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- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
Business School finance professor Kenneth A. Froot in the April working paper What Do Measures of Real-Time Corporate Sales Tell Us about Earnings Surprises and Post-Announcement Returns? “It’s startling to... View Details
- 05 Apr 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?
Summing Up In the end, M&A is about buying more volume. It is a flawed process, invented by brokers, lawyers, and super-sized, ego-based CEOs." With this comment, Ellis Baxter summed up the thinking of the majority of those... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
allows me to stay grounded in both places," he says. Along with integrated practice units and payment bundling, the value-based health-care plan includes measuring health outcomes of every patient,... View Details
- Mar 2012
- Article
The Incentive Bubble
The past three decades have seen American capitalism quietly transformed by a single, powerful idea--that financial markets are a suitable tool for measuring performance and structuring compensation. Stock... View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Abstract The potential supply of biomass feedstocks in the U.S. and Canada is estimated using a static supply function approach. Estimated total biomass available at a price of $100 per metric ton is 568... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?
services to citizens can institute service improvements and metrics modeled after those in the private sector. They can call on social marketers to aid in communicating with customers View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2010
- Op-Ed
Tax US Companies to Spur Spending
measures relating to government spending, would stem from decentralized actors responding to private information and incentives. Consider the potential effects of a temporary 2 percent tax on corporations'... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Turning Point: Network Effects
allowances for vitamins and exercise, we should have requirements for healthy levels of engagement and community involvement. Social media makes it harder to detect how people are really feeling, View Details
Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)
- 15 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers
in the paper Are Bankers Worth Their Pay? Evidence from a Talent Measure by Boris Vallée, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and Claire Célérier, an assistant professor at the University of... View Details
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
for participants who are typically between their late 30s and early 60s, an age when many people start to take stock of their lives. "People do wake up at 40 and say, 'Huh? Is this it? What's my purpose?' "... View Details
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
reduction—and declares victory. But these measures fail to even dent the climate problem. And the proof is easy: Greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. Last month, we hit 400 parts per million... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
decision-making is limited. Exploiting exogenous variation in state compulsory schooling laws in both standard and two-sample instrumental variable strategies, we show education increases financial market participation, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
gaining ground in banking. In light of the recent financial crisis, several commentators concluded that the continuing expansion of risk measurement is dysfunctional (Power, 2009; Taleb, 2007). This paper asks whether the expansion of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
approaches include the use of risk exposure and the Sharpe and Information Ratios. Applies the approaches to a variety of mutual funds to demonstrate the effect of using different View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
of diabetes; cardiovascular disease; cancer, spine and joint disease; and metabolic syndrome. One of the most important aspects of AHCA is the creation of designated accountable care organizations (ACOs).... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
- September 2007 (Revised January 2008)
- Case
Silic (A): Choosing Cost or Fair Value on Adoption of IFRS
By: David F. Hawkins, Vincent Marie Dessain and Andrew Barron
A French real estate firm must choose to report its primary asset (investment property) using either cost or fair-value accounting methods upon adoption of international accounting standards (IAS) in 2005. View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Fair Value Accounting; Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Investment; Standards; Real Estate Industry; France
Hawkins, David F., Vincent Marie Dessain, and Andrew Barron. "Silic (A): Choosing Cost or Fair Value on Adoption of IFRS." Harvard Business School Case 108-030, September 2007. (Revised January 2008.)
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
successfully. Megibow's team investigated the reason for the failures, again using Web metrics data and server log files throughout the process. Apparently, the "Company" field under the customer's... View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
interdependent. And although you may have a great doctor with the best intentions, the system may not allow him or her to give the quality of care they would like to. A: Absolutely. My heart really goes out to physicians nowadays. They're... View Details