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  • 19 Aug 2011
  • News

NYC Program Means Real Public School Choice for Students

  • 2019
  • Chapter

The Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting

By: Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
A key aspect of the governance process inside organizations and markets is the measurement and disclosure of important metrics and information. In this chapter, we examine the effect of sustainability disclosure regulations on firms’ disclosure practices and... View Details
Keywords: Mandatory Disclosure; Mandatory Reporting; Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility; Social Impact; Valuation; China; South Africa; Europe; Asia; Regulation; Corporate Disclosure; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Corporate Governance; China; Denmark; Malaysia; South Africa
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  • September 2013
  • Teaching Note

The Case of the Unidentified Industries—2013

By: Mihir A. Desai, William E. Fruhan, Jr. and Elizabeth A. Meyer
Helps students to understand how the characteristics of a business are reflected in its financial statements. This case consists of an exercise in which students are given balance sheet data in percentage form and other selected financial data for companies in 14... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Accounting Statements; Ratio Analysis; Financial Statements; Finance
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    Nii Narku Quaynor

    Keywords: Internet Provider
    • 12 Jun 2014
    • News

    The Brazil World Cup: Big Money for Billions of Eyeballs

    • 30 Mar 2021
    • Video

    Hue Beauty Crowd Favorite 2021 New Venture Competition Student Business Track

    • December 2022
    • Article

    Social Skills Improve Business Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial with Entrepreneurs in Togo

    By: Stefan Dimitriadis and Rembrand Koning
    Recent field experiments demonstrate that advice, mentorship, and feedback from randomly assigned peers improve entrepreneurial performance. These results raise a natural question: what is preventing entrepreneurs and managers from forming these peer connections... View Details
    Keywords: Social Skills; Business Performance; Entrepreneurs; Peer Relationships; Field Experiment; Entrepreneurship; Performance; Relationships; Interpersonal Communication; Togo
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    • March 2017 (Revised October 2018)
    • Case

    Catalant: The Future of Work?

    By: Thomas Eisenmann, Jeffrey F. Rayport and Christine Snively
    Catalant, founded in 2013 as an online marketplace where MBAs could bid on consulting projects posted by small- to medium-sized businesses, had expanded by 2016 to provide Fortune 1000 companies with access to over 35,000 independent experts. The founders envisioned... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Recruitment; Labor; Market Platforms; Growth and Development Strategy; Employment Industry; Consulting Industry; United States
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    • Research Summary

    Unintended Consequences of Fundraising Tactics

    Charity fundraisers use a variety of methods to increase donations, with three of the most common being matching funds, seed money, and thank you gifts. Field experiments have shown that matching funds (Eckel and Grossman, 2008) and seed money (List and Lucking-Reiley,... View Details
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Virtual Water Coolers: A Field Experiment on the Role of Virtual Interactions on Organizational Newcomer Performance

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Jacqueline N. Lane and Iavor Bojinov
    Designing management practices to better onboard organizational newcomers working remotely is a key priority for firms. We report results from a randomized field experiment conducted at a large global firm that estimates the performance effects of different types of... View Details
    Keywords: Remote Work; Virtual Water Coolers; Social Interactions; Careers; Field Experiment; Employees; Interpersonal Communication; Internet and the Web; Performance; Personal Development and Career
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    • September 1998 (Revised October 1998)
    • Case

    Adventurous Computer Games, Inc. (Abridged)

    By: William J. Bruns Jr.
    A new company that manufactures computer games must begin to capitalize computer software development costs. Issues that must be addressed include the effects of capitalization and decisions about how to match costs with future revenues. View Details
    Keywords: Cost; Applications and Software; Accounting; Revenue
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    • 21 Sep 2017
    • Cold Call Podcast

    State Street’s SHE: Investing in Women Leaders

    Keywords: Re: Vikram Gandhi; Financial Services
    • June 2016 (Revised January 2018)
    • Case

    Airbnb, Etsy, Uber: Growing from One Thousand to One Million Customers

    By: Thales S. Teixeira and Morgan Brown
    By 2016, two-sided online platforms (or marketplaces) were pervasive among the highest growing internet startups around. These marketplaces sought to match suppliers of assets for rent, physical products or services with customers demanding them. Among the most notable... View Details
    Keywords: Airbnb; Etsy; Uber; Growth Hacking; Two Sided Markets; Digital Platforms; Marketing; Digital Marketing; Growth Management; Service Industry
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      Sara L. Fleiss

      Sara Fleiss was the co-founder and co-portfolio manager of Emeth Partners, an emerging markets arbitrage hedge fund.  Prior to founding Emeth, Sara was the lead analyst on the Emerging Markets Equities portfolio at Harvard Management Company (HMC). At HMC, Sara... View Details

      • April 2020
      • Article

      Designs for Estimating the Treatment Effect in Networks with Interference

      By: Ravi Jagadeesan, Natesh S. Pillai and Alexander Volfovsky
      In this paper, we introduce new, easily implementable designs for drawing causal inference from randomized experiments on networks with interference. Inspired by the idea of matching in observational studies, we introduce the notion of considering a treatment... View Details
      Keywords: Experimental Design; Network Inference; Neyman Estimator; Symmetric Interference Model; Homophily
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      • 09 Oct 2017
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Marry Rich, Poor Girl: Investigating the Effects of Sex Selection on Intrahousehold Outcomes in India

      Keywords: by Reshmaan Hussam
      • 12 May 2010
      • News

      Venture Financing and Entrepreneurial Success

      • 19 Sep 2017
      • Working Paper Summaries

      An Invitation to Market Design

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      Keywords: by Scott Duke Kominers, Alexander Teytelboym, and Vincent P. Crawford
      • October 2000 (Revised November 2001)
      • Case

      Garage.com (A)

      By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Elizabeth Kind
      Silicon Valley's Garage.com matches venture capital and corporate angel investors with high-tech start-ups that are looking for early stage funding. As a Web-based service, Garage.com fields inquiries from entrepreneurs and investors around the world, and is eager to... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Corporate Strategy; Business Growth and Maturation; Venture Capital; Investment; Internet and the Web; Expansion; Operations; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Technological Innovation; Brands and Branding; Information Technology Industry
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      • 03 Apr 2011
      • News

      The Matchmaker