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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

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
  • 30 Aug 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers

Keywords: by Shawn Cole, Martin Kanz & Leora Klapper
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

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
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Mar 2021
  • In Practice

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

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

    Reinventing State Capitalism

    In this book we study the evolution of corporate governance arrangements that governments have adopted for their state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the last 20 years. We show that the process of privatization and liberalization of the 1990s and early 2000s created... View Details

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    HBS - The year in Review

    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
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    Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

    Financial Accounting with a final exam. 10-17 weeks 8-15 hours per week 3 Courses plus exam Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Credential of Readiness from HBS Online. What you earn . Overview Syllabus Enrollment... View Details
    • 07 Feb 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay

    of getting hit by a lawsuit and facing enforcement action by federal labor regulators. “The firms have an incentive—and a very real incentive—to put you just over the line,” Cohen says. Fixing the problem Looking ahead, one solution would be an overhaul of the New... View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
    • 17 Mar 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

    and social science research is specialist, peer-reviewed journals. Second, much research takes the form of case studies and is often qualitative rather than quantitative. In disciplines where standardized social science methodology,... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

      Robert C. Merton

      Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

      Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

      Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
      • November 2024
      • Article

      The Health Costs of Cost Sharing

      By: Amitabh Chandra, Evan Flack and Ziad Obermeyer
      What happens when patients suddenly stop their medications? We study the health consequences of drug interruptions caused by large, abrupt, and arbitrary changes in price. Medicare’s prescription drug benefit as-if-randomly assigns 65-year-olds a drug budget as a... View Details
      Keywords: Outcome or Result; Health Care and Treatment; Budgets and Budgeting; Cost
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      • 24 Feb 2022
      • Op-Ed

      Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

      institutions within individual and community networks. But they have not done so to date. Enter the SEC One novel way to assure that independent hospitals create network plans is to harness a new accounting standard, as specified by the... View Details
      Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer; Health
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      Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

      Sector ; Renewable Energy ; Social Entrepreneurship ; Climate Change ; Environmental Sustainability ; Green Technology ; Financial Strategy ; Investment Funds ; Investment Portfolio ; Institutional Investing ; Corporate Accountability ;... View Details
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      Student Research - Doctoral

      Wu 01 JUN 2025 | Journal of Impact and ESG Investing Riding the Passion Wave or Fighting to Stay Afloat? A Theory of Differentiated Passion Contagion By: Emma Frank, Kai Krautter , Wen Wu and Jon M. Jachimowicz 01 JUN 2025 | Administrative Science Quarterly... View Details
      • 27 Jun 2016
      • Research & Ideas

      These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

      firms in the bottom 25 percent. In fact, by comparing the management numbers to other factors, the researchers determined that worldwide, quality of management accounted for a whopping 30 percent of the differences in productivity across... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
      • 06 Apr 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: April 6

      standard deviation increase in the divergence increases the average loan spread by approximately 18%, or 35 basis points. The effect of the excess control rights on the cost of bank debt is more pronounced when the borrowing firm is... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 01 Mar 2023
      • What Do You Think?

      How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?

      unknown. Excellence: When achieving high standards matters more than short-term performance. Altruism: When a company serves customers, employees, and others first and assumes that profit will follow. Making money—a lot of it—may result... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • 20 Apr 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think

      without anyone realizing that they are doing anything wrong. Q: What is motivational blindness? A: Motivational blindness is the tendency to not notice the unethical actions of others when it is against our own best interests to notice—such as auditors who fail to... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • 16 Feb 2023
      • HBS Case

      ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

      The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
      Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services