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  • Research Summary

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Professor Sherman's research has long focused on financial reporting, performance measurement/management, and financial literacy issues facing corporate management and Boards of Directors in global businesses. He also actively studies methods to improve productivity in... View Details
  • May 2019 (Revised May 2020)
  • Case

fidentiaX: The Tradable Insurance Marketplace on Blockchain

By: Alexander Braun, Lauren H. Cohen and Jiahua Xu
Three years ago, Alvin Ang and his partner founded fidentiaX in Singapore, with the ambition to create the world’s first marketplace for tradable insurance policies on blockchain. With a 26-page white paper, the start-up closed a successful fundraising round through an... View Details
Keywords: Blockchain; Insurance; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Technology Adoption; Business Strategy; Insurance Industry; Technology Industry; Singapore
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  • May 2019
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Who Consumes Firm Disclosures? Evidence from Earnings Conference Calls

By: Anne Heinrichs, Jihwon Park and Eugene F. Soltes
Using a set of proprietary records, we examine who consumes quarterly earnings conference calls and under which circumstances the calls are consumed. While there is significant interest in calls by institutional investors and sell-side analysts, we find that investors... View Details
Keywords: Disclosure; Conference Calls; Firm News; Corporate Disclosure; Business Earnings; Situation or Environment
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Browse All Articles, Research, & Case Studies - HBS Working Knowledge

Popular Browse All Articles About Us Newsletter Sign-Up RSS Page 1 of 5,369 Results 12 Nov 2024 HBS Case Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers by Avery Forman How can formerly incarcerated people... View Details
  • 21 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 21

farm that produced olives, including Kalamata table olives. Alexandra had invested in the expansion of her farm in anticipation of the evolution of her market from domestic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

    Expressive Voting and Its Cost: Evidence from Runoffs with Two or Three Candidates

    In French parliamentary and local elections, candidates ranked first and second in the first round automatically qualify for the second round, while a third candidate qualifies only when selected by more than 12.5% of registered citizens. Using a fuzzy RDD around... View Details
    • 07 Aug 2018
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    New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

    based on a large panel dataset of countries between 1950 and 2014. We instrument actual trade with predicted trade constructed by estimating a time-varying gravity equation... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • September 2002 (Revised March 2006)
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    Environmental Power Corporation: Changing Manure Into Gold?

    By: Ray A. Goldberg and Laure Mougeot Stroock
    In 2002, Environmental Power Corp. (EPC), a small company developing renewable energy projects, was attempting to commercialize its "digester," a facility that extracted methane from manure, reduced manure's environmental impact, and generated electricity. The company... View Details
    Keywords: Commercialization; Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Environmental Sustainability; Investment; Projects; Wastes and Waste Processing; Corporate Finance; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry
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    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    Full Substitutability

    By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky and Alexander Westkamp
    Various forms of substitutability are essential for establishing the existence of equilibria and other useful properties in diverse settings such as matching, auctions, and exchange economies with indivisible goods. We extend earlier models' canonical definitions of... View Details
    Keywords: Market Design; Balance and Stability
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    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Asset Specificity and Vertical Integration: Williamson's Hypothesis Reconsidered

    By: Christian Alejandro Ruzzier
    A point repeatedly stressed by transaction cost economics is that the more specific the asset, the more likely is vertical integration to be optimal. In spite of the profusion of empirical papers supporting this prediction, recent surveys and casual observation suggest... View Details
    Keywords: Assets; Vertical Integration
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      Tax-Loss Harvesting with Cryptocurrencies

      We describe the taxation landscape in the View Details

        Is It Time to Let Employees Work from Anywhere?

        While working from home (WFH) has become relatively commonplace, a new form of remote work is emerging: working from anywhere (WFA), in which employees can live and work where they choose. Managers often worry about remote employees working less, or multitasking,... View Details
        • September 2011
        • Article

        On Testing Business Models

        By: D. Huelsbeck, K. Merchant and Tatiana Sandino
        This study explored management decisions regarding formal empirical testing of business models. It documented a test of one company's business model under seemingly favorable conditions for such a test – a successful single product firm following a consistent strategy... View Details
        Keywords: Performance Measurement; Non-financial Performance Measures; Business Models; Management Control; Decisions; Business Model; Performance Evaluation
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        Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management

        policies, and major programs of their organizations Participating organizations must be public-serving nonprofits, fully operational, and out of the startup phase; they typically have operating budgets in... View Details
        • December 2011 (Revised May 2014)
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        ReSource Pro

        By: Lynda M. Applegate, William R. Kerr, Elisabeth Koll and David Lane
        Matt Bruno, founder and general manager of ReSource Pro, left his job working for a New York City-based insurance program shortly after the World Trade Center bombing and arrived in China. Initially he planned to teach English, but soon the entrepreneurial spirit of... View Details
        Keywords: Geographic Location; Talent and Talent Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Insurance Industry; Service Industry; China
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        Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

        and to public uptake of climate technologies both existing and new. The current skills gap and workforce shortage could be one of the biggest obstacles to achieving our climate goals. This session will... View Details
        • 08 Sep 2010
        • First Look

        First Look: September 8, 2010

        determinant of choices than fairness, and iii) agents display a marked propensity to work for principals with similar distributional concerns.   Working PapersReport on the State of Available Data for the... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

          Inequality regimes in Africa from pre-colonial times to the present

          While current levels of economic inequality in Africa receive ample attention from academics and policymakers, we know little about the long-run evolution of inequality in the region. Even the new and influential ‘global inequality literature’ that is associated... View Details

            Robert J. Dolan

            Robert J. Dolan is the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and began his academic career in 1976 as a faculty member at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago. He joined... View Details

            • May–June 2015
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            Dead Weight: How Greece Wound up Trapped in the European Union

            By: Debora L. Spar
            In the early 1990s, Greece fell far afield of the economic criteria laid out by the Maastricht Treaty, the EU's founding document. In 1999, when the European monetary union was launched, Greece failed to meet the criteria again, but managed to squeeze into the body two... View Details
            Keywords: EU; Geopolitics; Economic Conditions; Economy; Financial Crisis; Greece; European Union
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