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  • May 1996 (Revised July 1998)
  • Case

Enron Development Corporation: The Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, India (A)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Krishna G. Palepu, Ahu Bhasin, Mihir A. Desai and Sarayu Srinivasan
A large, lucrative power plant is negotiated for construction/operation by an American power company in India's evolving privatized power sector. The process of incorporating the project is captured in this case. The American company will own and operate the plant in... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Forecasting and Prediction; Private Sector; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Emerging Markets; Market Entry and Exit; Agreements and Arrangements; Private Ownership; Projects; Energy Industry; India; United States
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  • January 2024
  • Supplement

Winning Business at Russell Reynolds

By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting—and... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Talent and Talent Management; Compensation and Benefits; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Consulting Industry
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  • Research Summary

Overview

My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Law
  • Research Summary

Overview

My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Law
  • Research Summary

Overview

The overarching goal of my research is to produce works that are influential and informative to both academics and practitioners in the field of operations management. To accomplish this, I collaborate with industry partners who provide knowledge about their field,... View Details
  • 24 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

Airport in two hours. “It wouldn’t go well,” he says. About the author Danielle Kost is senior editor of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStock Photo] Related Reading The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • 18 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

up until the point (and even after) the company tumbled off a cliff. Indeed, HBS professor Mark Bradshaw and collaborators Scott Richardson and Richard Sloan found that pre-year 2000 forecasts and recommendations done by Wall Street... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 09 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

book excerpt Forecasters From the introduction of Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's Economic Forecasters By Walter A. Friedman This is a book about a group of entrepreneurs who, like Evangeline Adams,... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
  • 07 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing

forecasting; supply chain speed; inventory planning; and gathering accurate, available data. The following excerpt from their report in the Harvard Business Review shows how some of these companies are making the most of the data available to them to improve product... View Details
Keywords: by Marshall L. Fisher, Ananth Raman & Anna Sheen McClelland; Retail
  • 16 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

methods, such as multiple-case inductive studies and traditional methods of causal inference. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55043 Quantile Forecasts of Product Life Cycles Using Exponential... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 29, 2006

Using Judgmental Forecasts Authors:Vishal Gaur, Saravanan Kesavan, Ananth Raman, and Marshall L. Fisher Periodical:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract Measuring demand uncertainty is a key activity in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 1996
  • Chapter

The Power of Predictability

By: H. H. Stevenson and Mihnea Moldoveanu
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction
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  • 12 Dec 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict

Psychology Mina Cikara. “If you forecast that no matter what you propose, the other side will hate it, then you are going to say compromise is a waste of time,” Lees says. “People not only have stereotypes of what other people are like,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 20 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

  Working PapersIncorporating Price and Inventory Endogeneity in Firm-Level Sales Forecasting Authors:Saravanan Kesavan, Vishal Gaur, and Ananth Raman Abstract As numerous papers have argued, sales, inventory, and gross margin for a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 1989
  • Book

Future Competition in Telecommunications

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Jerry A. Hausman
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Competition; Telecommunications Industry
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  • 1979
  • Book

Energy: The Next Twenty Years

By: Robert B. Stobaugh
Keywords: Energy; Forecasting and Prediction; Energy Industry
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  • November 2010 (Revised January 2011)
  • Teaching Note

Assessing a Company's Future Financial Health (TN)

By: Thomas R. Piper
Teaching Note for 911412. View Details
Keywords: Financial Condition; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • 11 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

forthcoming Journal of Accounting & Economics Career Concerns of Banking Analysts By: Horton, Joanne, George Serafeim, and Shan Wu Abstract—We study how career concerns influence banking analysts' forecasts and how their View Details
  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

  Working PapersThe Rise of Business Forecasting Agencies in the United States Author:Walter A. Friedman Abstract This paper analyzes the rise of business and economic forecasting agencies in the United... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 14, 2009

is available at this time. Publisher's link: http://www.springer.com/business/production/book/978-0-387-78902-6 The Harvard Economic Service and the Problems of Forecasting Author: Walter Friedman Publication: History of Political Economy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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