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- 24 Oct 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Signaling Firm Performance Through Financial Statement Presentation: An Analysis Using Special Items
Keywords: by Edward J. Riedl & Suraj Srinivasan
- 18 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?
causes. In 11 experiments, they found that—relative to higher-income earners—people with lower incomes were judged more harshly for what they chose to buy, even when the two groups made identical consumer choices. It's a concept Hagerty... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
are on average exhibiting good corporate governance, especially in light of the markedly different business strategies they typically undertake. Moreover, unlike many past conceptions of business groups from financial economics,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?
the crisis." Scharfstein discussed the issue further in a recent Q&A with HBS Working Knowledge. Sean Silverthorne: In general, why is reform needed? What problem will it solve? David Scharfstein: There are two basic problems with our... View Details
- 24 Mar 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Securing Jobs or the New Protectionism? Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
value created for shareholders. Agency theory ascends It isn’t much of an exaggeration to say that the “Friedman Doctrine” triggered a half-century of dominance for “agency theory” in corporate governance. Adherence to the concept has led... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem?
nonstandard drivers frequently lapse on their payments in order to pay for basic necessities, then incur high fees when they re-enroll in coverage. Nonstandard carriers earn 13 percent of their premium income from fees and often require... View Details
- July 2003
- Case
De La Salle Academy
By: Thomas J. DeLong and David Ager
Brother Brian Carty, headmaster and founder of De La Salle Academy, a private school for academically talented, economically disadvantaged children in grades six to eight in New York City, is scheduled to meet with the school's board of directors to discuss how the... View Details
Keywords: Middle School Education; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Organizational Design; Management Succession; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Education Industry
DeLong, Thomas J., and David Ager. "De La Salle Academy." Harvard Business School Case 404-024, July 2003.
- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
collected information from some 300 large American firms, focusing primarily on the period between 1986 and 1999. By evaluating a combination of confidential compensation surveys, public accounting records, and technology investment data,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?
suggests that we both “resurrect a fabled past” (nostalgia) and “break with an inglorious one” in envisioning the future (postalgia). This requires fostering a critical dialogue about the past. What accounts for why we’re here today? What... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Dec 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
International Trade, Multinational Activity, and Corporate Finance
Keywords: by C. Fritz Foley & Kalina Manova
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46138 Forthcoming Accounting Review An Analysis of Self-reported Anticorruption Efforts By: Healy, Paul M., and George Serafeim Abstract—We use Transparency International's ratings of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
number of readers put forward well-tempered comments questioning research on whether diversity and inclusion enhance organization performance. The implication is that this may account in some part for the slow pace of progress on this... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Apr 2022
- Book
How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray
question-and-answer format that’s accessible for everyone from C-suite executives to business students. It covers a wide range of topics, from the basics of ethical behavior and legal liabilities to the cultivation of best practices and... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 26 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener
accounted for 29 percent. The researchers used machine learning algorithms to map the text of the job descriptions into six distinct clusters of skills: administrative, management of financial and material resources, management of human... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 02 Feb 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector
- 28 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Racial Bias Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels
as the time a Starbucks manager called police to arrest two Black men for loitering, though they were merely waiting for an acquaintance. “There are a lot of very negative consequences,” says Feldberg. “At one basic level, companies are... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
account individual circumstances. From the 1980s Unilever also honed skills in divesting businesses. Unilever's ability to identify acquisition targets, and to absorb the capabilities of acquired companies, became one of its principal... View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
the high-tech group, and spend time with family. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/913420-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 913-406 Nestlé: Agricultural Material Sourcing Within the Concept of Creating Shared Value Corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
expectations of either Chinese or foreign observers when the reforms were announced three decades ago. One thinks only of what might have been, in the dark decades of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, since many of the basic elements of... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby