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- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
announced staff cuts in reaction to slowing or declining demand. US government data from October suggests that employers remain cautious, adding just 12,000 new positions in the month as unemployment remained steady at 4.1 percent, edging... View Details
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
contained in the mandatory transitional documents required by International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) 1 (2005). We find significant negative abnormal returns for firms reporting negative earnings reconciliation. Although the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
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 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
optimism about the future of McDonald’s that was hard to find two years ago. In January 2015, the company released its worst earnings report in 30 years, with revenue at its more than 36,000 global locations falling by 7 percent from the... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
fund or directly into ventures and possibly earning a good return on investment in the process; to helping address system-wide issues such as the better organization and funding of clinical trials. As she prepares to present her findings... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
short rates works through the expectations hypothesis, while forward guidance on QE works through expected future bond risk premia. If a QE operation is expected to be undone in the near term, then its announcement will have a hump-shaped... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
uncertain. The errors are especially severe when the two effects interact. We show that indicators of missing negative opinions predict earnings surprises and announcement day returns, and can be used to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
interest from providing non-audit services (NAS) to audit clients by using rarely explored NAS fee data from 1978 to 1980. Using this earlier setting, we find cross-sectional evidence of improved earnings quality when auditors provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
rise to $82 million under a new contract. That cost could drop to $58 million aboard Boeing or SpaceX spacecraft. (NASA announced in January that Sierra Nevada Corporation—where Gregg Burgess [GMP 5, 2008] is VP of technology—will join... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
entrepreneurial ventures. For example, he figured out quickly that he could make more money selling ice cream to construction workers if he offered whole containers, not just individual bars. He started earning money at a young age. BW:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
Iraqi war veteran and pointedly supporting the President in the war on terror. After earning a bachelor’s degree in history from Harvard in 1995, Taylor joined the Marine Corps, completed infantry and intelligence training, led a... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
find that our measure of short-termism is associated with various proxies for accruals and real earnings management, suggesting that our proxy captures not just different disclosure strategies, but also different managerial styles. Next,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
increases. Lastly, it is argued that the common practice of announcing price increases in advance is much easier to rationalize with regret concerns by consumers than with more standard approaches to price rigidity. Download the paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
the world Sixteen years ago, Elkins completed a dissertation on colonial-era Africa, which earned her a PhD in history from Harvard and ended up making history in the world. Based on years of extensive interviews with elderly Kenyans and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
into global markets. In a critical stride toward becoming the world's No. 1 Internet services company, Mikitani announces Englishnization-a highly publicized aggressive two-year English proficiency mandate for all 7,100 of Rakuten's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
demonstrated their capacity to build a HCHP firm and to study them more formally. My own interest in HCHP companies began at Corning, Inc. I started my career there, after earning my Ph.D. in organizational Psychology, as an internal... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
booth is a differentiator—something to keep the slow creep of the chain stores at bay. She also earns money directly from the booth, collecting half of the 30-cent user fee. (The other half goes to Barared.) All told, Reyes says the booth... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
executives and influencing the practice of management on a global scale. Income earned through Executive Education, Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), and Harvard Business School Online (HBS Online), augmented by revenues from MBA tuition... View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
forgetting of moral rules. In four experiments, participants were given the opportunity to behave dishonestly, and thus earn undeserved money, by over-reporting their performance on an ability-based task. Before the task, they were... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
depends on a scientific breakthrough: a time machine. It’s his only hope to regain the full life intended for him. When the film was made, Fox was a boyish 24-year-old, vigorous, athletic, and graceful. Six years later, in 1991, he learned he had Parkinson’s disease, a... View Details