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  • 15 Sep 2022
  • Blog Post

6 Things to Know About Sustainability at HBS

You’ll find beehives and rooftop gardens on campus Beehives have been on campus since 2015 as part of a project proposed by our SSAs. Our four hives act as a natural fertilizer, increasing biodiversity on campus. HBS also has nine green roofs across campus, which range... View Details
  • 30 Apr 2020
  • Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy
  • 24 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

future.” Cavallo is actually the source for his own data. A decade ago, while a PhD student at Harvard’s Economics Department, Cavallo began collecting pricing data to prove his home country of Argentina was lying about its inflation... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail
  • 17 Sep 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?

simple case. However, when it gets down to how white-collar crimes are prosecuted, it’s quite challenging. We don’t prosecute people based on our intuitive notions of is this fraud or not fraud? Or is this lying or not lying? Instead, we... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Biotechnology; Technology; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 08 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

8 Stories from PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

left for undergrad. There, I quickly joined a fraternity, where I lived for four years. It was also there that I had my first relationship with another man. I remember lying awake night after night, in the fraternity house, both stressed... View Details
  • 17 Jun 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Michael Porter on America’s Historic Energy Opportunity

Full Report Press Coverage 11 JUN 2015 BLOOMBERG U.S. Losing the Race to Raise Workforce Skills 11 JUN 2015 BLOOMBERG U.S. Fracking Debate: Environment Vs. Economics 11 JUN 2015 NPR America's Next Economic Boom Could Be Lying Underground... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter; Energy; Utilities
  • winter 1986
  • Article

Auditor Changes Following Big Eight Mergers with Non-Big Eight Audit Firms

By: Paul M. Healy and Tom Lys
Keywords: Accounting Audits; Change; Business Ventures; Mergers and Acquisitions
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    Jean Paul Getty

    billion in 1967. In 1949, the daring Getty paid $9.5 million for a sixty-year concession in Saudi Arabia’s half of the neutral barren tract lying between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. After an initial investment of $30 million, Getty’s... View Details
    Keywords: Utilities & Energy
    • Portrait Project

    Suzanne Floy Gauron

    I cannot answer the 'what,' but I do know the 'how,' and maybe that's enough. Whether my accomplishments are many or few, I hope to live respectfully of all I have been given. As a child, I spent afternoons lying in the clover, staring up... View Details
    • Portrait Project

    Ryan Fennerty

    Every day, as the first rays of light bathed the rooftops of Islamabad, the imam's call would shatter the silence of dawn. And I would awaken. I remember lying in bed, a young child transplanted from Arlington, Virginia, to a foreign... View Details
    • Portrait Project

    Faya Peng

    I want to be a servant. To show compassion. To love. I remember visiting grandparents in Taiwan as a young child. I will never forget the men, lying fully prostrate on the filthy ground in the open market, begging for money. I can still... View Details
    • Portrait Project

    Austin Dirks

    My gaze fixed upon the exposed beating heart. There was an infant lying in front of me. Its heart rate 150 beats per minute. The monitor next to me beeping faintly with each twitch of the revealed organ. The skin, the muscle, the ribs,... View Details
    • Winter 2013
    • Article

    Corporate Governance Reform and Executive Incentives: Implications for Investments and Risk-Taking

    By: Daniel Cohen, Aiyesha Dey and Thomas Lys
    We investigate the mechanism through which the Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) was associated with changes in corporate investment strategies. We document that the passage of the governance regulations in SOX was followed by a significant decline in pay‐performance... View Details
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    • May 2008
    • Article

    Real and Accrual-Based Earnings Management in the Pre- and Post-Sarbanes Oxley Periods

    By: Daniel Cohen, Aiyesha Dey and Thomas Lys
    We document that accrual‐based earnings management increased steadily from 1987 until the passage of the Sarbanes‐Oxley Act (SOX) in 2002, followed by a significant decline after the passage of SOX. Conversely, the level of real earnings management activities declined... View Details
    Keywords: Earnings Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Outcome or Result
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    • Portrait Project

    Antonio Rocha

    friends, my job, and getting divorced. I would be lying if I said I planned all those changes. I did not. They just happened, fast and unexpectedly. I just knew that I needed to change something, and I am glad I did. The past couple years... View Details
    • July 2007
    • Article

    Earnings Announcement Premia and Limits to Arbitrage

    By: Daniel Cohen, Aiyesha Dey, Thomas Lys and Shyam Sunder
    We examine the factors underlying the presence of earnings announcement premia. We find that the premia persist beyond the sample period examined in prior studies (ending in 1988), although they decline in magnitude after 1988. Further, premia are lower on the expected... View Details
    Keywords: Business Earnings; Announcements; Corporate Disclosure
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    • 13 May 2013
    • Blog Post

    Leveraging the HBS platform to enter social enterprise

    a few uncertainties heading into this journey. I’d be lying if I said I knew exactly what to expect at HBS, precisely what I want out of the experience, or where I’d like to wind up afterwards. But I’m heading into this with an open mind,... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
    • 23 Oct 2019
    • News

    Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program

    in five design cycles, which build the skills needed to take a product concept from hunch to launch. Lying in bed each morning, Emily Batt (MS/MBA 2020) yearned to sleep a little longer, but had no way of knowing when her roommate would... View Details
    Keywords: University Collaborations; MS/MBA
    • 18 Jul 2019
    • News

    Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins Reflects on the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing

    like all of sudden I was lying on my back one night looking up into the night sky and, bingo, next thing you know I was on the moon,” Collins told the magazine. “It was a very long, stair step system of progression.” The interview also... View Details
    • 17 Oct 2022
    • Blog Post

    6 Things to Know About Sustainability at HBS

    You’ll find beehives and rooftop gardens on campus Beehives have been on campus since 2015 as part of a project proposed by our SSAs. Our four hives act as a natural fertilizer, increasing biodiversity on campus. HBS also has nine green roofs across campus, which range... View Details