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  • Research Summary

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My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Law
  • September 2010 (Revised July 2012)
  • Case

Citigroup 2007: Financial Reporting and Regulatory Capital

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Edward J. Riedl and Sharon Katz
This case introduces 1) financial statements for banks, 2) basic regulatory capital calculations, and 3) actions Citigroup must consider under a scenario of continued losses/fair value declines in 2008 (leading to potential violation of regulatory capital). View Details
Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Financial Crisis; Capital; Financial Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Banking Industry; United States
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  • 09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015

helps bridge the gap between people's moral values and their actual behavior. Combined, the REVISE framework guides the design of policy interventions to defeat dishonesty. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Faculty & Research

Coerce Participation By: James Riley and Ezra Zuckerman Sivan This paper, an 18-month ethnographic investigation of international art fairs (IAFs), shows how market platforms can have a coercive effect, inducing sellers (i.e., art... View Details
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

fairness within the industry. Coordinating conflicting programs requires a careful balance between equity and efficiency. In our work, we first develop a fairness metric to measure deviation from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2021 (Revised June 2021)
  • Case

Eaton Corporation: Portfolio Transformation and the Cost of Capital (Abridged)

By: Benjamin C. Esty, E. Scott Mayfield and Daniel Fisher
In 2000, Eaton Corporation was a broadly diversified industrial conglomerate. But its strategy was evolving and its focus was narrowing around “power management” and more recently on “intelligent power,” the use of digitally enabled products and services designed to... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Divisions; Cost of Capital; Corporate Finance; Value; Valuation; Industrial Products Industry; United States; Denmark; Republic of Ireland
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  • January 2021 (Revised June 2021)
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Eaton Corporation: Portfolio Transformation and The Cost of Capital (Abridged)

By: Benjamin C. Esty, E. Scott Mayfield and Daniel Fisher
In 2000, Eaton Corporation was a broadly diversified industrial conglomerate. But its strategy was evolving and its focus was narrowing around “power management” and more recently on “intelligent power,” the use of digitally enabled products and services designed to... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Divisions; Cost of Capital; Corporate Finance; Value; Valuation; Industrial Products Industry; United States; Denmark; Republic of Ireland
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  • 24 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52122 January 2017 Strategic Finance Managing Healthcare Costs and Value By: Kaplan, Robert S., Michael E. Porter, and Mark L. Frigo Abstract—Rising health care costs are a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Placement - Doctoral

Placement: University of Southern California, Leventhal School of Accounting Dissertation: Truth and Bias in M&A Target Fairness Valuations: Appraising the Appraisals Advisors: Suraj Srinivasan , John Coates , and Charles C.Y. Wang Close... View Details
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Actively Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting - Recruiting

difference. What is Unconscious Bias? Unconscious or implicit bias is the term for the mental processes that cause a person to act in ways that reinforce stereotypes even when in our conscious mind we would deem that behavior counter to our View Details
  • 30 Jan 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection

Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Joachim Henkel
  • 11 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

for idiosyncratic products that features the optimal stopping structure and a seller that learns about item-specific demand through the selling process. The model is estimated using novel panel data of a leading used-car dealership. Policy experiments are conducted to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

    George Serafeim

    George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he co-leads the Climate and Sustainability Impact Lab in the Digital, Data, and Design Institute. He teaches the course "Risks, Opportunities and... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; insurance industry; automobiles; industrial goods; fashion; food; green technology
    • 15 May 2018
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    New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

    productive. That’s a missed opportunity. Questioning is a powerful tool for unlocking value in companies: It spurs learning and the exchange of ideas, it fuels innovation and better performance, and it builds trust among team members. And... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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    Giving - Alumni

    stock, please contact: Alumni and Development Services - Trust Administration 866.845.6596 donorsecuritygifts@harvard.edu When giving long-term appreciated stock to HBS, donors may take a charitable income tax deduction for its mean fair... View Details
    • January 2017 (Revised March 2018)
    • Case

    United Housing—Otis Gates

    By: Steven Rogers and Mercer Cook
    Otis Gates, the only African-American in his HBS graduating class, is an entrepreneur from greater Boston area and has built a successful affordable housing firm. Along the way, he and his partners have contributed countless hours of community service to the... View Details
    Keywords: Affordable Housing; Real Estate; Community Engagement; Social-good; Request For Proposal; Diversity; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Moral Sensibility; Fairness; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Housing; Business and Community Relations; Real Estate Industry
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    • May 1996
    • Case

    First Capital Holdings Corp.

    By: Stuart C. Gilson, Harry DeAngelo and Linda DeAngelo
    The manager of a money-management firm considers whether to invest in the securities of a large, financially troubled, California-based life insurance holding company that holds 40% of its assets in high-yield junk bonds. Over the past year, the value of its portfolio... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Debt Securities; Bonds; Valuation; Investment Return; Fair Value Accounting; Financial Institutions; Insurance Industry
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    • 01 Jun 2023
    • HBS Case

    A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

    homes in those neighborhoods, property values would decline and put the FHA’s loans at risk. By 1968, when Congress ultimately passed a law banning racial discrimination in housing, the three decades that Black people had been shut out of... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories
    • 16 Oct 2018
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    New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

    Complementary goods have more value when used together than separately. Complementarity may be strong or weak. Strong complements are specific and unique goods that have no value (or greatly diminished... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 11 Apr 2023
    • Op-Ed

    The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone

    motivate other younger executives who will feel inspired by the possibility of promotion under your leadership. My advice is always to avoid, if possible, hiring your old cronies from previous companies before you’ve given the incumbents a View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch