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  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Action Plan: To the Letter

Chacko says, is the iTunes of fonts. And as with Apple, Monotype’s decision to embrace this model is changing the way users discover, prototype, and manage fonts. Monotype is expanding globally, adding to its range of typefaces and to its... View Details
Keywords: April White; design; typography; change management; leadership; Special Design Services; Professional Services

    Samantha Smith

    Samantha is a behavioral scientist, earning her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior (Micro) at Harvard Business School. Her research examines employees' strategic decisions under competition. Her work also examines how to harness diverse talent effectively, driving... View Details
    • 19 Jun 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Accounting Information as Political Currency

    Keywords: by Karthik Ramanna & Sugata Roychowdhury; Accounting

      Antonio Moreno

      Antonio (Toni) Moreno is the Sicupira Family Associate Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. He teaches courses related to technology and operations management in the MBA, executive, and doctoral programs. Before joining HBS, he was an... View Details

      Keywords: retailing; internet; e-commerce industry
      • Research Summary

      Mark Bradshaw examines how sell-side financial analysts incorporate accounting information in their earnings forecasts, common stock valuations, and investment recommendations. In addition, he analyzes management reporting of modified GAAP earnings figures to... View Details

      • 03 Oct 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All

      aspects of the firm: operations, marketing, finance, communications, and product development. Clearly, general management skills win the day, says one of the paper’s coauthors, Paul A. Gompers, who is the Eugene Holman Professor of... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • August 2023
      • Teaching Note

      LIV Golf

      By: Alexander J. MacKay
      Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 723-371. On March 17, 2022, Greg Norman, CEO of LIV Golf, announced the 8-tournament schedule for the inaugural season of the LIV Golf Invitational Series. Norman, a retired professional golfer and former world #1, was helming the league... View Details
      Keywords: Anti-trust; Golf; ＂Sports Organizations,; Sports Management; Competition; Competition Policy; Strategy; Strategy And Leadership; Sports; Competitive Strategy; Lawsuits and Litigation; Sports Industry
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        Benjamin N. Roth

        Ben Roth is the Purnima Puri and Richard Barrera Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. He is a development economist that employs both economic theory and field experimentation to pursue questions in two overlapping... View Details

        • July–August 2023
        • Article

        Demand Learning and Pricing for Varying Assortments

        By: Kris Ferreira and Emily Mower
        Problem Definition: We consider the problem of demand learning and pricing for retailers who offer assortments of substitutable products that change frequently, e.g., due to limited inventory, perishable or time-sensitive products, or the retailer’s desire to... View Details
        Keywords: Experiments; Pricing And Revenue Management; Retailing; Demand Estimation; Pricing Algorithm; Marketing; Price; Demand and Consumers; Mathematical Methods
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        • July 1997 (Revised August 1997)
        • Case

        numeric investors l.p.

        By: Andre F. Perold and Brian J. Tierney
        Numeric Investors manages equity portfolios with the use of a momentum model and a value model. The momentum model is based on earnings surprise and analysts' revisions of their earnings estimates. The firm offers long-short as well as long-only strategies, and its... View Details
        Keywords: Asset Management; Cost; Equity; Financial Strategy; Investment; Investment Portfolio; Management; Product Development; Performance Efficiency; Business Strategy
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          Carolyn J. Fu

          Carolyn Fu is an assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy Unit. She studies innovation strategy in the context of high degrees of social construction – where the value of an innovation is continuously redefined between firms and their... View Details

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          Market Reaction to and Valuation of IFRS Reconciliation Adjustments: First Evidence from the UK

          By: Joanne Horton and George Serafeim
          We investigate the market reaction to, and the value-relevance of, information contained in the mandatory transitional documents required by International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) 1 (2005). We find significant negative abnormal returns for firms reporting... View Details
          Keywords: Valuation; Markets; Information; International Finance; Earnings Management; Stock Shares; Taxation; Goodwill Accounting; Price; Financial Reporting; Standards; Corporate Disclosure; United Kingdom
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            Ebehi Iyoha

            Ebehi Iyoha is an Assistant Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research interests lie at the intersection of industrial organization and international trade. Using a combination of structural and reduced-form methods,... View Details

              Letian Zhang

              Letian (LT) Zhang is an assistant professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit. He teaches in the MBA required curriculum.

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              • April–May 2017
              • Article

              Career Concerns of Banking Analysts

              By: Joanne Horton, George Serafeim and Shan Wu
              We study how career concerns influence banking analysts' forecasts and how their forecasting behavior benefits both them and bank managers. We show that banking analysts issue early in the year relatively more optimistic and later in the year more pessimistic forecasts... View Details
              Keywords: Sell-side Analysts; Analyst Forecasts; Analysts; Investment Recommendations; Career Advancement; Career Management; Labor Mobility; Labor Market; Prejudice and Bias; Personal Development and Career; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Banking
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              • November 2023
              • Article

              When Executives Pledge Integrity: The Effect of the Accountant's Oath on Firms' Financial Reporting

              By: Jonas Heese, Gerardo Pérez Cavazos and Caspar David Peter
              We study the effect of executives’ pledges of integrity on firms’ financial reporting outcomes by exploiting a 2016 regulation that requires holders of Dutch professional accounting degrees to pledge an integrity oath. We identify chief executive officers (CEOs) and... View Details
              Keywords: Integrity; Financial Reporting; Accounting; Earnings Management
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                Anke Becker

                Anke Becker is an Assistant Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School.

                Anke’s areas of research include economic development, political economy, economics of gender, and behavioral economics. Her recent work examines culture... View Details

                • April 2004 (Revised September 2007)
                • Case

                Accounting Fraud at WorldCom

                By: Robert S. Kaplan and David Kiron
                The principal players in WorldCom's accounting fraud included CFO Scott Sullivan, the General Accounting and Internal Audit departments, external auditor Arthur Andersen, and the board of directors. The case provides sufficient detail to allow for a full discussion of... View Details
                Keywords: Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Financial Reporting; Organizational Culture; Corporate Governance; Accounting Audits
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                  Prithwiraj Choudhury

                  Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury is the Lumry Family Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School. He was an Assistant Professor at Wharton prior to joining Harvard. His research is focused on studying the Future of Work, especially the changing Geography of... View Details

                    Jeff Fossett

                    Jeff Fossett is a doctoral student in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He is interested in economic and policy questions related to technology platforms and online marketplaces. Previously, Jeff was a member of the Data Science... View Details
                    Keywords: information technology industry