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- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
clearly a signal was given: Don’t get complacent. You have to earn your keep. And if you do, you will be rewarded. A: That’s right. And people can accept more responsibility if you let them. That was a smart move because the advertising... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
firmly in the hands of professional managers who are brought in from the outside. As Rahmi Koç explains in the interview, it takes the managers a long time to earn their stripes. Patience avoids some of the tensions of the (pure)... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
short-termism is associated with various proxies for earnings management, suggesting that our proxy partially captures opportunistic behavior. We also show that firms focusing more on the short-term have a more short-term oriented... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22
maintain social harmony. But opacity also facilitates fraud and corruption, which erode investor confidence and stifle risk-taking. A flamboyant politician Kotaro Tamura attempts to raise public awareness around these tensions, but his provocative style View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
do managers forecast total revenue? You can get a sense of that from looking at investment analysts' forecasts. While it is true that managers have information that analysts lack, analysts' estimates and management's guidance on earning... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment capital. It earned that newfound status on the strength of market-stabilizing structural changes that took root after the last crash. "Everything we do... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
(MBA 1976) Independently published This book is for anyone earning a living, or students preparing to do so, in an increasingly chaotic world of work. It’s a world in which, for many, the uncertainty regarding a financially comfortable... View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
off from Navy OCS. My request was denied. Worse yet, during my years in the Navy, friends graduated from law and business school and took great jobs, earning four times more than me. And I was falling behind, working at a dead end job in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
country where more than 40 percent of the 250 million–plus people earn about $3 a day. Go-Jek offered rides for 75 cents for the first 25 kilometers—about a tenth of what it would normally cost. And Uber offered free rides to first-time... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
to low-income Mexicans living at the base of the pyramid (BOP), defined as those living on less than $10 per day. Since its launch in 2009, MIA had built nearly 25,000 homes—providing safe shelter to more than 100,000 Mexicans—while generating an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24
information environment quality, forecast horizon, sample composition, and tests of earnings management. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1264101 Wider dem sauren Mund. Beiersdorfs U.S.-Geschaeft mit der... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30
provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings by U.S. multinationals. The analysis controls for endogeneity and omitted variable bias by using instruments that identify the firms likely to receive the largest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
the early years of the 21st century. From a state-owned enterprise earning 97% of its revenue from television sets and other analog consumer electronics, Thomson had become a publicly traded company providing digital video services and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni
considered. Award availability is determined based on an applicant's earnings and need-based debt, as well as employment and job fit criteria. Funds awarded can be used only to reduce existing need-based loans. Eligibility and selection... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
banker, for instance, who authored "A New World for Women" in 1936, concluded, "It is inevitable that more and more women will occupy places of responsibility in our country's banks." Indeed, the Bulletin provides a window on the transition from an era when the idea of... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
first became interested in marketing and retailing while in college, working part-time at Bloomingdale’s and then in a New York buying office for a large group of department stores. After earning an MBA (1954) and DBA (1960) at HBS, he... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15
Analyst Recommendation and Earnings Forecast Anomaly Author:George Serafeim Publication:Chap. 3 in The Handbook of Equity Market Anomalies: Translating Market Inefficiencies into Effective Investment Strategies, 63-91. John Wiley &... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
plants in Portugal in the 1990s, now had 60 plants across five continents and was a valued partner to large multinational consumer goods companies, many of whom were pressuring Logoplaste to expand. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
edge of the most dramatic changes in our history. After earning an engineering degree, he served as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force with the Strategic Air Command, America ’s first line of defense during the Cold War against Soviet... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
considerably. He went on to earn advanced degrees in biochemistry and management science and immigrated with his new wife, Shainoor, to Vancouver. After a brief stint at a pharmaceutical company (“I’m an entrepreneur; I just didn’t fit”),... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna