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- 23 May 2018
- News
Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1962 Born, Port Arthur, Texas 1984 Earns AB, Economics, Harvard University 1984 Joins Booz Allen Hamilton, Consultant 1987 Earns MBA 1987 Joins Morgan Stanley, Associate 1994 Joins St. View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
of the Year by New Statesman . Caroline M. Elkins : Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) was included in The New York Times ' 100 Notable Books of 2022. Mattias E. Fibiger : Received the 2022 View Details
- 06 Jun 2016
- News
Your Investment Tool Is Failing You
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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online
next level by learning how to maximize investment portfolio value with alternative investments, including private equity and real estate. 5 weeks 6-7 hours per week 5 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
of dollars every year. I estimate that liquidation is frequently chosen when a reorganization would have maximized total creditor recovery. I estimate that courts could dramatically improve creditor recovery by assigning liquidations... View Details
- 2015
- Chapter
Leading Proactive Punctuated Change
By: Michael Tushman, Charles O'Reilly and Bruce Harreld
This chapter focuses on leading proactive punctuated change. Based on the institutional and organizational change literatures and our extended involvement with IBM between 1999 and 2008, we suggest that proactive punctuated change can be effectively managed through an... View Details
Tushman, Michael, Charles O'Reilly, and Bruce Harreld. "Leading Proactive Punctuated Change." Chap. 10 in Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective, edited by Rebecca Henderson, Ranjay Gulati, and Michael Tushman. Oxford University Press, 2015.
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
November 2016 Quarterly Journal of Economics Stereotypes By: Bordalo, Pedro, Katherine Baldiga Coffman, Nicola Gennaioli, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—We present a model of stereotypes based on Kahneman and Tversky's representativeness heuristic. A decision maker... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2018
- News
Warren Buffett Is Just an Average Employee
- August 1992 (Revised June 1993)
- Case
Compania de Telefonos de Chile
By: W. Carl Kester, Enrique Ostale and Charles McHugh La Follette
The newly privatized Chilean telephone company, Compania de Telefonos de Chile (CTC) must raise substantial new funds externally in order to finance its expansion program. This task is complicated by Chile's small, illiquid capital markets and the skeptical view of... View Details
Keywords: Capital Markets; Financing and Loans; Managerial Roles; Privatization; Expansion; Telecommunications Industry; South America; Chile
Kester, W. Carl, Enrique Ostale, and Charles McHugh La Follette. "Compania de Telefonos de Chile." Harvard Business School Case 293-015, August 1992. (Revised June 1993.)
- 11 Feb 2020
- News
The Skinny On The Ongoing Morningstar Ratings Squabble
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
and SEC oversight than previously suggested. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52776 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Reexamining Staggered Boards and Shareholder Value By: Wang, Charles C.Y., and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- June 2001 (Revised August 2005)
- Background Note
A Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting
By: David F. Hawkins and Jacob Cohen
Discusses the conceptual framework for financial reporting as set by the Financial Accounting Standards Board. Discusses the objectives of financial statements, assumptions of financial accounting, characteristics of accounting information, accounting principles for... View Details
Hawkins, David F., and Jacob Cohen. "A Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting." Harvard Business School Background Note 101-118, June 2001. (Revised August 2005.)
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
Lee, Charles M.C., Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Applying a "co-search" algorithm to Internet traffic at the SEC's EDGAR website, we develop a novel method for identifying economically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 2000
- Case
MCI-WorldCom Combination, The (A)
By: Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen
Outlines the accounting decision faced by WorldCom in its acquisition of MCI. Two methods are discussed (purchase and pooling) and students are asked to evaluate which would be more suitable for WorldCom. View Details
Healy, Paul M., and Jacob Cohen. "MCI-WorldCom Combination, The (A)." Harvard Business School Case 101-027, September 2000.
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
organs faces widespread disapproval. We survey a representative sample of Americans to assess disapproval for several forms of kidney markets and to understand why individuals disapprove by identifying factors that predict disapproval,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- August 1999 (Revised February 2000)
- Case
Cisco Systems, Inc.: Acquisition Integration for Manufacturing (A)
By: Steven C. Wheelwright, Charles A. Holloway, Nicole Tempest and Christian G. Kasper
Describes the procedures and processes used by Cisco Systems in its acquisition of high-technology firms. Its goal is to retain key engineering talent and to leverage existing product development efforts, but to quickly merge acquired companies its own systems and... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Leveraged Buyouts; Acquisition; Integration; Mergers and Acquisitions; Production; Activity Based Costing and Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources; Manufacturing Industry; Technology Industry; England
Wheelwright, Steven C., Charles A. Holloway, Nicole Tempest, and Christian G. Kasper. "Cisco Systems, Inc.: Acquisition Integration for Manufacturing (A)." Harvard Business School Case 600-015, August 1999. (Revised February 2000.)
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
issuers deteriorates during credit booms, and that this deterioration forecasts low excess returns to corporate bondholders. The key insight is that changes in the pricing of credit risk disproportionately affect the financing costs faced View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Series ), 1990/1999 Carrie Mae Weems, The Hush of Your Silence , from Who What When Where , 1998 Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled from The Louisiana Project , 2003 In addition to these works in the Schwartz Art Collection, there is a portrait of H. Naylor Fitzhugh View Details
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the World: Singer’s International Marketing Strategies, 1850-1920,” Enterprise & Society , 2006, pp. 266-314. Available at SSRN Map created by John Regan, MBA 2016 Download Data Set in Excel Steamship Routes Wayne E. Butterbaugh and View Details
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Search-Based Peer Firms: Aggregating Investor Perceptions Through Internet Co-Searches
By: Charles M.C. Lee, Paul Ma and Charles C.Y. Wang
Applying a "co-search" algorithm to Internet traffic at the SEC's EDGAR website, we develop a novel method for identifying economically-related peer firms and for measuring their relative importance. Our results show that firms appearing in chronologically adjacent... View Details
Keywords: Peer Firm; EDGAR Search Traffic; Revealed Preference; Co-search; Industry Classification; Perception; Internet and the Web; Investment
Lee, Charles M.C., Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Search-Based Peer Firms: Aggregating Investor Perceptions Through Internet Co-Searches." Journal of Financial Economics 116, no. 2 (May 2015): 410–431.