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  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

likely as younger children to assign themselves the good prize by reporting winning the coin flip more than chance would dictate. Overall, the results of these experiments suggest that as children grow older they become increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

auctions into VCG position auctions. We require that accepting the mediator services and reporting honestly to the mediator, will form an ex post equilibrium, which satisfies the following rationality condition: an agent's payoff can’t be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

abnormal returns associated with routine traders are essentially zero. Further, opportunistic insiders predict future firm-specific news, as well as announcement returns around future analyst forecasts, management forecasts, and earnings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Industrial Giant

However, this project was a failure. As one former securities analyst noted, "None of this stuff worked the way it was supposed to." 76 This history seems especially relevant given GM's current attempts to create yet another... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer & Frederick Dalzell; Manufacturing
  • 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007

mitigate global warming. Evidently, UBS lagged behind its competitors. The graph was part of a report that environmental specialists and senior executives at UBS had compiled. It suggested the company adopt a more progressive policy on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

finance, and law to evaluate the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. We describe significant developments in how the Act was implemented and find that despite severe criticism, the Act and institutions it created have survived almost intact since enactment. We View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2009
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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 View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade

you have tons of Vietnamese people in the neighborhood, you also have a lot of Vietnamese people on the board," Cohen says. To determine which companies were trading with which countries, the researchers looked at data from the Journal of Commerce's Port Import Export... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10

simulated whether DPD or NEAD chains would produce more transplants when chain segment length was limited to three transplants and reported that DPD performed at least as well as NEAD chains. As this contrasts with the experience of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

Abstract We examine the effect of mandatory International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption on firms' information environment. We find that after mandatory IFRS adoption, consensus forecast errors decrease for firms that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

and mobs of desperate people. IBM's actions, as well as many others reported on by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, capture the emerging zeitgeist of business: the vanguard company simultaneously pursuing-and creating synergy between-opportunity,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

Standardized metrics of cath lab efficiency are proposed, which can be used in public reports on this topic moving forward. Attention is paid to understanding balance sheets to track the financial health of the cath lab. Specific... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out

have studied the issue in multiple industries, including the equally competitive fields of sports and investment banking. After examining the careers of more than 1,000 Wall Street analysts, for instance, they found that analysts who were... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Banking
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

For example, managing earnings to meet analyst expectations may start out being rationalized as necessary to avoid undue volatility in the stock price but end up being used to artificially pump up the stock price so executives can... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

HawkinsHarvard Business School Case 111-034 Following International Financial Reporting Standards guidance, company records a number of significant losses and a related deferred tax asset. Purchase this... 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
  • 07 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 7

fiscal year 2016. CEO Tim Cook commented on a very successful fiscal year 2016 and focused on all the positive financial results. However, Apple’s 2016 annual report was also telling another story. Apple’s total revenue had decreased 9%,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Sep 2020
  • Op-Ed

Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC

companies must provide accurate, relevant data about the economics of corporations. Independent analysts would use these data to rate providers—similar to how private businesses such as Morningstar rate mutual funds. The SEC works well.... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger; Health
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

but be ready to change it. Arrive early for a speaking engagement in order to grasp the mood of your audience and tailor your speech accordingly. Let others own their space. Instead of assigning detailed tasks, present general priorities and let your View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53251 August 22, 2017 Harvard Business Review Find the Right Metrics for Your Sales Team By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Robert Marsh Abstract—This article reports the results of a survey of key... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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