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- March 2008
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Are Accruals Mispriced? Evidence from Tests of an Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model
By: Mozaffar N. Khan
This paper proposes a risk-based explanation for the accrual anomaly. Risk is measured using a four-factor model motivated by the Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model. Tests of the model suggest that a considerable portion of the cross-sectional variation in... View Details
Khan, Mozaffar N. "Are Accruals Mispriced? Evidence from Tests of an Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model." Journal of Accounting & Economics 45, no. 1 (March 2008): 55–77.
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Capital IQ: Introduction, Help, Etc.
IQ to access more C ude: Coursework and Analysis Applications Capital IQ help (help link is in the upper right corner of the screen.) Some of the ways in which you can benefit... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Transaction Cost Economics in the Digital Economy: A Research Agenda
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
hypothesis that if there were more women who were venture capitalists then there would be more points of intersection with women entrepreneurs. In our research using information from 1995 and 2000, we documented all the women in the... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
Venture capital is a tale of two continents, HBS professor Josh Lerner (coauthor of the book The Venture Capital Cycle) explained in his opening... View Details
- July 2020
- Supplement
CSL Capital Management: Patriot Proppants (B)
By: Victoria Ivashina and Yury Kapko
This two-part case series follows CSL Capital’s 2009 investment in the greenfield manufacturing company, Patriot Proppants. CSL, a recently established investment firm, employs a unique investment model, funding new ("greenfield") energy service businesses that serve... View Details
Ivashina, Victoria, and Yury Kapko. "CSL Capital Management: Patriot Proppants (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 221-007, July 2020.
- June 2003
- Teaching Note
Role of Capital Market Intermediaries in the Dot-Com Crash of 2000, The (TN)
Teaching Note for (5-101-110). View Details
- April 2025
- Article
Skill Dependencies Uncover Nested Human Capital
By: Moh Hosseinioun, Frank Neffke, Letian Zhang and Hyejin Youn
Modern economies require increasingly diverse and specialized skills, many
of which depend on the acquisition of other skills first. Here we analyse
US survey data to reveal a nested structure within skill portfolios, where
the direction of dependency is inferred... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Human Capital; Personal Development and Career; Equality and Inequality; Analytics and Data Science
Hosseinioun, Moh, Frank Neffke, Letian Zhang, and Hyejin Youn. "Skill Dependencies Uncover Nested Human Capital." Nature Human Behaviour 9, no. 4 (April 2025): 673–687.
- 2003
- Other Unpublished Work
Evaluating Total Cost of Ownership for Software Platforms: Comparing Apples, Oranges, and Cucumbers
By: Alan MacCormack
MacCormack, Alan. "Evaluating Total Cost of Ownership for Software Platforms: Comparing Apples, Oranges, and Cucumbers." AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies Related Publication, April 2003.
- 17 Feb 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Preference Heterogeneity and Optimal Capital Income Taxation
- 2018
- Working Paper
Detecting Anomalies: The Relevance and Power of Standard Asset Pricing Tests
By: Malcolm Baker, Patrick Luo and Ryan Taliaferro
The two standard approaches for identifying capital market anomalies are cross-sectional coefficient tests, in the spirit of Fama and MacBeth (1973), and time-series intercept tests, in the spirit of Jensen (1968). A new signal can pass the first test, which we label a... View Details
Keywords: Investment Management; Anomalies; Portfolio Construction; Transaction Costs; Investment; Management; Asset Pricing; Market Transactions; Cost
Baker, Malcolm, Patrick Luo, and Ryan Taliaferro. "Detecting Anomalies: The Relevance and Power of Standard Asset Pricing Tests." Working Paper, July 2018.
- 2018
- Working Paper
Coordination Frictions in Venture Capital Syndicates
By: Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
An extensive literature on venture capital has studied asymmetric information and agency problems between investors and entrepreneurs, examining how separating entrepreneurs from the investor can create frictions that might inhibit the funding of good projects. It has... View Details
Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Coordination Frictions in Venture Capital Syndicates." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-089, April 2017. (Revised January 2019. Published in The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship and Collaboration.)
- March 2002
- Background Note
Virtuous Cycles: Improving Service and Lowering Costs in E-Commerce
Illustrates how various elements in a customer's encounter with Internet services relying on physical service (labor-intensive customer support and/or logistics) affect one another. Presents a framework that suggests: 1) that improving service quality in specific... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Service Delivery; Performance Efficiency; Performance Effectiveness; Service Industry
Hallowell, Roger H. "Virtuous Cycles: Improving Service and Lowering Costs in E-Commerce." Harvard Business School Background Note 802-155, March 2002.
- June 2007
- Article
Risk Management, Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure Policy for Insurers and Reinsurers
By: K. A. Froot
Keywords: Risk Management; Capital Budgeting; Cost of Capital; Policy; Insurance; Asset Pricing; Insurance Industry
Froot, K. A. "Risk Management, Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure Policy for Insurers and Reinsurers." Journal of Risk and Insurance 74, no. 2 (June 2007): 273–299. (Winner of Robert C. Witt Award Given annually for the best feature article in the Journal of Risk and Insurance presented by American Risk and Insurance Association. Revised from NBER Working Paper no. 10184, Harvard Business School Working Paper no. 04-035, December 2003.)
- 20 Dec 2022
- Video
MBA Students Explore Capitalism in Italy
- January 2007 (Revised July 2008)
- Case
Capital Field: A Room with a View
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Joshua Wyatt
Jerzy Peters, Managing Director of Patron Capital Partners, must decide the best investment option on the development of the Odra Polish theater chain and the associated real estate. Capital Field was a company formed by U.S.-educated Polish natives involved in real... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Emerging Markets; State Ownership; Privatization; Property; Real Estate Industry; Poland
Retsinas, Nicolas P., and Joshua Wyatt. "Capital Field: A Room with a View." Harvard Business School Case 207-091, January 2007. (Revised July 2008.)
- 5 Oct 2011
- Other Presentation
Harnessing the Power of Capitalism for Society: Creating Shared Value
Porter, Michael E. "Harnessing the Power of Capitalism for Society: Creating Shared Value." Central American Roundtable, San Jose, Costa Rica, October 5, 2011.
- 22 Jun 2009
- News