Measurement and Metrics - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services

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

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

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

1980
Chapter

Should Accounting Standards be Set inthe Public or Private Sector?

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Accounting; Standards; Public Sector; Private Sector; Decision Making

Citation

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

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

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

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

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

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

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

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

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