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- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
and friend for over 30 years. The bulk of this article develops an account of his intellectual trajectory from game theory to statistical decision theory to decision analysis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2014
- News
Entrepreneurs anonymous
- October 2016 (Revised March 2022)
- Background Note
Cost Variance Analysis
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Susanna Gallani
This note was written to provide students with fundamental concepts and methods for the analysis of cost variances. It focuses on the decomposition of cost variances into price, quantity, and mix variance components, an approach that allows students to identify the... View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting
Kaplan, Robert S., and Susanna Gallani. "Cost Variance Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 117-006, October 2016. (Revised March 2022.)
- 06 Sep 2017
- News
Financial Wisdom
- 18 Sep 2017
- News
Private Equity for Cheapskates Like You
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
Publications June 2015 Review of Accounting Studies Speaking of the Short-Term: Disclosure Horizon and Managerial Myopia By: Brochet, Francois, Maria Loumioti, and George... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2015
- News
An Afternoon With Stephen Schwarzman
- 24 Oct 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Signaling Firm Performance Through Financial Statement Presentation: An Analysis Using Special Items
Keywords: by Edward J. Riedl & Suraj Srinivasan
- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
to their own professional lives. In this conversation with a member of the Executive Education staff, Professor Jay Lorsch, program chair, discusses the course, the significant role professional service firms play in the world's economy,... View Details
- 25 May 2017
- News
Why Wall Street Went Astray: Eight Ways To Humanize Finance
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Corporate Conspiracy Charges for the Financial Crisis
- 28 Sep 2012
- News
The predictability principle
- September 1969 (Revised June 1976)
- Case
Control Data Corp. (D)
Set in 1965, at a time when the company's mix of "sales" was shifting increasingly to customer leasing of its computers, the student is asked to evaluate possible revisions in the policies for depreciating the cost of a leased computer. View Details
Vancil, Richard F. "Control Data Corp. (D)." Harvard Business School Case 170-036, September 1969. (Revised June 1976.)
- May 2001 (Revised November 2014)
- Background Note
The Income Statement
By: David F. Hawkins and Jacob Cohen
Includes a description of the common components of the income statement. Includes examples of the income statements of Home Depot, Inc., Lucent Technology, Inc., Gap, Inc., and McDonald's Corp. and lends itself to a brief discussion regarding these companies. View Details
Hawkins, David F., and Jacob Cohen. "The Income Statement." Harvard Business School Background Note 101-109, May 2001. (Revised November 2014.)
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
ESG Returns Eventually Will Win Over Critics
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
The Looming Threat That Could Decimate Wall Street's Fund Managers
- 12 Nov 2014
- News
Is outliving your savings a fate worse than death?
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
account when they're assigning scores. "To get a really high rating, a reinsurer has to say, 'I can't devote more than 25 percent of my risk exposure to California, so I'm going to devote some to... View Details