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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
Harvard's most distinguished professorial posts. "Bob Merton has done seminal work in enlarging our theoretical and practical understanding of financial markets and how to manage risk," said Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine in View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
Download Thomas J. Tierney profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1954 Born, San Francisco, California 1976 Earns BA, Economics, University of California, Davis 1976 Joins Bechtel International, Algeria, Field... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
New HBS, KSG Joint Degree
HBS and the Kennedy School of Government have announced the creation of an integrated joint-degree program, the first of its kind. Its mission is to develop outstanding leaders who are skilled in both managing complex organizations and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
HBS Reverses Policy On Grade Disclosure
In a mid-December letter to all MBA students, Dean Jay Light announced that the School was dropping its seven-year-old policy that prohibited students from revealing their grades to potential employers. The change takes effect with the... View Details
- 09 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands
Starbucks' announcement that it will close 600 stores in the United States is a long-overdue admission that there are limits to growth. In February 2007, a leaked internal memo written by founder Howard Schultz showed that he recognized... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Procter & Gamble (P&G) announced headline double-digit earnings per share growth for the year ended June 30. A closer look at the numbers suggested a less healthy picture. Sales, volumes, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
34,000 Pages and Counting
Relations has had direct contact with more alumni — or read more birth announcements and vacation travelogues. Over the years, the Class Notes production process has evolved from handwritten and typed notes to Web submissions. “Back in... View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
Earnings Announcements Authors: Malcolm Baker, Lubomir Litov, Jessica A. Wachter, and Jeffrey Wurgler Publication: Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (forthcoming) Abstract We consider measures... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
Nordisk controlled almost half of the global insulin market. Then came Ozempic, which turned Novo’s balance sheet on its head. The business that for a century had considered itself a diabetes company saw its earnings from diabetes... View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- News
Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
dream on his HBS application. After earning his MBA, de Menil returned to iASO Records and, through his work in the Dominican Republic, met Michel Zaleski, founder of the DREAM Project, a nonprofit that builds and runs schools in the... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
corporate sales from multiple sources, including approximately 50 million mobile devices. These measures contain information from both the earnings quarter (within quarter) and the period between that quarter's end and the View Details
- 02 Nov 2010
- News
Commanding Officers
fingers on his left hand and was hospitalized for months. After recuperating, Jefferson earned degrees from the Kennedy School and HBS. He was both a White House and a Fulbright Fellow. He worked in state government in Hawaii and later... View Details
- 10 Jul 2024
- News
Next Level
company,” Joseph says. “I’m grateful for the opportunity but we also want to remind ourselves that we’re worth it, that we earned it.” A first-generation American, Joseph was born and raised in California. Her parents are from Afghanistan... View Details
Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace
- 13 Apr 2022
- News
New School
In late February 2020, the Japanese government announced it would close every school in that country to prevent the spread of COVID-19. On the other side of the world, in his Billerica, Massachusetts, office, Rob Waldron (MBA 1992) saw... View Details
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
bloggers about whether Amazon's profits will ever live up to its promise are predictable every time its earnings announcements come around. Of course, Bezos's strategy hasn't hurt the company. Its current... View Details
- 26 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Where is Home for the Global Firm?
returns earned in the process, and the fact that this motivation (closing a valuation gap) was completely distinct from any other motivations that I had seen. Ultimately, I realized that all these things were of a piece. That is, these... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
firm cannot trade. When investors cannot sell, prices rise. Livedoor understood that once it decided to do a stock split, there was no reason to stop at 2-for-1. In December 2003, they announced a 100-for-1 split. At the time of the... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
share price, (2) where announced earnings are particularly likely to be an important source of information about managerial ability and effort, and (3) before the implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley made... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- October 2023 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
Accounting Red Flags or Red Herrings at Catalent? (A)
By: Joseph Pacelli, ZeSean Ali and Tom Quinn
Fund manager Janet Curie asked for a recommendation about the pharmaceutical company Catalent. The company seemed like a solid investment. However, a pair of research reports issued over the previous two months complicated this narrative. GlassHouse Research, a short... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Audits; Budgets and Budgeting; Earnings Management; Cost Accounting; Fair Value Accounting; Revenue Recognition; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Government Legislation; Conflict of Interests; Announcements; Blogs; Debates; Investment; Trust; Business and Shareholder Relations; Pharmaceutical Industry; Accounting Industry; United States
Pacelli, Joseph, ZeSean Ali, and Tom Quinn. "Accounting Red Flags or Red Herrings at Catalent? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 124-024, October 2023. (Revised April 2024.)
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
happiest part of my day is normally in the evening when [I] sit down with my wife as we account for our day’s earnings from our different sources of income.” Since GiveDirectly launched, cash payments have become a growing, though still... View Details
Keywords: April White