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    Jorge Tamayo

    Jorge Tamayo is an assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy Unit. He teaches the Strategy course in the MBA required curriculum.

    Professor Tamayo is an applied microeconomist primarily interested in industrial organization and... View Details

    • May 2014
    • Case

    Groupon, Inc.

    By: Krishna G. Palepu, Blythe J. McGarvie and James Weber
    Internet coupon site "Groupon" grew revenues rapidly and went public, but struggled to impress investors or operate profitably. Did it have a sustainable business model? Groupon sold coupons called Groupons which purchasers used to acquire goods or services at... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Corporate Governance; Entrepreneurship; Financial Management; Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Organizational Culture; Strategy; Web Services Industry; United States
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    Brinda Somaya

    Brinda Somaya, founder and principal architect of Somaya and Kalappa Consultants, discusses the diversity of her portfolio and the factors that earned her a reputation in the architectural space. View Details

      Antonio Moreno

      Antonio (Toni) Moreno is the Sicupira Family Associate Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. He teaches courses related to technology and operations management in the MBA, executive, and doctoral programs. Before joining HBS, he was an... View Details

      Keywords: retailing; internet; e-commerce industry

        Emily R. McComb

        Emily McComb is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance Unit at HBS, teaching "Finance 2" in the required curriculum of the MBA program, as well as a co-leader of the HBS Impact Investment Fund in the elective curriculum. Prior to joining the HBS faculty in 2017, Emily was... View Details

        Keywords: financial services; health care
        • February 2025
        • Case

        Managing EPS at Stanley Black & Decker?

        By: Jonas Heese, Joseph Pacelli, Yuan Zou and James Barnett
        The case explores Stanley Black and Decker’s (SBD) 2022 financial restatement announcement, which related to how SBD accounted for certain equity issuances in 2019. These transactions had a minimal effect on earnings but significantly reduced shares outstanding, and... View Details
        Keywords: Accounting; Financial Reporting; Ethics; Finance; Accounting Industry; Construction Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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        • 16 Oct 2012
        • News

        Economist from Harvard shares Nobel Prize

        • February 2005
        • Article

        Financial Analyst Characteristics and Herding Behavior in Forecasting

        By: Michael B. Clement and Senyo Tse
        This study classifies analysts' earnings forecasts as herding or bold and finds that (1) boldness likelihood increases with the analyst's prior accuracy, brokerage size, and experience and declines with the number of industries the analyst follows, consistent with... View Details
        Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Forecasting and Prediction; Performance Evaluation; Financial Services Industry
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        • 2013
        • Article

        Immigration and Employer Transitions for STEM Workers

        By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
        We analyze the career trajectories of STEM workers and firm-level hiring of immigrants using the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) database of the US Census Bureau. We find STEM career adjustments during periods of abnormally high immigration into the... View Details
        Keywords: Nationality; Employment; Immigration
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        • 05 Jan 2014
        • News

        Offbeat Dispatches From Economic Summit

        • March 1996 (Revised July 1996)
        • Case

        Service Corporation International

        By: Benjamin C. Esty and Craig F Schreiber
        The CFO of a high-growth company in the low-growth and fragmented funeral services industry must decide how to optimize capital structure and earnings growth while maximizing the company's market value. View Details
        Keywords: Financial Management; Value Creation; Business Growth and Maturation; Consolidation; Industry Growth; Capital Structure; Expansion; Service Industry; United States; North and Central America
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        • 04 Mar 2014
        • HBS Seminar

        Carey Morewedge, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

        • 03 Nov 2003
        • What Do You Think?

        Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?

        insiders of the insider's equity..." Several respondents suggested the need for a careful approach to the issue of greater transparency. E. Smith asked, "Do investors care about immaterial smoothing [of earnings]? I do not believe so. It is when ... View Details
        Keywords: by James Heskett

          Edward McFowland III

          Edward McFowland III is an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the first-year TOM course in the required curriculum.

          Professor McFowland’s research interests – which lie at the... View Details

            Thomas W. Graeber

            Thomas Graeber is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Negotiations in the MBA elective curriculum.

            As an empirical behavioral and experimental... View Details

              Raymond P. Kluender

              Ray Kluender is an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit, teaching Entrepreneurial Finance to second-year MBA students.

              He studies the causes of financial distress among American households and how public policy,... View Details

                Paula C. Rettl

                Paula Rettl is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. Her primary areas of expertise are comparative politics, political economy and political behavior, with a focus on Latin America and... View Details

                • September–October 2021
                • Article

                Frontiers: Can an AI Algorithm Mitigate Racial Economic Inequality? An Analysis in the Context of Airbnb

                By: Shunyuan Zhang, Nitin Mehta, Param Singh and Kannan Srinivasan
                We study the effect of Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm on the racial disparity in the daily revenue earned by Airbnb hosts. Our empirical strategy exploits Airbnb’s introduction of the algorithm and its voluntary adoption by hosts as a quasi-natural experiment. Among... View Details
                Keywords: Smart Pricing; Pricing Algorithm; Machine Bias; Discrimination; Racial Disparity; Social Inequality; Airbnb Revenue; Revenue; Race; Equality and Inequality; Prejudice and Bias; Price; Mathematical Methods; Accommodations Industry
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                  Dr. Elizabeth Mary Okelo

                  Keywords: Financial services; Education

                    Jung Koo Kang

                    Jung Koo Kang is an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management Unit. He teaches the Financial Reporting and Control course in the MBA required curriculum.

                    Professor Kang’s research focuses on financial technology and innovation, alternative data,... View Details