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- 14 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
Unless men embrace their role in eliminating gender bias and barriers, organizations and institutions will never leverage the value that women bring to the workplace. “Most positions of power are still held by men,” says Colleen Ammerman, director of the Harvard View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
of Englishnization and the continued global rise of his organization. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/412002-PDF-ENG Note on Evaluating Empirical Research Michael I. NortonHarvard View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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2014 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Panel: Gender Relations, Gender Stereotypes, & Women’s Relationships Robin J. Ely , Harvard Business School Women’s Workplace Relationships in the Context of Gender Inequality Michelle Duguid & Denise Lewin Loyd , Olin View Details
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Faculty | Information Technology
Faculty Harvard Business School (HBS) IT is a consultative technology partner that helps the School’s world-class faculty conduct path-breaking research, envision and execute new learning experiences, and leverage powerful tools that... View Details
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Social Enterprise Track | New Venture Competition
an opportunity for eligible graduate students across Harvard University to explore social entrepreneurship and test ideas for social innovation in a rigorous and supportive environment. Social Enterprise Track entries may include nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid model... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
NYC Conference Brings Entrepreneurs and Angels Together
two hundred young HBS alumni face-to-face with experienced "angels" (backers willing to forgo much of the business involvement and control that traditional venture capitalists typically demand). The sold-out event, which drew participants... View Details
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Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog
Susanna Gallani is the Tai Family Associate Professor of Business Administration. Her research focuses on performance management systems in health care organizations and how these systems operate to align behaviors, measure, and reward... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Reunions Offer Job Search, Career Assistance
While HBS reunions are a time to get reacquainted with old friends, they also give graduates a chance to evaluate their professional lives. Inspiring many alumni to take a good look at their careers and think about their goals is Robert... View Details
- 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.)
- June 2006
- Case
Matthew B. Hunter
By: John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
Matthew Hunter, CEO of a second-generation family business, must manage the performance of a key manager in his company. Looks at the impact of family relationships on performance management. View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Performance Evaluation; Crisis Management; Business or Company Management; Conflict Management; Corporate Governance; Family and Family Relationships; Partners and Partnerships; Negotiation Process
Davis, John A., and Deepak Malhotra. "Matthew B. Hunter." Harvard Business School Case 806-204, June 2006.
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Nicola Leahy-MacManus
Why was getting a business education important to you? Coming from a consulting background, I was keen to pursue an MBA in order to expand my skill set, particularly in the areas of finance and marketing. I felt it was the pinnacle of... View Details
- 09 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact
Both impact investing and traditional philanthropy are on the rise after the decade-long economic boom following the Great Recession. But when does an impact investment make a bigger difference than a grant? The question is far more complicated than simply View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
practice and teaching of business strategy today exist largely as a set of alternative views and frameworks not entirely connected to one another. These notes contribute an integrated sequence of steps for creating or View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
School. Exploring the intersection of accounting, strategy, and finance, this course teaches business professionals how to evaluate a business’s performance, prospects, and value and leverage those insights... View Details
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
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Tony He
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Prior to business school, I studied biomedical engineering and worked in health economics research. I learned useful technical skills, but I looked to expand my thinking. View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
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Deals Q2 - Course Catalog
will be structured around actual corporate deals, selected for the complex issues of law and business that they raise. Students will research and analyze these transactions in order to present their most important aspects and lessons to... View Details
- 2011
- Working Paper
CEO Bonus Plans: And How to Fix Them
By: Kevin J. Murphy and Michael C. Jensen
Almost all CEO and executive bonus plans have serious design flaws that limit their benefits dramatically. Such poorly designed executive bonus plans destroy value by providing incentives to manipulate the timing of earnings, mislead the board about organizational... View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Competency and Skills; Cost of Capital; Executive Compensation; Risk Management; Performance Evaluation; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Value
Murphy, Kevin J., and Michael C. Jensen. "CEO Bonus Plans: And How to Fix Them." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-022, October 2011.
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings
half-course format will play a more prominent role in the elective curriculum in the future because it gives students an opportunity to sample more instructors and ideas,” says Tom Eisenmann, the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: curriculum
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
all out, you discover that it’s not the right technology for the problem.” Academic researchers are “almost too married to their ideas and technologies, but I don’t blame them,” says Maria Roche, assistant professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard View Details