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- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
international economic and financial crises highlights the need for a comprehensive framework to assess the robustness of national economic and financial systems. This paper...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
more powerful than 1,000 words (or even twenty-five ad hoc performance measures). The financial and customer objectives describe the outcomes the organization wants to achieve; objectives in the internal and...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
Asia, and Israel, it has an international presence and a record of big hits that began in the 1980s with companies such as AOL and Apple and continues to this day with investments in industries as diverse as high tech and health care,...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
Illustration by Chris Gash The School’s US Competitiveness Project launched four years ago with a simple but ambitious goal: figure out how companies in the United States can better compete in the global economy while raising living View Details
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
state-owned firms, to bring them more into line with Chinese interests. China's accounting system had already undergone significant reforms during the two decades when its economy had grown to become the fourth largest in the world. However, enforcement of accounting...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
professional and political characteristics of FASB members and SEC commissioners predict the accounting "reliability" and "relevance" of proposed standards. Notably, we find FASB members with backgrounds in financial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Fast Answer
Betas
How do I find current betas for companies? Historical? Industry Beta? Current BETA: Bloomberg Current and historical financial information on individual equities, stock market indices, fixed-income securities, currencies, commodities, and...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
focused on the phenomenon of bankruptcy. A consultant to or board member of numerous corporations, financial institutions, and government agencies over the years, Hayes expressed his aversion to Chapter 11 proceedings for companies trying...
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- 02 Dec 2019
- News
A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
in Chile, despite his parents’ objections. The experience interning at a Santiago company, practicing his Spanish, and interacting with people from another culture was “like an awakening,” says Barry, inspiring him to choose Latin...
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- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
definite advance over the arbitrary overhead allocations done by traditional standard cost systems, many companies abandoned ABC or updated their model only infrequently, because of the high time and cost associated with re-estimating the...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- Web
I Found My Future at HBS and You Can Too - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID...
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- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
investors) or explicit (as captured by how actively analysts ask questions) demand for the English conference calls. This suggests that the form in which financial information is presented can impose additional processing costs by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
incursions have been reported that the government has had difficulty identifying patterns. That’s because the cybersecurity reporting standard for utilities, he observes, “is...
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- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era
something," and identify ways to change the business. Also on the technology front, Stevenson urged companies to consider using hosting services and application service providers to manage non-mission-critical applications, and to emphasize View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
Financial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality? Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract In 1980, India nationalized its large private banks. This induced different bank ownership patterns across different towns,...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
PublicationsMisvaluing Innovation Authors:Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether, and Christopher Malloy Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We demonstrate that a firm's ability to innovate is predictable, persistent, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
more for sustainable goods. Almost 60 percent report that a product’s health and wellness benefits motivate purchasing decisions. And over 40 percent say that they factor a company’s social value into purchasing decisions. Millennials are...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
graduating MBAs to engage in and influence the key strategic priorities of leading social sector organizations. Although the article cited the generous financial support that HBS and its donor base provides to fellows, it’s also worth...
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- 03 Mar 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?
auditors and audit committees whose mutual survival depends on each other, overly complicated accounting and tax systems, and the nature of the reporting relationships between internal auditors and those...
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Independent Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
strategic importance to the organization and reports its recommendations at the end of the term. Organizations benefit directly from the student interaction and output. Examples Some past successful Social Enterprise independent projects...
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