Filter Results:
(15,111)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(15,111)
- People (43)
- News (3,259)
- Research (8,977)
- Events (50)
- Multimedia (215)
- Faculty Publications (7,137)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(15,111)
- People (43)
- News (3,259)
- Research (8,977)
- Events (50)
- Multimedia (215)
- Faculty Publications (7,137)
- 29 Jun 2014
- News
Fight against short-termism is misdirected
- October 2011 (Revised December 2011)
- Case
Vignette: Alternative Liquidity Options
By: Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
The growth of companies that facilitate the sales of unregistered stock, such as that granted to employees of successful but long-private companies, has raised a number of questions among regulators, investors, and company founders. This brief vignette sketches out... View Details
Hardymon, Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Vignette: Alternative Liquidity Options." Harvard Business School Case 812-070, October 2011. (Revised December 2011.)
- 13 Jan 2020
- News
Making Impact Investing Work
- 2011
- Book
The Fund Industry: How Your Money Is Managed
By: Robert Pozen and Theresa Hamacher
The Fund Industry explains to students and investors how to evaluate mutual funds and other collective investment vehicles. It discusses how different types of funds are managed, marketed, and regulated. It also reviews how funds invest and gather assets in countries... View Details
Keywords: Money; Financial Management; International Finance; Investment Funds; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Services Industry
Pozen, Robert, and Theresa Hamacher. The Fund Industry: How Your Money Is Managed. 3rd ed. NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
professional and political characteristics of FASB members and SEC commissioners predict the accounting "reliability" and "relevance" of proposed standards.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 2019
- Article
The Dollar, Bank Leverage and Deviations from Covered Interest Parity
By: Stefan Advjiev, Wenxin Du, Catherine Koch and Hyun Song Shin
We document a triangular relationship in that a stronger dollar goes hand in hand with larger deviations from covered interest parity (CIP) and contractions of cross-border bank lending in dollars. We argue that underpinning the triangle is the role of the dollar as a... View Details
Advjiev, Stefan, Wenxin Du, Catherine Koch, and Hyun Song Shin. "The Dollar, Bank Leverage and Deviations from Covered Interest Parity." American Economic Review: Insights 1, no. 2 (September 2019): 193–208.
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
advertising system in which a certain amount of waste and fraud has become the norm, despite the system's fundamental capability to offer unprecedented accountability. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Student-Profile
Patrick Ferguson
performance metrics, but framed as accounting problems. “I’ve always been interested in approaching traditional accounting questions in non-traditional contexts,” he says. “This way View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
What To Expect From The Economic Deceleration In China
- 22 Oct 2019
- News
Episode 11: Karen Mills, Harvard Business School
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
compensation from financial performance is not an answer. At issue is the short-term/long-term balance of stockholder interests." Srinivasan suggested that a program should contain both. Phillip Gelman... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 May 2013
- News
Don’t Blame Apple for America’s Broken Tax Code
- October 2004
- Case
Costing Alternative Choices
By: David F. Hawkins and Jacob Cohen
Discusses the role of differential cost and revenues in solving alternative choice problems. View Details
Hawkins, David F., and Jacob Cohen. "Costing Alternative Choices." Harvard Business School Case 105-035, October 2004.
- 31 May 2017
- News
What Jane Austen can teach us about risk management
- 06 Dec 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
What Impedes Oil and Gas Companies’ Transparency?
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
activities. Organizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, and Tatiana Sandino Periodical:The View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2014
- News
Alibaba IPO: Corporate Structure Is Huge Investment Risk
- November 1994 (Revised February 1996)
- Case
Toy World, Inc.
By: W. Carl Kester
A shift from seasonal to level production of toys will change the seasonal cycle of Toy World's working capital needs and necessitate new bank credit arrangements. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
Keywords: Working Capital; Business Cycles; Cash Flow; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Funds; Financial Statements
Kester, W. Carl. "Toy World, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 295-073, November 1994. (Revised February 1996.)
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
evolving in this area? A: Yes, they are, and that is not necessarily a good thing. Financial accountability is an important characteristic of high-performing nonprofits, to be... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne