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- 16 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules
were more likely to increase their position before periods of high returns and decrease their position before periods of low returns, compared with investors who didn't meet...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation
which are highly germane to their business and some that are more personal. We hear repeatedly the words "validating," "broadening," "stimulating," and "powerful." Many of the participants have made...
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Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Podcast Podcast Harvard Business School Professors Bill Kerr and Joe Fuller talk to leaders grappling with the forces reshaping the nature of work. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts More Ways to Listen Google...
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- 21 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms
to pick the coffee cherries in the cooler morning air. Then they spend days tending to the drying beans, meticulously sorting them for sale. To ensure that more of the value produced in the supply chain is View Details
- September 2013 (Revised January 2016)
- Case
The Abraaj Group and the Acibadem Healthcare Investment (A)
By: Paul A. Gompers, Bora Uluduz and Firdevs Abacioglu
This case concerns the proposed buyout of Acibadem, a leading hospital chain in Turkey. Abraaj, a MENA region private equity firm, proposes to make its first investment in Turkey. The case highlights the role of Turkish health care reform in driving the value. The...
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Gompers, Paul A., Bora Uluduz, and Firdevs Abacioglu. "The Abraaj Group and the Acibadem Healthcare Investment (A)." Harvard Business School Case 214-021, September 2013. (Revised January 2016.)
- 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...
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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.)
- 16 Mar 2023
- News
Bringing DEI into the Core of Our Institutions
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
that. But has it been intentional enough? And then, when it comes to our grant-making, even though our grants certainly are directed toward communities of color, gender equity issues, and so forth, have we...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the lives of the needy across Pakistan
thousands of small nonprofits in Pakistan that were doing amazing work on the ground remained undiscovered by mainstream donors. Borrowing from his private equity training, Wasim employed a metrics-driven...
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- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
amounts of internal energy go to 'making the quarter return' rather than serving the customer and building the future. Why did quarter returns develop in the first place?" Bill Hubbell added, "The...
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- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
disproportionate stock price hit to an earnings miss reflects that informational problem. The promise of private equity involves solving that gap between owners and managers. Buybacks must be interpreted in...
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by Dina Gerdeman
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
define that a little bit more for us and also how that links to your equity agenda. Lee: So I think what’s really important about SkillUp is this idea of participant voice. And so how we think about that...
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- August 2007 (Revised February 2008)
- Case
Pinnacle Ventures
By: Michael J. Roberts, William A. Sahlman and Elizabeth Kind
Describes a prospective "venture debt" loan to a new venture from the perspective of Patrick Lee, a principal at Pinnacle Ventures. Forces students to grapple with the nature of financial risk in the start-up firm and assess the prospective risks and returns to a...
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Risk and Uncertainty;
Venture Capital;
Investment Return;
Business Startups;
Financial Services Industry
Roberts, Michael J., William A. Sahlman, and Elizabeth Kind. "Pinnacle Ventures." Harvard Business School Case 808-048, August 2007. (Revised February 2008.)
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
would’ve done that without the texture of this public debate.Kerr: I want to return back to flexible and hybrid work. Working with the clients that you do—and you have the whole spectrum there—what do you...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
because you’re at the front line, and, I mean, your conversation with potential future clients, you’re seeing around the corner. Do you see a trend in aggregate toward more return to office, more flexible, keep it as it is? This is one...
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- April 2022
- Teaching Note
Gender Equality in Business: 100 Years of Progress?
By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 422-066, "Gender Equality in Business: 100 Years of Progress?" The case traces the history of women in management from the early 20th to early 21st century through analysis of Harvard Business Review's coverage of women and gender. The...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
of policy focus, that this was something that, for example, the data suggested every one pound spent in the British economy on apprenticeships returned 27 or 28 pounds. Right? Which is very rare as a...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
One expression of that culture is a generous parental leave benefit. We’ll consider the return on that investment, as well as the company’s broad commitment to diversity. Welcome to the podcast, Hanna. Hanna...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
organizations, you say, “Well, tell me about your compensation at Shopify.” And people would have to reflect and say, “Okay, let me think about my pay stub here. Oh, I’ve got some equity over there. Oh, I think I got a reward for...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
coverage of the path ahead for education, health care, management, and the hotel and restaurant industries. Return to June Bulletin THE WAY FORWARD See more from the online-only June Bulletin’s coverage...
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Zoom