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  • 2012
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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
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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.)

    Allen S. Grossman

    Allen Grossman was appointed a Harvard Business School Professor of Management Practice in July 2000. He joined the Business School faculty in July 1998, with a concurrent appointment as a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). He... View Details

    Keywords: education industry; nonprofit industry
    • April 1996 (Revised December 2011)
    • Background Note

    Responding to Market Failures

    Broadly defines the concept of market failure and explores options for responding to it. It pays particular attention to the role of business leaders in addressing market deficiencies. View Details
    Keywords: Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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    Dees, J. Gregory. "Responding to Market Failures." Harvard Business School Background Note 396-344, April 1996. (Revised December 2011.)
    • October 2006 (Revised April 2008)
    • Case

    Ben Walter

    By: Andre F. Perold and David S. Scharfstein
    Ben Walter is thinking of purchasing Butler Lumber and needs to decide how he would run the business and how much to pay for it. View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment; Valuation
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    Perold, Andre F., and David S. Scharfstein. "Ben Walter." Harvard Business School Case 207-070, October 2006. (Revised April 2008.)
    • May 2018
    • Article

    The Amount and Source of Millionaires' Wealth (Moderately) Predicts Their Happiness

    By: Grant Edward Donnelly, Tianyi Zheng, Emily Haisley and Michael I. Norton
    Two samples of more than 4,000 millionaires reveal two primary findings. First, only at high levels of wealth—in excess of $8 million (Study 1) and $10 million (Study 2)—are wealthier millionaires happier than millionaires with lower levels of wealth, though these... View Details
    Keywords: Income; Well-being; Happiness; Wealth; Money; Attitudes; Situation or Environment
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    Donnelly, Grant Edward, Tianyi Zheng, Emily Haisley, and Michael I. Norton. "The Amount and Source of Millionaires' Wealth (Moderately) Predicts Their Happiness." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 44, no. 5 (May 2018): 684–699.
    • October 2005 (Revised October 2006)
    • Case

    Infosys (A): Strategic Human Resource Management

    By: Thomas J. DeLong, Jaya Tandon and Ganesh Rengaswamy
    Hema Ravichandar, head of human resources, was given a new and aggressive milestone to reach: ensure Infosys is on the Top 10 lists of both Best Performing Companies and Best Employers by 2007. No large organization had ever been able to achieve this distinction... View Details
    Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Transition; Cost; Human Resources; Employee Relationship Management; Problems and Challenges; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry
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    DeLong, Thomas J., Jaya Tandon, and Ganesh Rengaswamy. "Infosys (A): Strategic Human Resource Management." Harvard Business School Case 406-010, October 2005. (Revised October 2006.)
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    Administrative Costs Associated with Physician Billing and Insurance-Related Activities at an Academic Health Care System

    By: Phillip Tseng, Robert S. Kaplan, Barak D. Richman, Mahek A. Shah and Kevin A. Schulman
    The federal government mandated adoption of certified electronic health record systems (EHR), at least in part, to reduce administrative costs for physicians. This study used time-driven activity-based costing to determine the administrative costs associated with... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Insurance; Problems and Challenges
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    Tseng, Phillip, Robert S. Kaplan, Barak D. Richman, Mahek A. Shah, and Kevin A. Schulman. "Administrative Costs Associated with Physician Billing and Insurance-Related Activities at an Academic Health Care System." JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association 319, no. 7 (February 20, 2018): 691–697.
    • 09 Aug 2017
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Productivity Tips You Probably Haven't Considered Before

    may actually hinder the most important part of problem-solving: actually solving the problem. Reflecting on Work Improves Job Performance Taking time to reflect on work improves our job performance in the... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • April 2012
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    Pret A Manger

    By: Frances X. Frei, Rick Goldberg and Stephanie van Sice
    Pret A Manger, a London-based chain of sandwich shops, was known for its fast, genuine service and pre-packaged sandwiches prepared on-site daily. Instructed by its board to grow at 15 percent per year, Pret considered opening "twin" shops in locations too small to... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Service Excellence; Growth Planning And Management; Employee Performance Management; Information Management; Production Planning; Employee Attitude Development And Empowerment; Employee Retention; Leadership Development And Career Planning; Service Delivery; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Employees; Performance; London
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    Frei, Frances X., Rick Goldberg, and Stephanie van Sice. "Pret A Manger." Harvard Business School Case 612-033, April 2012.
    • 31 Oct 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    The New CEO’s Wrong Message

    Bearing full responsibility for a company's success or failure, but being unable to control most of what will determine it. Having more authority than anyone else in the organization, but being unable to wield it without unhappy... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria
    • 08 Dec 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs

    increasing the amount of labor at a store is associated with an increase in profit margin. This did not come about through the impact of more labor on service quality, but through its impact on conformance quality—those "boring supply-chain tasks." View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
    • January 2015 (Revised May 2018)
    • Case

    $19B 4 txt app WhatsApp...omg!

