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  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

the firm and MIS research to argue that some types of information technology (IT) will be deployed only within hierarchical governance structures. This argument introduces a contingency into the 'electronic markets hypothesis,' which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

    Alan D. MacCormack

    Alan MacCormack is the MBA Class of 1949 Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, a member of The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, and a core faculty member... View Details

    Keywords: information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry
    • 23 Sep 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Ohad Barzilay, Tel Aviv University

    • November 2016 (Revised December 2016)
    • Module Note

    Strategy Execution Module 13: Identifying Strategic Risk

    By: Robert Simons
    This module reading begins by describing the three sources of strategic risk—operations risk, asset impairment risk, and competitive risk—and demonstrates how these risks can undermine an entire business. To assist in the identification of these risks, the risk... View Details
    Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Execution; Risk Assessment; Operational Control; Asset Impairment; Franchise Risk; Fraud; Strategy; Information Management
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    • 10 Nov 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Managing Reputation: Evidence from Biographies of Corporate Directors

    Keywords: by Ian D. Gow, Aida Sijamic Wahid, and Gwen Yu
    • 21 Aug 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Banks’ Risk Exposures

    Keywords: by Juliane Begenau; Accounting; Banking; Financial Services
    • Teaching Interest

    Finance Reporting and Control

    Financial Reporting and Control (FRC) is a course about how leaders can design and use performance measurement systems to build more effective organizations. Throughout their careers, business leaders are required to... View Details

    • Research Summary

    Crowdsourced reviews

    To determine whether online consumer reviews influence the way that reputation is formed, Professor Luca has combined reviews from the website Yelp.com with public restaurant data. He has shown that a one-star increase in Yelp ratings results in a 5- to 9-percent... View Details

    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Valuing Stocks With Earnings

    By: Sebastian Hillenbrand and Odhrain McCarthy
    We show that commonly used aggregate earnings are several times as volatile as stock prices over the last three decades. Movements in the price-earnings ratio are thus entirely explained by earnings growth and unrelated to future returns. As an alternative to the... View Details
    Keywords: Price; Investment Portfolio; Stocks; Behavioral Finance; Accounting
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    • February 2023 (Revised March 2025)
    • Case

    Doing Business in Accra, Ghana

    By: Hakeem Belo-Osagie, Leonard Schlesinger and Namrata Arora
    This case examines the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Ghana. It highlights Ghana economic transformation in the decades leading up to 2024 in the context of its history, culture, and politics. The case gives an overview of some of the main obstacles... View Details
    Keywords: Business History; Business and Government Relations; Technological Innovation; Foreign Direct Investment; Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Agribusiness; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Ghana
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    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    ESG Performance and Voluntary ESG Disclosure: Mind the (Gender Pay) Gap

    By: June Huang and Shirley Lu
    We study if firms with better ESG performance are more likely to provide voluntary ESG disclosure, an assumption embedded in many ESG ratings. We focus on gender diversity and proxy for performance using a firm's gender pay gap ("GPG") disclosed under a UK disclosure... View Details
    Keywords: Pay Gap; Gender; Wages; Equality and Inequality; Corporate Disclosure; Policy; Diversity
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    • November 2021
    • Article

    Gaussian Process Subset Scanning for Anomalous Pattern Detection in Non-iid Data

    By: William Herlands, Edward McFowland III, Andrew Gordon Wilson and Daniel B. Neill
    Identifying anomalous patterns in real-world data is essential for understanding where, when, and how systems deviate from their expected dynamics. Yet methods that separately consider the anomalousness of each individual data point have low detection power for subtle,... View Details
    Keywords: Pattern Detection; Subset Scanning; Gaussian Processes; Mathematical Methods
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    • June 2014 (Revised January 2017)
    • Supplement

    YAAS's Service Center (B)

    By: Brian Hall and Sara del Nido
    This case is about a compensation change at an automotive service company in the Middle East. The case allows investigation and analysis of many issues related to compensation design and human resource management, and even change management. The focus of the case is... View Details
    Keywords: Compensation; Emotions; Values; Human Resources; Labor; Negotiation; Organizations; Social Psychology; Value Creation; Motivation and Incentives; Auto Industry; Service Industry; Kuwait; Middle East
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    • July–August 2012
    • Article

    What Good Are Shareholders?

    By: Justin Fox and Jay W. Lorsch
    The article looks at the role outside shareholders play in corporate governance in the U.S., and the relationship between companies' shareholders and managers, as of 2012. It recounts the shift beginning in the 1970s toward shareholders claiming an increasing amount of... View Details
    Keywords: Shareholder Activism; Business and Shareholder Relations; Investment Activism; Corporate Governance; Decision Making; Managerial Roles; United States
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    • January 2002 (Revised April 2015)
    • Background Note

    A Note on Maneuvering in War and Negotiation

    By: Michael Wheeler and Gillian Morris
    Military metaphors are commonplace in business writing about strategy, but they are rarely used in the negotiation literature. This case takes the Marine Corps philosophy of warfighting and compares it with the tactics and techniques of effective negotiators. Some of... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation Tactics; Situation or Environment; Conflict and Resolution; War; Adaptation
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    • 03 Jan 2014
    • News

    Supply, Demand, Heart Attacks

    • 31 Dec 2013
    • News

    Feeling Nervous? Don't Try to Calm Down—Get Excited

    • 11 Dec 2019
    • News

    How AI shifts enterprise decision-making into self-driving mode

    • 06 May 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: May 6

    examine how the quantity of information generated about firm prospects can be improved by splitting a firm's cash flow into a "safe" claim (debt) and a "risky" claim (equity). The former, being relatively insensitive... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • July 2023
    • Article

    Takahashi-Alexander Revisited: Modeling Private Equity Portfolio Outcomes Using Historical Simulations

    By: Dawson Beutler, Alex Billias, Sam Holt, Josh Lerner and TzuHwan Seet
    In 2001, Dean Takahashi and Seth Alexander of the Yale University Investments Office developed a deterministic model for estimating future cash flows and valuations for the Yale endowment’s private equity portfolio. Their model, which is simple and intuitive, is still... View Details
    Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Portfolio; Analytics and Data Science
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