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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
James Ellman shows how to invest wisely as climate change impacts multiple sectors across the stock market. The costs of global warming and its mitigation will have a major impact on equity market performance over the next two decades. As... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
past. Now the big strikes lie elsewhere. The wildcatters of today travel the globe from Angola to Kazakhstan to the deep waters off the coast of Brazil in search of "elephant fields" with flow rates measuring in the thousands of barrels... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
Deserve Gender Equity campaign in New York City, an effort to shift the harsh disciplinary policies that have disproportionately led to girls and gender-nonconforming students of color being pushed out of schools. In Massachusetts, the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
impairment rules to convey private information on future cash flows; in contrast, agency theory predicts managers, on average, will use the discretion opportunistically. We test these hypotheses in a sample of firms with market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Lara Hodgson
not wanting to strap the young company with debt that might hinder future access to capital that would be needed for tooling and not wanting to raise equity that required her to give away half the business. “This just doesn’t make... View Details
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Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley - Course Catalog
Additionally, in countries where the cash economy is prevalent, startups must consider how they can convince businesses to enter the formal economy. A third type of startup that exists in some, but not all, emerging entrepreneurial... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
design tools is a powerful force that is leveling the global technology playing field. It democratizes innovation and makes future competition more challenging. This paper describes the knowledge flows through production and design tools,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
the firm operates above this threshold, managing earnings smoothes revenue and cash flow with few long-term consequences. Below it, managing earnings can tip the firm into a vicious cycle of accelerating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
Effects of Using Unverifiable Estimates in Financial Reporting Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ross L. Watts Abstract SFAS 142 requires managers to estimate reporting unit values to determine goodwill write-offs. Those estimates often use unverifiable discounted future... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
are covered by employers or Medicaid. The healthy people in these insurance pools subsidize the costs of the sick. But many employers, weary of uncontrolled and unpredictable health care costs, will likely soon switch to a pension-like defined contribution system,... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
When the firm operates above this threshold, managing earnings smoothes revenue and cash flow with few long-term consequences. Below it, managing earnings can tip the firm into a vicious cycle of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
euros, so people buy into the coin and cash out of it in more or less the same way as you would with deposits at a bank. Wang: And the reason this is desirable is presumably that it’s a superior system for transparency and trust.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
business opportunity. For example, in an equity spin-off, a diversified firm's businesses are split apart into independent entities, each with its own common stock. Spin-offs can make sense when a high-growth business is being held back... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
company. They can either sell the company to a large public company, raise another round of capital from a preeminent venture capital fund, or continue to grow using existing positive cash flow. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
Case 119-030 Fair Value Accounting at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. In May 2018, Berkshire Hathaway announced an unprecedented loss of more than $1 billion for the first quarter of 2018. Warren Buffett blamed this loss on the new accounting rules for View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
between steps. I show that the optimal number of modules (and buffers) increases as the underlying rate of technical change goes up. When the underlying technologies are changing rapidly, it makes sense to sacrifice some degree of flow... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
Charles C.Y., and Jesse M. Fried Abstract—It’s no secret that the American economy is suffering from the twin ills of slow growth and rising income inequality. Many lay the blame at the doors of America’s largest public corporations. The charge? These firms prefer to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
forthcoming Financial Analysts Journal Optimal Tilts: Combining Persistent Characteristic Portfolios By: Baker, Malcolm, Ryan Taliaferro, and Terry Burnham Abstract—We examine the optimal weighting of four tilts in U.S. equity markets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
development. Payout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment Authors:Bo Becker, Marcus Jacob, and Martin Jacob Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract When corporate payout is taxed, internal equity (retained... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
years I worked at Parthenon Capital. I had a great start of a career there. It was a continuation of my private equity career from prior to school. And I got the idea that I would go out and find a company to buy and run, move to Atlanta... View Details