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- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
November 2016 Quarterly Journal of Economics Stereotypes By: Bordalo, Pedro, Katherine Baldiga Coffman, Nicola Gennaioli, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—We present a model of stereotypes based on Kahneman and Tversky's representativeness heuristic. A View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
competitiveness who joined the HBS faculty in 2007. "Because of the decisions of managers in the distant past, the United States had lost its capability to make all the critical components that were needed to put together digital... View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
how a common strategic decision aimed at increasing one's own power, i.e., investing in outside options, can lead to opportunistic behavior in exchange relationships. Across three laboratory studies, we show... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
evidence highlights a novel channel through which uncertainty affects managerial decision making in the presence of agency conflicts. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50792 Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
toughest decisions often are associated with situations in which strategic risk is high but in-house capability is low. Here Doherty suggests a strategic alliance with the purpose of upgrading in-house capability as at least one... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Africa - Global Activities 2021
reflects on how another devastating health-related crisis—the Ebola outbreak that ravaged West Africa from 2014 to 2016—influenced her decision to pursue economic development to make a lasting impact on the African continent, which... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
of development process for a project. But my past work (studying projects in high-tech industries) had convinced me that we were missing an important level of analysis. It seemed that decisions made in a project sometimes worked against... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Africa - Global Activities 2020
Africa Africa Fellowship Enables Alumni to Accelerate Economic Growth in Africa Pictured: Peak Investment Capital in Ghana works with companies such as Pinkberry Frozen Yogurt to help further their success in Africa. Although Tuyee Yeboah... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
decision to buck the industry standard and invest in employees. “Our business model gives employees a career path,” she says, noting that half of the company’s top managers started as sales associates. As... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- April 2012
- Article
The Predictive Value of Accruals and Consequences for Market Anomalies
By: Francois Brochet, Seunghan Nam and Joshua Ronen
We revisit the role of the cash and accrual components of accounting earnings in predicting future cash flows using out-of-sample predictions and market value of equity as a proxy for all future cash flows. We find that, on average, accruals improve upon current cash... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Return; Value; Equity; Markets; Cash Flow; Information Management; Accrual Accounting; Earnings Management; Corporate Governance; Stocks
Brochet, Francois, Seunghan Nam, and Joshua Ronen. "The Predictive Value of Accruals and Consequences for Market Anomalies." Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance 27, no. 2 (April 2012).
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
The Power of Yes
money to good use: Dichter would simply open his wallet. At the time, Dichter was director of business development at Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that invests in early-stage companies to solve issues stemming from... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
the unit level." Saravanan introduced the old/new, product-market 2X2 matrix to argue that top-down resource allocation is most appropriate when both products and markets are new. But he reminded us that "The decision on the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
working capital and investment needs. In evaluating by which means Elman should raise capital, students must consider issues relating to the payment terms and financing arrangements used in world trade, as well as the risk management and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 May 2019
- News
Giving Voice to Black and Hispanic Women
investment in terms of making a decision to develop a magazine that will speak volumes about how these two communities, particularly Hispanic women and black women, are going to make a difference in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
What Went Wrong?
Until recently, I thought of myself as a fairly well-informed observer of this country’s financial marketplace. In years past, I wrote about personal finance for a business magazine. I keep up with business news. And I’m no stranger to the type of View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
The People Factor: Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service by Linda J. Bilmes (MBA ’84) and W. Scott Gould (Brookings Institution Press) The authors argue that the federal government can achieve the same gains as the best... View Details
- 19 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
farm to improve resource efficiency, creating and discovering new game-changing planet-friendly raw ingredients, reducing waste across the value chain, and designing compelling brands to educate consumers and shift consumption behaviors. Or start one of your own -... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
to improve resource efficiency, creating and discovering new game-changing planet-friendly raw ingredients, reducing waste across the value chain, and designing compelling brands to educate consumers and shift consumption behaviors. Or start one of your own - View Details
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
that we have invested in significantly to understand deeply I'll trust our predictions. And I'll trust the prediction more if it's (from) someone who has an unbiased 3rd party interest in the outcome." Paul Lepley added that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
scene in the office of your investor from Presidential Life, and how it changed the firm's approach to decision making? Steve: Sure. This was our third investment. My partner and I had never made an View Details