Financial Statement Analysis - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2017
News

What’s New in Educational Innovation? A Few Highlights

first-year MBA students. The bootcamp uses a learning-by-doing approach to build skills required to succeed as an early-stage entrepreneur. Other topics such as coding and financial analysis are planned for... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Books

scenarios early on in the product development process, while the financial and organizational costs of changing course are still relatively low. In Experimentation Matters, Thomke defines six principles that managers should keep in mind... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

behavior; and (3) the reality that financial analysis often results in better, more focused questions to be asked of management, not conclusive answers. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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FactSet | Baker Library

FactSet Financial data analysis platform to analyze data from global equity and fixed income markets. Read More Coverage includes data and information on ownership and private equity and venture capital... View Details

22 Aug 2016
News

The Future of GE

General Electric, now 124 years old, is looking to the future, CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) recently told Vanity Fair. When Immelt took the helm of GE in 2001, it was a diverse conglomerate. Now, Immelt said, “we’ve exited almost all of View Details

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

attrition rate to 13%. The irony is clear: These strategy firms, who are experts at diagnosing and solving a variety of issues for their clients, are struggling to apply their own management principles internally. The problem, however, runs much deeper than COVID-era... View Details

Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

complete financial information across the twentieth century (especially pre-1925), a multi-tiered financial analysis approach was utilized: (1) Tobin's Q Performance (market to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016

2016 Self-published Introduction to Financial Accounting: Review Quizzes and Practice Exams By: Narayanan, V.G. Abstract—This book provides practice multiple choice questions on introductory accounting topics. It can be used to prepare... View Details

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HBS Alumni Research Tips: Finding Company News & Industry Research

reports by industry/subject and/or geography, depending on publisher. Value Line provides information and advice on stocks, industries, mutual funds, options, and convertibles. Enter a company name or ticker to access a company profile that includes data such as... View Details

01 Jun 2006
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Faculty Books

Questions of Character by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (HBS Press) Professor Badaracco argues that serious fiction provides us with memorable characters facing challenges similar to those that confront business leaders. Through analysis of the... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

13 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 13, 2007

contribute to longer term complementary effects which work to overcome the losses from cannibalization. Our results are based on both interrupted time series analysis and a difference-in-differences analysis... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23

dirty to clean technology. We then estimate the model using a combination of regression analysis on the relationship between R&D and patents, and simulated method of moments using microdata on employment, production, R&D, firm... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

Paul R. Lawrence Conference: Connecting Rigor and Relevance in Institutional Analysis honored the memory of a prolific scholar and longtime HBS faculty member who, at the time of his death in 2011, was the Wallace Brent Donham Professor... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino

24 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System

posted on walls and websites by using their codified set of values and principles as a strategic guidance system. They gain business advantages from actions they take based on the societal responsibility these statements imply, as Banco... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni

sponsorship and merit-based scholarships from non-employers; it does not include need-based fellowships awarded by HBS Financial Aid. Financial need is not required for eligibility. However, preference is... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Letters to the Editor

HBS Flunks Finance 101 As regards your December Editor’s Note wherein you refer to Dean Jay Light’s remarks to the hastily organized financial crisis panels during the week of September 22: Light attributes the View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

18 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language

reports is arbitrary, the net economic benefit to each generation is well-defined. "We hope that our paper will direct attention toward the real effects of economic policies and away from statements about magnitudes that can easily... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA

techno-economic analysis which combined process modeling, engineering design, and economic valuation. Constructing the financial component of this model required a deep understanding of Nature’s Fynd’s... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

05 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

growth during the three years preceding financial busts, downturns, and crises from 1940 to 2014, the analysis finds. Once a boom cycle begins to bust, it’s corporate debt that accounts for the vast majority... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

September 2023
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The Rise and Fall of FTX

By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese, Joseph Pacelli and Max Hancock

In November 2022, Sam Bankman-Fried's multi-billion-dollar crypto exchange, FTX, collapsed, wiping out investors and throwing the crypto industry into disarray. As FTX's founder and CEO, Bankman-Fried developed a reputation for his unerring business sense and... View Details