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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Raising the bar for financial literacy
approximately 5 million students, from kindergarten through high school. "Opening a bank account is a one-time event. We're trying to teach kids skills and tools they can apply to any decision they may face going forward," she says.... View Details
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Benefits & Compensation | Research Associates
competitive pay. Salaries cover a broad range and are determined using a consistent methodology that takes into account your education level, work experience, and technical skills. In addition to offering most full- and part-time salaried... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
by current users, not future generations. The public option plan should also avoid the government accounting gimmicks that artificially lower Medicare’s costs. It must include all its expenses, such as the unfunded liabilities for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1941–1945 by Michael Beschloss (MBA 1980) (Simon & Schuster) Noted presidential historian, author, and commentator Beschloss offers an insightful, comprehensive, behind-the-scenes View Details
- 01 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments
Nigerians. It could lay out its management plan as part of its election campaign, and voters would take that into account in making their decision. Why would locals vote for a foreigner? If they felt it was their only option to get out of... View Details
Keywords: by Eric Werker
- 18 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 18, 2006
countries, these firms now account for one-quarter of the total merger and acquisition activity of all firms. The larger private equity firms generate fees for investment banking firms that exceed $350 million per year. Shows how the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Turning Point: Make Your Life Count
“The Earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens.” After a few months we moved to Knoxville, Tennessee. We all got to work, and my oldest siblings enrolled in university. In Tehran, Dad had been an accountant and Mom was a teacher,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
spending in and around the parks. Using a more comprehensive approach that also takes into account indirect or passive use—in other words, our desire for the parks to always be there for us and our children, whether or not we visit... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Renewing Baker: Tom Michalak, Executive Director of Baker Library
revitalization of our Historical Collections and HBS Archives department, which includes treasures as wide-ranging as the fifteenth-century Medici family account books, whaling records from nineteenth-century Nantucket, business records... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
products—such as price and the number of similar products sold at the same time—that we could map to features of new products as a way to predict demand. We also took into account the need to price multiple products in the same category... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
East to West
deeper questions that should be asked of any system of corporate governance: “What’s the central objective? Who are the key players? How is authority allocated? How is accountability ensured? Whatever country a company operates in, it’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Campaign Passes Goal, Continues
In addition, our new first-year course in leadership and corporate accountability is influencing business schools everywhere. The cost of being a pioneer in all these domains is high.” HBS, he noted, continually strives to improve its... View Details
- 14 May 2018
- Blog Post
Women Making a Comeback: Diane Flynn Reboots Promising Careers
these women current, connected, and confident to return to work or pursue new dreams." In business now for a little over three years, ReBoot Accel has shifted its dominant business model from individually-paid tuitions to corporate View Details
- May 1987 (Revised October 1996)
- Case
Murray Ohio Manufacturing Co.
After a record year in 1983, Murray Ohio's earnings declined in 1984. The company was faced with competition from cheap imports and was experiencing declining margins. Students are asked to analyze the company's 1984 financial statements and predict whether there is... View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Financial Reporting; Business Divisions; Cost Management; Spending; Decision Making; Change Management; Problems and Challenges; Management Systems; Manufacturing Industry
Palepu, Krishna G. "Murray Ohio Manufacturing Co." Harvard Business School Case 187-178, May 1987. (Revised October 1996.)
- 2024
- Working Paper
Ponzi Funds
By: Philippe van der Beck, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud and Dario Villamaina
Many active funds hold concentrated portfolios. Flow-driven trading causes price pressure, which
pushes up the funds’ existing positions resulting in realized returns. We decompose fund returns
into a price pressure (self-inflated) and a fundamental component and... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Investment Return; Price Bubble; Financial Reporting; Financial Liquidity
van der Beck, Philippe, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, and Dario Villamaina. "Ponzi Funds." Working Paper, May 2024.
- September 2010
- Supplement
Using Regression Analysis to Estimate Time Equations (CW)
By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
This note presents a simple way to estimate time equations using regression analysis in Excel. The note quickly outlines regression analysis, then presents a real-life case example from the natural gas industry that students can use to gain experience developing and... View Details
- August 2024
- Article
Not a One-Trick Pony: Price Impact of Rating Agency Information
By: Michael Machokoto and Anywhere Sikochi
Prior literature on the informational role of credit rating agencies has largely focused on announcements by the rating agencies regarding rating actions. We take a tangent in this paper and examine the relevance of rating agencies' other information disclosures beyond... View Details
Machokoto, Michael, and Anywhere Sikochi. "Not a One-Trick Pony: Price Impact of Rating Agency Information." Art. 111837. Economics Letters 241 (August 2024).
- May 2019
- Article
Who Consumes Firm Disclosures? Evidence from Earnings Conference Calls
By: Anne Heinrichs, Jihwon Park and Eugene F. Soltes
Using a set of proprietary records, we examine who consumes quarterly earnings conference calls and under which circumstances the calls are consumed. While there is significant interest in calls by institutional investors and sell-side analysts, we find that investors... View Details
Keywords: Disclosure; Conference Calls; Firm News; Corporate Disclosure; Business Earnings; Situation or Environment
Heinrichs, Anne, Jihwon Park, and Eugene F. Soltes. "Who Consumes Firm Disclosures? Evidence from Earnings Conference Calls." Accounting Review 94, no. 3 (May 2019): 205–231.
- 2014
- Working Paper
Return on Political Investment in the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004
By: Hui Chen, Katherine Gunny and Karthik Ramanna
Prior literature raises a "puzzle" of high rates of return on corporate political investment, but evidence for this puzzle is largely descriptive in nature. We exploit the setting of the American Jobs Creation Act's passage in 2004 to provide more robust estimates of... View Details
Chen, Hui, Katherine Gunny, and Karthik Ramanna. "Return on Political Investment in the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-050, December 2014.
- November 1993
- Supplement
Sierra On-Line (C): The Insiders' Perspective, An Interview with Ken and Roberta Williams
Presents the insiders' perspective using an interview format. Ken and Roberta Williams, Sierra's founders, discuss issues raised in the (A) and (B) cases and present their vision to become the world leader in educational software. Teaching Purpose: Analysts typically... View Details
Wilson, G. Peter, and Elizabeth H. McNair. "Sierra On-Line (C): The Insiders' Perspective, An Interview with Ken and Roberta Williams." Harvard Business School Supplement 194-051, November 1993.