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  • 14 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

on the Market's Valuation of R&D Capital Author:Michael D. Kimbrough Periodical:The Accounting Review 82, no. 5 (October 2007): 1195-1225 Abstract Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 141 (SFAS No. 141)'s requirement that an acquirer in a business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Statement on Supreme Court Decision | About

Statement on Supreme Court Decision Harvard University leadership, including Dean Srikant Datar, address the Harvard community after the Supreme Court delivered its decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

She’s Got Your Back

from homeowner hell, and at a fair price? “These are not things we embrace,” says Angie Hicks (MBA 2000), cofounder and chief marketing officer of Angie’s List, an online service that collects verified consumer reviews of service... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; online reviews; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Real Estate
  • Portrait Project

Nick Shurgot

mean that I will work 100 hours per week, it means that I will try not to be complacent or intellectually lazy or feel that I have "done my fair share." It means that I will take every opportunity to teach my children little... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Karina Rodriguez

finest institutions, but I very easily could not have ended up here. Several of my peers growing up were brilliant. Yet somewhere along the path towards our high school diplomas, they fell through the cracks of our public education system. Unfairly, the system... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Craig Maughan

hugs, dirty diapers, squeals, tears, and smiles are teaching me sacrifice, patience, and love. Mostly love. In exchange, I do my best to keep my kids well-fed and pointed in a good direction. I’m not sure it’s a fair exchange; this world... View Details
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Spreading the Health: Americans' Estimated and Ideal Distributions of Death and Health(care)

By: Sorapop Kiatpongsan and Michael I. Norton
The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act intensified debates over the role of government in the distribution of healthcare. A nationally-representative sample of Americans reported their estimated and ideal distributions of healthcare (unmet need for... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Mortality; Inequality; Justice; Equity; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Equality and Inequality; Fairness; Public Opinion; United States
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  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

A Miller's Tale

chairman is Frank Sands (MBA '63), who, according to a long-established tradition in this family-run enterprise, did not inherit the company but bought it, at fair market value, from his father. Milled from the heart of the wheat berry... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Joel Bryce

spend 70 hours busing across Southern Africa? Fair questions. But. . .I'm afraid I don't have the answers. So go ahead. Cold call me. I'll look like I did on the first day of class. I may stumble over my words and say that it may be the... View Details
  • 10 Aug 2015
  • News

Leveraging Veterans’ Competitive Advantage

networking resources and runs 101 employment fairs in 49 cities across the US every year. “Roughly half of those who attend leave with an interview scheduled, and 25 percent end up with jobs,” reports Gudmundsson, who says that in... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Mickey Millar

quality education and health care, living wages, voting rights, fair treatment by police, even access to healthy food and water. For an America we all love to believe in, but which doesn't exist when you're poor and black. A prestigious... View Details
  • 01 Apr 1999
  • News

AASU Looks Ahead

and on managing personal wealth. Alumni were invited to an informal breakfast with Dean Kim B. Clark and to various faculty-led advanced management seminars. Current students attended a career fair and reception, while those interested in... View Details
  • December 2016
  • Article

The Effects of Endowment Size and Strategy Method on Third Party Punishment

By: Jillian J. Jordan, Katherine McAuliffe and David G. Rand
Numerous experiments have shown that people often engage in third-party punishment (3PP) of selfish behavior. This evidence has been used to argue that people respond to selfishness with anger, and get utility from punishing those who mistreat others. Elements of the... View Details
Keywords: Third-party Punishment; Norm-enforcement; Strategy Method; Economic Games; Cooperation; Emotions; Fairness
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  • November 26, 2019
  • Article

Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Favors the Greater Good

By: Karen Huang, Joshua D. Greene and Max Bazerman
The “veil of ignorance” is a moral reasoning device designed to promote impartial decision-making by denying decision-makers access to potentially biasing information about who will benefit most or least from the available options. Veil-of-ignorance reasoning was... View Details
Keywords: Policy Making; Procedural Justice; Ethics; Decision Making; Policy; Fairness
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  • February 2013
  • Article

Towards an Understanding of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting

By: Abigail M. Allen and Karthik Ramanna
We investigate the effect of standard setters in standard setting: we examine how certain professional and political characteristics of FASB members and SEC commissioners predict the accounting "reliability" and "relevance" of proposed standards. Notably, we find FASB... View Details
Keywords: FASB; Politics; Relevance; Reliability; Standard Setting; Accounting; Standards; Fair Value Accounting; Government and Politics; Personal Characteristics
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  • April 2010
  • Supplement

Howard Roizen

By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Nicole Tempest
Howard Roizen, a venture capitalist at SOFTBANK Venture Capital and a former entrepreneur, maintains an extensive personal and professional network. He leverages this network to benefit both himself and others. The case considers the steps he's taken to build and... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Prejudice and Bias; Venture Capital; Fairness; Entrepreneurship; Gender
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  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

interstate competition. Among the works discussed here is Hont’s 2005 book, Jealousy of Trade, which explores the birth of economic nationalism and other social effects of expanding 18th-century markets. American Fair Trade: Proprietary... View Details
  • October 2000 (Revised October 2000)
  • Case

Off-Balance Sheet Leases in the Restaurant Industry

By: Amy P. Hutton, Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen
Amid mounting concern by credit agencies about off-balance sheet liabilities, an analyst for one of the leading credit-rating agencies has been asked to make a presentation about off-balance sheet liabilities, the strategic analysis behind leasing versus purchasing... View Details
Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Property; Leasing; Financial Statements; Capital Structure; Credit; Financial Services Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

Lone Star Star

guest of honor at the Dallas Figure Skating Club's sixtieth anniversary celebration last September, according to the Dallas Morning News (September 23, 2001). At the event, Wylie recalled numerous 4:30 a.m. sessions of skating and hockey as a boy at Dallas's old View Details
Keywords: figure skating; Olympics; Arts, Entertainment
  • 02 Nov 2015
  • Blog Post

Harvard Arab Weekend (HAW) 2015

covering most pressing topics across 12 political, business and social issues Career Fair: The largest MENA career fair in North America with 20+ companies represented Start-up Pitch: A Start-up pitch featuring 10 pre-selected MENA... View Details
Keywords: All Industries