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- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
P&G recently reported the strongest earnings in its long history, and its stock price has doubled since 2000. Key ingredients in the company's resurgence include innovation, micromarketing, and an emphasis on nurturing talent. Notes... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
climate report warns that harmful carbon emissions have never been higher in human history. First, the encouraging news: Data analysts at EVAdoption.com reported record sales... View Details
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
deep statistical analysis, just good data and reporting approaches. It is often encountered in online businesses, where customer clickstreams provide plenty of data-often too much-for analysis. One expert practitioner of the CSI story... View Details
- Web
Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details
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Burden Park | About
class and captain of the football team. Returning to his native New York, he launched a career on Wall Street with the firm James D. Smith & Co. He died in 1909. His grandson, William A.M. Burden III, became a journalist after graduating from HBS, working as a View Details
- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
Apple has its work ahead in convincing thoughtful and potentially skeptical customers," says Edelman. On With The Show Reports say Apple will roll out the digital payment service later this week, with perhaps more details coming at a... View Details
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
companies must provide accurate, relevant data about the economics of corporations. Independent analysts would use these data to rate providers—similar to how private businesses such as Morningstar rate mutual funds. The SEC works well.... View Details
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
wings on them." Forty percent or more of the funds for DoD aircraft are spent on electronics equipment. It has not been uncommon for weapon programs to take ten or more years to design, develop, produce, and deploy initial operationally capable units. View Details
- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
great. “We thought if the company was continuing to do well, we’d see managers finding ways to convey that—wink, wink,” says Froot, who held the André R. Jakurski Chair before retiring from HBS in 2013. “That’s when we found this surprising result in direct opposition... View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/gray ward norton.pdf What Makes Analysts Say 'Buy'? Authors:Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy, Nitin Nohria, and George Serafeim Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 11 (November 2012) Abstract An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
experience higher future growth in return-on-assets (ROA) with analysts failing to fully reflect this information in their earnings forecasts. Return prediction, growth in ROA, and analyst forecast errors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
investors) or explicit (as captured by how actively analysts ask questions) demand for the English conference calls. This suggests that the form in which financial information is presented can impose additional processing costs by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
product—micro-cap stock research. The firm has hired a group of five analysts who will produce written research reports on micro-cap stocks, that is, publicly traded stocks with a market capitalization of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
of 2010, Yum China's revenues surpassed U.S. revenues for the first time, and many analysts expected that Yum's China business—driven by a rapidly growing middle class—would be twice as large as its U.S. business within five years. But... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
positive earnings surprises and positive analyst revisions in the months following passage of the bill, as well as significantly higher future sales and profitability. We show that the more complex the legislation, the more difficulty the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
"claim" value individually and cooperative ones to "create" value jointly, as well as efforts to change perceptions of the game itself. Since advice to one side does not necessarily presume the full game-theoretic rationality of the other side(s),... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
and the International Economy Unit. Elisabeth Kempf: Political views shape economic outlook Political views influence the perception of economic reality among finance professionals. In a study linking credit rating analysts to party... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
accounting, control, and reporting systems in firms. How Can Decision Making Be Improved? Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Dolly Chugh, and Max H. Bazerman Publication: Perspectives on Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract The optimal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
profits of $2.2 billion on $107 billion of sales, and the markets responded with cautious optimism. For years, founder and CEO Jeffrey Bezos had prioritized growth and investment in new business areas over profits, but pressure from View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne