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- 23 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective
bribery and corruption. To guard against the possibility that countries that required mandatory reporting were simply more conscientious about social issues, the researchers performed a time-series analysis that compared countries before... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Stock Pitching: company, industry and market research
255);">Research and analysis focusing on technology-related news and reports covering the... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
Keith Butters in first-year finance, Charlie Williams on banking, and Ray Goldberg around the “invention” of agribusiness. “But the single most useful course was Written Analysis of Cases (WAC) because it combined the need for crisp,... View Details
- 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51574 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of sovereign debt accumulation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2011
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management friendly provisions, we identify the economic determinants of the resulting trade-offs for shareholder value. Consistent with the theory, our empirical analysis shows that provisions that allow managers to delay takeovers have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
able to analyze the dataset to form views of how the security prices are likely to evolve relative to each other. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208118 Finding Information for Industry View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Arjun Goyal
and business responsibilities, including the review of scientific literature and therapeutic guidelines, the analysis of compound licensing opportunities, the structuring of efficient clinical trials, and the creation of viable financial... View Details
- 11 Oct 2012
- News
Answering the Doctor's Call
Downing: From business analysis to bedside diagnosis. Photo courtesy Bill Downing When Bill Downing (MBA 1995) started his first semester as a medical student in August, he finally closed the loop on a dream he’s had since childhood. “If... View Details
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
Even predictions based on an analysis of trends can have a bad name. Beatrice Haurenson, commenting on trend analysis, said: "What did the analysis of 'Trends' pre-2007 tell us?" Tom Dolembo... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Mar 2012
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census. We document a shift to smaller shops following a 1996 regulatory change that increased the costs of opening large stores. Our analysis suggests that total factor productivity (TFP) of multi-store retail chains fell after the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2009
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the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which is successfully used today at the level of individual banks by managers, investors, and regulators. The basic analytical tool is the risk-adjusted balance sheet,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
case study of a multinational firm in the biotechnology sector to illustrate how the core-periphery framework works in multiple emerging markets across institutional differences. The analysis is based on 32 interviews conducted with the... 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
- December 2021
- Article
Employee Responses to Compensation Changes: Evidence from a Sales Firm
By: Jason Sandvik, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert and Christopher Stanton
What are the long-term consequences of compensation changes? Using data from an inbound sales call center, we study employee responses to a compensation change that ultimately reduced take-home pay by 7% for the average affected worker. The change caused a significant... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Wages; Compensation and Benefits; Change; Performance; Resignation and Termination; Retention; Analysis
Sandvik, Jason, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert, and Christopher Stanton. "Employee Responses to Compensation Changes: Evidence from a Sales Firm." Management Science 67, no. 12 (December 2021): 7687–7707.
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Commodities
of options going back 13 years. CRB Commodity Yearbook Features historical commodity prices and a brief analysis of various commodities. The Mergent Archive includes .pdf files of the print back to 1939. Agricultural: USDA... View Details
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Richard Jenrette | Baker Library
Richard Jenrette MBA 1957, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Play Video duration: 1:39:04 Richard “Dick” Jenrette, HBS 1957. Interview conducted in April 2002 Richard “Dick” Jenrette, HBS 1957, was a cofounder of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ). Dick brought skills in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Secrets Behind a VC Success Story
confronting challenges in the Third World. Meet Richard America (MBA ’63), who sees policy analysis and quality management as keys to development and economic justice. Web Extra “A National System of Income Supplementation” Sarah Talley’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
“A National System of Income Supplementation”
Richard America’s analysis of the crippling legacy of racial discrimination in the United States was underscored by a study released last summer. In the wake of a spate of riots in urban America in the 1960s, a federal government... View Details
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Investment analyst reports (equity research reports) | Baker Library
select "Industry Research" to see whether any investment bank analyst reports are available. Bloomberg Research Portal We also have several sources of analysis from a single firm : Morningstar Direct (Morningstar reports also are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Banking, and Mark Schanker-man draw on a large, new database (covering a range of countries in varying stages of development) to provide rigorous economic analysis and systematic economic evidence of the impact of open source software on... View Details