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    Walter C. Teagle

    Teagle rose threw the ranks of Standard Oil after joining in 1901, making a name for himself through his managing of the company’s international operations after the anti-trust breakup in the early 1910s. Throughout his term as president... View Details
    Keywords: Utilities & Energy
    • 31 Aug 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: August 31

    interactions reduce inefficiencies from information asymmetry. Second, banks price loans to cross-sell other fee business. These effects are additive. A one standard deviation increase in both bank relationship strength and cross-selling... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 26 Aug 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: August 26

    in the ten-year forward real rate. This finding is at odds with standard macro models based on sticky nominal prices, which imply that monetary policy cannot move real rates over a horizon longer than that over which all prices in the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 02 Mar 2020
    • News

    Cheese Whiz

    At Specialty Cheese Co. in Reeseville, Wisconsin, founder Paul Scharfman (MBA 1979) heads up a company that makes one of the state’s best-known exports: cheese. But as its name suggests, Specialty’s 250 employees manufacture products more unusual than the View Details
    Keywords: manufacturing; labor; innovation; cheese; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
    • 10 Nov 2018
    • News

    The 71-Year-Old Ultramarathoner

    the standard 26.2 miles—until he was 60 years old. After showing up without training, he notes that his first experience was a good lesson. “I paid for my lack of preparation, but made it to the end,” he told the WSJ. “Ignorant grit can... View Details
    • 29 Aug 2006
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    First Look: August 29, 2006

    standard deviation of demand, one that has been employed successfully in the recent literature uses dispersion among experts' forecasts. However, there has been limited empirical validation of this methodology. In this paper we provide a... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Health Plans - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    reward integrated practice unit models by providers Encourage or mandate provider outcome reporting through registries by medical condition Create standards for meaningful provider cost measurement and reporting Design new bundled... View Details
    • 01 Sep 2011
    • News

    Now You Can Choose

    Finnegan In this issue of the Bulletin, Dean Nohria discusses the School’s efforts to ensure that an HBS education remains a transformational experience. Across the campus and at our global centers, the School is positioning itself to create a new View Details
    Keywords: Paul Finnegan; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
    • 01 Sep 2012
    • News

    Muhammad Yunus Visits HBS

    more than 1 million homes. He has also arranged partnerships with multinationals to combat illness. For example, he persuaded Adidas to build a shoe that conformed to the company’s quality standards but still would cost only one euro.... View Details
    Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
    • 10 Jan 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Professors Introduce Valuation Software

    have extended its generality and output to really help a broader user to take advantage of the insights that it provides. Q: How does the tool work? A: The tool requires users to input financial statements for a company, enables the user to View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Feb 2011
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    First Look: Feb. 15

    Argentina report government corruption in their front page during the period 1998-2007 and correlate them with government advertising. The correlation is negative. The size is considerable: a one standard deviation increase in monthly... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Jun 1998
    • News

    Investigation Leads to Sanctions, Recommendations

    year. On April 9, a letter to the HBS community from Dean Kim B. Clark and a statement from the Faculty and Staff Standards Committee (FSSC) reported the results of an investigation that had found a pattern of behavior within one class... View Details
    • April 2012
    • Case

    Credit Rating Agency Reform in the US and EU

    By: Robert C. Pozen and Brian Conroy
    The purpose of this note is to explore reform options for the credit rating industry. The note examines the ways in which credit rating agencies contributed to the recent financial crisis, particularly through ratings of securitized products and sovereign debt. It... View Details
    Keywords: Debt Securities; Financial Condition; Standards; Financial Crisis; Corporate Finance; Financial Services Industry; United States; European Union
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    • August 2010 (Revised August 2011)
    • Case

    Batson International, S.A. (A)

    By: David F. Hawkins
    Management seeking to make up a shortfall in interim period earnings is seeking an accounting solution to close the gap. View Details
    Keywords: Earnings Management; Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Financial Management; Standards; United States
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    • 2003
    • Chapter

    Designing Sustainability at BMW Group: The Designworks/USA Experience

    By: Michael W. Toffel, Natalie Hill and Kellie McElhaney
    This case study describes how an industrial design company developed a Sustainability Management System (SMS) standard, designed and implemented an SMS throughout its business, and then became the first company in the world to achieve third-party SMS certification. The... View Details
    Keywords: Design; Governance Compliance; Management Practices and Processes; Standards; Environmental Sustainability; United States
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    Cookie Information | HBS Online

    accepted standards exist on how companies must respond to do-not-track signals. In the event a final standard is established, we will assess and provide an appropriate response to these signals. Last... View Details
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    U.S. Competitiveness Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    the U.S. are able to compete successfully in the global economy while supporting high and rising living standards for the average American. Although the U.S. retains profound competitive strengths—for instance, in higher education and... View Details
    • 11 Feb 2014
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    First Look: February 11

    productivity of EHR use and delegation. We then explored the interaction between these 2 strategies and the role of practice size. Results: Greater EHR use and greater delegation were independently associated with higher levels of productivity. An increase in EHR use... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Monroe J. Rathbone

      As CEO of Standard Oil of New Jersey, Rathbone is credited for making Jersey Standard into an international company. Seeing problems with an ever increasing dependence on oil from the Middle East, Rathbone... View Details
      Keywords: Utilities & Energy
      • 03 Jun 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: June 3, 2008

      Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-099WP.pdf Evaluating the Impact of SA 8000 Certification Authors:Michael J. Hiscox, Claire Schwartz, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract SA 8000, along with other types of certification View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace