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- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
pressing need in today’s world to shore up waning public trust in government institutions through transparency and good financial stewardship. Christopher Smart worked alongside Cognetti in Treasury, serving as deputy assistant secretary... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
not photoshopped to perfection but are flawed, vulnerable, and in-your-face. This total transparency generates a level of authenticity and intimacy with audiences that traditional marketing tactics cannot match. He also discusses the... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
non-English-speaking country and has more English-speaking analysts participating in the call. Our results highlight that when disclosure takes the form of verbal communication, language barriers between speaker and listener affect the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
happens in the coming years will be driven by private-sector foreign investment. “To the extent that government can create enough transparency in these transactions, I think we should be able to manage this activity to our benefit,”... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
emerging market firms raise external capital, they face a tradeoff where greater transparency may lead to a lower cost of capital but at the cost of revealing proprietary information in their relational business practices. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
transparency over its state-contingent payoffs. The contractual nature of the put options in the benchmark portfolio allows us to evaluate appropriate required rates of return as a function of investor risk preferences and the underlying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
in diffusion of care delivery innovation; and cost transparency and quality measurement. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708424 TH!NK: The Norwegian Electric Car Company Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Blog
Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School
development work for the foreseeable future, not just the next half-year. As a community we need to understand what we need to know in order to prompt the behavioral change that is necessary for inclusive excellence. That’s where we need to focus more. I also think we... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
transparency improves confidence ex ante but impedes regulators' ability to stem panics ex post. Working Papers Cumulative Innovation & Open Disclosure of Intermediate Results: Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Bioinformatics By:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
Accountability Increase Diversity? Evidence from IPOs By: Koning, Rembrand, and John-Paul Ferguson Abstract— Does public ownership improve employment diversity? Organizational researchers theorize that increased transparency to regulators... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
corporations' environmental transparency. We also focus on the extent to which corporate environmental disclosure is symbolic and, in particular, what leads corporations to selectively disclose relatively benign environmental impacts to create an impression of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
creating an impression of transparency while masking their true performance. What deters selective disclosure and leads firms to instead make disclosures more representative of their environmental performance? We hypothesize that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
backdated stock options, insufficiently independent corporate board members, poor responsiveness to shareholders concerns, and a lack of transparency in the activities and decisions of boards. The AFL-CIO believes that such problems were... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46779 Working Papers An Analysis of Firms' Self-Reported Anticorruption Efforts By: Healy, Paul M., and George Serafeim Abstract—We use Transparency International's ratings of self-reported... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
good CSR performance are likely to report their CSR activities, thus increasing their overall transparency. Higher levels of transparency ease the fears of potential investors, making them more likely to invest. Driven by Social... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
to this trend are studies linking greater board diversity with higher levels of board performance. And last year, in a move that should at least bring greater transparency to corporate governance, the SEC approved Nasdaq’s new listing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
didn’t judge me.” “Why would I?” Marietta asks, sputtering with incredulity. “You could have been me.” That attitude, coupled with a penchant for transparency and consensus-building, helped Marietta earn much-needed goodwill as he set... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
is economically important, is associated with lower ROA, and can be explained by compensation consultants' tendencies and firms' governance weaknesses. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51919 Lifting the Veil: The Benefits of Cost... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
that. I think people had issues with her transparency or whatever. But there were a significant number of people who had a huge distaste for Donald Trump, but who really believed that Hillary Clinton was the last person in the world you'd... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
of the first studies to assess these ratings, we examine how well the most widely used ratings—those of Kinder, Lydenberg, Domini Research & Analytics (KLD)—provide transparency about past and likely future environmental performance.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace