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- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
February 2018 Journal of Accounting & Economics Bank CEO Materialism: Risk Controls, Culture and Tail Risk By: Bushman, Robert, Robert Davidson, Aiyesha Dey, and Abbie Smith Abstract—We investigate how the prevalence of materialistic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
results of this multi-method investigation have implications for both managers and academics interested in how consumers learn to become expert in hedonic product categories. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54622 forthcoming... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
other policies to change relative prices can provide a countervailing force by subsidizing exports. But they increase the costs of imports, hurting both domestic consumption and export-oriented industries with high import content. More... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
able to realize the sales before the end of the quarter and thus fulfill their budget goal and make their bonuses. But the high cost of assembling the goods at a distant location—it required not only the rental of the warehouse but also... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
Scenario 1: The Overcapacity M&a A great many mergers and acquisitions occur in industries that have substantial overcapacity; these tend to be older, capital-intensive sectors. Overcapacity accounts for 37% of the M&A deals in... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
- 17 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers
supporting caregivers a critical talent management issue, according to a new report, The Caring Company: How Employers Can Cut Costs and Boost Productivity by Helping Employees Manage Caregiving Needs, by Harvard Business School’s Joseph... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
information. Finally, we provide evidence that high sustainability companies significantly outperform their counterparts over the long-term, both in terms of stock market and accounting performance. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Lifelong Financial Security for “Conflicting Interests and the Effect of Fiduciary Duty: Evidence from Variable Annuities” ( The Review of Financial Studies , 2022) with Shan Ge and Johnny Tang. Benjamin C. Esty : Winner of the 2023 Case Centre Award in the Finance,... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
associated with high used ship prices and heightened industry investment in new ships, but we forecast low future returns. We propose and estimate a behavioral model of industry cycles that can account for the evidence. In our model,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 May 2024
- Blog Post
Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria
during travel. In fact, tourism accounts for about 8% of the world’s carbon emissions, contributing significantly to climate change. Pollution from travel also has major impacts on human health. One approach to help offset the negative... View Details
- 21 May 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
Integration on Stock Valuations. One example of this was when I was asked to evaluate a large OEM company based in Asia. I evaluated the company’s ESG performance by applying the Sustainability Accounting Board’s (SASB) ESG Integration... View Details
- 02 Aug 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?
anything less than excellence; treat everyone with respect; provide training and role models; and reinforce the right behaviors and hold people accountable for the wrong behaviors. David Wittenberg offered advice on measurement: “It’s... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
bank accounts at all—they wanted effective ways to send money home to their families. The case's key lesson is the importance of meeting the real needs of your target audience, not the needs as you perceive them, says professor V. Kasturi... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
individuals. In response to the recent scandals, politicians and government officials have stepped in to pass new laws and create new regulations, while prominent persons on Wall Street and elsewhere in the business community have issued their own calls for reform in... View Details
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
see as key: efficiency and fairness. We approach the problem of designing objectives that account for the natural tension between efficiency and fairness in the context of a framework that captures a number of resource allocation problems... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
got to allocate resources from the rich to the poor," it would perhaps be better received. We are just talking about a process. Our argument is not "Rob the rich to pay the poor." Because we are attempting to create societal value, but allocating View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Task Force
Tom Eisenmann; in it, she compared mobile money use in African countries with Latin America’s much slower adoption and discovered that while 85 percent of Mexico’s population owned a smartphone, only 30 percent had a bank account and 10... View Details
- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
before.” “Today’s jobs are expanding in terms of what is expected of people, but the resources people get to do those jobs is not expanding” “In many companies today, people are being held accountable for measures that are much wider than... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Research Summary
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My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details