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- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
centers. It uses a transfer-pricing system designed to account for interdependencies between profit centers and to induce coordination. Further, profit center managers are incentivized with own-level residual income measures. The use of the latter View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
debt issuers deteriorates during credit booms, and that this deterioration forecasts low excess returns to corporate bondholders. The key insight is that changes in the pricing of credit risk disproportionately affect the financing costs... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
economic theory of GAAP under the assumption that GAAP's objective is to facilitate efficient capital allocation within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP, as shaped by the economic forces of demand for and supply of financial information would focus on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution
get what they wanted. Choices were more limited, delivery time was measured in months, and warehouses were typically piled high with mountains of expensive inventory—often comprised of too many unpopular products and too few hot sellers.... View Details
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
Protection Agency (US EPA) program that encourages companies to self-disclose violations of environmental laws and regulations in exchange for reduced sanctions. We find that facilities are more likely to self-disclose if they were recently subjected to one of several... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
Big Data to Your Advantage by Kaiser Fung (MBA 2001) (McGraw-Hill) With advancements in smartphones and computers, huge amounts of data are being collected, and more and more things can be measured that previously could not be. Fung... View Details
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
"greed and corruption helped create the crisis, ... simple human frailty played a vital role." They suggest providing incentives to make financial products easier, not more difficult, to understand. This would involve, among other things, more disclosure... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Profile
Paris Wallace
measuring self-reported health data regarding everything from diet to details of the menstrual cycle, the app guides a women through the fertility progression and helps many women conceive far more quickly. According to Wallace, the... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Crisis in Health Care Authors:Robert S. Kaplan and Michael E. Porter Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 9 (September 2011) Abstract Existing health care costing systems have serious flaws that make it impossible to measure costs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
use a new dataset on industry-level targeting to analyze quality FDI based on the subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
G. Tsimerinov, (PLDA 16, 2017) (right) and Anu Dhir (GMP 2018) (middle) “Club members enjoyed hearing about the principal-agent problem, cash flow measures signaling value, and investor capitalism,” says Boris Tsimerinov (PLDA 16, 2017),... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
iPhoto COVID-19 is having a devastating effect on the emotional, psychological, and social well-being (as well as the physical health) of people around the world. Risk factors for addiction, mental illness, and “deaths of despair” are... View Details
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
because of a perfect storm of their falling sales and weakened collateral, and growing risk aversion among lenders. Those days are not over. While lingering cyclical factors from the crisis may still be constraining access to bank credit,... View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
majority of votes cast to be elected; mandates the creation of a board risk committee; and forces companies to split the CEO and board chairman positions. "The leadership at some of the nation's most renowned companies took too many... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
is an emerging market that poses manifold risks to foreign investors. Vale do Rio Doce, Baosteel's prospective partner, is an iron miner with little experience in steelmaking. Baosteel must evaluate whether it is choosing the right... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
further provide evidence that these effects are due to increased competition for local resources. China: The Indigenization of Insurance Authors:Elisabeth Köll and David Faure Publication:In World Insurance: The Evolution of a Global Risk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
making sure that these donations actually make a difference in alleviating some of the major ills and inequities of society. What, many ask, are the measures of effectiveness in these operations? Where is the accountability? Would there... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement error and endogeneity. Exploiting a new comprehensive industry-level data set of 29... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
it's not for what can they buy. For women, money is not usually how they measure their success. It's not that they don't want it; but they want it for the things that they can get with it. Of course, there are women—and men—who just love... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace