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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Stein & Adi Sunderam FEB 2017 | BFFS WP #010 Fed watching has become a routine business for bond market participants and the financial press. Monetary policy announcements are analyzed word by word for clues to the central bank's future... View Details
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
irregularities related to the off-balance-sheet partnerships. This forced Lay—who returned as CEO after Skilling resigned that August—to announce a $544 million charge against earnings, and a $1.2 billion write-down in shareholders'... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
innovation and action through activities such as the popular Climate Rising podcast, reaching thousands of listeners around the world. Campus Sustainability Metrics 16 projects have earned LEED certification, the globally recognized... View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
little or no public discussion of the matter although people familiar with the situation reported that Ackman held conversations with P&G directors individually. Then, on April 24, 2013, P&G announced that its 3rd quarter View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 14 Mar 2023
- In Practice
What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?
single day, leaving the bank with a $1 billion negative balance, according to a regulatory filing by the company. While financial regulators have announced that the US will guarantee all deposits at SVB, its collapse has spooked customers... View Details
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Doctoral 100 Years - Doctoral
Admitted to the Doctoral Program HBS opens the program to female applicants, announcing that qualified women would be admitted to the Doctoral Program, but noted “there has been no rush of applicants” and “only one lady admitted.” 1967... View Details
- 07 Jul 2019
- HBS Case
Walmart's Workforce of the Future
to $10 in 2016 (it hit $11 per hour in early 2018). Yet in 2015, announcement of a wage increase resulted in a share price drop the following day of 10 percent, on news that the increase would cut earnings... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
to low-income Mexicans living at the base of the pyramid (BOP), defined as those living on less than $10 per day. Since its launch in 2009, MIA had built nearly 25,000 homes—providing safe shelter to more than 100,000 Mexicans—while generating an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Counter Intelligence
When Pano Christou (AMP 195, 2018) was hired at Pret A Manger in 2000, the idea that he would one day run the entire company could not have been further from his mind. At the chain’s Carnaby Street shop, in London’s Soho district, the 22-year-old had enough work just... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 26 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises
schoolchildren, especially for the desserts, tears sprang to his eyes. “I never ordered that,” the CEO, who earned his MBA from HBS, told Takeuchi. “It was my employees who decided on their own to add dessert for the students.” Wise... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53161 forthcoming European Accounting Review The Role of Overbilling in Hospitals' Earnings Management Decisions By: Heese, Jonas Abstract—This paper examines the role of overbilling in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
Starbucks Reinvented
97 percent from the same time a year earlier; for the fiscal year, net earnings were down 53 percent to $316 million. The Starbucks board was reluctant to send 10,000 partners to New Orleans at a cost of $30 million, but Schultz stuck to... View Details
- 07 Jul 2021
- Book
Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust
new book The Power of Trust: How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It, Sucher and her coauthor, HBS research associate Shalene Gupta, highlight those social media examples along with a global list of companies that have either successfully View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
care for specific events.... June 2021 The CMS New Rule on Ambulatory Surgical Centers Earns Only Partial Credit by Junaid Nabi and Robert S. Kaplan The Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently View Details
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The Chao Center: The Heart of HBS Executive Education
(1930-2007) an immigrant from China who, with her husband James Si-Cheng Chao, built a life in the U.S. and raised six daughters. It is the first building on campus named for a Chinese family and its extraordinary matriarch. After working as a sea captain, Mr. Chao... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John J. Brennan, MBA 1980
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1954 Born, Boston, Massachusetts 1976 Earns BA, Economics, Dartmouth College 1976 Joins New York Bank for Savings 1980 Earns MBA 1980 Joins S.C. Johnson... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible
that it would lose a great deal if its bid failed. Because its threat to counter your bid is not credible, you decide you will place a bid. The day before you are to announce your bid, your competitor's CEO says at an open meeting that he... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
Chairman and CEO, Rakuten, Inc. Download Mikitani profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1965 Born, Kobe, Japan 1972 Family moves to United States for two years 1988 Earns commerce degree, Hitotsubashi... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
the real estate industry, and DSNY’s own union before finally hammering out an agreement to push the set-out time back to 8 p.m. beginning April 1 of this year. When she announced the change at a press conference last October, her opening... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
Amazon officials understandably figured that the prize it offered New Yorkers would sell itself: 25,000+ jobs paying in excess of $100,000 each with all the ancillary economic benefits. Decide (on Long Island City, Queens), Announce (the... View Details