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31 Jan 2012
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literacy may slow adoption of these products. This article reports on a field experiment that offered an innovative new financial product, rainfall insurance, to 600 small-scale farmers in India. A customized financial literacy and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

June 2001 (Revised July 2001)
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Amazon.com in the Year 2000

By: Krishna G. Palepu and Jeremy Cott

An analyst's critique of Amazon's prospectus from the perspective of its bond holders. View Details

Keywords: Bonds; Accounting Audits; Financial Reporting; Governing and Advisory Boards; Internet and the Web; Forecasting and Prediction; Retail Industry

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27 Jul 2019
Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

the transparency front, it is publishing quarterly reports across nine categories of content, showing how much they take down before users see it. Last May, the European Union passed the General Data Protection Regulation, which places... View Details

Keywords: by George Riedel

22 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

industrial production (Alfaro and Chen, 2014). Using a unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

senior executives specializing in everything except sales. “The number of executives reporting to the CEO in the average S&P 500 company has doubled in the last 20 years,” says Frank V. Cespedes, a senior lecturer in the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 May 2016
HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

Chipotle Mexican Grill’s ongoing struggle to win customers back months after a contaminated food crisis highlights the challenges companies face with keeping food safe. Chipotle has seen its shares tumble and recently reported its... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

10 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

wife, or partner of a friend?" and ending with the relatively tame "In the last year, have you eaten meat, poultry, or fish?" Participants also were more likely to admit to unethical behavior if they were told that other participants had View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

evidence during those times, along with countless acts of heroism by ordinary citizens-people not empowered or trained to do great things. We are seeing this in the horrible aftermath of the current earthquake and tsunami. Consider the View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

15 May 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Women Find New Path to Work

counseling sessions. Everyone left with an action plan that they shared with the others in their groups, a commitment to a kind of calendar in which they can achieve these things, and the commitment to report back to their group on a... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

responsibility for a functional department within a business unit—for example, the director of marketing or a plant manager.) And Stage 3 covered upper middle management to the executive level. (A person in this stage became a corporate officer or a direct View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

22 Apr 2020
Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

“It’s not about values. It's about value and how you're creating value, how you are showing that the companies in which you're investing are creating value.” However, many barriers still prevent asset managers from accurately assessing and pricing climate risk,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

08 Nov 2024
Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

report from the Global Center on Adaptation suggests that more than $100 billion per year is needed to invest in infrastructure, weather forecasting, and protecting agriculture in Africa to address both poverty and climate stresses. Yet... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy

08 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records

iStock Even as President Donald Trump and Republican leaders seem set on a course to weaken Obama-administration consumer protection regulations, a soon-to-be-published study reports that 7.3 percent of financial advisors in the United... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

06 Sep 2005
What Do You Think?

What are the Lessons of New Orleans?

security company, of which I was a director, to that of the New York City Police Department. A direct result has been a number of arrests by the NYPD of criminals fleeing buildings guarded by the private security firm. Contrast this with View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Jul 2006
Op-Ed

Enron Jury Sent the Right Message

reserves to "manage" reported earnings, the recategorization of investments to enable gains to be booked on the company's income statements, the reorganization of business structures to conceal business failures, the use of... View Details

Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Professors Introduce Valuation Software

elements of the firm's accounting if they believe that reported data do not capture the economic performance of the company. The model then provides standardized financial statements and financial ratios for the firm to allow users to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

staggering rate. In an ambitious study of 4,200 companies, conducted by the McKinsey Global Institute, 72% reported using them to facilitate employee communication. We have studied internal social tools in various work settings, including... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

it defines a process to assess the match between those values and the behavior of its leaders; and it reports on its assessment to its people and its investors. Let me close with a personal commitment. Ultimately, our system runs on... View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

05 Apr 2016
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April 5, 2016

earnings from uncertain to more certain times. We document that firms report more negative discretionary accruals when financial markets are less certain about their future prospects. Stock-price responses to earnings surprises are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21

Firms Greenwash? Corporate Visibility, Civil Society Scrutiny, and Environmental Disclosure Authors:Christopher Marquis and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Under increased pressure to report environmental impacts, some firms selectively... View Details