Selective Disclosure - Publications - Faculty & Research

June 2013 (Revised September 2015)
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Procter & Gamble

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen Durante

On July 12, 2012, Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management announced publicly that it had purchased about $2 billion of Procter and Gamble (P&G) stock. Shares in the company closed up 3.75% the day the disclosure was made public. Ackman told the New York... View Details

Keywords: Ackman; P＆G; Pershing Square Capital Managment; Disruption; Management Succession; Crisis Management; Acquisition; Consumer Products Industry; Financial Services Industry

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20 Nov 2012
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number that maximizes joint utility); (ii) an equilibrium selection problem (consumption complementarities often lead to multiple equilibria, which result in different utility levels for the users); and (iii) a coordination problem... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Jun 2009
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evidenced by the transmission of patenting behavior, but they do not match on this dimension. We demonstrate this in two-stage models that adjust for the endogeneity of the matching process, using a modification of propensity score estimation and a sample View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Feb 2015
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Abstract—Regulation Fair Disclosure was passed in 2000 in response to the concern that certain investors were gaining selective access to privileged firm information. In spite of the passage of this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Accounting & Management - Doctoral

apply to the PhD in Business Administration and select Accounting as their area of study. Students work closely with faculty in the Accounting and Management Unit . Research here encompasses financial reporting and analysis and management... View Details

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Audit Committees in a New Era of Governance

disclosure Expand your personal and professional network Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe Build relationships with a diverse group... View Details

17 Oct 2017
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relative to the prevailing screening method of colonoscopy. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53345 forthcoming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Temporary Sharing Prompts Unrestrained View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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that the Admissions Committee can select the most qualified and diverse group from among the pool of candidates, ensuring an interactive and invigorating learning experience for all program participants. Except as set forth in the next... View Details

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

selected for publication in the 2015 Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings . Jonas Heese : Winner of the 2015 Healthcare Management Division Award for Best Paper Submitted to the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management for... View Details

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Complexity (3) Conflict Management (4) Conflict and Resolution (13) Conflict of Interests (1) Construction (1) Consumer Behavior (173) Contracts (7) Cooperation (3) Cooperative Ownership (1) Copyright (2) Core Relationships (1) Corporate Accountability (11) Corporate... View Details

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

chart a path forward? Keywords: Corporate Disclosure ; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms ; Health Testing and Trials ; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry Citation Educators Purchase Related Tadikonda, Satish, Faith Robertson,... View Details

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Companies: social responsibility

positive impacts in communities around the world. The following databases provide companies' own (self-reported) social responsibility reports: Sustainability Disclosure Database: a free database from the Global Social Reporting... View Details

28 Aug 2012
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that preferences for masculinity versus femininity mediated White participants' attraction to Blacks relative to Asians. Analysis of the 2000 United States Census replicated this pattern with interracial marriages. In Study 5, Blacks were more likely and Asians less... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay

disclosures with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). While many companies have been trying to build more inclusive workplaces, only half of S&P 500 companies had gone as far as naming a chief diversity officer as of 2021,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Mar 2003
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Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

Bagley # 6: Negotiating venture capital financing based solely on the valuation. Valuation is not the only thing one should consider when selecting a venture capitalist or when negotiating the deal. There are many other ways for venture... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

energy storage startup. In 2022, Colson was competitively selected as a Breakthrough Energy Fellow, and she is a member of the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 Energy Class. Srikant Datar Dean of the Faculty; George F. Baker Professor of... View Details

24 Feb 2022
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Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

investors. If these results were replicated in health care, in the short term, patients could select hospitals with more adequate surge capacity arrangements and investors in hospital debt and equity would reward them. In the longer run,... View Details

Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer; Health

16 Jul 2013
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transparency improves confidence ex ante but impedes regulators' ability to stem panics ex post. Working Papers Cumulative Innovation & Open Disclosure of Intermediate Results: Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Bioinformatics By:... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

errors when making decisions. Fortunately, behavioral economics offers tools to help people reach better outcomes. By changing the environment in which choices are made, for example by changing the process used to select options from a... View Details

January 2017
Case

The Six CEOs of Tyco International Ltd.

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

In September 2016, Johnson Controls, Inc. completed the acquisition of Tyco International PLC, a $9.9 billion business with operating profits of $884 million. The purchase consideration was $14.4 billion. Although the deal was billed as a merger, Ireland-based Tyco... View Details