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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

2022 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads Financials From the CFO Financial Highlights Statement of Activity & Cash... View Details
  • 18 Jan 2010
  • News

Lessons from the Credit Crisis: Governing Financial Institutions

  • October 2008
  • Article

The Effect of Macro Information Environment Change on the Quality of Management Earnings Forecasts

The 1990s were characterized by substantial increases in the performance of and investor reliance on financial analysts. Because managers possess superior private information and issue forecasts to align investors' expectations with their own, we predict that... View Details

Keywords: Information; Performance Expectations; Earnings Management; Financial Reporting; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • 27 Sep 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Salience in Quality Disclosure: Evidence from the U.S. News College Rankings

Keywords: by Michael Luca & Jonathan Smith; Education; Information; Publishing
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Financial guarantors and the 2007-2009 credit crisis

More than half of the municipal bonds issued between 1995 and 2009 were sold with bond insurance. During the credit crisis the perceived credit quality of the financial guarantors fell, and yields on insured bonds exceeded yields on equivalent uninsured issues. It does... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Credit; Financial Liquidity; Bonds; Insurance; Quality
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  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability

Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy. Several key questions arose during the workshop: To what degree should new reporting standards be melded into the existing corporate accounting model?... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting
  • 2010
  • Book

The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System

By: as part of the Squam Lake Working Group Scharfstein, David S.
In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists-representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion-gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake. Their goal: the mapping of a long-term plan for financial regulation reform. The Squam Lake... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations
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  • January 2024
  • Case

The Financial Times (FT) and Generative AI

By: Andrew Rashbass, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Jordan Mitchell
In September 2023, John Ridding, CEO of the Financial Times, was considering the possible impact of Generative AI on the industry and his business. Having navigated successfully the seismic shift from print to digital, and reporting record results, the company... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Technology Adoption; Change Management; Journalism and News Industry
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  • July–August 2008
  • Article

Interview with a Quality Leader: Regina E. Herzlinger on Consumer-Driven Healthcare

By: Regina E. Herzlinger
Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair at the Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA. She received her bachelor's degree from MIT and her doctorate from the Harvard Business School The first woman to be tenured and... View Details
Keywords: Consumer-driven Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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  • 2015
  • Book

Political Standards: Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy

By: Karthik Ramanna
There are certain institutions underlying our modern market-capitalist system that are largely outside the interest and understanding of the general public—e.g., rulemaking for bank capital adequacy, actuarial standards, accounting standards, and auditing practice. In... View Details
Keywords: Business And Society; Financial Institutions; Financial Reporting; GAAP; IFRS; Lobbying; Capitalism; Sustainability; Accounting; Finance; Business and Government Relations; Leadership; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; China; India
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  • March 16, 2003
  • Article

Footnote Reporting Distorts Impact of Stock Options

By: Zvi Bodie, Robert S. Kaplan and Robert C. Merton
Keywords: Financial Instruments; Reports; Stocks
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  • Web

2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

5). Figure 4: Will any of the Following Intermediaries be at the Center of a Financial Crisis, Within 10 Years? Figure 5: Most State Pensions are Underfunded Sources: Data from Pew Charity Trusts review of View Details
  • December 2008 (Revised November 2010)
  • Teaching Note

Merrimack Tractors and Mowers: LIFO or FIFO? (Brief Case)

By: William J. Bruns Jr., Sharon Bruns and Susan S. Harmeling
Teaching Note to 3217 View Details
Keywords: International Financial Reporting Standards; Inventory; Business Ethics; Ethics; Financial Reporting; Globalization
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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

such as the launch of HBS Online, increased financial aid, tackled challenges posed by COVID, and introduced diversity frameworks. Her work will further strengthen relationships within the School and across Harvard University, fostering a... View Details
  • 1986
  • Book

Corporate Financial Disclosure: 1900-1933

By: David Hawkins
Keywords: Finance; Reports; Business History
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  • Web

Consolidated Balance Sheet | Annual Report 2024

Student Loan Funds 11 11 11 Investment in Facilities 695 698 705 Total Net Assets $ 6,565 $ 6,260 $ 6,204 Total Liabilities + Net Assets $ 6,942 $ 6,639 $ 6,603 Financial Statements: Statement of Activity & Cash Flows & Consolidated... View Details
  • 2009
  • Report

State of the Region Report 2009: Boosting the Top of Europe

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The 2009 State of the Region Report, the sixth in this series of annual evaluations of competitiveness and cooperation across the Baltic Sea Region, provides a perspective on the radical change in the economic climate of the Region over the last year. The Report puts... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Competitive Strategy; Cooperation; Baltic Countries; European Union
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Private Equity's Diversification Illusion: Economic Comovement and Fair Value Reporting

By: Kyle Travis Welch
This study examines how accounting has informed private equity diversification claims and demand for private equity investments. Despite research showing private equity lacks portfolio diversification benefits, those marketing private equity assets continue to... View Details
Keywords: Fair Value; Access To Capital; IAS 39; FAS No. 157; FASB; IASB; ASC 820; Covariance Risk; Accounting Beta; Accounting; Private Sector; Valuation; Corporate Finance; Asset Management; Cost of Capital; Private Equity; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Europe; North and Central America
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  • Web

From the Dean | Annual Report 2024

all of this and more in this annual report, which also features a deep dive into our financials and some other key metrics on the health and vitality of Harvard Business School. Srikant Datar Dean of the Faculty View Details
  • 2019
  • White Paper

Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: The Missing Piece for an Impact Economy

By: George Serafeim, T. Robert Zochowski and Jennifer Downing
Reimagining capitalism is an imperative. We need to create a more inclusive and sustainable form of capitalism that works for every person and the planet. Massive environmental damage, growing income and wealth disparity, stress, and depression within developed... View Details
Keywords: Impact-Weighted Accounts; IWAI; Background; Economic Systems; Economy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Measurement and Metrics; Financial Statements
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