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  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

also necessary to allocate debt between the two entities, which will generally entail some kind of refinancing. The transaction must meet certain stringent business purpose tests to qualify as tax-exempt. And if the two entities conducted... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
  • 10 May 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men

contrast, the manager recalled, when he had made a colossal mistake with a client early in his career, his supervisor reassured him, telling him, “Don’t sweat it. It will be fine.” His supervisor then helped him see how he could fix the problem and brought him to the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • April 2017 (Revised May 2017)
  • Case

GE Capital After the Crisis

By: John C. Coates, John D. Dionne and David S. Scharfstein
Keith Sherin, CEO of GE Capital, faced a decision on which hinged billions of dollars and the fate of one of America’s most storied companies. On his desk sat two secret analyses: Project Beacon, a proposal to spin off most of GE Capital to GE shareholders, and... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Institutions; Strategy
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  • Profile

Pam Chan

Her role: advertising sales for Southeast Asia. "All companies say they want to be transformed digitally," Pam observes, "but most are struggling. It makes sense to start with digital advertising and marketing to meet... View Details
Keywords: CPG; Tech
  • Web

Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

the workforce, supplement your current role, or take on projects following retirement. We recognize that each situation is unique and encourage you to meet with an HBS career coach in order to take a customized approach to finding the... View Details
  • 06 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan

holds today. I think entrepreneurs, investors, and employees need to be suitably skeptical about what they read in business plans. I have read perhaps 5,000 plans and have only seen three companies really meet their plan. That sounds like... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Rock Entrepreneurship Advisor Program - Entrepreneurship

virtual mentoring, pitch feedback, and more. To book a time with a REAP Advisor, visit the profiles linked below. REAP office hour appointments are for HBS alumni only . Please be sure to use your HBS email address when submitting your View Details
  • 19 Oct 2022
  • Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

“How will we educate our kids?” is similar to “what kind of company culture will we have?” There are philosophies on which to reach alignment: “Where will we raise our family?” is similar to “will we have a home office or remote-friendly work environment?” You can’t... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • Web

Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

successfully complete Financial Accounting, and how are grades assigned? + – Participants are expected to fully complete all coursework in a thoughtful and timely manner. This will mean meeting each week’s course module deadlines and... View Details
  • June 2024 (Revised August 2024)
  • Case

Hospital for Special Surgery: Returning to a New Normal? (A)

By: Robert S. Huckman, Michael Lingzhi Li and Camille Gregory
Early on the morning of April 27, 2020, Justin Oppenheimer stood outside the entrance to the lobby of the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) Pavilion Building with mixed emotions. On one hand, Oppenheimer, HSS’ Enterprise Chief Operating Officer and Chief Strategy... View Details
Keywords: Operations Management; Scheduling; Optimization; COVID-19; Health Care and Treatment; Operations; Customer Focus and Relationships; Disruption; Health Industry; United States
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  • April 2011 (Revised April 2011)
  • Supplement

Fleet Oil Company: An Exercise

The exercise, which adapts a famous experiment by experimental psychologist Thomas Gilovich, is designed to show both the ubiquity of analogy or associative thinking more generally and its potential perils. Students are presented with a scenario in which an oil company... View Details
Keywords: Business Headquarters; Crime and Corruption; Decisions; Non-Renewable Energy; Cost; Production; Performance Productivity; Research and Development; Energy Industry; Atlanta; Houston
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting A Stop to the Earnings Game

By: Joseph Fuller and Michael C. Jensen

Putting an end to the "earnings game" requires that CEOs reclaim the initiative by avoiding earnings guidance and managing expectations in such a way that their stocks trade reasonably close to their intrinsic value. In place of earnings forecasts, management should... View Details

Keywords: Stocks; Performance Expectations; Goals and Objectives; Risk and Uncertainty; Growth and Development Strategy; Decisions; Risk Management; Budgets and Budgeting; Earnings Management; Value; Projects
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    The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger than Your Business Card

    What Color Is Your Parachute? meets Out of Office in this inspiring, practical playbook to achieve sustainable work-life balance while optimizing your happiness, personal growth, and bank accounts.

    Pouring yourself into a single... View Details
    • 26 Oct 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener

    basic social capabilities are perceived to play a key role for the success of complex and information intensive organizations. It is unclear, however, whether the supply of social skills in the managerial labor market has been able to View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
    • Web

    Interviewing - Alumni

    other than a traffic violation? Response : No. I've never been convicted of anything other than a minor traffic violation. Follow Up Guidelines Send each person you meet with a thank you email as soon as possible. If you are sending... View Details
    • Web

    Leadership Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    beyond the Fellowship year; others participate in the program over multiple years or pursue other channels of MBA recruiting to meet their ongoing talent needs. Apply for a Leadership Fellow Partners & Fellows Organizations and students... View Details
    • Web

    Alumni - Global

    Latour takes the helm of his family’s centuries-old winemaking company Re: Florent Latour (MBA 1999); By: Julia Hanna 14 Jun 2023 HBS Alumni News Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia With all-alumni events in Singapore and Tokyo last... View Details
    • 25 Jul 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

    With Hepatitis C running rampant in Egypt in 2012, Clifford Samuel, then of California-based Gilead Sciences, convened a series of urgent meetings with Egyptian government officials, doctors, and patients. His goal? To make Gilead’s... View Details
    Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health
    • 05 Jul 2012
    • What Do You Think?

    Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?

    seems to be important enough to warrant effort on the part of managers. But what kind of effort? On what should they concentrate? Several things come to mind. It would seem that trust is engendered by the process of setting and meeting... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • Web

    Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting

    people push you up and you’ll continue to get better.” You Might Want to Read 05 May 2025 Meet the Tech Club Shira Amat 13 Mar 2025 Launching Leaders: HBS's New Initiative Fuels First-Generation and Low-Income Student Success Shoma Simkin... View Details