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- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Missing Quarterly Analysts Forecasts (revised) Authors:Richard Mergenthaler, Shiva Rajgopal, and Suraj Srinivasan Abstract We find that missing the quarterly analyst consensus earnings forecast is associated with career penalties in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
obligation to consider the effect of each action not just on shareholders but also on others. is not enough to exhort managers and directors to be ethical. First, a consensus needs to be reached concerning what it means to be ethical in... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- Web
Tools & Resources | Institute for Business in Global Society
economic policy (pdf) This report highlights the growing consensus among leaders that strategic industrial policies are essential for addressing key national challenges, offering insights on designing effective government actions that... View Details
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
this fact. "Where the consensus today is that eighteenth-century economists believed that free trade would bring peace and prosperity to all, the mainstream of political economy at the time was actually preoccupied with how trade... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations
school deans, corporate recruiters, and executives, who broadly agreed that business schools faced significant challenges in educating leaders for 21st-century global commerce. The second attracted more than 100 HBS faculty, who came to a clear View Details
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
companies, anti-trust legislation, expropriations, and rising competition from international and local rivals. Focuses on developing a new global strategy for a company that placed a premium on a consensual management style and local... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need
the major issues you are thinking about? A: We are at the doorstep of a transformation of residential mortgage finance in the United States. During the past year, over 90 percent of all mortgages have been supported/insured/securitized by the federal government. There... View Details
- Blog
Inside the Learning: How Faculty Prepare for Class
specific roadblocks will differ depending on who is in the room. These differences are important to uncover and work through together. Even when no clear solution or consensus exists, it is empowering for participants to think through... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
climate change policy far outnumbers those supporting it. Given this situation, breaking the logjam in climate change policy requires not just any voice from business, but rather the voices of the most powerful and visible businesspeople-CEOs. Scientists have reached... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
A Roaring Success in the Windy City
added, summing up the general consensus of attendees. Plenary Sessions: The Bigger Picture A diverse range of speakers and panelists - 55 in all - presented their insights and experiences in a variety of formats. Plenary sessions focused... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
compared to consensual sovereign bond restructurings. A few holdout investors refused to concede and sued. These so-called "vulture" investors, hedge funds that bought the defaulted loans at deeply reduced prices and then sued... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
of the senior stars who will have to lead and fund the effort. Trying to force support through arm-twisting is a sure recipe for failure. The only effective course of action is to facilitate a consensus among the partners that the new... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
Consequences to Missing Quarterly Earnings Benchmarks Authors:Rick Mergenthaler, Shiva Rajgopal, Suraj Srinivasan Abstract We find that missing quarterly earnings benchmarks, especially the analyst consensus earnings number, is associated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
job and getting banned from serving as an executive or director at any other company for five years. This consensual workplace relationship—forbidden under the iconic fast-food chain’s fraternization policy because of potential conflicts... View Details
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
That way, everyone might learn how to get the most for themselves out of complex pricing schemes. The general consensus is that deregulation can have widespread benefits, albeit complex ones that are sometimes slow in coming and not... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
Summing Up The clear consensus of those responding to this month's column is that managerial capitalism, as John Bogle terms it, has peaked. But what will follow it is less clear. Many doubt that the form of owners' capitalism represented... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Nov 2014
- Op-Ed
A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform
from the left and the right, set out to do just that. For the last two and a half years, we co-chaired the Commission's Mortgage Finance Reform Working Group. Remarkably, we saw consensus emerge from both parties on the goals of the new... View Details
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
health-care service and medical technology providers can play in consumer-driven health-care reform. Wrapping up the conference, representatives from each of several breakout meetings summarized their take on the implementation of a consumer-driven health-care system.... View Details
- Web
Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
and the startup nation. The third module (“Politics: Influence and Unrest”) studies the dynamics leading to the creation and fissuring of political consensus on institutions, broad policy orientations, and specific policies. It gives... View Details
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
gross margin for retailers using historical data. We show that sales forecasts from this model are more accurate than consensus forecasts from equity analysts. Further, the residuals from this model for one fiscal year are used to predict... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace