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  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Savings and Loam

stakeholder value, although people didn’t call it that 200 years ago.” “This is a model that was designed for stakeholder value, although people didn’t call it that 200 years ago.” On the deposit side of the ledger, people who open an online savings View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles
  • Profile

Brittani Rettig

simply as a way to keep me accountable for staying fit during weekly work travel. I was just posting my hotel gym workouts online. Once I started to see how the blog could help others live life more abundantly, I made Grit by Brit a... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Services; Health Care
  • 01 Apr 1999
  • News

New Releases

readable account of some of the landmarks of McArthur's tenure. "This is a pocket history of HBS that gives insight into how the School operates," McCraw recently told the Bulletin. "It also provides a personal View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 7

Roundtable. These findings are consistent with the view that financial markets placed a positive value on shareholder access, as implemented in the SEC's 2010 Rule. The Size and Composition of Corporate Headquarters in Multinational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 3

historical account of their humble origins, lack of resources, and determined struggle against the odds. We identify two essential dimensions of an underdog biography: external disadvantage, and passion and determination. We demonstrate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • April 2006 (Revised October 2006)
  • Case

Best Buy Co., Inc.: Customer-Centricity

By: Rajiv Lal, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Irina Tarsis
With FY2005 sales of $27.3 billion, Richfield, Minn.-based Best Buy Co., Inc. was the leading retailer of consumer electronics, home-office products, and related services in North America. Its operations included the distinct store formats Best Buy, Future Shop in... View Details
Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Service Operations; Business Earnings; Financial Crisis; Failure; Business Model; Leadership; Segmentation; Value Creation; Electronics Industry; United States; Canada; Mongolia
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  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

implications for how policymakers should evaluate the financial reporting environment facing firms. A real-world tax shelter is dissected to illustrate how tax shelter products enable managers to manipulate reported earnings. A stylized... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Nov 2016
  • Blog Post

Why I Didn’t Think I’d Get in to HBS

that person has been more than willing to help me learn. On countless occasions in my RC year, I happily traded an hour of financial derivatives tutoring in exchange for an hour of accounting help, and along... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence

(super)human performance levels across domains. Yes, artificial intelligence is a technology layer that will have meaningful ramifications, so we must be incredibly thoughtful about the standards we establish to govern it. There is a need... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 26

only when publicly disclosed fundamental signals have high precision; fundamentals are thus the sole driver of crises in low-precision settings. We affirm this proposition on 39 currency crises by exploiting a key publicly disclosed fundamental driving View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 1995 (Revised July 1996)
  • Supplement

Governance at Metallgesellschaft (B)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Samanta Graff
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Corporate Accountability; Business Conglomerates; Governing and Advisory Boards; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Corporate Governance; Mining Industry; Chemical Industry; Germany; United States
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Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity

What is an acceptable price for the public to pay for the shortcomings of our work? How do our moral imperatives and social responsibilities motivate us to become the best possible stewards of what we know ? What might it require of us to make lasting, meaningful,... View Details
  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

demand for auditing by the licensor. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit strategy choice by the licensor. We show when the owner prefers to license the property in exchange for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Feb 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: JSW Steel and Cement and the Quest to Capture Carbon in Hard to Abate Sectors

across the country. How to juggle the challenge of developing a country of 1.4 billion people while being pressured to achieve a net zero target? As we explored India during our ten days for our Immersive Field Course, from its Financial... View Details
  • 03 Dec 2012
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

developing countries, are often meager. Some, like police officers, it can be argued, require additional income just to ensure a basic standard of living. On the supply side, corruption prevails because people find themselves paying... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage
  • 14 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

high levels of entrepreneurial activity, which in turn gave me a large enough sample to work with. Second, it is not an industry where venture capital activity is very high, making it a good setting to study growth in the absence of View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
  • 10 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 10

organizations that adopt it within a highly scrutinized regulatory environment but absent in a direct regulatory threat. The Quest for the 'Holy Grail' of Integrated Financial and CSR Reporting Authors:Robert Eccles and Michael Krzus... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

Taxes: An Analysis Perspective Harvard Business School Note 107-047 Provides an overview of accounting for deferred taxes. The primary objective is to provide external users with a basic understanding of deferred taxes. A simple... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 13

  PublicationsMisvaluing Innovation Authors:Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether, and Christopher Malloy Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We demonstrate that a firm's ability to innovate is predictable, persistent, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Fast Answer

Historical and forecasted economic statistics

GDP click GDP and Components. On the data page, choose from the drop-down menus provided to select the Country, series options, and desired date(s). Global Financial Data:  Time series data for individual countries back to... View Details