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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
For example, managing earnings to meet analyst expectations may start out being rationalized as necessary to avoid undue volatility in the stock price but end up being used to artificially pump up the stock price so executives can... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
ability of later matching to produce "championship" games. Are Small Investors Naive About Incentives? Authors:Ulrike Malmendier and Devin M. Shanthikumar Periodical:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Security View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
powerful.” While savvy negotiators and analysts generally avoid these pitfalls, the less sophisticated can go astray. Robust correctives to these misimpressions are offered and related to three different kinds of “no” in negotiation: a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Byron Wien (MBA 1956) was a Wall Street icon. He had a 50-year career that included chief investment strategist roles at Morgan Stanley and Blackstone, and was well... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
store grew, the space became so crowded that at times the copier was rolled out onto the sidewalk and used for self-service customers. Today, some analysts estimate annual revenues from the privately held chain's 850 business services and... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
the return predictability. In addition, we find that sell-side analysts are subject to these same information processing constraints, as their forecast revisions of easy-to-analyze firms predict their future revisions of more complicated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
times the $132 billion that the 1995 Kobe earthquake did, making it one of the Japan's most costly natural disasters. Transportation disruptions and the closing of many factories throughout Japan will shrink Japanese aggregate demand and disrupt supply chains... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
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1.17 Field Based Learning / Independent Projects | MBA
an analyst report) reproduced in a report. If modifications have been made to a figure or table, written permission is not required, but correct citation policies must still be followed. Insider Trading While working in the field,... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
governance; market participants and security analysts were, until the beginning of the 2000s but not subsequently, more positively surprised by the earning announcements of good-governance firms; and, although governance indices no longer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
challenging Chinese macroeconomic environment, SOHO China, the largest owner and developer of Class-A real estate in Beijing and Shanghai, was struggling to convince analysts of the merits of its new “build-to-hold” strategy. Founded as a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
performance of a comprehensive set of alternative peer identification schemes. Our results show the peer firms identified from aggregation of informed agents' revealed choices in Lee, Ma, and Wang (2014) perform best, followed by peers with the highest overlap in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
12, 2012, BH Media Group, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, announced an offer to buy Media General's (MEG) newspaper division for $142 million in cash and provide debt financing to the struggling firm. Reactions from investors and industry View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
satisfy the new revenue expectations, and it was unclear whether the development hurdles could be overcome within the launch schedule. As a result, HP chose to target its small disk at the PDA and ultrathin laptop market rather than to video game manufacturers. At that... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
Malloy, and Felicia Marston Abstract Comparing two snapshots of the historical I/B/E/S database of research analyst stock recommendations, taken in 2002 and 2004 but each covering the same time period 1993-2002, we identify 54,729 ex-post... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
week in advance of delivery. Looking to determine how personal decisions made for tomorrow differ from decisions made for several days from now, researchers from Harvard Business School and the Analyst Institute evaluated a year's worth... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports Corp.
out Investment Banking internships that paved the way to his first full-time Investment Banking Analyst role at UBS Investment Bank. After UBS, Laitsas spent five more years in investment banking, culminating in a Vice President,... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
analyst calls, media interviews, and other events where executives publicly faced skeptical questions and had to give unscripted answers. BIA's methodology used verbal and nonverbal cues to identify executives who parsed their words too... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
Publications August 2013 Financial Analysts Journal The Low Beta Anomaly: A Decomposition into Micro and Macro Effects By: Baker, Malcolm, Brendan Bradley, and Ryan Taliaferro Abstract—Low beta stocks have offered a combination of low... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL, Light used his undergraduate engineering physics... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
an appendix detailing 10 math facts numerate people should know. Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students entering advanced data analytics courses, as well as data analysts and C-suite executives just starting out, The Numerate... View Details