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- June 2016
- Supplement
FANUC Corporation: Reassessing the Firm's Governance and Financial Policies Spreadsheet Supplement
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Akiko Kanno
In February 2015, Daniel Loeb (a US-based activist investor) announced his firm had a large investment in FANUC Corporation, a leading producer of industrial robots and software for machine tools. Loeb was demanding that the Japanese firm change its financial and... View Details
- 2004
- Working Paper
Regulation and Reaction: The Other Side of Free Banking in Antebellum New York
By: David A. Moss and Sarah Brennan
Free banking, which first appeared in the United States in the late 1830s, comprised two essential features: general incorporation for banks and rigorous security requirements for note issue. Because the general incorporation feature is what allowed free entry, it has... View Details
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
establishing the struggling young country's financial system. In The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy, Thomas McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of... View Details
- 2008
- Working Paper
Signaling Firm Performance Through Financial Statement Presentation: An Analysis Using Special Items
By: Edward J. Riedl and Suraj Srinivasan
This paper investigates whether managers' presentation of special items within the financial statements reflects economic performance or opportunism. Specifically, we assess special items presented as a separate line item on the income statement (income statement... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Disclosure; Performance
Riedl, Edward J., and Suraj Srinivasan. "Signaling Firm Performance Through Financial Statement Presentation: An Analysis Using Special Items." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-031, September 2008. (Conditionally accepted at Contemporary Accounting Research.)
- 24 Oct 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Signaling Firm Performance Through Financial Statement Presentation: An Analysis Using Special Items
Keywords: by Edward J. Riedl & Suraj Srinivasan
- Web
Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online
the financial health and lifecycle stage of a business 8.5 hrs Module 6 Analyzing Financial Statements Evaluate company performance using profitability, efficiency, leverage, and View Details
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
Hi all, my name is Rhea! I was lucky enough to work for the National Park Service this summer as a business management intern with the Submerged Resources Center (SRC). The SRC is the NPS national dive program, responsible for... View Details
- 2009
- Working Paper
Why Do Countries Adopt International Financial Reporting Standards?
By: Karthik Ramanna and Ewa Sletten
In a sample of 102 non-European Union countries, we study variations in the decision to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). There is evidence that more powerful countries are less likely to adopt IFRS, consistent with more powerful countries being... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Globalized Economies and Regions; Network Effects; Standards; Adoption
Ramanna, Karthik, and Ewa Sletten. "Why Do Countries Adopt International Financial Reporting Standards?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-102, March 2009.
- February 2011
- Article
Understanding Analysts’ Use and Under-use of Stock Returns and Other Analysts’ Forecasts when Forecasting Earnings
By: Michael B. Clement, Jeffrey Hales and Yanfeng Xue
We investigate analysts' use of stock returns and other analysts' forecast revisions in revising their own forecasts after an earnings announcement. We find that analysts respond more strongly to these signals when the signals are more informative about future earnings... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Forecasting and Prediction; Performance Evaluation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Financial Services Industry
Clement, Michael B., Jeffrey Hales, and Yanfeng Xue. "Understanding Analysts’ Use and Under-use of Stock Returns and Other Analysts’ Forecasts when Forecasting Earnings." Journal of Accounting & Economics 51, nos. 1-2 (February 2011): 279–299.
- Web
Software Environments via Conda - Research Computing Services
previously. Conda is one way regular users (i.e., those without administrator accounts) can install software on the HBSGrid. Other methods are documented on the installing software page. The notes below give a quick introduction to using... View Details
- Web
HBS - Financials | Consolidated Balance Sheet
Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Consolidated Balance Sheet (all in millions of dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30) Assets 2022 2021 2020 Cash $133 $124 $124 Current Use Reserves 227 211 174... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
How did we get into this mess, and how do we fix it? Those were the key questions that three separate expert panels — two convened by HBS and one by Harvard University — addressed for standing-room-only audiences in late September as the nation’s View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Year-End Roundup: Dean's Award, Other Honors Conferred as Class of '98 Graduates
Rubin, shared his experiences and lessons learned from his many years of service with Goldman Sachs and in government. He encouraged students "to do your best with the utmost focus but at the same time reach out for opportunities to... View Details
- Article
Signaling Firm Performance Through Financial Statement Presentation: An Analysis Using Special Items
By: Edward J. Riedl and Suraj Srinivasan
This paper investigates whether managers' presentation of special items within the financial statements reflects economic performance or opportunism. Specifically, we assess special items presented as a separate line item on the income statement (income statement... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Financial Statements; Economics; Performance; Research; Opportunities; Business Earnings; Motivation and Incentives
Riedl, Edward J., and Suraj Srinivasan. "Signaling Firm Performance Through Financial Statement Presentation: An Analysis Using Special Items." Contemporary Accounting Research 27, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 289–332.
- 04 Nov 2015
- What Do You Think?
Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?
Performance. An alternative explanation might go the other way: Financial Performance = Gender Diversity. Well off firms have much more flexibility to experiment, meet diversity goals and so forth.” Patrick... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 1993
- Chapter
Management of Risk Capital in Financial Firms
By: Robert C. Merton and André Perold
Merton, Robert C., and André Perold. "Management of Risk Capital in Financial Firms." In Financial Services: Perspectives and Challenges, edited by Samuel L. Hayes III, 215–245. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1993.
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Responsibilities and Acceptable Use - Research Computing Services
reading/writing large numbers of files while also running large numbers of (simultaneous) jobs can adversely affect others users' home and project folders. Please contact RCS if you have any questions. Poorly behaved jobs or ones in the... View Details
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Stata Temporary Files and Stata Tmp - Research Computing Services
possible; others not. Another unsure guarantee. Our additional solution is to redirect where Stata stores its temporary files. The shell environment variable STATATMP , which must be set before Stata launches, can be set to any location,... View Details
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
iStock Even as President Donald Trump and Republican leaders seem set on a course to weaken Obama-administration consumer protection regulations, a soon-to-be-published study reports that 7.3 percent of financial advisors in the United... View Details
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
including taking Fannie and Freddie out of the investment business, simplifying mortgage disclosure documents, consolidating the federal government's highly fractured financial services regulatory agencies,... View Details