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  • 20 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 20

between the management scores of autonomous government schools and regular government schools is accounted for by differences in the principal's leadership and better governance. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 31

election years. These results describe how failures in electoral accountability can lead to suboptimal policy outcomes. Read the paper: http://www.cgdev.org/doc/events/MADS/Shawn_Cole.pdf Earnings and Ratings at Google Answers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 14, 2009

structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they are more likely to invest at home when domestic equity prices are higher, and invest abroad when foreign prices are higher. Funds see the industry P/E ratios of their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 1978 (Revised May 1993)
  • Teaching Note

Budget Crisis of the Boston School System, Teaching Note

By: Regina E. Herzlinger
Keywords: Education; Budgets and Budgeting; Crisis Management; Education Industry
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  • November 1976 (Revised May 1993)
  • Case

Budget Crisis of the Boston School Committee

By: Regina E. Herzlinger
Keywords: Education; Budgets and Budgeting; Crisis Management; Education Industry; Boston
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  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Vive la Madeleine!

he made in the food industry were equally discouraging. “They told me I was crazy, that Jeannette was dead, that near the end they had been producing the worst madeleines in France. To restart production and change its image at the same... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova
  • February 2024 (Revised February 2024)
  • Case

CLSA: Integrating ESG in Stock Valuation

By: Shirley Lu, Aaron Yoon and Billy Chan
In 2023, a senior financial analyst at the Hong Kong-based stock brokerage firm CLSA was surprised to see that, based on his calculations, the financial impact from climate risks on a major Indian cement manufacturing company’s projected earnings could be massive.... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Corporate Governance; Analysis; Stocks; Valuation; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Hong Kong; China; India; Asia
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  • 18 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

modularized. Instead these areas should be located in transaction-free zones so that the costs of transacting do not overburden the system. The boundaries of transaction-free zones constitute breakpoints where firms and industries may... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 1991 (Revised April 1994)
  • Case

First National Bank Corp. (A)

First National Bank Corp., a major regional bank in the Northeast, must decide how large a provision for credit losses to accrue in its 1990 financial statements. The recession in New England has caused serious problems in its loan portfolio. View Details
Keywords: Financing and Loans; Financial Statements; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Northeastern United States
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  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

The Sparkles in Our Skies

approximately the equivalent of a year and a quarter of the average American’s carbon footprint. While it feels like a technological magic trick in an industry known for tradition rather than innovation, it may not even be the startup’s... View Details
Keywords: April White; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

Reinventing Marketing

becoming the victim of its own success, according to the leaders of the Marketing unit at HBS. "Advances in technology and fundamental changes in how products and services are delivered are enabling other disciplines - such as manufacturing, sales, even View Details
Keywords: Mary Jane Higgins; Illustration by Peter Hoey
  • 2015
  • Working Paper

The Integrity of Private Third-party Compliance Monitoring

By: Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
Government agencies are increasingly turning to private, third-party monitors to inspect and assess regulated entities’ compliance with law. The integrity of these regulatory regimes rests on the validity of the information third-party monitors provide to regulators.... View Details
Keywords: Regulation; Compliance; Compliance Policies; Conflict Of Interest; Independent Third Party; Inspection; Audit Quality; Auditor; Audit; Environment; Production; Supply Chain; Quality; Government Administration; Working Conditions; Safety; Labor; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governance Compliance; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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  • Web

Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the Finance & Accounting track. Introduction to Strategic Financial Analysis ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! New Strategic Financial Analysis $1,850 Next... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

occurrence of default. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44340 Accounting Data, Market Values, and the Cross Section of Expected Returns Worldwide By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew R. Lyle, and Charles... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation

shows. Partisan divides exist even within specific professions. Democrats accounted for more than 50 percent of chief or general legal officers at firms, but Democrats made up only 27 percent of chief financial officers. Similar fissures... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 2014
  • Chapter

Promoting Corporate Sustainability through Integrated Reporting: The Role of Investment Fiduciaries and the Responsibilities of the Corporate Board

By: Robert G. Eccles, J. Herron and George Serafeim
This book is a comprehensive reference work exploring recent changes and future trends in the principles that govern institutional investors and fiduciaries. A wide range of contributors offer new perspectives on dynamics that drive the current emphasis on short-term... View Details
Keywords: Governance; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Institutional Investing; Financial Services Industry
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  • 05 Aug 2015
  • What Do You Think?

What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

How Patient Should We Be In Waiting for the Tech Productivity Dividend? Respondents to this month’s column cited a number of factors accounting for the fact that there is no discernable increase in the rate of improvement in human... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology
  • 12 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!

power source. Amager Bakke is located within eyeshot of downtown Copenhagen, and despite being an industrial waste management and energy production site, serves as a community gathering point. With the world’s tallest rock-climbing wall... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Capitalizing the Corner Shop

Ejeh. Instead, he grabs his phone, pulls up the Lidya banking app, applies for the cash cushion he needs, and—a day or so later—gets the money in his account and goes about the business of expansion. Since he began borrowing with Lidya in... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 11 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

forthcoming Journal of Accounting & Economics Career Concerns of Banking Analysts By: Horton, Joanne, George Serafeim, and Shan Wu Abstract—We study how career concerns influence banking analysts' forecasts and how their forecasting... View Details