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  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

capital market. Analysts and money managers are mostly worried about quarterly performance. That filters all the way back to management, which feels pressure to deliver good numbers for the next quarter's performance. And if that pressure... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

contained in the mandatory transitional documents required by International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) 1 (2005). We find significant negative abnormal returns for firms reporting negative earnings... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Apr 2023
  • News

Step Change

block of apartments overlooking the Nile River. She graduated from Cairo University in 2006 with a degree in economics, followed by a master's in environment and development at the London School of Economics. After stints as a researcher and View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
  • 26 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 26, 2010

that employees' boundary spanning contact with members of other organizations was associated with reports of negative relationships with external parties (e.g., work-specific problems, culture-specific problems). These negative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 12, 2016

medical devices after they are approved by the appropriate regulatory authorities. Historically, such surveillance was based on voluntary reports by medical practitioners, but with the widespread adoption of electronic medical records and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

likely as younger children to assign themselves the good prize by reporting winning the coin flip more than chance would dictate. Overall, the results of these experiments suggest that as children grow older they become increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

auctions into VCG position auctions. We require that accepting the mediator services and reporting honestly to the mediator, will form an ex post equilibrium, which satisfies the following rationality condition: an agent's payoff can’t be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

implications for how policymakers should evaluate the financial reporting environment facing firms. A real-world tax shelter is dissected to illustrate how tax shelter products enable managers to manipulate View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

and mobs of desperate people. IBM's actions, as well as many others reported on by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, capture the emerging zeitgeist of business: the vanguard company simultaneously pursuing-and creating synergy between-opportunity,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

of companies' innovative portfolios. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-075.pdf Highbrow Films Gather Dust: Time-inconsistent Preferences and Online DVD Rentals (revised) Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 1996
  • News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

heat-trapping gases such as carbon dioxide that are released into the atmosphere when coal and petroleum products are burned. That same day, the Wall Street Journal reported that in California and Arizona, General Motors would this year... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb
  • Web

Oral Histories | Baker Library

software development. Concentrating her strengths and areas of interest, she later worked as an analyst and portfolio manager for mutual funds specializing in technology. In 1983 she was the founding partner of HLM Management Co. Learning... View Details
  • Web

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develop expertise to understand financial reporting implications of business decisions and identify key control fault-lines in companies that can lead to fraud. The course is also relevant for students seeking to develop sophisticated... View Details