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- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Sam Walton: Great From the Start
States in 1945. Why wouldn't this one be among the many that didn't make it? Surely, any analyst of the situation in 1945 would have found in Walton a good candidate for failure. As he himself put it, "For all of my confidence I...
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
Prior to enrolling at HBS, he was a director in the investment banking division at Bank One Capital Markets, a vice president at Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co., and an analyst at Ernst & Young. He is a...
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Global Business Course | HBS Online
your business internationally and more effectively manage global teams. The course has given me the confidence to know that my suggestions have a solid business basis. Jennifer MoretFinancial Analyst Develop distinctive approaches and...
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- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
12, 2012, BH Media Group, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, announced an offer to buy Media General's (MEG) newspaper division for $142 million in cash and provide debt financing to the struggling firm. Reactions from investors and industry View Details
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Anna Secino
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
and customers. At the same time, the new approach provides more accurate cost-driver rates by allowing unit times to be estimated even for complex, specialized transactions. Estimating the cost per time unit of capacity. Instead of...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
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Finance - Faculty & Research
Mortgage Convexity By: Samuel G. Hanson Most home mortgages in the United States are fixed-rate loans with an embedded prepayment option. When long-term rates decline, the effective duration of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) falls due...
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- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet
the operations expertise that PE firms bring to bear. CEO selection may soon become even more critical for PE funds, which have been grappling with inflation and rising interest rates that dampened fundraising, investments, and exits last...
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- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
or fail to analyze the utter breakdown in board governance and Enron's internal controls, and the failure of credit rating agencies to blow the whistle," he says. "They also overlook the collusion of investment banks in...
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- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
fail to detect dodges when speakers answer similar—but objectively incorrect—questions (the "artful dodge"), a detection failure that goes hand in hand with a failure to rate dodgers more negatively. We propose that dodges go...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?
Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well...
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by Kristen Senz
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
cheat more when cheating is more lucrative, but we find that the effect of performance-based pay rates on dishonesty depends on how readily people can compare their pay rate to that of others. In Experiment...
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- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
performance data, in their decisions. These decision-making patterns are associated with large and systematic differences in learning rates across business units. Learning is concentrated in business units with "loose...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
areas—especially launch and manufacturing of satellite, earth observation, and positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) equipment—have meant that nominal growth rates substantially understate real growth View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
to shareholders. So any attempt to cut labor expense could well have provoked a public backlash—especially since at the time the company's home city of Schweinfurt had an unemployment rate of 16 percent. For publicly traded companies, the...
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by Stuart C. Gilson
- 23 Apr 2024
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Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now
With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate...
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by Rachel Layne
- 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31
Publication:Financial Analysts Journal 67, no. 6 (November-December 2011) Abstract What is the critical factor for success in the U.S. mutual fund industry? Is it top-ranked investment performance, innovative products, or pervasive...
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
taxes might be applicable? The tax added to your invoice is based on your current mailing address. India mailing addresses are considered residents of India for tax purposes. India residents are being charged the current India GST rate...
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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
George Serafeim: Winner of the 2022 Graham and Dodd Scroll Award from the Financial Analysts Journal for “Which Corporate ESG News Does the Market React To?” (2022) with Aaron Yoon. George Serafeim: Winner of the 2022 Journal of...
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- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
show that increased competition is associated with greater inspection leniency, a form of illicit quality that customers value but is illegal and socially costly. Firms with greater numbers of local competitors pass customers at considerably higher View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016
growing public discourse cites the rising cost of education and student debt overhang as a contributor to slow economic growth. A parallel discussion explores the causes of the secular decline in business dynamism and entrepreneurship View Details
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Sean Silverthorne