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  • 03 Jan 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)

impression that a temporarily shared selfie makes does not disappear when the [photos] disappear,” says social science researcher Leslie K. John, the Marvin Bower Associate Professor at Harvard Business School and co-author of the paper “Temporary Sharing Prompts... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 9

http://hbr.org/search/113088-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 813-125 Plastiq The young CEO of a venture-backed startup needs to figure out his go to market strategy and the right profile for his first key sales hires. Should he... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jul 2006
  • Op-Ed

Enron Jury Sent the Right Message

natural gas strategy to the water and broadband businesses, the unprofitable international power development strategy, the perverse financial incentives for executives, the aggressive use of mark-to-market accounting, the performance... View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
  • 06 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 6

review the research on when people expect too little or too much self-interest in the intentions of others, as contrasted with rational behavior. We also discuss the antecedents and consequences of these naive and cynical errors, as well as some potential View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • First Look

January 3, 2017

relocation of resources in affected fund families and in the asset management industry in general, as well as decline in capital of issuers borrowing from money funds. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51404 forthcoming Review of Finance... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

Author:Francois Brochet Publication:The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines the information content of Form 4 filings under the more timely disclosure regime introduced by Section 403 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Hidden Risk

By: Daniel Barth, Phillip Monin, Emil Siriwardane and Adi Sunderam
Since 2013, large U.S. hedge fund advisers have been required to report risk exposures in their regulatory filings. Using these data, we first establish that managers’ perceptions of risk contain useful information that is not embedded in fund returns. Investor flows... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Investment Funds; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment Return; Communication Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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  • 22 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 22

investors with longer-term horizons and incentives that are more consistent with the long-term strategy of the company. The managers of most companies take their investor base as a "given" that cannot be changed through their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2007
  • Background Note

Price Formation

By: Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford
Investigates how prices are formed in competitive capital markets. Focuses on a single security called AOE. Students compete with computer traders and each other for market making and informed trading profits. Participants receive a variety of public news in the form... View Details
Keywords: Capital Markets; Price; Profit; Corporate Disclosure; Newsletters; Industry Structures; Business Processes; Competitive Strategy
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  • 02 Sep 2010
  • What Do You Think?

How Transparent Should Boards Be?

King said: "When culture and strategy collide, culture always wins. End of story." A second group supported some kind of discipline without dismissal, as well as a more discrete approach to the process. "You don't cut off... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

creating an impression of transparency while masking their true performance. What deters selective disclosure and leads firms to instead make disclosures more representative of their environmental... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2011
  • Teaching Note

Neoprene (TN)

By: Tom Nicholas
Teaching Note for 810-084. View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Sales; Production; Corporate Disclosure; Commercialization; Rubber Industry; United States; Germany; Russia
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  • 02 Dec 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News

The quarterly earnings conference call is a traditional way for public companies to disclose information regarding performance and strategy from the prior quarter. Wall Street analysts and other company watchers dial in, identify... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services
  • 06 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

begin negotiating among themselves to develop a new standard. Without a standard setting body—and the commitments to patent disclosure and licensing—the firms might be tempted to behave in an opportunistic manner: going along with the... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology
  • 21 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 21

http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809163 Arcor: Global Strategy and Local Turbulence (Abridged) Harvard Business School Case 710-407 Argentine confectionery manufacturer, Arcor Group, seeks to implement an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 23, 2016

the slot-specific priorities framework and can be found by a cumulative offer mechanism that is strategy proof and respects unambiguous improvements in priority. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50637... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

care delivery system. By focusing on greater value, the issues of who should be covered (access) and what should be covered will be easier to resolve. While policy changes to require informational disclosure and to align incentives can... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

characteristics of the waste-to-energy operation, the market characteristics for waste disposal and energy, and the mechanisms regulators use to encourage production of renewable energy, we determine the profit-maximizing operating View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

George Serafeim Abstract—We examine if, and under what conditions, disclosure of sustainability information identified as investor relevant by market-driven innovations in accounting standard setting is associated with stock prices... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability

By: Alnoor Ebrahim
What does it mean for a nonprofit organization to be accountable? Nonprofit leaders tend to pay attention to accountability once a problem of trust arises—a scandal in the sector or in their own organization, questions from citizens or donors who want to know if their... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Performance Evaluation; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Strategy
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