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provider in the United States. He is a serial entrepreneur who cofounded two other ventures in the solar and renewable energy sector, SunCap Financial and Standard Renewable Energy. He graduated from Texas A&M with a degree in civil... View Details

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no-cost account in the HBS recruiting platform 12twenty . Click “+Post” beneath “Post a Job.” Complete the required fields including industry, function, work authorization, application deadline and location. Submit! By posting a job, you... View Details

September–October 2013
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The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring

By: Lamar Pierce and Michael W. Toffel

Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be particularly onerous when outsourcing the monitoring and... View Details

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are inseparable. The teaching of ethics here is explicit, not implicit, and our community values of mutual respect, honesty and integrity, and personal accountability support the HBS learning environment and are at the heart of a... View Details

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to Access Resumes Create a no-cost account in the HBS recruiting platform 12twenty Select "Resume Books" on the left Click on the resume book you would like to view Select the "Resumes" tab, then "Select a filter." Add as many filters as... View Details

08 May 2014
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Corporate and Integrated Reporting: A Functional Perspective

Keywords: by Robert Eccles & George Serafeim

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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Andrei Shleifer SEP 2021 The financial crisis of 2007–2008 has revived academic interest in price bubbles. The authors introduce diagnostic expectations into a standard setting of price formation in which investors learn about the... View Details

21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006

high tax costs when repatriating earnings. Estimates indicate that a one standard deviation increase in the tax burden from repatriating foreign income is associated with a 7.9% increase in the ratio of cash to net assets. In addition,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jan 2023
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Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?

Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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intended gift purpose. Receiving Bank: Bank of America, 100 Federal Street, Boston, MA 02110 Beneficiary Legal Account: President & Fellows of Harvard College, ADS Account Account #: 9429263621 ACH Routing... View Details

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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

14 May 2018
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Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide

Campbell. “It’s a story about what the limits are to scaling this high-empowerment model, and what are the limits to a model where it’s all about standardization and data.” A model of empowerment For decades after its founding in 1980,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

27 Apr 2010
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standards represent a political-economic equilibrium, why is that equilibrium for some countries shifting over time in favor of IFRS? We develop and test the hypothesis that network effects from the extant worldwide adoption of IFRS... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Jan 2013
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These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System

Keywords: by Stephen Haber & Aldo Musacchio; Banking

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By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details

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experienced colleagues. Assistant Professors Anjali M. Bhatt Organizational Behavior Julian De Freitas Marketing Summer R. Jackson Organizational Behavior Jung Koo Kang Accounting & Management Rebecca A. Karp Strategy Shirley Lu View Details

16 Jan 2013
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The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management

accounting techniques is partly due to a Mississippi planter and accountant named Thomas Affleck, who developed account books for plantation owners that allowed them to make... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston

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Browse All topics Accounting Audits (3) Accounting (119) Acquisition (20) Activity Based Costing and Management (2) Adaptation (7) Adoption (3) Advertising Campaigns (6) Advertising (77) Agency Theory (3)... View Details

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Finance - Faculty & Research

725-408, February 2025. Managing EPS at Stanley Black & Decker? By: Jonas Heese , Joseph Pacelli , Yuan Zou and James Barnett February 2025 | Case | Faculty Research The case explores Stanley Black and Decker’s (SBD) 2022 financial restatement announcement, which... View Details

31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-101.pdf Does Public Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality? Authors:Dan Givoly, Carla Hayn, and Sharon P. Katz Abstract We compare the quality of accounting numbers produced by two types of public... View Details