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- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
includes analytics scholars interested in healthcare and healthcare practitioners interested in analytics. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55291 forthcoming Accounting Review Who Consumes Firm Disclosures? Evidence from Earnings View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- August 2016
- Article
The Activities of Buy-Side Analysts and the Determinants of Their Stock Recommendations
By: Lawrence D. Brown, Andrew C. Call, Michael B. Clement and Nathan Y. Sharp
We survey 344 buy-side analysts from 181 investment firms and conduct 16 detailed follow-up interviews to gain insights into the activities of buy-side analysts, including the determinants of their compensation, the inputs to their stock recommendations, their beliefs...
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Brown, Lawrence D., Andrew C. Call, Michael B. Clement, and Nathan Y. Sharp. "The Activities of Buy-Side Analysts and the Determinants of Their Stock Recommendations." Journal of Accounting & Economics 62, no. 1 (August 2016): 139–156.
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
important mechanism through which firms manipulate their information environments. We show that firms control information flow to the market through their specific organization and choreographing of earnings conference calls. Firms that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- May 2019
- Article
The Role of Gatekeepers in Capital Markets
By: Sugata Roychowdhury and Suraj Srinivasan
Gatekeepers in financial markets have the power to provide the institutional stability, fortitude and direction necessary for the development and the smooth functioning of capital markets. At the same time, they are often motivated by their own private incentives....
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Gatekeepers;
Capital Markets;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Performance Effectiveness
Roychowdhury, Sugata, and Suraj Srinivasan. "The Role of Gatekeepers in Capital Markets." Journal of Accounting Research 57, no. 2 (May 2019): 295–322.
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
Publications June 2015 Review of Accounting Studies Speaking of the Short-Term: Disclosure Horizon and Managerial Myopia By: Brochet, Francois, Maria Loumioti, and George Serafeim Abstract—We study conference View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Article
Cultural Diversity on Wall Street: Evidence from Consensus Earnings Forecasts
By: Kenneth Merkley, Roni Michaely and Joseph Pacelli
We examine how cultural differences among agents influence the aggregate outcome of a common forecasting task. Using both exogenous shocks to sell-side analyst diversity and panel regression methods, we find that increases in analyst cultural diversity positively...
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Culture;
Forecasting;
Sell-side Analysts;
Information Aggregation;
Diversity;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Information;
Performance Improvement
Merkley, Kenneth, Roni Michaely, and Joseph Pacelli. "Cultural Diversity on Wall Street: Evidence from Consensus Earnings Forecasts." Journal of Accounting & Economics 70, no. 1 (August 2020).
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
annual Cyberposium conference held at Harvard Business School on November 19. As an industry, he suggested, venture capital has little to recommend it. "In the future, I see a median rate of return of zero or less," stated...
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- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
disrupted. At a plenary session at the HBS Global Alumni Conference 2001, Christensen expanded on the work highlighted in his 1997 book, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Disruptive technologies...
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- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey
the time, the panelists said. Andrea Silbert (HBS MBA '92), founder of a nonprofit called the Center for Women and Enterprise, which offers services and funding assistance to women entrepreneurs, said it's important to be realistic and...
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by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
HBS Professor Marco Iansiti and H.T. Kung, William H. Gates Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, solicited views on new directions for the Internet in a panel discussion called "e-Service: The Next e-Wave." The current shift on the...
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- November 2014 (Revised January 2017)
- Case
Micromax: Scaling the Largest Indian Mobile Handset Company
By: Ranjay Gulati, Rachna Tahilyani and Alicia DeSantola
It is January 2014 and Rahul Sharma, cofounder of Micromax Informatics (Micromax), the largest Indian mobile handset company, is preparing for an emergency conference call with his private equity investors. In the last six years, Micromax had grown its annual product...
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Mobile;
Scaling;
Indian Software Development;
Consumer Behavior;
Management Turnover;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Management;
E-commerce;
Technology Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
India
Gulati, Ranjay, Rachna Tahilyani, and Alicia DeSantola. "Micromax: Scaling the Largest Indian Mobile Handset Company." Harvard Business School Case 415-034, November 2014. (Revised January 2017.)
