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  • January–February 2021
  • Article

Cross‐firm Return Predictability and Accounting Quality

By: Wen Chen, Mozaffar Khan, Leonid Kogan and George Serafeim
We test the hypothesis that if poor accounting quality (AQ) is associated with poor investor understanding of firms’ revenue and cost structures, then poor AQ stocks likely respond more slowly than good AQ stocks to new non‐idiosyncratic information that affects both... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Quality; Earnings Quality; Stock Returns; Investment Strategy; Accounting; Business Earnings; Quality; Investment Return; Investment; Strategy
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  • 26 Jun 2000
  • Research & Ideas

What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional

Though the Internet has woven itself into most aspects of life, few fields have adopted it more actively, and at times controversially, than health care. What new business models in health care, based on the Internet, are rising to the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

    Best-selling and New Cases by Ben Esty

    Best-Selling Cases:  

      1) Eaton: Portfolio Transformation & Cost of... View Details

    • Web

    Funding Opportunities - Business & Environment

    one-time loan reduction that typically ranges from $5,000 – $15,000. Award availability is determined based on an applicant's earnings and need-based debt, as well as employment and job fit criteria. Funds awarded can be used only to... View Details
    • 01 Sep 2015
    • News

    The Business of Love

    Tank. Dressed in a bright pink Coffee Meets Bagel T-shirt under a black business jacket, Kang pitched the San Francisco startup to five investors including Mark Cuban. The sisters were looking for $500,000 in financing in exchange for 5... View Details
    Keywords: April White
    • Web

    Business History - Faculty & Research

    Management ; Business Earnings ; Financial Statements ; Change Management ; Disruption ; Volatility ; Transition ; Crime and Corruption ; Cost vs Benefits ; Decision Making ; Decision Choices and Conditions... View Details
    • 05 Jul 2011
    • News

    The Business of Champions

    a second shift as a Bruins TV analyst.) Baumgartner, who also served as a Bruins assistant coach for one year, had a twelve-year career in the NHL. He overcame relatively modest abilities by becoming a rugged enforcer and hard-working player. But Baumgartner was also... View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
    • 15 May 2015
    • Blog Post

    Tips for Applying to Business School

    There’s no doubt that applying to business school can be a stressful process. Researching MBA programs, taking the GMAT, writing essays, chasing after recommenders (often while also trying to balance a full time job) can be downright... View Details
    • February 2022 (Revised January 2024)
    • Supplement

    Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (C)

    By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
    In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting—and... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Talent and Talent Management; Compensation and Benefits; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Consulting Industry
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    • November 1999 (Revised April 2002)
    • Case

    International Business Machines Corporation (B)

    By: David F. Hawkins
    IBM changes pension plan from a defined benefit plan to a cash-balance plan. Teaching purpose: To understand pension accounting. View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Transformation; Business Earnings; Private Sector; Personal Finance; Cash; Information Infrastructure; Taxation; Computer Industry; Accounting Industry
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    Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

    challenges and drive informed decision-making. 8 weeks 5 hours per week 5 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online. What you earn . Overview... View Details
    • 15 May 2023
    • News

    From Scientist to Business Leader

    Brianna Kim (MS/MBA 2023) When she was little, Brianna Kim (MS/MBA 2023) fell in love with the hard sciences and expected to eventually go to medical school or earn a PhD. But her plans changed after college. Kim grew up outside... View Details
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    Business Insights Blog | HBS Online

    Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Topics Topics Accounting Analytics Business Essentials Business in Society Career Development Communication Community ConneXt Decision-Making Digital Transformation View Details
    • 14 Jul 2023
    • Blog Post

    Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows

    Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the 2023-2024 cohort of Blavatnik Fellows. Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship was launched in 2013 as part of a gift to Harvard... View Details
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    Global Business Course | HBS Online

    and business on a global scale and prepare for the political, social, and economic factors driving change. 4 weeks 6-8 hours per week 4 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a... View Details
    • November 1999 (Revised November 2000)
    • Case

    International Business Machines Corporation (C)

    By: David F. Hawkins
    A financial analyst is examining IBM's 1998 tax note to understand better how the company's 1998 tax note was determined. Teaching purpose: Illustrates deferred tax accounting. View Details
    Keywords: History; Earnings Management; Taxation; Decision Making; Business Model; Business Earnings; Information Infrastructure; Mathematical Methods; Private Sector; Accounting Audits; Accounting Industry; Computer Industry
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    • 01 Jun 2005
    • News

    Christensen Center: Open for Business

    students.” Appointed director last October, Emmons brings to the center his own experience as an award-winning teacher — he was a member of the HBS faculty from 1989 to 1999 and taught at Georgetown from 1999 to 2004 — and as a student at Harvard, where he View Details
    Keywords: Chris Christensen; Christensen Center; case teaching; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • 26 Jun 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

    displaced, and millions left without electricity and water. Railways and roads were destroyed, and 383,000 buildings damaged—including a nuclear power plant that suffered a meltdown of three reactors, prompting widespread evacuations. Read the article in Japanese In... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 20 Jan 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Risky Business with Structured Finance

    the value of the assets." In their paper, the authors recount how, over the past decade, risks have been repackaged to create triple-A-rated securities. By mid-2007, they write, 37,000 structured finance issues in the United States had View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
    • 16 Nov 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    The Times Captures History of American Business

    worked, how the pie has been divided, how employees have thought about their work and themselves, and how enormously that has changed through time. There are big junctures in the history of American business where we can see that how... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News