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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online
Adjusting Journal Entries The Statement of Cash Flows Analyzing Financial Statements Accounting for the Future Featured Exercises Discover how balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements are developed Predict future... View Details
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
Companies that manage for short-term gain rather than long-term growth have been blamed for everything from popularizing celebrity CEOs to causing a significant chunk of the current financial crisis. Now new research findings suggest that... View Details
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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online
yourself Who Will Benefit Early-Career Financial Services Professionals Aspiring Finance or Investment Professionals Non-Finance Professionals Gain a competitive edge by developing actionable skills in the alternative investments field... View Details
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
forthcoming Management Science Evidence of Upcoding in Pay-for-Performance Programs By: Bastani, Hamsa, Joel Goh, and Mohsen Bayati Abstract—Recent Medicare legislation seeks to improve patient care quality by financially penalizing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Nov 2018
- HBS Case
On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website
fruitful streak came to an abrupt halt with the United States financial crash in the fall of 2008. Target was hit hard—much harder, in fact, than Walmart. Five years later the company was still struggling. With more than 1,800 stores and... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
It’s never been easy to make money in the restaurant industry. A highly fragmented sector dominated by 70 percent independent owners and operators, the average restaurant’s annual revenue hovers around $1 million and generates an operating profit of just 4-5 percent. A... View Details
- 05 Jun 2009
- What Do You Think?
What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?
bad . Quantitative metrics serve as best indicators when they are based on qualitative platforms." Along this line, Ken Ackerman reminded us that "Growth is a product of confidence we spend too little time measuring the mood of... View Details
- 2011
- Working Paper
From Counting Risk to Making Risk Count: Boundary-Work in Risk Management
By: Anette Mikes
For two decades, risk management has been gaining ground in banking. In light of the recent financial crisis, several commentators concluded that the continuing expansion of risk measurement is dysfunctional (Taleb, 2007; Power, 2009). This paper asks whether the... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Crisis; Risk Management; Measurement and Metrics; Organizational Culture; Situation or Environment; Banking Industry
Mikes, Anette. "From Counting Risk to Making Risk Count: Boundary-Work in Risk Management." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-069, January 2011. (Revised March 2011.)
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
on political councils, political legacy, and financial resources—affect the likelihood of firms issuing CSR reports. Second, we focus on the symbolic nature of CSR reporting and how variance in the risk of government monitoring through... View Details
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Disclosure Standards and Communication Norms: Evidence of Voluntary Sustainability Standards as a Coordinating Device for Capital Markets
By: Khrystyna Bochkay, Jeffrey Hales and George Serafeim
In this paper, we examine how the development of voluntary sustainability standards has affected the nature of information covered in conference calls. Using industry-specific dictionaries of sustainability terms contained in the disclosure standards developed by the... View Details
Keywords: Voluntary Disclosure; Accounting Standards; Sustainability Reporting; Sustainability Standards; ESG; ESG Disclosure; Accounting; Corporate Disclosure; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Standards; United States
Bochkay, Khrystyna, Jeffrey Hales, and George Serafeim. "Disclosure Standards and Communication Norms: Evidence of Voluntary Sustainability Standards as a Coordinating Device for Capital Markets." Review of Accounting Studies (forthcoming). (Pre-published online March 17, 2025.)
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How Well Do Social Ratings Actually Measure Corporate Social Responsibility?
By: Aaron K. Chatterji, David I. Levine and Michael W. Toffel
Ratings of corporations' environmental activities and capabilities influence billions of dollars of "socially responsible" investments as well as some consumers, activists, and potential employees. In one of the first studies to assess these ratings, we examine how... View Details
Keywords: Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Effectiveness; Natural Environment; Pollutants
Chatterji, Aaron K., David I. Levine, and Michael W. Toffel. "How Well Do Social Ratings Actually Measure Corporate Social Responsibility?" Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 18, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 125–169.
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
have been the preferred method. Is this good or bad? Desai: Much as free cash flow was a little-used metric 30 years ago and is now dominant, the capital allocation problem is now the dominant financial... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
pulling support should be based on the numbers in its prospectus, not on emotional reactions to Adam Neumann. There has been a paucity of this analysis. With co-author Sean Bracken, I’ve analyzed the company, minus the surrounding drama, by focusing on the View Details
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What are the best finance interview prep resources?
PE/VC compensation report (Print only) Preqin private capital compensation and employment review (Print only) Financial modeling Interactive View Details
- September 2017 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
The Productivity Decline: Demographics, Robots, or Globalization?
By: Laura Alfaro, Hayley Pallan and Sarah Jeong
In the early 21st century, there was a noticeable trend of declining productivity growth. Despite the persistent decline in productivity growth, a consensus on its explanation had not been reached. Some of the debate focused on the technicalities of productivity... View Details
Keywords: Productivity; Performance Productivity; Measurement and Metrics; Technological Innovation; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Globalization; Business and Government Relations
Alfaro, Laura, Hayley Pallan, and Sarah Jeong. "The Productivity Decline: Demographics, Robots, or Globalization?" Harvard Business School Case 718-013, September 2017. (Revised August 2018.)
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Climate Impact - Business & Environment
dataset enables high growth companies to align corporate sustainability, social equity, and financial profitability. Stakeholders are demanding more of the private sector, and Metric uses the ESG dataset to... View Details
- February 2022 (Revised January 2023)
- Case
Creating and Measuring Purpose at Viega
By: Ethan Rouen, Suraj Srinivasan and James Barnett
At its headquarters in Attendorn, Germany, Viega’s chairwoman Anna Viegener gathered the company’s leadership team to discuss their progress on formalizing purpose-driven leadership as a strategic driver within the organization. Viega manufactured and distributed... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development; Employee Relationship Management; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Expansion; Measurement and Metrics; Germany
Rouen, Ethan, Suraj Srinivasan, and James Barnett. "Creating and Measuring Purpose at Viega." Harvard Business School Case 122-028, February 2022. (Revised January 2023.)
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
inventory turns and can be uniformly utilized by all stakeholders to assess whether a retailer is carrying too much or too little inventory. We explain applications of the metric with examples and lay out prescriptions for retailers.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- winter 2003
- Article
Massively Categorical Variables: Revealing the Information in Zip Codes
We introduce the idea of a massively categorical variable, a variable such as zip code that takes on too many values to be treated in the standard manner, and show how to use it directly as explanatory variables in an econometric model. In an application of this... View Details
Steenburgh, Thomas J., Andrew Ainslie, and Peder Hans Engebretson. "Massively Categorical Variables: Revealing the Information in Zip Codes." Marketing Science 22, no. 1 (winter 2003): 40–57.