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  • 01 Jan 2002
  • News

Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)

Wall Street has left the caffeinated powerhouse virtually untouched. The price of Starbucks stock has climbed steadily over the past ten years, gaining approximately 2,200 percent on the ten-year anniversary of the company's 1992 IPO. Net revenues for fiscal 2002 are... View Details
  • 24 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

information environment quality, forecast horizon, sample composition, and tests of earnings management. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1264101 Wider dem sauren Mund.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 28

  PublicationsManager-Specific Effects on Earnings Guidance: An Analysis of Top Executive Turnovers Authors:Francois Brochet, Lucile Faurel, and Sarah McVay Publication:Journal of Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Dec 2015
  • Op-Ed

How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It

accelerating the impact of climate change and threatening many on this planet. Our leaders face energy’s Gordian knot. They must find a way to cut it. "We need to deliver real economic alternatives to coal-fired power to the developing world, particularly Asia" The... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy
  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

document that the improvement in the information environment is driven both by information and comparability effects. These results are robust to variations in the measurement of information environment quality, forecast horizon, sample... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 8

related to EPS and price forecast accuracy, the same is not true for the subsidiaries. We establish that this "forgotten child" phenomenon is linked to a "neglected parent" effect, whereby inaccuracy in subsidiary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 6, 2016

Termism' and the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster By: Rahmandad, Hazhir, Rebecca Henderson, and Nelson P. Repenning Abstract—Much recent work in strategy and popular discussion suggests that an excessive focus on "managing the numbers"—delivering quarterly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Fast Answer

Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems: Company, Industry, Market and Transaction Research

trend and forecast coverage across 10 major commercial real estate sectors, 275+ markets, and 3,000+ submarkets. Includes market transactions and performance trends. FactSet
A comprehensive platform used to analyze financial data... View Details
  • 17 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

trusted groups—in this study, African-Americans— find it particularly difficult to overcome the barriers erected by trust. Trust, we conclude, confers competitive advantage by slowing down the diffusion of new ideas and products in the economy. As trust is built up... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 09 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

top management level." Mikes began her research in 2005 in England, where she earned her PhD from the London School of Economics. (Hall and Millo are both employed there.) Within five years, she had interviewed 60 risk management... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking
  • 11 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

experience higher future growth in return-on-assets (ROA) with analysts failing to fully reflect this information in their earnings forecasts. Return prediction, growth in ROA, and analyst forecast errors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 12

debt issuers deteriorates during credit booms, and that this deterioration forecasts low excess returns to corporate bondholders. The key insight is that changes in the pricing of credit risk disproportionately affect the financing costs... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14087 Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors Author:Sharon Katz Abstract This study explores how firms' ownership structures affect their View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-101.pdf Does Public Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality? Authors:Dan Givoly, Carla Hayn, and Sharon P. Katz Abstract We compare the quality of accounting numbers produced by two types of public... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2021
  • Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

similar companies in their industry and recommended areas of expense adjustments that would be of help. I also quantified the environmental impact on the company’s supply chain with a proposal that they make certain adjustments that would positively affect their... View Details
  • Web

HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

executives and influencing the practice of management on a global scale. Income earned through Executive Education, Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), and Harvard Business School Online (HBS Online), augmented by revenues from MBA tuition... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the CFO

Economic Model The resilience of the School's economic model was tested during fiscal 2021 and proved sound. The HBS model is unique among Harvard University's 12 graduate and professional schools. At its core is a commitment to internally funded faculty research.... View Details
  • 05 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

earns an average risk-adjusted return of 4.68% per year. Firms with central boards also experience higher future growth in return-on-assets (ROA) with analysts failing to fully reflect this information in their View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2020
  • Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

[climate change] is a massive megatrend,” said Audrey Choi (MBA 2004), Morgan Stanley’s chief sustainability officer and chief marketing officer, during a panel discussion. “It’s a fundamental material risk to earnings and portfolios.”... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services