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    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
    • 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
    • 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

    • 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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    • 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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      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

        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

        • Article

        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

          • 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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          • 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

            • 01 Dec 2022
            • News

            Built to Last

            Dallas or Succession,” says Weisiger, who started out working in a company warehouse at the age of 14. While those backstabbing, dynastic stories dominate popular imagination, operating outside the pressure of the quarterly earnings... View Details
            Keywords: Julia Hanna; family business; leadershp; employee management; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing
            • 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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              Aurora Turek

              Aurora Turek is a PhD candidate in the Organizational Behavior program at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on the future of work. In particular, she studies how flexible work practices - like remote and hybrid work - emerge and the implications of these... View Details

                Jaylon Sherrell

                Jaylon Sherrell is a doctoral student in the Micro Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School.

                Leveraging qualitative and quantitative approaches, Jaylon has gained experience working on multiple research projects, as well as... View Details
                • Working Paper

                Benchmarking Against the Performance of High Profile 'Scandal' Firms

                By: Emre Karaoglu, Tatiana Sandino and Randy Beatty
                In recent years, several high profile firms engaged in accounting fraud that resulted in severe investor losses and erosion of trust in the capital markets. We examine high profile accounting "scandals" prosecuted by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Unlike most... View Details
                Keywords: Earnings Management; Ethics; Executive Compensation; Performance Evaluation; Financial Services Industry; United States
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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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                  Andy Wu

                  Andy Wu is the Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs. He researches, teaches, and advises managers... View Details

                  Keywords: software; e-commerce industry; venture capital industry; biotechnology; video games

                    Tiona W. Zuzul

                    Tiona Zuzul is an Associate Professor in the Strategy Unit. She teaches the MBA elective Making Difficult Decisions, a PhD seminar in Strategy Research Development, and contributes to various executive education programs. Professor Zuzul studies how leaders’... View Details