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- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
or so-called “tabletop” exercises. Technology: Equip your organization with capabilities to trace and provide necessary information during investigations, facilitating quick and accurate error correction. Who is accountable, and what... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
information and of the suppliers being asked to provide it. We test our hypotheses using data from the Carbon Disclosure Project's Supply Chain Program, a collaboration of multinational corporations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Abstract Using a sample of U.S. financial institutions, we exploit recent mandatory disclosures of financial instruments designated as fair value level 1, 2, and 3 to test whether greater information risk in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
disclosure is one-sided or an exchange Truthfulness: how “authentic” the information appears Attribution: if the information is uniquely intended for the recipient Descriptive... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 2010
- Working Paper
Advertising Disclosures: Measuring Labeling Alternatives in Internet Search Engines
By: Benjamin Edelman and Duncan S. Gilchrist
In an online experiment, we measure users' interactions with search engines, both in standard configurations and in modified versions with clearer labels identifying search engine advertisements. In particular, for a random subset of users, we change "Sponsored links"... View Details
Keywords: Online Advertising; Interactive Communication; Corporate Disclosure; Labels; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Internet; Search Technology
Edelman, Benjamin, and Duncan S. Gilchrist. "Advertising Disclosures: Measuring Labeling Alternatives in Internet Search Engines." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-048, November 2010. (Revised January 2011, January 2012.)
- March 2011
- Article
Accounting Scholarship That Advances Professional Knowledge and Practice
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Recent accounting scholarship has used statistical analysis on asset prices, financial reports and disclosures, laboratory experiments, and surveys of practice. The research has studied the interface among accounting information, capital markets, standard setters, and... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Asset Pricing; Risk Management; Surveys; Capital Markets; Measurement and Metrics; Valuation; Fair Value Accounting; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Financial Reporting
Kaplan, Robert S. "Accounting Scholarship That Advances Professional Knowledge and Practice." Accounting Review 86, no. 2 (March 2011): 367–383.
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
when official production demands it. A homer lamp made by a blacksmith © Michel Anteby For those readers familiar with the HBS teaching case called "Slade," homer making functions a lot like the informal punching-out system... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
considerations guiding financial reporting. Financial reports produced under the positive theory of GAAP would also generate information useful for equity valuation, but equity valuation is not predicted to be the primary objective... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Much of the success of microfinance has been attributed to attempts to overcome the challenges of information asymmetries in uncollateralized lending. However, very little is known about the optimal contract structure of these loans, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
this earlier setting, we find cross-sectional evidence of improved earnings quality when auditors provide NAS, especially those related to information services. This is consistent with better audit quality from knowledge spillovers due to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51587 Is No News (Perceived as) Bad News? An Experimental Investigation of Information Disclosure By: Jin, Ginger Zhe, Michael Luca, and Daniel Martin... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
care delivery system. By focusing on greater value, the issues of who should be covered (access) and what should be covered will be easier to resolve. While policy changes to require informational disclosure... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
are at http://www.benedelman.org/bio and http://www.benedelman.org/publications. Relevant disclosures appear on the final page of my testimony. Today the Committee considers the important question of Google's proposed purchase of certain... View Details
- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
"The concept of people, be they patient or employee, holding back information either knowingly or just forgetting, is a problem that can kill a patient or a company." Others suggested important contrasts that they think make... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
long-term nonfinancial performance. We use a novel dataset compiled by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and find that firms setting more difficult targets complete a higher percentage of such targets. We also find that this effect is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
country-level factors that limit firms' use of selective disclosure by intensifying scrutiny on them and by diffusing global norms to their headquarters countries. We test our hypotheses using a novel panel dataset of 4,750 public... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
illustrates how the disclosure and wide dispersion of scientific problem information allows R&D organizations to access a broader range of scientific knowledge, and can help accelerate internal and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
information. We implement an experiment where senders are required to report their private information truthfully but can choose how complex to make their reports. We find that senders use complex disclosure... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
Bhavya, Ryan W. Buell, and Leslie K. John Abstract—Firms do not typically disclose information on their costs to produce a good to consumers. However, we provide evidence of when and why doing so can increase consumers’ purchase interest.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
discovered that this compulsory secrecy program was in place during the war, and after the war it transitioned to a peacetime policy that persists to this day,” Gross says. “Everybody in the system benefits from being able to access View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz