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  • 01 Jun 2015
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Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?

to a later date. “What we might actually be seeing is politicians lobbying in the interest of their own reelection chances,” she says. “We might need a bit more skepticism when a state says, ‘We have things under control.’ ” “Lobbying Behavior of Governmental Entities:... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Management by vote of the graduating MBA students. Anita Elberse : Received the 2011 Charles M. Williams Award for "outstanding and effective teaching" in the MBA program, awarded View Details
  • 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

Structures Authors:Ranjay Gulati and Maxim Sytch Publication:In Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management/em>, edited by D. Teece and M. Augier. Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming Abstract During the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010

  Working PapersTowards an Understanding of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting Authors:Abigail Allen and Karthik Ramanna Abstract We investigate the idiosyncratic influence of standard setters in standard setting. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity

campus change strategies for achieving equitable outcomes. Drawing from campus-based research projects sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities and the Center for Urban Education at the University of Southern... View Details
  • 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21

Standard Setters in Standard Setting Authors: Abigail M. Allen and Karthik Ramanna Abstract We investigate the idiosyncratic influence of standard setters in standard setting.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

within markets: When sentiment is high, future returns are low on relatively difficult to arbitrage and difficult to value stocks. Private capital flows appear to be one mechanism by which sentiment spreads across markets and forms global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311099-PDF-ENG Vehbi Koc and the Making of Turkey's Largest Business Group Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. ColpanHarvard Business School Case 811-081 The case describes the creation of Turkey's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2013
  • Article

Towards an Understanding of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting

By: Abigail M. Allen and Karthik Ramanna
We investigate the effect of standard setters in standard setting: we examine how certain professional and political characteristics of FASB members and SEC commissioners predict the accounting "reliability" and "relevance" of proposed standards. Notably, we find FASB... View Details
Keywords: FASB; Politics; Relevance; Reliability; Standard Setting; Accounting; Standards; Fair Value Accounting; Government and Politics; Personal Characteristics
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  • 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

source software ("OSS"). What drives companies with large, proprietary software portfolios to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in OSS? We approach this question by grouping a sample of OSS projects into clusters and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5

  PublicationsTowards an Understanding of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting Authors:Abigail M. Allen and Karthik Ramanna Publication:Journal of Accounting & Economics (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Faculty News

by Rufus W. Lumry III (MBA 1974) to further research in the field of information technology. Others receiving chairs for the first time are Max Bazerman (Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration); John A. Deighton (Harold... View Details
Keywords: H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2004
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Social Enterprise Celebrates Tenth Year, Looks Ahead

celebrate its tenth anniversary, the SEI gathered alumni, practitioners, faculty, and students on campus in early April. The purpose of the day-long event was not merely to mark the SEI’s many accomplishments but to envision its future. SEI executive director Stacey... View Details
Keywords: SEI; Social Enterprise Initiative; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Feb 2002
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Redefining Success: Women & Work.

address top-management concerns, and share best practices and insights. Women Building Business -an MBA elective field study seminar led by HBS professors Myra Hart and Lynda M. Applegate intended for... View Details
Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Apr 2020
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What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages

William M. Allen, Boeing’s chief executive at the time, was asked to meet with us because Vertol, a helicopter company acquired by Boeing, was far behind schedule with the vitally needed Chinook helicopter.... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2009
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Alumni Books

Me and the Biospheres: A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2 by John Allen (MBA ’62) (Synergetic Press) This memoir chronicles the life of the inventor of Biosphere 2, a... View Details
  • 27 May 2014
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Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma

discussion of "The Capitalist's Dilemma"—the challenges of innovating for long-term growth and job creation—in the Harvard Business Review. The team of more than 150 people (see below) collaborated using the OI Engine platform developed View Details
Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 01 Apr 2000
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Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences

Kimberly Allen (HBS '00), the opening keynote address was delivered by Heidi Miller, CFO of Citigroup. Miller, whom Fortune magazine cited as one of the fifty most powerful women in business, shared her... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
  • 15 Jun 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

G. Allen and John D. Macomber, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Harvard University Press By the time you reach 80, you will have spent 72 years of your life indoors. Like it or not, humans have... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2018
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Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard

Collaboration Leads to New Programs for Business and Education Two new programs developed and led by HBS faculty in collaboration with colleagues from across Harvard University—one in business analytics and another in school... View Details