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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

non-rational expectations to account for boom-bust macroeconomic cycles. The authors incorporate diagnostic expectations into a workhorse neoclassical business cycle model with heterogeneous firms and risky debt. To generate the size of... View Details
  • 23 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

terms of drugs, technology, devices, information technology, and personnel; then secondarily, the current regulations in place and the payment models. Part of the purpose of writing Designing Care has been to emphasize the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 05 Dec 2022
    • What Do You Think?

    How Would Jack Welch’s Leadership Style Fare in Today’s World?

    years into his tenure, GE became the most valuable company in the world. Gelles and Cohan cite everything from failed acquisitions and strategies to brutal downsizing, forced ranking of managers, a poor environmental record, legal View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Industrial Products; Media & Broadcasting; Medical Devices & Supplies; Manufacturing
    • 2006
    • Article

    The End of Nationality? Global Firms and 'Borderless Worlds'

    By: G. Jones
    This article provides a historical perspective to current debates whether large global firms are becoming "stateless" and whether this is a historically new phenomenon. It shows that a great deal of international business in the nineteenth century was not easily fitted... View Details
    Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Multinational Firms and Management; Trade; Ownership; International Finance; Economic Systems; International Accounting; Globalized Economies and Regions; Geographic Location; Nationality; Boundaries; Global Strategy
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    • February 1996 (Revised November 2003)
    • Case

    Indianapolis: Activity-Based Costing of City Services (A)

    By: Robert S. Kaplan
    A new administration in the City of Indianapolis is initially determined to privatize many municipal services. Before taking this action, however, the city managers want to know the current cost of performing these services with the municipal workers. Existing... View Details
    Keywords: Cost Management; Public Sector; Activity Based Costing and Management; Service Delivery; Privatization; City; Indianapolis
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    • 18 Nov 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: November 18, 2008

    reported accounting problems in early 2007. The resulting liquidity crisis forced the company to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. According to the Bankruptcy Examiner assigned to investigate New Century, the company's troubles... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 11 Mar 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: March 11, 2008

    are crucial to understanding Mexico's current economic and political challenges. Why did the opening up of the economy to foreign trade and investment not result in sustained economic growth? Why has electoral democracy not produced rule... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 12 Sep 2023
    • What Do You Think?

    Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?

    (AdobeStock/ Katleho S/peopleimages.com) Business leaders today face decisions of increasing complexity. They have to take into account far more than economics, in particular the increasing influence of matters under debate in the broader... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • Web

    Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    unified financial structure which ideally is a unified profit and loss statement IPUs routinely measure outcomes, costs, care processes, and patient experience using a common platform, and accept joint accountability for results. The team... View Details
    • 08 Mar 2021
    • In Practice

    COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

    A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 2014
    • Chapter

    Promoting Corporate Sustainability through Integrated Reporting: The Role of Investment Fiduciaries and the Responsibilities of the Corporate Board

    By: Robert G. Eccles, J. Herron and George Serafeim
    This book is a comprehensive reference work exploring recent changes and future trends in the principles that govern institutional investors and fiduciaries. A wide range of contributors offer new perspectives on dynamics that drive the current emphasis on short-term... View Details
    Keywords: Governance; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Institutional Investing; Financial Services Industry
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    • 16 Jan 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management

    Caitlin C. Rosenthal didn't intend to write a book about slavery. She set out to tackle something much more mundane: the history of business practices. But when she started researching account books from the mid-1800s, a period of major... View Details
    Keywords: by Katie Johnston
    • Web

    Case Research & Writing Group - Faculty & Research

    the HBS Global Initiative and its off-campus centers, and provides RA training services. Services CRG case researchers have contributed to over 1,900 projects across all the HBS academic units. Field cases (which involve interviews at the host organization) View Details
    • March 2000 (Revised February 2005)
    • Case

    Hewlett Packard--Computer Systems Organization: Selling to Enterprise Customers

    By: Das Narayandas and Robert C. Dudley
    In late 1996, Manuel Diaz, head of Worldwide Sales for Hewlett-Packard's (HP) Computer Systems Organization (CSO), is reviewing the results of an audit of HP's enterprise customer management approach with the objective of identifying market and organizational... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting Audits; Transformation; Customer Relationship Management; Cost vs Benefits; Marketing Strategy; Sales; Computer Industry
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    • Fast Answer

    Financial databases: certification and training

    Environmental Social Governance (ESG).  Open to all current Harvard faculty, students, and staff through 12/31/2024*, with potential for extension.  Please email infoservices@hbs.edu for the class code to waive fee. Then, sign... View Details
    • February 2009
    • Article

    Optimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt

    By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
    Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However, given the sovereign's willingness-to-pay incentive problems, reserve accumulation may reduce sustainable debt levels. In addition, assuming... View Details
    Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Motivation and Incentives; Decisions; Emerging Markets; Balance and Stability; Earnings Management; Policy; Interest Rates; International Finance; Cost
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    • 06 Dec 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    What Impedes Oil and Gas Companies’ Transparency?

    Keywords: by Paul Healy, Venkat Kuppuswamy & George Serafeim; Energy; Utilities
    • August 2022
    • Supplement

    Sweet Teez Bakery: Projecting the Dough’s Rise Financial Supplement

    By: Emily R. McComb, Mel Martin and Amy Klopfenstein
    Abstract: In 2021, the HBS Impact Investment Fund student team met with entrepreneur Teresa Maynard, who had applied for a $25,000 impact investment loan. The students thought the former Harvard Data Scientist’s bakery business, Sweet Teez Bakery, showed promise.... View Details
    Keywords: Impact Investment; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Investment; Goods and Commodities; Financial Reporting; Small Business; Food and Beverage Industry; Massachusetts; United States
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    • 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