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2.1.1 Citing Sources & Plagiarism | MBA
2.1.1 Citing Sources & Plagiarism At HBS, collaboration and conversations are at the core of the academic experience. There are immeasurable benefits from the insights of our peers and from an abundance of resources that support learning. A student can use all of this... View Details
- 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
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
How can managers better identify, describe, and confront the issues of environmental and social sustainability that their companies increasingly encounter? One answer is One Report, a method of integrating information about financial and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
Working PapersAccounting Information as Political Currency Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract We test whether accounting can be used as political currency. Our setting is the US congressional election of 2004,... View Details
Keywords: 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
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
Transparency with Costly Information Processing By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marco Pagano Abstract—We study a model where some investors (“hedgers”) are bad at information processing, while others... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
combining the financial and CSR/sustainability reports into something I call “One Report,” which provides the essential information on a company’s financial, environmental, social, and governance performance and shows the relationships... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
at the School to accelerate climate solutions and help society adapt to the changes already upon us. We are seeking to maximize ways to reach the broad community of practitioners who can both benefit from and inform this work, through... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 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
- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
effect the information will support and raise current levels." Guy Higgins commented, "Recall that CEO compensation began to balloon only when the CEOs could see each other's comp packages and began thinking, 'I'm better than... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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Sustainable investing and ESG resources
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News and information covering the sustainable and impact investment markets. Our subscription includes the daily publication, The... View Details
News and information covering the sustainable and impact investment markets. Our subscription includes the daily publication, The... View Details
- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
determine whether firms followed what they call the “timely disclosure hypothesis,” the idea that managers accurately release their private post-quarter information at announcement time. What they found... View Details
- 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
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
Mandatory Nonfinancial Performance Measurement Beneficial? By: Gallani, Susanna, Takehisa Kajiwara, and Ranjani Krishnan Abstract—We use value of information theory and examine the effect of regulation requiring mandatory measurement and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
practice of providing detailed information about the company's "quarterly standings, stock prices, new acquisitions, etc.," concludes that "anyone who has stock or investments in a public company should be privileged to... View Details
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
help consumers and make markets more efficient. Yet, the effectiveness of disclosure policies can be undermined if firms strategically make unfavorable information unnecessarily complicated to understand. To... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
networks of personal relationships: 1) Change agents who were central in the organization's informal network had a clear advantage, regardless of their position in the formal hierarchy. 2) People who bridged disconnected groups or... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 13 May 2002
- Op-Ed
A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures
efficient and cheaper methods that undermine quality audits. The audit committee must have the leadership, independence and information to oversee the auditors and their relationship with the management.— Jay Lorsch This race for... View Details
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
institutions that accompany it (e.g., financial disclosure rules, investor protections, etc.) allows corporations to rely less on connections to banks. There are two specific hypotheses tested in this work. First, given the development of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
to law enforcement? How much disclosure is legally required, and how much is appropriate ethically? How will disclosure affect the company’s stock price and prospects for attracting future business? For any... View Details