Managing Exchange Rates - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 May 2002
Op-Ed

A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures

If companies and regulators are ever to learn from the collapse of Enron—and prevent similar corporate debacles in the future—they must look more closely at the relationship between auditors, managers and the company audit committee. The... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch; Accounting

01 Sep 2008
News

Stanford Lets Students Customize

EXCHANGING IDEAS: HBS Dean Jay Light talks with Stanford Dean Robert Joss. Stanford describes its new MBA curriculum, launched last fall, as a “revolutionary change in management education.” It aims to... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Democracy Robert Livingston How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations Sarah Kaplan and Danielle Allen , Rotman School of Management and Harvard University The Bankruptcy of the... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions

Image by Brian Stauffer What would the "perfect" tax plan look like? Sheridan Schechner (MBA/JD 1983), managing director, Barclays Capital, USA I'd envision three simple building blocks: a consumption tax with no exclusions that... View Details

Keywords: ask the expert; Finance

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them

her course for Harvard MBA students, Managing Service Operations, which explores interactions between firms and customers. Defy Conventional Wisdom Commerce Bank entered a mature industry where the overall level of customer satisfaction... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

Management Proceedings Affective, Cognitive and Behavioral Trajectories of Change Recipients in Global Organizations By: Reiche, B.S., T.B. Neeley, and N. Overmeyer Abstract—Research rarely addresses how change recipients respond to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit

It’s Wall Street doctrine that small firms struggle to raise capital at reasonable rates and are often rejected for credit lines and loans because banks think their risk profile is too high. “If you really want to drive investment,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

01 Dec 2011
News

Professors Recognized with New Chair Appointments

Margolis is the James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration. A member of the Organizational Behavior Unit, Margolis joined the HBS faculty in 2000. His research focuses on the distinctive ethical challenges that arise in organizations and how... View Details

20 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract Abstract We propose and test a catering theory of nominal stock prices. The theory predicts that when investors place higher valuations on low-price firms, managers will maintain share prices at lower levels,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2006
News

Strange Bedfellows

overlooks the fact that managers don’t always do the right thing for shareholders. If managers are opportunistic, then the extra latitude provided by the dual- reporting system can be costly to investors.... View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Government

30 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain

and happy customers produce value for investors, makes sense. Why do so many employers fail to follow this logic? Sasser: I'm not sure I would use the word 'happy' unless 'happy' is a synonym for highly satisfied. The key is that organizations are in value View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

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Site Credits - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration Tom Nicholas Associate Professor of Business Administration Emma Rothschild Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History Website Design and Production : Alex Taylor, Big Ring Design Production View Details

09 Apr 2024
News

To Serve and Protect the Markets

Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2004) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity markets and the bad actors who... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 1998
News

Faculty Retirements

interface with the securities markets, he is the coauthor or editor of seven books, including Wall Street and Regulation; Managing Financial Institutions; and Islamic Law and Finance. He has written numerous working papers and articles in... View Details

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

rate return in exchange for a high social return. A key expectation, then, is related to the social or environmental benefit these investments will produce. The member survey indicates that IC members expect... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

01 Dec 2014
News

Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable

active gateway to entrepreneurial ecosystems around the world; and to evangelize about entrepreneurial management and thinking. Those priorities are evident in events such as the Rock 100 Entrepreneurs’ Summit, a gathering held earlier... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2018
News

Case Study: On the Record

sell 100 vinyl records a month or have their songs stream on Spotify 1.5 million times,” says Kelleher, who led music app partnerships at Google Play before founding Austin-based record manufacturer Gold Rush Vinyl. The company grew out of a need Kelleher saw in her... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2008
News

Entrepreneurship Program in Fourth Year

development of EECPCL. Alumni gather biannually under the auspices of the foundation to continue the exchange of ideas and to collaborate on program development and research in entrepreneurship. “It is very gratifying to see the effect... View Details