Information Disclosure - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2010
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Eight Join HBS Faculty

accounting information affects economic outcomes, specifically, how accounting standards and corporate disclosures influence capital allocation decisions. Yu’s work has been cited in the New York Times. She... View Details

01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business

create value for shareholders and society alike. That worked in many cases. But some executives who were loaded up with stock options succumbed to the temptation to “game” a financial-markets inefficiency, inefficiencies caused by inadequate View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2006
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Paulson Sees World of Opportunity

Kim (MBA ’06), who humorously deemed himself an unworthy spokesman for his high-achieving classmates, confessing that “grade disclosure may be an idea whose time has come, but thankfully it is just my time to go.” In a more serious vein,... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2022
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Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

at the School to accelerate climate solutions and help society adapt to the changes already upon us. We are seeking to maximize ways to reach the broad community of practitioners who can both benefit from and inform this work, through... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Sep 2010
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Reinventing the Annual Report

combining the financial and CSR/sustainability reports into something I call “One Report,” which provides the essential information on a company’s financial, environmental, social, and governance performance and shows the relationships... View Details

Keywords: Robert G. Eccles

01 Feb 2001
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The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts

it is very difficult to point to a foundation and say that it has uniquely accomplished a similarly important goal." Herzlinger blamed these problems on the absence of a framework for full analysis of performance and poor disclosure of... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2003
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Up Against The Firewall

to law enforcement? How much disclosure is legally required, and how much is appropriate ethically? How will disclosure affect the company’s stock price and prospects for attracting future business? For any... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Robert Austin; Corporate Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

with a successful entrepreneurial track record and a Boston address. “I am a tech CEO.” With so few women in leadership roles in the information technology sector and a dramatic gender imbalance throughout the field, Kraus’s title is more... View Details

Keywords: April White

28 May 2019
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A More Perfect Union

So the Market Map is informing our members’ decisions by refocusing their philanthropic portfolio toward democracy reform at the state and federal levels. There is a range of organizations and initiatives that members are coming together... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail

mortgage disclosure documents, consolidating the federal government’s highly fractured financial services regulatory agencies, and requiring that financial institutions increase their capital during sound economic times to provide a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

01 Jun 2008
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Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism

RETSINAS: Too many people began to regard their homes as a guaranteed high-return investment. We just got carried away,” observes Nicolas Retsinas, a lecturer in real estate at HBS, whose distinguished career in housing, community development, and banking View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Finance; Management; Real Estate

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