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  • 21 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 21

rating agencies. We use the rise of a third ratings agency to examine competition and reputation. Consistent with Klein and Leffler (1981), competition leads to lower quality in the ratings market: the incumbent View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Power to the People

By: Eric D. Werker

Every nongovernmental organization has a mission statement. For example, CARE, one of the world's largest and best-funded NGOs, explains its mission as serving "individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. Drawing strength from our global... View Details

Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Food; Service Operations; Inflation and Deflation; Experience and Expertise; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Knowledge; Poverty; Agribusiness; Diversity; Non-Governmental Organizations; Innovation and Invention; India
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  • 07 Apr 2022
  • HBS Seminar

Hummy Song, Wharton

  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

Policies that would create net benefits for society but would also involve costs frequently lack the necessary support to be enacted because losses loom larger than gains psychologically. To reduce this harmful consequence of loss... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 13

services obtained in return, reduces general anti-tax sentiment, and holds satisfaction with tax payment stable despite increased compliance with tax dues. With tax noncompliance costing the U.S. government $385 billion annually,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007

may have been instituted to offset the costs of undesirable customer behavior, like bouncing checks, turn out to be very profitable. As a result, companies have no incentive to help customers avoid them. Tactics like these generate bad... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 2014
  • Case

Babcock International Plc

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2013, Babcock International Plc (Babcock) was the largest engineering services provider in the UK with sales of over £3 billion. Under the leadership of CEO Peter Rogers, Babcock had grown revenues and profits nearly tenfold over the previous decade as it benefited... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Change; Strategy And Leadership; Diversification; United Kingdom; Military; Nuclear Power; Nuclear; Engineering And Construction; Conglomerates; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Construction Industry; Energy Industry; United Kingdom
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    V.G. Narayanan

    Professor Narayanan is the Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education and HBS Online. His research focuses on management accounting with an interest in performance evaluation and incentives... View Details

    Keywords: accounting industry; banking; service industry; telecommunications; health care
    • 09 Mar 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: March 9

    that, as predicted, this increased the likelihood of equity issues, increased investment, and reduced risk taking. The changes are isolated to indebted firms (where the legal change applied). These reductions in agency View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Dec 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Financing Innovation

    Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Ramana Nanda
    • 15 May 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: May 15

    company whose management engaged in a massive accounting fraud. ChuoAoyama was PwC's Japanese affiliate and one of Japan's largest audit firms. In May 2006, the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) suspended ChuoAoyama for two months... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 29 Jul 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely

    remote-work conditions. The USPTO provided the perfect opportunity. Seeking to increase efficiency, the agency implemented the Telework Enhancement Act Pilot Program (TEAPP) in 2012. The program transitioned patent examiners to a... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 23 Jun 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: June 23, 2015

    show how this process of experimentation can be particularly valuable in the context of entrepreneurship because most new ventures fail completely, and only a few become extremely successful. We also shed light on important costs to this... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 26 Apr 2016
    • First Look

    April 26

    intermediaries—called outsourcing agencies—have emerged in these markets. This paper shows that agencies signal to employers that inexperienced workers are high quality. Workers affiliated with an agency... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Law
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Law
    • 08 Dec 2015
    • First Look

    December 8, 2015

    of Psychological Science Advisers' By: Teachman, Bethany A., Michael I. Norton, and Barbara A. Spellman Abstract—On September 15, 2015, President Obama issued an Executive Order recommending that executive departments and agencies use... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 24 Jan 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: Jan. 24

    during and after World War I, as well as demonstrating the rapidly changing market for dental hygiene in the interwar period. New marketing strategies based on psychological science and consumer protection agencies changed the rules of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 23 Sep 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: September 23, 2008

    claims, and an infusion of new equity financing. The Chapter 11 process has generated both costs and benefits for the company. Its future profitability, and the value of the reorganized business, are both highly uncertain. Purchase the... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
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    Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

    the fact that companies have not effectively quantified and tracked the cost stress poses to integral business outcomes. Companies can take charge of the avoidable costs of stress by surveying their... View Details