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- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period. We find that customers defect at a higher rate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
methodology based on topic modeling and sentiment analysis to illustrate that such data can be used to generate insight about the relationship between a firm’s past financial performance and the language and... View Details
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
Reporting and Regulatory Capital Edward J. Riedl, Suraj Srinivasan, and Sharon KatzHarvard Business School Case 111-041 This case introduces 1) financial statements for banks, 2) basic regulatory capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
published in top peer-reviewed management, psychology, sociology, and industrial relations journals from 1990 to 2005. Our findings illuminate a continuum of open systems to closed systems phenomenological assumptions revealed in this microprocess research. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
development. In a statement read at the ceremony, the award was bestowed to Sonne of Specialisterne because "these highly gifted people require special support to get on in society—but via their particular logical skills and sense... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
civic engagement. Black and brown social entrepreneurs who work on these issues “usually aren’t well known to funders with big pockets,” explains Shell, “and big funders don’t often give large sums to people they don’t know. In addition to View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
debt for firms in the vicinity of financial distress. We show that this ruling increased the likelihood of equity issues, increased investment, and reduced firm risk, consistent with a decrease in debt-equity conflicts of interest. The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
investment thesis and analysis that the team has done to get to this stage. Asks students to not only come to a point of view on whether this looks like a good opportunity at the price and financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jan 2025
- News
The Network Effect
recalls. Only later would they realize how well-matched their ambitions were: Model wanted to work in finance at a biotech firm, and Mathur wanted to become a health care investor. Today, Model is head of financial planning and View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
reforming countries are directed towards other reforming countries. Analysis of firm-level responses to the creation of the ASEAN free trade agreement yields results that are consistent with these predictions. Download the paper from SSRN... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
accountants should audit the public option’s financial statements to certify that its administrators stated expenses accurately, just as they do for private insurers. Unlike Medicare, this version of the... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
response to, varying market conditions. However, while the problems of balance-sheet liability and revenue recognition, and the related problems of income statement presentation, can be resolved by the application of DV/RV reasoning, this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
Yet there is a real danger that regulatory reforms will be rooted in outdated ideas. As the financial crisis has shown, neither traditional market-failure models nor public-choice theory, by themselves, sufficiently inform or explain our... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
in this field. Although the academics and CEOs agreed that innovation was key, especially process innovation, the content analysis revealed significant differences in the words most frequently used by CEOs—innovation, leadership,... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
Roundtable. These findings are consistent with the view that financial markets placed a positive value on shareholder access, as implemented in the SEC's 2010 Rule. The Size and Composition of Corporate Headquarters in Multinational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Transportation - Business & Environment
business leaders that recognize shareholder value is irrelevant if the planet cannot be sustained long enough to realize financial gains. Every day, I rely on HBS frameworks for analysis and disruption... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
five months’ rent on an immigration attorney to navigate the bureaucracy. “This is a story told by millions of immigrant families every year,” observes Wang. As a child, he had accepted the significant financial and procedural obstacles... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Prepare for Your Interview with Research
a structure of the corporate family, current news about the company and biographical information on key executives. For public companies, financial information from corporate reports is easily accessible. The beauty of OneSource is that... View Details
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
think the data exists." (In these instances, I came up with estimates and went on with the necessary calculations.) I wasn't surprised. How many of us have sat in on board meetings where the analysis of historical View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
for finance professionals striving to make well-informed financial decisions. Political homogeneity creates potential risks in the workplace. When decision-makers share the same political views, they risk creating echo chambers that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne