Publications

Research Summary

Current Research: Issues in Corporate Governance

Effectiveness of shareholder voting

Reform of shareholder voting is a key component of legislation arising from the financial crisis of 2008. Professor Gow examines the effect of shareholder voting on corporate actions, particularly on... View Details

Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

Difference This course will teach you the fundamentals of financial accounting from the ground up. Stay active by engaging in a new activity every three to five minutes. Description of silent animated video... View Details

May 2020 (Revised October 2021)
Case

Valuing Peloton

By: E. Scott Mayfield

Peloton Interactive, a well-known venture-capital-backed unicorn in the connected fitness space, recently had gone public with a market capitalization of over $8.0 billion. However, in the weeks following its public debut, Peloton’s stock price had fallen by over 25%.... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Public Equity; Initial Public Offering; Disruptive Innovation; Business Strategy; Valuation; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States

01 May 2020
Blog Post

5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS

Aaron Hancock is a member of the HBS Class of 2021. He serves as Senator for Section H and is the Chair of the Senate Clubs Committee. He is also one View Details

Lawyers-in-Residence - Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs-In-Residence Entrepreneurs-in-Residence Venture Capital Advisors Lawyers-in-Residence The Lawyers in Residence (LiR) Program was established to provide students starting new ventures at HBS with pro-bono counseling on a variety View Details

HBS Health Care Initiative - Blog: Health Supplement

Students tag Digital Health Health Care Innovation Women's Health At the intersection of engineering and advocacy, Jenn Arnold (MS/MBA’ 26) is helping lead a new wave of innovation in women’s health. With a... View Details

Student Journey - Entrepreneurship

RVP, you’ll select and determine funding for the Rock Accelerator program team. You’ll also intern at a VC firm during your EC year and meet with VCs at some of the top firms in the country. And check out the Venture Capital & Private... View Details

11 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

society that somehow valued this specific ability I had.” [music] At the Seoul offices of MBK Partners, Kim contemplates shelves of Lucite trophies commemorating some of the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

01 Oct 1997
News

L.E. Simmons

major role" in shaping the $50Ð$100-billion-a-year oil field service industry. But in 1987, L.E. decided that he wanted to change direction: "I wanted to go beyond the investment banking aspects of the business and to try my hand at View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

20 Oct 2015
Blog Post

What to Expect Your First Year at HBS

people. I also did freelance projects for venture capital and private equity firms (which then helped me to gain an internship in venture capital). With all this activity, it’s especially important to build out time to reflect on your... View Details

03 Mar 2021
News

New Multimedia Case Explores the Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

that has been suggested is to increase the firm's financial leverage (so it has less of a cushion when the business begins to suffer); another is to increase senior managers' equity stake so they are... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

25 Aug 2014
News

Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983

some business skills, but more importantly, I learned about people,” he says of his time at HBS. With his new MBA, Nelson joined Narragansett, one of the few firms in the burgeoning industry—and the only one... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

05 Feb 2018
What Do You Think?

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

was negotiated separately and privately but by representatives of the same agency. The result, as is widely known now, was that both actors agreed to reshoot the scenes for the actor’s equity base pay View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

03 Jan 2023
Book

Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action

back up and running, many women are asking: What’s it going to take to effect real change? According to Tina Opie, visiting scholar at Harvard Business School and author of Shared Sisterhood: How to Take Collective Action for Racial and... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

January 2016 (Revised November 2019)
Case

Blackstone at Age 30

By: Josh Lerner, John D. Dionne and Amram Migdal

Since its IPO in 2007 and following the global financial crisis, Blackstone largely outpaced its alternative investment firm peers in assets under management, new business launches, profitability, and market capitalization. Under the leadership of Stephen A.... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Asset Management; Private Equity; Financial Services Industry; New York (city, NY)

21 Oct 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Market Interest in Nonfinancial Information

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles, Michael P. Krzus & George Serafeim

November 2013
Case

Canyon-Agassi Investing in Charter Schools

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Nicole Shomair, Vernon Beckford and Lisa Strope

After an unusual round of doubles in May 2011, real estate investor Bobby Turner, Managing Partner, Canyon-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund (CACSFF) and Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Canyon Capital Realty Advisors, found himself at a loss for words. Turner was... View Details

Keywords: Charter Schools; Real Estate; Fund Raising; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Real Estate Industry; United States