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Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives

By: Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun
We combine unique administrative and survey data to study the match between firms and managers. The data include manager characteristics, firm characteristics, detailed measures of managerial practices, and outcomes for the firm and the manager. A parsimonious model of... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Talent and Talent Management; Organizations; Management Teams
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  • January 2010
  • Article

Does Public Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality?

We compare the quality of accounting numbers produced by two types of public firms-those with publicly traded equity and those with privately held equity that are nonetheless considered public by virtue of having publicly traded debt. We develop and test two... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Business Earnings; Public Equity
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  • 15 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

updates? People: Train product, technology, and security teams to understand and manage the risks of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), the kind of automated software update approach... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
  • 21 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

their work.” “Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.” The spy manual struck a chord with Stefan H. Thomke, the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, since he recognized that many of today’s... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Apr 2008
  • News

The Gap in the U.S. Treasury Recommendations

  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting A Stop to the Earnings Game

By: Joseph Fuller and Michael C. Jensen

Putting an end to the "earnings game" requires that CEOs reclaim the initiative by avoiding earnings guidance and managing expectations in such a way that their stocks trade reasonably close to their intrinsic value. In place of earnings forecasts, management should... View Details

Keywords: Stocks; Performance Expectations; Goals and Objectives; Risk and Uncertainty; Growth and Development Strategy; Decisions; Risk Management; Budgets and Budgeting; Earnings Management; Value; Projects
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    Vikram Gandhi

    Vikram S. Gandhi is the Gerald P. Kaminsky Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the General Management Unit. He has developed and teaches two new courses in the Elective Curriculum of the MBA Program. The first is a finance and investing course, Sustainable... View Details

    Keywords: financial services
    • March 2021
    • Case

    Yale Investments Office: November 2020

    By: Josh Lerner, Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo
    David Swensen and the Investments Office staff must decide whether to continue to allocate the bulk of the university's endowment to illiquid investments—hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, real estate, natural resources—given the impact of the COVID-19... View Details
    Keywords: University Endowment; Asset Allocation; Real Estate; Equities; Fixed Income; COVID-19; Asset Management; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Natural Resources; Resource Allocation; Investment; Investment Portfolio; Health Pandemics; Financial Crisis; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry; Energy Industry; Connecticut
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    • 11 May 2020
    • News

    Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

    • 19 Mar 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Unlocking Your Investment Capital

    risks—a process that can release more equity capacity. Finally, Merton argues, the job of managing the company's derivatives portfolio should not be delegated to in-house financial experts. The strategic importance of how a company View Details
    Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
    • 04 Dec 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

    shareholders' economic interests and low corporate profitability, Japan introduced the JPX-Nikkei400 in 2014. The index highlighted the country's "best-run" companies by annually selecting the 400 most profitable of its large and liquid firms. We find that View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 09 Sep 2013
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

    realistic, while 20 percent believed it was a random fluctuation warranting no urgent action," says Lassiter, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management at Harvard... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • March 2011
    • Article

    Accounting Scholarship That Advances Professional Knowledge and Practice

    By: Robert S. Kaplan
    Recent accounting scholarship has used statistical analysis on asset prices, financial reports and disclosures, laboratory experiments, and surveys of practice. The research has studied the interface among accounting information, capital markets, standard setters, and... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Asset Pricing; Risk Management; Surveys; Capital Markets; Measurement and Metrics; Valuation; Fair Value Accounting; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Financial Reporting
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    How Should U.S. Bank Regulators Respond to the COVID-19 Crisis?

    By: Michael Blank, Samuel G. Hanson, Jeremy C. Stein and Adi Sunderam
    Drawing on lessons from the 2007–2009 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and a simple conceptual framework, we examine the response of U.S. bank regulators to the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue that the current regulatory strategy of “watchful waiting”—the same strategy that... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Bank Regulation; Recapitalization; Health Pandemics; Banks and Banking; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Strategy; Risk Management; United States
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    • 21 Mar 2024
    • Blog Post

    SVMP Gave Me the Courage to Fail

    Clicking the submit button on my Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) application felt like an act of courage, one that left me feeling vulnerable and open to rejection, a sentiment likely shared by many of my peers. As we each... View Details
    • 26 Aug 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest

    anticipatory regret can lead to indecision and costly delays. 71 This anxiety can be particularly problematic for executives in fast-moving industries. Successful management teams in turbulent industries develop certain practices to cope... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
    • Article

    How Institutional Investors Frame Their Losses: Evidence on Dynamic Loss Aversion from Currency Portfolios

    By: Kenneth A. Froot, John Arabadjis, Sonya Cates and Stephen Lawrence
    Currency investors exhibit a tendency to cut risk by pairing both longs and shorts following losses and a weaker tendency to add risk following gains. By differentiating between position level, portfolio level, and aggregate cross-portfolio losses in currency... View Details
    Keywords: Loss Aversion; Decision Choices and Conditions; Currency; Investment; Risk Management; Behavioral Finance
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    • 12 Dec 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

    Constance Bagley: Yes, I'd be happy to. The law offers a variety of tools managers can use to manage the firm more effectively. They range from contracts, which can be used to strengthen business... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services
    • 02 Aug 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: August 2

    http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-083.pdf Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990 Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski Abstract This working paper examines corporate... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 30 Jun 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: June 30, 2015

    Management Journal Monitoring Global Supply Chains By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Firms reliant on supply chains to manufacture their goods risk reputational harm if the... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel