private-company interests to set up a new body—the Private Company Council—to determine separate GAAP for private companies. PCC advocates—including the US Chamber of Commerce—argue that... View Details
    Keywords: FASB; Lobbying; Political Economy; Accounting; Government and Politics; Leadership; Financial Markets; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry
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