- 19 Jun 2018
- Research Event
Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?
iPhoto For businesses and other organizations seeking to overcome roadblocks to sustainability over the last few decades, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to...
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- Winter 2021
- Editorial
Introduction
This issue of Negotiation Journal is dedicated to the theme of artificial intelligence, technology, and negotiation. It arose from a Program on Negotiation (PON) working conference on that important topic held virtually on May 17–18. The conference was not the...
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Wheeler, Michael A. "Introduction." Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence, Technology, and Negotiation. Negotiation Journal 37, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 5–12.
- March 2021 (Revised March 2021)
- Case
Hotwire.com: Navigating Through Turbulence
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Manny de Zarraga and Eric Levine
On September 10, 2001, after speaking at an industry conference at New York’s World Trade Center, Hotwire co-founder Spencer Rascoff boarded a flight from Newark to San Francisco. After returning home, Rascoff awoke the next morning to a phone call informing him that...
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Keywords:
September 11;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Disruption;
Decisions;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Growth Management;
Digital Platforms;
Problems and Challenges;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Expansion;
Internet and the Web;
Leading Change;
Leadership Style;
Air Transportation Industry;
Tourism Industry;
San Francisco
- January 2013 (Revised August 2013)
- Case
First Solar: CFRA's Accounting Quality Concerns
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Ian McKown Cornell
The case relates to accounting quality analysis conducted by the leading research firm Center for Financial Research and Analysis (CFRA) on companies in the solar industry with a focus on First Solar Inc. In 2009, CFRA was concerned that First Solar, like much of the...
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Keywords:
Accounting;
Accounting Quality;
Financial Accounting;
Financial Statement Analysis;
Accounting Fraud;
Accounting Red Flags;
Accounting Scandal;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Quality;
Earnings Management;
Valuation;
Crime and Corruption;
Financial Statements;
Energy Sources;
Green Technology Industry;
Accounting Industry;
Energy Industry
Srinivasan, Suraj, and Ian McKown Cornell. "First Solar: CFRA's Accounting Quality Concerns." Harvard Business School Case 113-044, January 2013. (Revised August 2013.)
- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
typically are presented four to six weeks after the close of a quarter, often involve a conference call by company executives with shareholders and stock analysts. Part of those sessions may include...
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- October 2019
- Supplement
Impax Laboratories: Executing Accretive Transactions (A)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
Impax Laboratories was a technology-based pharmaceutical company that used a “dual platform” strategy to sell both generic and branded treatments. While Impax had grown organically for most of its history, it was beginning to use major acquisitions for growth. In the...
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- October 2019
- Case
Impax Laboratories: Executing Accretive Acquisitions (A)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
Impax Laboratories was a technology-based pharmaceutical company that used a “dual platform” strategy to sell both generic and branded treatments. While Impax had grown organically for most of its history, it was beginning to use major acquisitions for growth. In the...
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Keywords:
Financial Reporting;
Financial Statements;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Capital Structure;
Competition;
Competitive Advantage;
Corporate Strategy;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
United States
Esty, Benjamin C., and Daniel Fisher. "Impax Laboratories: Executing Accretive Acquisitions (A)." Harvard Business School Case 220-030, October 2019.
- 02 Mar 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Short-Termism, Investor Clientele, and Firm Risk
- November 2020 (Revised September 2021)
- Case
HP Instant Ink: (Self) Disrupting the Consumer Printing Market
By: Elie Ofek, Marco Bertini, Oded Koenigsberg and George Gonzalez
Seeking to disrupt the consumer printing market (before being disrupted by others), and in response to customer pain points, in 2013 HP Inc. launched an ink replenishment service called Instant Ink, where customers pay a monthly subscription fee based on the number of...
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Keywords:
Printing;
Ink;
Subscription Model;
Customers;
Information Infrastructure;
Service Delivery;
Business Model;
Disruption;
Growth and Development Strategy
Ofek, Elie, Marco Bertini, Oded Koenigsberg, and George Gonzalez. "HP Instant Ink: (Self) Disrupting the Consumer Printing Market." Harvard Business School Case 521-016, November 2020. (Revised September 2021.)