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- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
where I sit as an economist, it's still all about the economy and the long-term impact of the problems laid bare by the Great Recession. During the financial crisis, the world came to the apparently shocking realization that debt... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- Fast Answer
Betas
How do I find current betas for companies? Historical? Industry Beta? Current BETA: Bloomberg Current and historical financial information on individual equities, stock market indices, fixed-income securities, currencies, commodities, and... View Details
- 31 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest
financial crisis, for example, the Federal Reserve orchestrated multiple rounds of QE. In the initial round, QE1, the Fed bought $1.25 trillion in mortgage-backed securities and $300 billion in Treasury bonds. During QE2, the Fed... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
Scharfstein: “Whenever you mix government guarantees with private, for-profit entities, those private entities put the government at risk.” Reforming the U.S. housing finance system remains perhaps the largest piece of unfinished business from the 2008–2009 View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
slightly increased to 2.61 [5, 10], while the best upper bound remained unchanged. In this paper we show the optimal lower bound on truthful anonymous mechanisms: no such mechanism can guarantee an approximation ratio better than m. This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
data in percentage form (common-size balance sheets) and other selected financial ratios for a set of 12 unidentified firms from 12 different industries (all 12 companies are listed on the Australian... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
for ideal pay ratios. Moreover, data from 16 countries reveals that people dramatically underestimate actual pay inequality. In the United States-where underestimation was particularly pronounced-the actual pay ratio of CEOs to unskilled... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
4.2 Student/Faculty Ventures | MBA
and should play a valuable role with students by offering them advice and counsel on academic and career issues, including new ventures. Conflicts of Interest: Financial or business relationships between students and faculty members have... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
unanticipated postincentive study visit approximately three months later. Results: The odds of suppression were higher in the incentive choice arm than in the passive control arm at the postincentive visit (adjusted odds ratio 3.93, 95%... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
investment banking analyst seeks to reconstruct which financial ratios go with which companies. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812129-PDF-ENG COSCO: Implementing Sustainability... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
Even before the recent earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Japan, many parts of Asia had already begun investing in "green" energy. But the disaster has certainly upped the urgency of the discussions. “It's driven a lot of people to have a bit of a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
creative new markets. Lessons in Corporate Finance: A Case Studies Approach to Financial Tools, Financial Policies, and Valuation by Paul Asquith and Lawrence A. Weiss (DBA 1989) (Wiley) This book explains... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
compliance function to being a profit center. The ratio of corporate taxes to GDP declined through the late 1990s even during an economic expansion. There has been a growing disconnect between the income reports to capital markets and tax... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- Web
Trends and Insights: Board Leadership Diversity and Organizational Performance - Blog: RGE Report
70 companies including Airbnb, Bank of America, and GE set public gender diversity targets for 2025 or 2030. In August 2024, JP Morgan insisted on a 30% female executive ratio in Japan. As Alexandra Kalev and Professor Frank Dobbin of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
about their activities to make sure they're in sync with where the boss is trying to take the business. Q: To traditional ratios like return on assets and return on equity, you add a new qualitative measure called return on management... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
vulnerability indicators prior to the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) attributed to corporate financial roots provide a benchmark for comparison. The firm-level data suggest that emerging markets post-GFC have... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
capabilities in maintaining and upgrading product portfolios through acquisition and divestiture. Acquisitions were financed almost wholly out of retained earnings and income received from divestitures. The resulting overall financial... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
democratize information and change the way that stocks are traded, threatening the industry's product and business model. There were upheavals and stagnation in established core financial markets such as the U.S., Japan, and Western... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
and BEI faculty cochair Forest L. Reinhardt. "I don't think this ought to be treated as a religious question. I think it's better seen as a classic managerial question about decision-making under uncertainty." Indeed, nothing is certain, but scientific predictions are... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
explain how we have arrived at this point, he says: Businesses everywhere are short staffed, and call volumes are at record levels, so the human-to-call ratio doesn’t work in the customer’s favor. Plus, with wages as high as they are,... View Details