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Global Industry Bubble Watch - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Data Global Industry Bubble Watch Download Data Set in Excel View Sector: Consumer Discretionary Consumer Discretionary View Details
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?

especially from a consumer health and wellness standpoint. It's where we know the health care industry is moving. Q: Apple has always been known for innovative design. Have they succeeded to do that with the Apple Watch? A: Several of the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ryan L. Raffaelli; Electronics; Retail; Health
  • 01 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?

of their biggest research challenges was how to determine whether a manager’s guidance was on target or misleading. They did so by constructing their own estimates of how a company was doing in real time by using data collected from a variety of View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services
  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/kuziemko%20buell%20reich%20norton_3e675fb6-f83c-47fc-912d-e0c0b383e56d.pdf Working Papers Competing with Privacy By: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Andres Hervas-Drane Abstract—We analyze the implications of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

confirm our results that states with commodities that had higher price increases had lower risk premia. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-027.pdf Elections and Discretionary Accruals: Evidence from 2004... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

lead businesses to voluntarily provide information about the quality of their products. This theoretical prediction is based on unraveling arguments, which require that consumers hold correct beliefs about non-disclosed information.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

the US economy? A: The immediate direct impact on the real economy is measurable but modest. About 800,000 people are now taking unpaid days off, and they are generally people of middle- or upper-middle- class incomes, so they are spenders who will have to cut back on... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 01 Feb 1998
  • News

Running Up the Score

Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96) Down on the Farm: Frank Burke (MBA '87) A Player's View: Gord Kluzak (MBA '98) As in any business, the sports industry's mounting costs are eventually passed on to the consumer - at the stadium, via... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

Authors:Marco Bertini, Dan Ariely, and Elie Ofek Publication:Journal of Consumer Research (forthcoming) Abstract The research presented in this article provides evidence that add-on features sold to enhance a product can be more than just... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50237 Economic Uncertainty and Earnings Management By: Stein, Luke C.D., and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We document that firms report more negative discretionary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

Unleashed

made her culture deck public, Netflix dropped a complete season of House of Cards and forever changed the way the world consumed content. McCord designed Netflix’s culture to attract high-performing creative leaders who thrive in work... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

firm's future value, the firm reports more negative discretionary accruals. Stock-price responses to earnings surprises are moderated when firm-level uncertainty is high, consistent with performance being attributed more to luck rather... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015

policy with two key features: (i) the central bank has private information about its long-run target for the policy rate and (ii) the central bank is averse to bond-market volatility. In this setting, discretionary monetary policy is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

  PublicationsAn Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions Authors:Craig J.Chapman, Thomas J. Steenburgh Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract Prior research hypothesizes that managers use "real actions," including the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-043.pdf An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions (revised) Authors:Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Prior research hypothesizes managers use "real actions," including the reduction... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016

the optimal capital requirement is around 20%. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51305 The Empirical Economics of Online Attention By: Boik, Andre, Shane Greenstein, and Jeffrey Prince Abstract—In several markets, firms compete not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

literature by analyzing all forms of incentive pay for several types of managerial positions and include additional measures of earnings manipulation-end-of-year excess sales and class action litigation-in addition to the standard measure of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

Working Papers An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions (revised) Authors: Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Prior research hypothesizes managers use "real actions," including the reduction of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

help-friendly organization has to be actively nurtured, however, because helpfulness among colleagues does not arise automatically: competition, pride, or distrust may get in the way. The trickiness of this management challenge-to increase a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

consumers. One view argues intermediaries provide valuable product education and guide consumers towards suitable products. Consumers understand how commissions affect agents' incentives and make optimal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne