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- 16 Nov 2009
- News
The Great Wallop
- 28 Oct 2012
- News
The Perils of Feeding a Bloated Industry
- 27 Jan 2011
- News
How to keep audit committees in the know
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Accounting & Management, Marketing, Strategy, Technology & Operations Management) PHD in Health Policy Management PHD in Organizational Behavior Attend an Outreach Event Join our staff at a virtual informational session.... View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- News
Bridging the employer-educator divide
- 30 Nov 2019
- News
Elon Musk and the Dying Art of the Big Bet
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
giving a subsidy as a lump sum to offset capital costs is more effective. This has different regulatory implications for urban and rural settings where the environmental objectives may differ. Bouncing Out of the Banking System: An Empirical Analysis of Bank View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
The International Price of Remote Work
We use data from a large web-based job platform to study how the price of remote work is determined in a globalized labor market. In the platform, workers located around the world compete for jobs that can be done... View Details
- 25 Jun 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Why Do Countries Adopt International Financial Reporting Standards?
- February 2013
- Article
Towards an Understanding of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting
By: Abigail M. Allen and Karthik Ramanna
We investigate the effect of standard setters in standard setting: we examine how certain professional and political characteristics of FASB members and SEC commissioners predict the accounting "reliability" and "relevance" of proposed standards. Notably, we find FASB... View Details
Keywords: FASB; Politics; Relevance; Reliability; Standard Setting; Accounting; Standards; Fair Value Accounting; Government and Politics; Personal Characteristics
Allen, Abigail M., and Karthik Ramanna. "Towards an Understanding of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting." Journal of Accounting & Economics 55, no. 1 (February 2013): 66–90. (Journal of Accounting & Economics Editors' Choice Article.)
- 05 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding
Zhang says. They still maintain traditional supervisory responsibilities such as setting work schedules, enforcing human resource policies, conducting job reviews, and more. At the same time, managers are also accountable for meeting... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 29 Jul 2017
- News
Fund managers challenged to confront lack of ethnic diversity
- 11 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
Finding My Place at HBS
spent six years living in New York and Switzerland and that I built my career in public accounting and finance. Harvard—and the Ivy League for that matter—always felt like a place for other people. I’ve been through transitions before. I... View Details
- September 2015
- Technical Note
FIELD 2: Situation Analysis
By: Jill Avery
In this note, we present a method, the 5 C's Analysis, for collecting and analyzing information about the internal and external environments that firms face. This analysis will enable you to develop design ideas for a new product or service for your Global Partner that... View Details
- 28 Apr 2023
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Know Your HBS Staff: Corey Tolbert
Coins for Bombs: The Predictive Ability of On-Chain Transfers for Terrorist Attacks
This study examines whether we can learn from the behavior of blockchain-based transfers to predict the financing of terrorist attacks. We exploit blockchain transaction transparency to map millions of transfers for hundreds of large on-chain service providers.... View Details
- August 2000 (Revised January 2006)
- Case
Sears, Roebuck and Co. vs. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
This case is designed to familiarize students with the use of financial ratios. Two retailers, Sears, Roebuck and Co. and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., have a very similar value for return on equity (ROE) in the 1997 fiscal year. Students use the information in the case and... View Details
Miller, Gregory S., and Christopher F. Noe. "Sears, Roebuck and Co. vs. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 101-011, August 2000. (Revised January 2006.)