    By: David Collis, Ashley Hartman and Aakash Mehta
    In February 2014, Facebook announced the acquisition of WhatsApp for $19 billion. WhatsApp, founded in 2009, was a relatively young company that employed only 50 people and earned merely $10 million in revenue in 2013. It was one of many mobile messaging services that... View Details
    Keywords: WhatsApp; Facebook; Mobile Messaging; Social Network; Acquisitions; Value Added; Strategy Alignment; Monetization; Social Platforms; Technology; Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Acquisition; Communication Technology; Social and Collaborative Networks; Value Creation; Social Media; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Communications Industry; Information Technology Industry
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    Collis, David, Ashley Hartman, and Aakash Mehta. "$19B 4 txt app WhatsApp...omg!" Harvard Business School Case 715-441, January 2015. (Revised May 2018.)
    • March 2004 (Revised April 2005)
    • Case

    Midwest Office Products

    By: Robert S. Kaplan
    Presents an easy introduction to time-driven activity-based costing (ABC) that allows students to build a simple ABC model of order profitability. Midwest's time-driven ABC approach is based on two categories of parameter estimates. The first is the cost per hour of... View Details
    Keywords: Cost; Price; Activity Based Costing and Management; Time Management; Financial Reporting; Profit; Performance Improvement; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Performance Evaluation
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    Kaplan, Robert S. "Midwest Office Products." Harvard Business School Case 104-073, March 2004. (Revised April 2005.)
    • April 2020
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    A Theory of Experimenters: Robustness, Randomization, and Balance

    By: Abhijit Banerjee, Sylvain Chassang, Sergio Montero and Erik Snowberg
    This paper studies the problem of experiment design by an ambiguity-averse decisionmaker who trades off subjective expected performance against robust performance guarantees. This framework accounts for real-world experimenters’ preference for randomization. It also... View Details
    Keywords: Experiment Design; Experimenters; Theory; Performance
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    Banerjee, Abhijit, Sylvain Chassang, Sergio Montero, and Erik Snowberg. "A Theory of Experimenters: Robustness, Randomization, and Balance." American Economic Review 110, no. 4 (April 2020): 1206–1230.
    • April 2018 (Revised October 2023)
    • Case

    Coco Chanel: From Fashion Icon to Nazi Agent

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Emily Grandjean
    This case describes the career of the iconic French fashion designer Coco Chanel who created a transformational business during the first half of the 20th century. Beginning in her early adulthood, Chanel leveraged relationships with acquaintances, friends, and... View Details
    Keywords: Business History; Biography; Entrepreneurship; Relationships; Brands and Branding; Ethics; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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    Jones, Geoffrey, and Emily Grandjean. "Coco Chanel: From Fashion Icon to Nazi Agent." Harvard Business School Case 318-139, April 2018. (Revised October 2023.)
    • 08 Sep 2015
    • News

    Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

    • 2019
    • Chapter

    Teams and Team Effectiveness in Health Services Organizations

    By: Bruce J. Fried and Amy C. Edmondson
    Book Abstract: Completely updated to address the challenges faced by modern health care organizations, this edition of Shortell and Kaluzny's Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior offers a more global perspective on how the United States and... View Details
    Keywords: Groups and Teams; Performance Effectiveness; Health; Health Industry
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    Fried, Bruce J., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Teams and Team Effectiveness in Health Services Organizations." Chap. 5 in Shortell & Kaluzny's Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior. 7th ed., edited by Lawton Robert Burns, Elizabeth H. Bradley, and Bryan Jeffrey Weiner, 98–131. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning, 2019.
    • 2010
    • Case

    New Heritage Doll Company: Capital Budgeting: Brief Case No. 4212.

    By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Heide Diener Abelli
    A manufacturer and retailer of specialty doll products must decide which of two projects to fund. The decision requires the student to compute cash flows for the 2 projects, discount values to the present and compare and contrast different project performance measures. View Details
    Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Projects; Decision Making; Cash Flow; Performance Evaluation; Production
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    Luehrman, Timothy A., and Heide Diener Abelli. "New Heritage Doll Company: Capital Budgeting: Brief Case No. 4212." Watertown, MA: Harvard Business Publishing Case, 2010.
    • Editorial

    Why ESG Funds Fail to Scale

    By: Gabriel Karageorgiou and George Serafeim
    You’ve seen the headlines about the growth in environmental, social, and governance funds. Many investment professionals might read these and believe that launching a new ESG investment firm or ESG offering will be an automatic success. Our analysis of the data shows... View Details
    Keywords: ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Disclosure; ESG Disclosure Metrics; ESG Ratings; ESG Reporting; Investment Management; Investment Strategy; Investments; Investment Fund; Sustainability; Sustainable Finance; Sustainable Investing; Investment; Management; Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Finance; Growth and Development; Failure
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    Karageorgiou, Gabriel, and George Serafeim. "Why ESG Funds Fail to Scale." Institutional Investor (January 11, 2021).
    • 01 Apr 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    When Do Alliances Make Sense?

    firms and alliances head-to-head in a meaningful way, which requires measuring their performance in similar situations. "When you see an alliance over here, and a solo firm over there, there's a good reason View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities
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