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- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
Not allowing establishment of private educational institutions on equal footing with public institutions. The best educational institutions in the world are private and I am proud to be a faculty in one of them. Rehiring public sector employees who were laid off... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
Professor of Business Administration. His interest in expanding the reach of this work drove the launch of the COVID-19 Business Impact Center, an online hub for the School’s intellectual capital related to the pandemic. Research is categorized under six broad areas:... View Details
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
dividends increased every year. This highly successful strategy and its resulting financial performance harbored one potential flaw. Over the decades the company had built impressive capabilities in... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
Conference on November 7. Beaulieu's research focuses on many aspects of healthcare—including contracting, quality competition in managed care, and human capital management and performance measurement. At the session, she prodded her... View Details
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
allocation within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus, as shaped by the demand for and supply of financial information, is on the use of the income statement and balance sheet for View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
forthcoming Financial Analysts Journal Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey By: Amel-Zadeh, Amir, and George Serafeim Abstract—Using survey data from a sample of senior investment professionals from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
Entrepreneurs in U.S. Financial History, 1775-1914 Author:T.K. McCraw Publication:Capitalism and Society 5, no. 1 (2010) Abstract Throughout its history, the U.S. has been the beneficiary of a worldwide in-migration of entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
tensions in performance measurement and illustrates the fundamental issues in accrual accounting. The case is best used as an introductory case in a course on financial reporting or View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
Harvard Business Review Managing Political Misfits By: Bermiss, Y. Sekou, and Rory McDonald Abstract—Not all employees agree with your politics. That's OK. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54406 forthcoming Management Science The ABCs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
of results we want to achieve in the next round—more of the same, or more of other kinds of results. An investor may say that she wishes to continue to build her financial assets, so she would check the column for "want more of the... View Details
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
research. What's more, firms that correlate their international trading activity with the local ethnic community significantly outperform those that don't—a fact that has escaped notice of financial analysts. The findings could help Wall... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules
quarter's stock was associated with a 33 percent increase in the size of the investor's position. During those quarters when an investor met with a firm executive, the trades that followed those meetings performed significantly better,... View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—Survey evidence suggests that many... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
strengthened. These changes may reflect the growing role for the euro as a reserve currency in the international financial system. The risk-minimizing currency strategy for a global bond investor is close to a full currency hedge, with a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
internal coordination issues with the company's sales force, and the financial returns versus other uses of capital for the company. The case raises issues in aligning business strategy and sales management systems, motivating and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
revenue by outside audit firms) without providing much or sometimes any guidance about how to improve actual mission performance. I'd like to see a renewed focus on mission performance rather than on View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
financial and strategic decision making. But along the way, I also noted another important aspect of this leadership task, a related line of effort that seemed to go largely unnoticed and unstudied by observers but that was just as vital... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- August 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Supplement
Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A)
By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Amram Migdal and Susan Pinckney
Arla implemented a data-based price incentive system to measure, track, and influence climate friendly changes to reduce CO2 emissions across the world’s fourth largest dairy cooperative. View Details
Keywords: Dairy Industry; Business Earnings; Earnings Management; Environmental Accounting; Agribusiness; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Making; Decisions; Voting; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Financial Strategy; Price; Profit; Revenue; Food; Geopolitical Units; Global Strategy; Ownership Type; Cooperative Ownership; Performance Efficiency; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Natural Environment; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Cooperation; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; European Union; Germany; Denmark; Sweden; Luxembourg; Belgium
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
On the Horns of an Investment Dilemma Financial management firms that focus on sustainable investing have been gaining ground for twenty years now. As an example, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), a global association of nearly... View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
River in identifying investments, performing due diligence, and working with portfolio companies and asks how Blue River should build itself into a top-tier private equity fund, particularly as more and more foreign firms target the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne