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  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

Short Takes

Who Benefits from Bonuses? Over the past decade, senior corporate executives have been earning record-high bonuses in record-high numbers. What accounts for this striking increase? Do bonuses motivate executives and enhance organizational... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
  • April 1988 (Revised March 1991)
  • Case

Tektronix: Portable Instruments Division (A)

Tektronix's Portable Instruments Division has recently converted to a JIT production process. The existing cost system was designed for conventional manufacturing and is obsolete. The case describes the new material-burdening system the firm implemented. This system... View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Production; Management Systems; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 08 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?

Even before the recent earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Japan, many parts of Asia had already begun investing in "green" energy. But the disaster has certainly upped the urgency of the discussions. “It's driven a lot of people to have a bit of a... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Energy; Utilities
  • 17 Jul 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 14 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions

There’s something curious about the labor force in the United States. Identical jobs and industries have become unionized in some states while remaining nonunionized in others. Unionization levels vary greatly from state to state. As of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Sep 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #9: Shelly Xu (MBA 2021) Reducing Waste Through Beautiful Design

added industry experts to her group of advisors. Her customer base has increased and she has articulated her company’s roadmap: “SXD creates magic for everyone we touch.” By “magic,” she means “good things that happen without having to... View Details
  • February 2017 (Revised June 2017)
  • Supplement

ExxonMobil: Business as Usual? (B)

By: George Serafeim, Shiva Rajgopal and David Freiberg
The case presents ExxonMobil's response to growing pressure to disclose how climate change will impact their business. This includes multiple asset impairments and losing a proxy vote to shareholders to increase climate change related reporting. Supplements the (B)... View Details
Keywords: Oil ＆ Gas; Oil Prices; Oil Companies; Asset Impairment; Predictive Analytics; Sustainability; Environmental Impact; Innovation; Disclosure; Accounting; Valuation; Energy Sources; Ethics; Corporate Disclosure; Governance Compliance; Climate Change; Financial Reporting; Energy Industry; United States
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  • 19 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

Nokia lowered its guidance for Q2 2012, explaining in a press release that "competitive industry dynamics are negatively affecting the Smart Devices business unit to a somewhat greater extent than previously expected.")... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jun 2014
  • News

Turning "Black Gold" to Green

Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated to pull off in the real world.... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
  • July 1990 (Revised October 1997)
  • Case

Siemens Electric Motor Works (A) (Abridged)

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Explores how a cost system can help support a firm's decision to change strategies. In the process, the students are introduced to a simple activity-based cost system. Siemens Electric Motor Works found itself facing an increasingly competitive environment and so made... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost Accounting; Cost; Adoption; Cost vs Benefits; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Production; Business Strategy; Electronics Industry; Electronics Industry
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  • July 1988 (Revised May 1989)
  • Background Note

On the Economics of a Parking Garage

By: David E. Bell
Introduces notions of cash flow, net present value, and internal rate of return by estimating the profitability of a parking garage. View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Corporate Finance; Auto Industry; Auto Industry
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  • 27 May 2021
  • News

History’s Future

government hopes that the tourism industry will revitalize the region and account for 10 percent of the country’s GDP in a decade, up from just 3 percent. The work of drawing global attention to this... View Details
Keywords: Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment
  • Web

Why Home Construction Has Slumped for Decades | Working Knowledge

the number of houses built per construction employee, that fact does bear some responsibility for the sector not producing as many units. But even after we account for these quality differences, we still find the View Details
  • 01 Dec 2011
  • News

A Modest Tax Proposal

in the United States. Those profits are now subject to a 35 percent corporate tax rate, but the tax can be totally avoided as long as American corporations hold the profits in their accounts at foreign banks. The current system needs... View Details
Keywords: Robert C. Pozen; tax holidays
  • 30 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

trust was no doubt engendered in an earlier day when defined benefit (DB) pension plans were offered by lifelong employers like IBM and General Motors. Today, that system is all but extinct. Merton explains that employers underestimated the cost and risk of DB plans... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
  • 02 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories 2007

Think Team Stars don't shine alone. As Harvard Business School's Boris Groysberg and Linda-Eling Lee reveal in new research, it is imperative that top performers as well as their managers take into account the quality of colleagues.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2005 (Revised January 2006)
  • Supplement

Restating Revenues and Earnings at INVESTools, Inc. (B)

By: Michael D. Kimbrough and F. Warren McFarlan
Keywords: Earnings Management; Revenue; Financial Services Industry
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  • September 2005 (Revised January 2006)
  • Supplement

Restating Revenues and Earnings at INVESTools, Inc. (D)

By: Michael D. Kimbrough and F. Warren McFarlan
Keywords: Earnings Management; Revenue; Financial Services Industry
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  • Web

Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising

distinct means of communication and distribution to a mass audience. Trade catalogs, for example, became an integral way of merchandising new industrial products created from the enormous factory output and market demands of the View Details
  • 11 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

ZONE DEFENSE: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to

telling him. Ryan Tseng had already started two successful companies, and where Brandon saw a business opportunity in building AI software to operate unmanned systems for the military, Ryan saw a behemoth defense industry with high... View Details