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Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog

areas such as accounting and financial reporting, compliance and culture, cybersecurity risk, and sustainability. The course concludes with a short module on preparing for board service. The class sessions... View Details

    Aiyesha Dey

    Aiyesha Dey has been part of the Accounting and Management unit at the Harvard Business School (HBS) since July 2017. She started her career as an accounting faulty at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, after which she joined the accounting group at... View Details
    • 06 Sep 2017
    • News

    Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio on the ‘Principles’ of Tough Love

    In 2011, Ray Dalio (MBA 1973), chairman of Bridgewater Associates, published his “principles” for business online. The document distilled Dalio’s belief in the power of “radical transparency” into 210... View Details
    Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles
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    Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade

    generations of the Heard Family of Ipswich, Massachusetts, constitute the most comprehensive and detailed collection held by Baker Library on the China trade. Engaged in the China trade principally from 1840... View Details
    • 21 Jan 2013
    • News

    Can Low-Volatility ETFs Survive a Period of Low Volatility?

    • 30 Aug 2018
    • News

    Central bankers grapple with the changing nature of competition

    • 2014
    • Article

    The Growth and Limits of Arbitrage: Evidence from Short Interest

    By: Samuel G. Hanson and Adi Sunderam
    We develop a novel methodology to infer the amount of capital allocated to quantitative equity arbitrage strategies. Using this methodology, which exploits time-variation in the cross section of short interest, we document that the amount of capital devoted to value... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Financial Instruments; Capital Markets; Investment
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    • 1980
    • Working Paper

    Taxation and the Ex-dividend Day Behavior of Common Stock Prices

    By: Jerry R. Green
    The behavior of stock prices around ex-dividend days has been suggested as evidence for tax-induced clientele effects and as a means to estimate the average effective tax rate faced by investors. In this paper these possibilities are examined theoretically and... View Details
    Keywords: Taxation; Stocks; Price
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    Field Course: Business of the Arts - Course Catalog

    This activity supports 4.6 million jobs. A report by the Conference Board noted that in addition to the enormous financial impact of the sector, “companies consider the arts to be important in building... View Details
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    When Talk Is "Free": The Effect of Tariff Structure on Usage Under Two- and Three-Part Tariffs

    By: Eva Ascarza, Anja Lambrecht and Naufel Vilcassim
    In many service industries, firms introduce three-part tariffs to replace or complement existing two-part tariffs. In contrast with two-part tariffs, three-part tariffs offer allowances, or “free” units of the service. Behavioral research suggests that the attributes... View Details
    Keywords: Pricing; Nonlinear Pricing; Discrete/continuous Choice Model; Three-part Tariffs; Free Products; Price; Consumer Behavior; Analysis; Learning; Risk and Uncertainty
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    • 24 Apr 2014
    • News

    Leading the U.S. Treasury in a time of crisis

    Henry M. Paulson, Jr. (MBA 1970) talks about his impact as US Secretary of the Treasury during the global financial crisis. (Published April 2014) View Details
    • 01 Oct 1997
    • News

    Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices

    The latest in an ongoing series of reports from the MBA Program Office. Now more than ever, HBS is bringing the world into the classroom - and vice versa - in the MBA Program's elective curriculum (EC). New course development, expanded... View Details
    • October 2013 (Revised December 2013)
    • Teaching Note

    Blackstone and the Sale of Citigroup's Loan Portfolio Teaching Note

    By: Victoria Ivashina and David Scharfstein
    Keywords: Derivatives; Bankruptcy; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Private Equity; Restructuring; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Banks and Banking; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry
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    • August 2003 (Revised August 2024)
    • Case

    Fighting the Battle of the Bulge—Evaluating Do Good/Do Well Innovations in Morbid Obesity Treatment

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger and John McDonough
    Many health care innovations appear successful; but fail. This is the first case in the Innovating Health Care course that investigates how to create successful health care innovations. It is part of the first module in the course. This module focuses on how to... View Details
    Keywords: Three Pillars; Industry Analysis; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Medical Specialties; Health Industry
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    • 08 Jul 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Truth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor

    Keywords: by Christina Fong & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
    • Research Summary

    Mark Bradshaw examines how sell-side financial analysts incorporate accounting information in their earnings forecasts, common stock valuations, and investment recommendations. In addition, he analyzes management reporting of modified GAAP earnings figures to... View Details

    • 12 Jul 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

    to Choice. Under positive-sum competition, all restrictions to choice at the disease or treatment level would disappear, including network restrictions and approvals of referrals. Reasonable co-pays and large deductibles combined with... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
    • 2019
    • Article

    Creativity from Paradoxical Experience: A Theory of How Individuals Achieve Creativity while Adopting Paradoxical Frames

    By: Goran Calic, Sébastien Hélie, Nick Bontis and Elaine Mosakowski
    Purpose: Extant paradox theory suggests that adopting paradoxical frames, which are mental templates adopted by individuals in order to embrace contradictions, will result in superior firm performance. Superior performance is achieved through learning and creativity,... View Details
    Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Creativity; Learning
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    • Third Quarter 2018
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    Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey

    By: Amir Amel-Zadeh and George Serafeim
    Using survey data from a sample of senior investment professionals from mainstream (i.e., not SRI funds) investment organizations, we provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Relevance to... View Details
    Keywords: ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Sustainability; Investment Management; Investment Strategy; Metrics; Standard Setting; Accounting Standards; Finance; Investment; Information; Environmental Sustainability; Governance; Performance Effectiveness; Strategy
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    Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | 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