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Harvard Business School

spans more than thirty years. Upon earning an MBA from HBS, Simons joined CBS New York, where he held several managerial positions. He concluded his 13-year run with the network as vice president of Sales and Marketing for the CBS... View Details
  • 16 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 16, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707022 Earnings Management Exercise Harvard Business School Exercise 207-034 Purchase this exercise: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207034 EFJ,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Nov 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

associated with the index, rather than direct-pecuniary or capital-market benefits. Back-of-the-envelope estimates suggest that the index-inclusion incentives accounted for 16% of the average increase in aggregate annual View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

boards (SBs) on managers' behavior and on long-run firm value using a natural experiment: a 1990 law that imposed a SB on all firms incorporated in Massachusetts. We find that the law led to an increase in Tobin's Q, increased investment in capital expenditure and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

how other companies can begin to adopt it. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51074 Forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Does Aggregated Returns Disclosure Increase Portfolio Risk-Taking? By: Beshears,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

reinforced? In the new normal, managers will have to learn to cope not only with mix uncertaintybut also with aggregate demand uncertainty. In addition, managers will have to redouble their effort to improve product availability and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

disaggregated measures that are incrementally informative but costly to contract upon. In such a setting, when do firms contract on aggregated rather than disaggregated performance measures? We show that at intermediate levels of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

meet the quarterly earnings targets of increasingly short-term–oriented investors. Reality: Companies that pursue major sustainability initiatives, and publicize them in integrated reports and other communications with investors, have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers

harvest data with one another to help find the best performing seeds—which represented their largest variable expense. The idea quickly evolved into developing a completely independent, farmer-driven information source identifying top seeds, benchmarking farm... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
  • 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

January 2017 Review of Financial Studies Being Surprised by the Unsurprising: Earnings Seasonality and Stock Returns By: Chang, Tom Y., Samuel M. Hartzmark, David H. Solomon, and Eugene F. Soltes Abstract—We present evidence consistent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

are less responsive to changes in investment opportunities, especially in industries in which stock prices are most sensitive to earnings news. These findings are consistent with the notion that short-termist pressures distort investment... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009

  Working PapersThe Long-Run Risks Model and Aggregate Asset Prices: An Empirical Assessment Authors:Jason Beeler and John Y. Campbell Abstract The long-run risks model of asset prices explains stock price variation as a response to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick

says. The catalyst approach Some companies are now exploring a different approach to CSR, partnering with local communities on businesses that can help them earn a profit and empower locals, while also becoming self-sustaining. Kaplan... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

firms had “slack,” but not through changing investments or accruals. These incentives are driven by the prestige associated with the index rather than capital market benefits. Back-of-envelope estimates suggest that the index accounted for 23% of the average increase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

the index-inclusion incentives accounted for 16% of the average increase in aggregate annual earnings and 20% of the growth in aggregate market capitalization over our sample... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Jan 2005
  • News

Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975

second years in the MBA Program, when she worked for McKinsey in Tanzania on a program to make socialist villages economically viable. Joining the World Bank's Young Professionals Program after earning her Harvard degree, Barry soon made... View Details
  • 12 Feb 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students

Students act on information pulled from actual accounting statements, earnings forecasts, and macroeconomic data, revising and forming new strategies as data becomes available. At the same time, they can take into account the decisions of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Education
  • 28 Jul 2016
  • Op-Ed

Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?

Funding. TripAdvisor recently compromised perceived objectivity by accepting hotel bookings on which it earns commissions. Previously, TripAdvisor revenues depended on travel-related advertising on the site. Having become the highest... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
  • 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17

with a dominant platform that earns more than under compatibility. We also find that incompatibility generates larger total welfare than compatibility when horizontal differences between platforms are small. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

The Wall Street Journal. We find no evidence that compensation is related to earnings forecast accuracy. But consistent with prior studies, we find analyst turnover to be related to forecast accuracy, suggesting that analyst forecasting... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel