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Options: Historical Prices

How do I find historical option prices? Options Metrics via WRDS provides historical price and implied volatility data for the U.S. equity and index options markets, on an option by option basis. Once you have selected the database in... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Faculty Research Online

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact Donors are placing nonprofits on the hot seat to measure social performance. Problem is, there is little agreement on what those metrics should be. Associate Professor Alnoor Ebrahim discusses how... View Details
Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • August 2021
  • Article

Don't Take Their Word for It: The Misclassification of Bond Mutual Funds

By: Huaizhi Chen, Lauren Cohen and Umit Gurun
We provide evidence that bond fund managers misclassify their holdings, and that these misclassifications have a real and significant impact on investor capital flows. In particular, many funds report more investment grade assets than are actually held in their... View Details
Keywords: Mutual Funds; Economics; Finance; Measurement and Metrics; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry
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  • January – February 1991
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The Performance Measurement Manifesto

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr.
Keywords: Performance; Measurement and Metrics; Information
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  • October 1992
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Creating A Comprehensive Performance Measurement System

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr. and Philip J. Pyburn
Keywords: Performance; Measurement and Metrics; System
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  • September 2006
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A Model of Forum Shopping, with Special Reference to Standard Setting Organizations

By: Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole
Keywords: Standards; Organizations
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  • 1985
  • Article

Measuring and Reporting the Financial Condition of Public Organizations

By: Dutch Leonard
Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Finance; Organizations
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Patrick Ferguson

performance measurement and evaluation. He is interested in how and why firms use performance metrics for contracting and feedback purposes, as well as the limitations of quantitative metrics and the role of... View Details
  • 23 Jul 2008
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action

adds a metric that summarizes customer profitability. The ability to measure profitability at the individual customer level allows companies to consider new customer profitability metrics such as "percentage... View Details
  • October 1996
  • Article

International Accounting Standards: Interim Financial Reporting Principles Proposed

By: David F. Hawkins
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Accounting; Standards
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  • 2012
  • Chapter

Evidence from the Firm: A New Approach to Understanding Corruption

By: Shawn A. Cole and Anh Tran
Due to its clandestine nature, most of what we understand about corruption comes from survey evidence and self-reported perceptions of corruption: this limits both the range of questions that can be asked and the precision of answers that can be provided. This chapter... View Details
Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Crime and Corruption; Organizations; Ownership; Asia
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  • February 1999
  • Case

Crimson Solutions (A)

By: Marco Iansiti and Barbara Feinberg
Describes the design and launch of an Internet venture. Focuses on the drivers of the venture's scalability and adaptability. View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Measurement and Metrics; Operations; Adaptation; Internet
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  • March 2004
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How Do You Stop the Books From Being Cooked? A Management Control Perspective on Financial Accounting Standard Setting and the Section 404 Requirement of the Sarbanes/Oxley Act

By: S. Datar and M. G. Alles
Keywords: Governance Controls; Accounting; Standards
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  • 1999
  • Chapter

Measuring The Microeconomic Foundations of Economic Development

By: M. E. Porter
Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Development Economics; Microeconomics
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  • 2023
  • Other Unpublished Work

If 3 Was 9

By: Randolph B. Cohen
One determinant of where economies and markets are headed is how well we handle the climate crisis. Headlines on the climate tend to emphasize two points. First, average global temps are rising, with it being the hottest summer in 1,000 centuries per some estimates.... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Measurement and Metrics
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  • February 2019 (Revised October 2019)
  • Teaching Note

The Rise Fund: TPG Bets Big on Impact

By: Vikram S Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Sarah Mehta
Teaching Note for HBS No. 318-041. View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Impact Measurement; Equity; Investment; Measurement and Metrics; Financial Services Industry; San Francisco
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  • January 1993
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Models for Measuring and Accounting for Cost of Conformance Quality

By: P. Nandakumar, S. Datar and R. Akella
Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Cost; Accounting; Quality
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  • July 2002
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International Accounting Standards Board Update

By: David F. Hawkins
Keywords: International Accounting; Standards
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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog

of success? To what extent do commonly used performance metrics kill innovation, and how can we develop metrics that encourage new growth? Can acquisitions become a pathway to new capabilities? Should we... View Details
  • 21 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 21, 2006

168-184 Abstract Customer metrics are pivotal to assessing and monitoring how firms perform with customers and other publics. The authors contend that customer metrics used by firms today are predominantly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne