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  • 11 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

forthcoming Journal of Accounting & Economics Career Concerns of Banking Analysts By: Horton, Joanne, George Serafeim, and Shan Wu Abstract—We study how career concerns influence banking analysts' View Details
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

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offerings, and fatter profit margins. Featuring case studies from around the world, this book shows how to mine sales data to identify “home-run” products, reinvent forecasting and pricing strategies, and extract maximum value from... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade; Water Transportation; Transportation
  • 12 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

do managers forecast total revenue? You can get a sense of that from looking at investment analysts' forecasts. While it is true that managers have information that analysts lack, analysts' estimates and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto
  • 27 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

sell-side analysts employed at state-owned brokerages issued relatively optimistic earnings forecasts and stock recommendations during these periods. This relative optimism is particularly pronounced in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

The Wall Street Journal. We find no evidence that compensation is related to earnings forecast accuracy. But consistent with prior studies, we find analyst turnover to be related to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements - Course Catalog

current performance and its future sustainability; making forecasts of future profitability and risk; and valuing businesses using earnings and book value data. The second half of the course applies the above framework to various contexts... View Details
  • 01 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?

search for driving directions to a Walmart was counted toward Walmart’s consumer activity for the week. The researchers’ within-quarter measure accurately tracked current-period revenue growth and predicted announcement surprises and View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services
  • Web

Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online

Online. What you earn . Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Forecast financial performance in the near and long term to guide strategic decision-making Compare organizations’ performance and recognize value... View Details
  • 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

  Working PapersThe Seer of Wellesley Hills: Roger Babson and the Babson Statistical Organization Author:Walter A. Friedman Abstract Roger Babson was a pioneer of the business-forecasting industry in the United States in the early twentieth century. He built the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Fast Answer

Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems: Company, Industry, Market and Transaction Research

trend and forecast coverage across 10 major commercial real estate sectors, 275+ markets, and 3,000+ submarkets. Includes market transactions and performance trends. FactSet
A comprehensive platform used to analyze financial data... View Details
  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

Missing Quarterly Analysts Forecasts (revised) Authors:Richard Mergenthaler, Shiva Rajgopal, and Suraj Srinivasan Abstract We find that missing the quarterly analyst consensus... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-103.pdf Do Analysts Add Value? Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs Authors:Emilie Feldman, Stuart Gilson, and Belén Villalonga Abstract We investigate the information content and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10

interaction between analysts and managers on conference calls. The evidence suggests that private interaction with management is an important communication channel for analysts for reasons other than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2016
  • First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

within their private networks, who then transmit the information to arm’s length analysts outside the network. Specifically, we show that firms with more connected analysts have more accurate consensus View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 2

over consensus forecasts would be large in the next fiscal year. Our results show that historical inventory and gross margin contain information useful to forecast sales, and that equity View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

analysts' forecasts of firm performance actually reflect any of these factors and which are considered most important. We use survey data from 967 analysts ranking 837 companies to judge how their View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

focuses on the economics and strategy of digital: how organizations need to adapt and change in this new environment, and the individual skills required to succeed in a digital economy. "You know that a significant change has taken place when you can have the same... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology
  • 24 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

also find decreasing forecast errors for voluntary adopters, but this effect is smaller and not robust. Moreover, we show that the magnitude of the forecast errors decrease is associated with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

Malloy, and Felicia Marston Abstract Comparing two snapshots of the historical I/B/E/S database of research analyst stock recommendations, taken in 2002 and 2004 but each covering the same time period 1993-2002, we identify 54,729 ex-post... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 19, 2008

Consequences to Missing Quarterly Earnings Benchmarks Authors:Rick Mergenthaler, Shiva Rajgopal, Suraj Srinivasan Abstract We find that missing quarterly earnings benchmarks, especially the analyst consensus earnings number, is associated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne