Financial Reporting Quality - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Nov 2003
What Do You Think?

Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?

misunderstand the health of the company that makes this wrong." Ruth Sager suggests that the current reactions to misleading financial reporting could potentially go too far. As she says, "Fashion... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 6

accounting performance. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1964011 August 2013 Journal of Financial Intermediation Good Cop, Bad Cop: Complementarities Between Debt and Equity in Disciplining Management... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Dec 2014
News

Revolutionizing digital medical records

coordinated, and lower-cost care. Bushkin expects MedKaz to revolutionize health care, bringing about changes in care quality and facilitating changes in the way care is delivered. With it, doctors can avoid medical mistakes and... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize

Financial Engineering: Applied Studies of Financial Innovation (1995) and The Global Financial System: A Functional Perspective (1995). Portions of this View Details

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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

01 Sep 2010
News

School’s 100th MBA Class Graduates

(Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise); David Moss (Creating the Modern Financial System); Tom Nicholas (The Entrepreneurial Manager); Thomas Piper (Financial Reporting and Control); and Zeynep... View Details

Keywords: Graduation

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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

(November 2014) Robert S. Kaplan and Derek A. Haas Health care providers are facing tremendous pressure to reduce costs—but evidence suggests that many of their responses are counterproductive, raising costs and sometimes decreasing the View Details

01 Jun 2004
News

Luxe Redux

the hallmarks of many luxury brands, some of which are hundreds of years old. The enduring quality of a particular luxury good can be part of its appeal, yet consumers — particularly young, fashion-conscious consumers — want a product... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; luxury; Retail Trade

Student-Profile

Talia Gillis

complex situations led me to become a doctoral student at Harvard Law School. Focusing on consumer financial regulation it became clear that to address the questions I was interested in I needed the theoretical foundation and training... View Details

24 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 24, 2007

CEO must decide where to cut costs and how to convince creditors to give the company the time it needs to turn around. A bankruptcy reorganization is one option open to the company. Describes the audit recovery industry, the company's history, the CEO, the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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IFC India 2025: Decarbonizing Rice Paddy Farming - Pioneering Sustainability in Indian Agriculture - Blog - Business & Environment

environmental impact of rice farming while safeguarding farmer livelihoods is a monumental challenge. Through our research and site visits, we explored innovative strategies to decarbonize rice farming, focusing on sustainable practices, viable crop alternatives, and... View Details

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?

jockeying for position, observed Hugh Langmuir, a Paris-based director of Cinven. Hampered by high labor costs, Western Europe is also feeling the pinch of competition from the Far East, especially China, Langmuir said. It is hard to match the costs and View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

03 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment

The August 2016 cover of Consumer Reports featured a striking quote by a 32-year-old nurse with $152,000 in student loans: “I kind of ruined my life by going to college.” While obviously an extreme case, her plight offered merely the... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Education

Article

The Role of Lockups in Initial Public Offerings

By: Alon Brav and Paul A. Gompers

In a sample of 2,794 initial public offerings (IPOs), we test three potential explanations for the existence of IPO lockups: lockups serve as (i) a signal of firm quality, (ii) a commitment device to alleviate moral hazard problems, or (iii) a mechanism for... View Details

Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Quality; Moral Sensibility; Compensation and Benefits; Venture Capital; Problems and Challenges; Stock Shares; Going Public

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11 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet

management. "I have two six-year-olds. The Red Sox have acquired them as lifelong customers, with very little expense on the team's part. And for the next 80-plus years, they'll be Red Sox fans without the chance of another Major League Baseball team coming to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services; Financial Services

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Computer Security is For Managers, Too

each warrants. A bank, for instance, might assign the greatest amount of protection to the database that stores its customers' financial information. For a pharmaceutical company, it might be the research servers that hold data on... View Details

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Christopher A.R. Darby

12 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors

The American regulatory agencies, described by Henry Kaufmann as "...less than robust... Understaffed, under-funded, and badly fragmented," have been, in his words, "slow to recognize some of the more serious abuses" in the View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

01 Apr 1999
News

WSA Conference Focuses on Reaching Goals

out to get the audience to believe that homemaking and gardening are an art form, not drudgery." Stewart and Patrick have worked to bring their vision of style to an even wider audience, as their newest venture with strategic partner Kmart illustrates. Stewart View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Market Research Meets the “People Factor”

"Managers might themselves try to identify their own 'comfort zones' for surprise," according to Zaltman and Deshpandé. Sheer quality of a research report is usually not enough. If the results are... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

management control and health care. Her latest book, Market-Driven Health Care, won the 1998 Book of the Year Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives. Herzlinger opened the conference by reporting on the forces driving... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

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