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- July – August 2008
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Buy-Side vs. Sell-Side Analysts' Earnings Forecasts
By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Craig James Chapman
We compare the earnings forecast performance of analysts at a large buy-side firm to that of sell-side analysts. Our tests show that the buy-side firm analysts make more optimistic and less accurate forecasts than their counterparts on the sell-side. These performance...
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Keywords:
Motivation and Incentives;
Business Earnings;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Performance Effectiveness
Groysberg, Boris, Paul M. Healy, and Craig James Chapman. "Buy-Side vs. Sell-Side Analysts' Earnings Forecasts ." Financial Analysts Journal 64, no. 4 (July–August 2008): 25 – 39.
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Cumnock Hall | About
Cumnock Hall Cumnock Hall was made possible through the support of Grace Cumnock Ditman and is named in honor of Alexander Goodlet Cumnock and Arthur J. Cumnock, (Harvard College 1891). Cumnock Hall was built in 1974 as classroom and office space during the tenure of...
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Research Research Invisible Primes: Fintech Lending with Alternative Data By: Marco Di Maggio , Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara & Don Carmichael MAR 2022 Will the use of alternative data to assess borrowers’ creditworthiness result in broader credit access? Using administrative...
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- 2017
- Working Paper
Homophily in Entrepreneurial Team Formation
By: Paul A. Gompers, Kevin Huang and Sophie Q. Wang
We study the role of homophily in group formation. Using a unique dataset of MBA students, we observe homophily in ethnicity and gender increases the probability of forming teams by 25%. Homophily in education and past working experience increases the probability of...
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Gompers, Paul A., Kevin Huang, and Sophie Q. Wang. "Homophily in Entrepreneurial Team Formation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-104, May 2017.
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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About
with a distinctive bell tower and columned façade by McKim, Mead & White, Baker is the largest business library in the world. More than 600,000 volumes span seven centuries and serve as a resource for the HBS community, as well as...
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- January 2015
- Article
X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model
By: Nicholas Barberis, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin and Andrei Shleifer
Survey evidence suggests that many investors form beliefs about future stock market returns by extrapolating past returns. Such beliefs are hard to reconcile with existing models of the aggregate stock market. We study a consumption-based asset pricing model in which...
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Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer. "X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model." Journal of Financial Economics 115, no. 1 (January 2015): 1–24.
- May 2013
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The Stock Selection and Performance of Buy-Side Analysts
Prior research on equity analysts focuses almost exclusively on those employed by sell-side investment banks and brokerage houses. Yet investment firms undertake their own buy-side research and their analysts face different stock selection and recommendation incentives...
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Keywords:
Buy-side Analysts;
Sell-side Analysts;
Stock Recommendations;
Recommendation Optimism;
Recommendation Performance;
Investment Recommendations;
Conflicts Of Interest;
Financial Markets;
Financial Institutions;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Groysberg, Boris, Paul Healy, George Serafeim, and Devin Shanthikumar. "The Stock Selection and Performance of Buy-Side Analysts." Management Science 59, no. 5 (May 2013): 1062–1075.
- February 2001 (Revised June 2001)
- Case
ClubTools, Inc.
By: Paul W. Marshall and Kristin Perry
Discusses the development of an Internet start-up by a recent HBS graduate. Details the company's business plan, incubation, technology development, marketing strategy, and search for funding.
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Business Plan;
Cash Flow;
Marketing Strategy;
Financing and Loans;
Technological Innovation;
Internet and the Web;
Forecasting and Prediction
Marshall, Paul W., and Kristin Perry. "ClubTools, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 801-164, February 2001. (Revised June 2001.)
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
Globalization Globalization December 2014 Article Market Competition, Earnings Management, and Persistence in Accounting Profitability Around the World By: Paul M. Healy , George Serafeim , Suraj Srinivasan and Gwen Yu We examine how...
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How Institutional Investors Frame Their Losses: Evidence on Dynamic Loss Aversion from Currency Portfolios
By: Kenneth A. Froot, John Arabadjis, Sonya Cates and Stephen Lawrence
Currency investors exhibit a tendency to cut risk by pairing both longs and shorts following losses and a weaker tendency to add risk following gains. By differentiating between position level, portfolio level, and aggregate cross-portfolio losses in currency...
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Keywords:
Loss Aversion;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Currency;
Investment;
Risk Management;
Behavioral Finance
Froot, Kenneth A., John Arabadjis, Sonya Cates, and Stephen Lawrence. "How Institutional Investors Frame Their Losses: Evidence on Dynamic Loss Aversion from Currency Portfolios." Journal of Portfolio Management 38, no. 1 (Fall 2011): 60–68.
- 20 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Thinking About an MBA? Think About Your Purpose
success. Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the author of Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance...
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Campaign Leadership Committee - Alumni
1947** Hansjörg Wyss MBA 1965 Vice Chairs James A. Attwood Jr. MBA 1984* Len Blavatnik MBA 1989 James W. Breyer MBA 1987 Harold M. Brierley MBA 1968* Glenn M. Creamer MBA 1988 Mary Jane Creamer MBA 1988 James G. Dinan MBA 1985* Paul B....
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Video - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
for Philadelphia by Michael E. Porter The third installment of the Fox School's Innovation Leadership Speaker Series featured Professor Michael E. Porter, William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard...
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Online Management Course | HBS Online
scenarios, and look at the management processes within each—what worked and what didn't—provided a unique method of learning, and incomparable to other course offerings available. Monica Higgins Account Director at Hollywood Agency Elevate your management skills View Details
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The Global Rise of Democracy: A Network Account
By: Magnus Thor Torfason and Paul Ingram
We examine the influence of an interstate network created by intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) on the global diffusion of democracy. We propose that IGOs facilitate this diffusion by transmitting information between their member states and by interpreting that...
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Keywords:
International Relations;
Networks;
Society;
Transformation;
Power and Influence;
Country;
Globalization
Torfason, Magnus Thor, and Paul Ingram. "The Global Rise of Democracy: A Network Account." American Sociological Review 75, no. 3 (June 2010): 355–77.
- 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...
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The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
base colors that enhanced the dramatic quality of the resulting prints. 9 Photograph conservator Paul Messier contends that in terms of reproduction, “many of the ‘artistic’ attributes permitted by the new...
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- 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.
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Healy, Paul M., and Jacob Cohen. "MCI-WorldCom Combination, The (A)." Harvard Business School Case 101-027, September 2000.
- 2014
- Working Paper
Dodging the Taxman: Firm Misreporting and Limits to Tax Enforcement
By: Paul Carrillo, Dina Pomeranz and Monica Singhal
Reducing tax evasion is a key priority for many governments, particularly in developing countries. A growing literature has argued that the ability to verify taxpayer self-reports against reports from third parties is critical for modern tax enforcement and the growth...
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Carrillo, Paul, Dina Pomeranz, and Monica Singhal. "Dodging the Taxman: Firm Misreporting and Limits to Tax Enforcement." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-026, October 2014. (R&R at AEJ Applied. Note: Previously circulated as "Tax Me if You Can: Firm Misreporting Behavior and Evasion Substitution.")
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Environmental Quality - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
impact profitability and its relationship to sustainable practices. Publications & Resources Jun 2010 Chair’s Paper The Porter Hypothesis at 20: Can Environmental Regulation Enhance Innovation & Competitiveness? by Stefan Ambec, Mark A....
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