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  • 05 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

board, their past professional experience, and their political contributions vary with the degree to which the accounting standards they propose are perceived as increasing accounting "relevance"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2009
  • Article

India Transformed: Insights from the Firm Level 1988–2007

By: Laura Alfaro and Anusha Chari
Using firm-level data, this paper analyzes the transformation of India's economic structure following the implementation of economic reforms. The focus of the study is on publicly listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services... View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Transformation; Economics; Ownership; Assets; Sales; Profit; Stock Shares; Private Sector; Investment Return; Manufacturing Industry; Service Industry; India
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  • 08 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 8

and managed as investment accounts with the goal of accumulating the largest possible pot of savings. Communication with savers is framed entirely in terms of assets and returns. Ask a saver what his 401(k)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Mary Callahan Erdoes

even in the womb!” explains Erdoes, who heads global investments for the private bank of J.P. Morgan Chase & Company. Her job puts her in charge of more than $200 billion in assets, managed on behalf of an exclusive group of private clients, most with View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 26 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

results of this multi-method investigation have implications for both managers and academics interested in how consumers learn to become expert in hedonic product categories. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54622 forthcoming... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 2, 2007

Tatiana Sandino Abstract In this paper we examine the economic consequences of over 150 shareholder proposals to expense employee stock options (ESO) submitted during the proxy seasons of 2003 and 2004—the first case where the SEC has allowed an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Control Theory as Applied to Stochastic and Non-Stochastic Economics." Ph.D. diss., MIT, 1970. Merton, Robert C. "A Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of the Asset Market and its Application to the Pricing of the Capital Structure of the... View Details
  • Web

Bibliography - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

Account of the Credit Mobilier Investigation . New York: Continental Publishing Company, 1873. Full text available online with Google. Johnson, Arthur M., and Barry E. Supple. Boston Capitalists and Western Railroads: A Study in the... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

Shareholders' Value?

if one excludes new start-ups, most new capital is provided by debt. Of course, liquidity in the stock market does enable investors to capture gains on their investments, and it also enables mergers and acquisitions. To provide adequate liquidity, however, an View Details
  • 11 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

how companies create value for customers and shareholders. The BSC measures the customer value proposition, and links critical processes and intangible assets to customer and shareholder value creation. Thus, ABC provides a model of cost... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 05 Sep 2000
  • What Do You Think?

Whither the Information Economy?

be justified as the monetization of valuable information assets that accountants have never seen fit to include as legitimate entries on balance sheets (other than as grossly misnamed "goodwill").... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • October 2023 (Revised January 2024)
  • Case

Ball: EVA Driving the World's Leading Can Manufacturer (A)

By: Jonas Heese and Susan Pinckney
The case describes Ball’s multi decade history of using Economic Value Added to drive decision making and workforce compensation. In 2016, the company acquired Rexam PLC and became the world’s leading metal beverage container company. Consumer demand for varied... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Cost Accounting; Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Buildings and Facilities; Green Building; Mergers and Acquisitions; Customer Satisfaction; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Machinery and Machining; Asset Pricing; Corporate Finance; Capital; Cost; Financial Management; Goods and Commodities; Compensation and Benefits; Executive Compensation; Employee Relationship Management; Goals and Objectives; Resource Allocation; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Arizona; California; Texas
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  • 05 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208025 Silic (A): Choosing Cost or Fair Value on Adoption of IFRS Harvard Business School Case 108-030 A French real estate firm must choose to report its primary asset... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 3

doubled effort within the competitive regime and increased effort by roughly half in the cooperative regime, while accounting for incentives. Our experimental approach and results indicate the importance of View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

featuring less product-centered and more information-centered economic activity.” It highlighted opinions at the time that “Growing ratios of market-to-book value that resulting stock prices produce can be justified as the monetization of valuable information View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Jan 2006
  • News

Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969

sector—which accounts for two-thirds of the jobs—we will not only improve the standard of living but eventually contribute to the peace process. The tragic events of last summer in the region were a setback, but I went into this with a... View Details
  • 30 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

exhibit "The Four Spans" provides a summary.) The span of control. The first span defines the range of resources—not only people but also assets and infrastructure—for which a manager is given decision rights. These are also the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 26 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 26

through its development bank (BNDES), we find a positive effect of those stakes on firms' return on assets and on the capital expenditures of financially constrained firms with investment opportunities. However, these positive effects are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

started developing them have ceased to exist as independent entities. In those cases in which the skills and capabilities that characterized new ecosystem domains were distinct enough to justify a truly focused strategy (for example, personal financial View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow

Jakurskis were inspired to support junior faculty during a pivotal point in their careers. “By investing in associate professors, Maria and I feel we are helping HBS sustain and further its world-class faculty,” says André Jakurski, founding partner of JGP View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services